I remember pretending I had super powers as a little kid. It made running home from school an adventure because I could fly, jump buildings, burn through things with laser vision, or even turn invisible. Maybe I did. Maybe I was really a superhero in training and I've just lost my way. What if that's the case? Maybe that happened to you? Hopefully this shirt will help us reclaim some of our powers from the dastardly grips of the evil Dr. Talento and his group of henchmen err, mothers.

I made two orders on December 7th to take advantage of the 9$ prices. Has anyone had any issues receiving their orders or heard of a backlog? I actually never even received a confirmation email which makes me assume it's all been lost in the ether. :(

I'm wondering how you produce a word with a "strikethrough" (e.g., a line crossing it out) in a slogan submission. Advice?

What would you do to improve Critiques?

Or maybe, more fundamentally, what do you think are the biggest weaknesses in the current system?

I'm curious if the critique function has helped refine any designs that actually ended up winning. Can anyone post any examples?

Hi! I've left the original message below. I've changed the blog to make it another, hopefully less annoying way, to remind participants to fill out their surveys. So far the response has been awesome but I'm still hoping for a lot more surveys to be completed. Thanks!

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ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

I'd like to invite you to get involved in a cool little study that will dig into your brain a bit and find out about the fuzz and lightning bolts that harness critique to create cool design. Put simply: I’m doing a study of “Critique and Design.” This might sound ambitious, but I'm looking for about 100 people to be involved (the more the merrier as they say) - so forward this to your friends, bump the blog, share it with your groups, etc. Please email me if you have questions.

To get more information and to sign up, click here:

FAQ:
Q: Who are you?
A: Spencer Harrison, professor of management.

Q: Why are you doing this?
A: Because I’ve been a Threadless member for years, because I'm genuinely curious, because I think you'll enjoy it, and because I hope to write a paper on it that helps people understand how to harness their creativity.

Q: Why should I be involved?
A: Click the link - you'll find at least 3 nifty reasons.

Thanks!

**Update 08/20/2009: Lots of people have signed up (yeah!). I still need more (ugh!). Surveys will be emailed in September - hold tight!

Does anyone else find that when you're scoring designs you think, "wow, I wish they'd make all these that I'm giving a 5 to?"

Even when I surf people's profiles I'm amazed at how many amazing shirts are never printed.

Thoughts?

What different groups are there here at Threadless? For instance, I've become aware of the Slogan Shoguns (pretty nice, witty group of people) - are there others?

why are some usernames pink in the comments of submissions? it seems that sometimes it just highlights who the submitter is but I see pink usernames that aren't the submitter as well. I don't get it and I couldn't find anything about this feature in the FAQ/Help section. So ... help?

I'm curious if anyone can share their wisdom about timing submissions, especially typetees submissions. I went on a bit of a bender on the weekend and submitted a slew of shirts and they all pretty much got slagged. I'm not saying they were all amazing shirts, but I'm wondering if I had spaced out the submissions a bit more or posted at a different time if I would have gotten a better response. Thoughts?