pooner
aka robert t pooner is a 20.99 year old boy, has been a member since June 2, 2007, has scored 2902 submissions, giving an average score of 0.62.
I feel like Pooner is going to get attacked in this blog. Which isn't fair. It's not like the title is "Why do designs like this get such high scores... Because I think that they suck!!" And even if it did, so what, can't we all have our own opinions? I've come to notice that a lot of users on Threadless can be really, really mean. And I don't like it :(
I'm not attacking. Just wondered why the scores are unnecessarily high. Other than the forest and socks one (which is clever and faultlessly illustrated) they're not my cup of tee, but I can't doubt the quality of design.
The more artistic ones, as you put it, often have more limited appeal. This kind of thing is like good pop music in that it appeals to a wide audience. Even if people don't love it, they'd be hard pressed to say they dislike it.
I think the majority of people on Threadless are more liberal (no offense to more conservative ppl, I myself am moderate) partially because the site definitely attracts the youth crowd, and a large issue for us is the environment.
Everything is going green. In part, it's fashionable to care about the environment, so people want to display this with pride.
I think Threadless designs that score best are the ones able to visually communicate information very succinctly (be it an idea, joke, pun, or concept). This designs achieves that, and also has a message that would probably appeal to a lot of voters.
As much as threadless is embracing radical designs more, it can never leave the audience it has built it's cred for. Also, this is still business. People come back to threadless because of designs like these which you can unlikely find anywhere else. That's what makes it threadless.
you say in relation to artistic better designs but (in my view) many of those which may well be better/more interesting/less conservative images aren't necessarily better t-shirts, and that's what we're rating them as.
i tend to prefer things in more subtle colours because that's what i'm going to wear. that's not true of the things i hang on my wall, but for a t-shirt it's important to me.
I think inoffensive pretty designs tend to score well because people are going to be wearing them as clothing, and we can't all go around wearing provocative messages on our shirts all the time. Most people have to conform somewhat just to get through their day. There are a lot of designs that I've really liked, but I know I'd never wear it.
Feb 11 '08 by
Bramish on Feb 11 '08 at 5:05pm
