Profile for igo2cairo - My Innovation Sub

igo2cairo aka Terry Fan aka ultimate night-owl has been a member since May 26, 2007, has scored 7019 submissions, giving an average score of 3.21.

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Oct 31 '09 by igo2cairo

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My Innovation Sub

My design for the Threadless Loves Innovation challenge. Working title is "Tree of Invention".

In this design I wanted to combine an old, vintage aesthetic with motifs from both the past and possible future. Innovation is a very broad term but to me brings to mind science, technology and great inventions that have shaped our world. The light bulb fruits are a visual metaphor to suggest the growth of new ideas that lead to innovation and the mechanical beetle and bird are a manifestations of this.

Think the best colour for this is AA "sage stone". What a lovely colour, glad it's an option now.

UPDATE: subbed :)

on sage stone:

Over-sized print:

jeffreyg on Oct 31 '09 at 9:12pm

oh man.. i saw the sand version and i was like oooh sweet! and then i saw the colored version on sage and was liek AHHHHH :)))

so good dude

igo2cairo on Oct 31 '09 at 9:17pm

Thanks Jeff! :)

jublin on Oct 31 '09 at 9:22pm

i like the oversized print. really kicks it up a notch. BAM.

Jemae on Oct 31 '09 at 9:26pm

i think (over print or not) on stone will be nicer cos you can see more lighting effects on the bulbs! anyway this is another SUPERB job from you Terry! must 5$ this! :))

NiNTH WHEEL on Oct 31 '09 at 9:32pm

Looks really great, Terry! Love the color palette.

bengineer on Oct 31 '09 at 9:40pm

awesome dude! really, really love your work! am i stupid or do you look exactly like opifan (not your stuff, you in person)?
and another question: you say "oversized" print. i thought everything going on the sleeves was automatically beltprint oO?
or is belprint only completely all over the shirt (front and back).
if that's the case you could cover the whole front with a 5-color design, right? That blows my mind! So many new possibilities!!!

igo2cairo on Oct 31 '09 at 9:43pm

Thanks people!

bengineer - haha to tell you the truth I'm really not sure if this "oversized" print is possible at all, just thought it looked cool. :)

bengineer on Oct 31 '09 at 9:47pm

yeah, appears nobody really knows about these things...
if the score's high enough, everything's printable :P

igo2cairo on Oct 31 '09 at 9:49pm

opifan64 and I are brothers btw, hence the similarity, although I don't think we look exactly alike!

Andreas Mohacsy on Oct 31 '09 at 9:53pm

your rendering and attention to detail is always superb:)

igo2cairo on Oct 31 '09 at 9:58pm

Thank you Andreas, I could say the same of your work. :)

bengineer on Oct 31 '09 at 9:59pm

i thought so! of course you don't look exactly alike, was just exaggerating to mark my point :P
and thx for your comment on mine.

Frogking on Oct 31 '09 at 10:01pm

That seriously looks cool man

NiNTH WHEEL on Oct 31 '09 at 10:08pm

@bengineer
Joe had a blog asking some questions that speedyjoe answered. They have screens large enough to cover a 3xl shirt. I haven't reread the blog, but I think that speedyjoe said up to five colors for oversized. With this you can still have fairly tight registration as opposed to a belt print which cannot.
BELTPRINT_OVERSIZE_QUESTIONS_ANSWERS

ratkiss on Oct 31 '09 at 10:09pm

Your work always amazes me.

againstbound on Oct 31 '09 at 10:15pm

Looks great on sagestone.

bengineer on Oct 31 '09 at 10:20pm

thx, ninth wheel, already started to read this blog a while ago but got tired and didn't get to the important part... now i know everything i wanted to :)

Malcolm Man on Oct 31 '09 at 10:26pm

Really beautiful work, man!

Can't wait to five it.

YouThoreauLikeAGirl on Oct 31 '09 at 10:37pm

That is incredible. You're stuff is always so great.

ISABOA on Oct 31 '09 at 10:42pm

whoa dude YES

you are killing it and that sagestone is quite the find, I think i am gonna use it on my next sub

igo2cairo on Nov 01 '09 at 12:43pm

Thanks so much people! Subbed.

igo2cairo on Nov 01 '09 at 12:45pm

Joe - will send out a copy of the screenplay this week, sorry for the delay! Things have been kind of crazy and I've had to work at the hospital all this past month.

ArTrOcItY on Nov 01 '09 at 12:57pm

B E A U T I F U L!

HorsefaceDee on Nov 01 '09 at 1:03pm

love the oversized print..:)

SWMoonlight on Nov 01 '09 at 7:49pm

I like the soft glow of the light bulbs.

Wonderfully done!

Talking To The Ground on Nov 01 '09 at 7:57pm

AMAZING! Count on a $5 from me!

ps I love your work!

igo2cairo on Nov 02 '09 at 1:23pm

Thanks y'all, looking forward to this going up! :)

dschwen on Nov 02 '09 at 1:25pm

Great stuff man!
Can't wait to high 5ive this!

quister on Nov 02 '09 at 2:04pm

Incredible detail, awesome illo, great colors, you're rockin that sage stone!!!

myteemo on Nov 03 '09 at 9:52pm

bump for votes! I need to wear this one.

myteemo on Nov 04 '09 at 8:03am

morning bump!

igo2cairo on Nov 04 '09 at 10:27am

Thank you! :)

igo2cairo on Nov 04 '09 at 11:46am

igo2cairo on Nov 04 '09 at 2:25pm

bump!

myteemo on Nov 04 '09 at 7:49pm

myteemo on Nov 05 '09 at 7:44am

bump!

igo2cairo on Nov 06 '09 at 11:40am

thanks for the bumps! :)

that is an awesome giant mechanical bug btw!

myteemo on Nov 07 '09 at 8:37am

Weird umbrella shoe invention bump!

myteemo on Nov 07 '09 at 8:39am

Except it didn't work....maybe a hair pho protector instead bump?

myteemo on Nov 07 '09 at 4:57pm

bump

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