Please evaluate the aesthetics of this shirt. I did not do it as a joke, even though it may apply to Threadless culture.

The proportional/perspective sizes of some of the letters seem a bit out of whack. I like the simple color schemes though.

I was just about to comment about that =) I drew all of the perspectives using vanishing points and lots of lines, and then jumbled them up at the end.

I think it's an awesome design j-ray, definitely an awesome throwback to threadless nerd-dem

I'm pretty sure that this would be lost on anyone outside of the Threadless community.
I do, however, like the way that the letters look like they are falling into eachother.
Nicely done(quite unlike mine:)

I also like that there are a T and an E missing, like you've already started losing your text.

JRAY THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO CLEAN AND PRETTY

i swear i saw this befor

lemon: maybe because it was in the critiques for a while

orange

ha, this is neat

this is genius. oh and do it on orange. :]
i have a thing for orange...

perspectives, lighting, proportions, blending of words, colors, blah, blah, blah.

everything is how it should be.
forget about the nit-picking comments.

stick with the green the orange is too bright kinda hurts my eyes all three of them

J-Ray you seem to know alot about puting in submissions i an having alot of trouble putting in my first wanna help me out

very cool!

I don't know that this would necessarily be lost on people outside of threadless. It may not always be phrased "lost the text," but just about anyone who's done any amount of professional design or taken classes has had to contend with design speaking for itself or how and when the use of text is part of the design rather than a crutch or an explanation.

I'm pretty new to threadless (and still haven't submitted any of the designs I'm working on), but seeing comments about text detracting from designs was not that new to me when I started scoring and looking at designs here.

So, I guess I'm saying the audience for this is bigger than threadless. :)

surfshirt: good luck with your designs.. you can email me at opcomment@hotmail.com or add me to msn and i'll do my best to help.

thank you very much all my work is done by hand and they scanned i will definitly email you for more help

my email is gorillaz123.mail@comcast.net and again thankyou

Pretty cool, but definitely an inside joke among Threadless artists and critics.

it really speaks to the threadless culture, i dig it

This makes me miss the Yeticorn...

lmfao....I was thinking about making a shirt like this $5

that said, they are entirely different designs, and I like what you did with the typography.

I like this one a lot better than that godawful robot one. LORD it was stupid!

hahaha, pure threadless gold

i think it's missing something...

gronk!

I think its pretty neat

I like it a lot... much more than Albania!

You are certainly varied in your submissions. 4 from me!

Try an original idea next time?

Don't know what the deal is with the "copying" (I know the two of you know each other on the blogs, so I'm assuming you both just decided to address the same idea in different ways), but (and sorry, that was quite a long parenthetical comment) this looks great!

I like how you pulled it off with only 2 colors.

Great illustration! - just try a different idea, OK?

yuuuuuuuuuuup!

canadianbeaver - "Try an original idea next time?" What?!? That's like saying next time, don't use colors because someone's already submitted one that used colors. The art seems to be very original, it just happens to be using a subject that is near and dear to the Threadless nation.

Having said that, I think this one is way better than the Yeticorn version and deserves at least a 4.

I also think it wouldn't be lost on nonThreadlesser's because of the maze like aspect of the letters. i.e. lose your way in the text....that may be a bit of a stretch but who knows!

I dig it, nice to see some thoughtful type design =)

are you missing a "T"?

I like it in green. I am feeling this shrit. thats like every other comment on my summitions!

things I like & things I dont.
I like how you used the background color as the top of the letters, good optical illustion. It was clever to have the "the" running up, made from the other words, but I'm afraid to anybody who isn't used to hearing/reading "lose the text" all the time on threadless, it looks like "lose h text" & I dont think people would want that...
also- I like the overall shape &movement, & the contrast.

it's cool, but really, no one outside threadless would get it

shirtflirt - the T from TEXT and the E from LOSE are the same T and E in THE.

Brilliantly pulled off. I read it properly at first glance and only noticed the reuse of letters at second glance

green rocks

oh yeah!

im dizzy.....but i love the concept of the lost letters.

Yes. Also: Pretty sweet. 5. :)

it's a good looking shirt. i know 0 design geeks and i'd wear it, esp in orange. $5

umm, I like the design, but lose the text.

haha kay that was dumb. but really, me gusta.

dude i totally didn;t notice the creative spelling illusion thing either .well done.

i like this.. but would like it better if it was just a bit smaller!

Dammit J-Ray you're a genius. C ya when summer's over and you can start gaining a bit of weight again ;-)

it's a very well illustrated and pull-off concept j-ray, and for that, I like what you have done. However, i agree with others on this blog about this being only for the Threadless and/or illustrative design crowd, but i have the "in the basement of the alamo" tee and that also appeals to a very small percentage opf folks who actually get where that refernce comes from. Having said all that, I'm not part of the art submission community (unfortunatyl since i have nil drawing skillz), so i don't need to wear this is a mega-super-exlcuding in-joke. No matter how you are using the space, coloring and shape of the lettering to form the words above (and i really like what you did with that), it's still a design with limited appeal, and wouldn't sell a tenth of the shirts "Forest For the Socks " is gona sell. HEHEHEHE. I only put that in to mess wit ya! Still, i'll give it a 3 cause you da man and it's a new-fangled way to illustrate a text idea.

it's not missing any letters. The "E" from LOSE, the spare "H", and the "T" from TEXT line up to spell out the "THE."

good design, but i like the yeticorn one better. I'll give it a 4 for ya!

Danny, it should then have two of those letters. LOSE _H_ TEXT
I like it, people do two different takes on things all the time. This is a competition...We'll just have to see which one gets printed! :]

Its a really neat design and all. Ya, it made me smile. But I dont think I'd want to wear a threadless t-shirt about making threadless t-shirts...

Wow, you did an EXCELLENT job with this. Maybe it's just because I'm a graphic designer, but I caught it right away. You did an excellent job allowing the design to flow while still making it seem disjointed and like the text was actually being lost. 5, for sure.

This is great. Here's to hoping it wins.

5*

orange for sure

Vanishing points PISS ME OFF! Nice work. Looks weird on the shirt. I think the layout could improve, but I love the idea.

i like it

everyone saying that this shirt would only work on threadless people must forget the fact that only threadless people buy these shirts! haha. i love it.

very cool ...

this will beat the yeticorn.

i like this a lot.. even outside of threadless community because i refuse to buythose stupid text shirts that people seem to love branding themselves with.

exactly! thanks for getting it, tortuga :)