http://www.threadless.com/ Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:30:28 -0600 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:16:06 -0500 try to do something of your own to it. and starting with something other than a pretty mediocre design might help, too.

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At first I didn't take my designs seriously...and I only think of this stuff as designs, not art. My first five or six designs aren't up anymore. I asked that they be taken down, because I realized something after I'd done them—threadless was an opportunity for me to really test my illustration work, to clarify my own ideas and style and to really find the fun in doing my own work. So I started to do just that, and still do to this day. It's because of the feedback from the community that I saw weaknesses in my work, things I didn't realize on my own working in a vacuum as I was. My first print came as a shock because I had been trying to make a point with that design without thinking it'd actually get picked. After that I've pushed harder and harder to figure out what I like and why I've liked it, discovering in the process that it's just plain old fun to do this, to express and idea or mood with some color and cloth. I realized I don't exist in a vacuum anymore. I've made real friends from folks I'm met in the blogs, people whose design sense and honesty I trust and know I can ask an opinion and will get an truthful answer. And I've found this stuff I do really does resonate with other people, and as any artist out there will tell you, that is the most fulfilling thing in the world.

So it is with absolute sincerity that I thank the threadless staff and the community at large for all the feedback, all the response, all the acceptance. If you'd asked me three years ago what I had hoped to achieve from participating in this community it would have come nowhere near what has actually happened. ]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:53:55 -0600

THEME:
Lyracize. Choose the lyrics from a favorite song and create a design around them. You don't have to include the lyrics in the design unless it needs it.

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THEME:
Stand Alone Creature. Everyone comes up with one funky/unique looking creature without any surrounding objects or landscape. No accessories unless its attached to its body. Whatever shirt color you want. Only ONE, no groups of creatures or packs or flocks etc. Placement could vary. The title is the name of the creature.

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Every now and then a group of us get together and submit a bunch of designs because we like to vote on stuff and thought it'd cool to make voting for a day a little more fun for you, too. In the past they have oriented around just one theme, but this time we tried out two. Objectivity's theme was "pen", which had to appear somewhere in the design. Opposites' theme was, uh, duh, opposites. We hope you enjoy!
































Thanks to everyone who participated and good luck!
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And honorary member Ross:


Thanks to everyone who participated this time around!
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