Select tees are commissioned by leaders in the field of design. Also, any Threadless designer who wins the competition 4 or more times will be invited to design a Threadless Select tee!

Select tees are an exclusive, anything-goes tee shirt canvas.They are not limited in colors like the regular Threadless tees and can use specialty inks. You can find all Select tees here: www.threadless.com/catalog/select

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iDan, I'm not that new to the block. I went to these guys' account, and they hadn't seemed to be printed before. I already new about the 4 shirts rule, and that's why I was confused.

read the first bit, it says that any top designer may be asked to make one.

But how can they be a top designer if they've never been printed?!

And these leaders of the field are... ? Staffers?

ok. Upso finds bad ass artists from all over and asks them to do a Select. it is not a necessity for them to have been printed here previously.

Whats up with the samich cars?

Upso curates the Select line.

who's harry crumb?

lol! artists exist outside of threadless too

One guy chooses all the Selects?!

Why is Upso such a cool dude? Same goes for that Dan guy.

And that Maltz guy. :-)

Also hi your on my flickr.

One guy did the Sistine Chapel?!

designers aren't good unless they've been printed before?

I don't think he chooses the selects... I think he hires good designers for a commissioned piece.

Okay iDan, I get your point. Upso has a pretty sweet job.

And Todow, you are correct. I hang around that joint too.

Also Michelangelo

Ginetteginette, I didn't say "good". I said "top". I'm not trying to insult anybody here. Sheesh!

Actually it was a team of artists working for Michelangelo's company working on the Sistine Chapel.

shit. it said Michelangelo "is less than" UPSO!!

Actually it was a team of artists working for Michelangelo's company working on the Sistine Chapel.

don't argue with my in front of my internet friends, please.

What she meant was there are fantastic designers, "top" designers who do not sub to threadless. design doesnt revolve around threadless.

Ha! Upso probably has a secret team too.

Kayceislost - we're talking about Threadless here aren't we? I realize things are different in "the outside world".

iDanSimpson on Apr 07 '08 at 9:25pm
Actually it was a team of artists working for Michelangelo's company working on the Sistine Chapel.

don't argue with my in front of my internet friends, please.

Dan be nice. She comments on my flickr photos. Also its a common mistake.

Now I feel better. :-)

thanks kayce, that is what i was refering to

truth is : real professionals will not submit to threadless.

Yes, but

iDanSimpson on Apr 07 '08 at 9:12pm Select tees are commissioned by leaders in the field of design.


leaders in the field of design, not leaders in the field of threadless. we get to have shirts from awesome designers who may not submit to threadless.

You just bashed all the amazing people here.

and real professionals get 'commissioned', and selects are commissioned work, soooooooo = professional designers outside of threadless are asked

truth is : real professionals will not submit to threadless.

could you define a 'real professional' please?

Okay... things are starting to come together... this is good.

i doubt that if i made a living at doing editorial illustrations and got gallery shows and so on, i'd still have time to be on here all the time posting illustrations i probably won't ever get paid for.

my comment wasn't derogatory it was the truth

who just bashed all the amazing people here??

i can think of three oft printed designers who work professionally in the design field and i barely know anyone

the truth? hardly.

it may have been a perception you had, based on an illusion you believe, created by a fallacy you made up.

Woah. Let's not let things get ugly here.

shirt she didnt mean that.

there are tons of different areas of design to have careers in. a lot of professional designers here get to do stuff they wouldnt be able to do in their jobs on threadless.

she didnt mean to bash the fantastic people we have on threadless.

for the most part shirtflirt, threadless is a place for amateurs in general and a lot of design students. what i said was of course an exageration as there can be an exception to every rule but none of the professional editorial illustrations i know through school and elsewhere would ever dream of wasting there time on a website like this. that's all

Hmm. *rubs invisible beard*

real professionals like thomas kinkaide

"thanks kayce, that is what i was refering to

truth is : real professionals will not submit to threadless."

I was and am a professional designer before, during, and after submitting to threadless - dickwad.

Maybe, just maybe, some of us professionals get bored of working to briefs all the time and want to enjoy our career choice without having to send a piece of work through 7 account managers for "feedback and changes". So we do arty things that get printed in books, or threadless.

Hoyboy for instance is one of the best commercial illustrators in the world right now imo. And there are plenty of other threadless submitters who have worked designed and illustrated for huge companies like coke (monaux), and had large personal exhibitions (huskworks).

So I suggest you stop painting everything with the same shade of grey.

ha yes that's exactly what i meant

oh and both ray fenwick and lehel, both solid threadless members, are illustrating for large new york newspapers.

haha. bananaphone still has to resort to name calling.

and you can take your "stuff you know through school" and cram it because you'll get some interesting surprises when you get into the real world.