Dear designers,

So you're interested in submitted a design to Threadless? Wonderful, and good luck! Before you do, though, ask yourself--
--Does your design contain...

...Anthropomorphic food?

...A heart placed over the actual heart?

...A polar bear pleading for us to stop global warming?

...Scribbley faces in a big blob formation?

Caution! You are about the become a Threadless Cliche! There are numerous Threadless Cliches-- design ideas that get replicated and resubmitted by different artists over and over again. But you can do something. Before submitting anything to Threadless, score some designs. Score a lot of designs, in fact, until you get a general lay of the land. And if someone else has submitted something along the same lines as what you were thinking of drawing-- worse yet, if you see multiple designs on the same theme-- just don't submit it. Don't do it. Not even if you're sure you can "do it better". Because maybe you can, maybe you've can't, but in the end, the theme will still be flat. Boring. Unoriginal. Stale. Passe. In short-- a cliche.

Don't become a statistic. Don't commit Threadless cliches.