There is a few hidden meanings in this design. But it shouldn't be to difficult to come up with an interpretation.

Any interpretation will do, as long as it is yours.



Peace and love to you all

i love it.

i like it but why is there blood on him?

the blood is too disconnected in my view.

Hm. I'm obviously not looking close enough, but I'm reading it as a comment on how poaching and animal abuse is bloody and violent, but all the perpetrators see is the money (hence the barcode). The zebra is looking at you for help.

I have a shirt almost exactly like this, but

a. there's no blood

b. the lines continue throught the zebra so tis sorta hiding in there

c. the caption on he back of the t says: you just cant put a price on nature. i think.

been done done done done before.

Art is about everybody having their personal opinion about what it all means. It is great to see all thees different ones ( that means I have succeeded in what I set out to do).

When that is said, I must say I really like "sock ninja"s interpretation.... but that's just my opinion.

Thanks for all the comments, and peace and love to you all....

prettty awesome dude...but yeah alllotta people wouldn't get it (airheads) at first and they'd hafta to keep staring at your chest and thatd be awkward. lol kudos, tho=]

He he thanks there "kwwojo" :-)

I've seen it at www-redbubble-com



http://www.redbubble.com/people/perovesleen/clothing/467759-2-code-zebra

... Harryx is right. The exact same design is in this other place.



Is that you submitting twice? (-tries to think the best of people-)



Anyway. I really like the design, and the meaning that sock-ninja put forward is great. I'm not sure I'd wear it, though.. too many people would just think that it's a barcode impaling a zebra or something.



(I'm looking for some help/critique on one of my subs too...

http://www.threadless.com/critique/11894/Dangers_in_the_Field

I'd appreciate your opinion. :) If you have the time.)

Thank you "harryx" and "Jalindal" yea That's me on "the bubble". That is where I actually get some of my stuff sold. I hope I haven't broken any rules by doing so.



And "Jalindal" I've had a look at "in the field", and you can read my advice at the bottom of the page... :-)



Have a nice holiday all of you. Peace and Love

muy bien diseņado 4

hmmm this is the 20th time ive seen this design

Maybe you should try another page TreeFiddy :-)

it's not exactly original.

No? where do I find thees duplicates of my design?...

What's black and white and red all over?

http://images.google.ca/images?hl=fr&q=zebra+barcode&gbv=2



tada

Well that's just a zebra with a bar code BEHIND it, Not the same at all. And there is no blood, so I must ask are you blind ore stupid?

You need to look further, cos if that is to count as a duplicate, then you can wipe out 90% of the motives on "Threadless".



As Chuck Berry so eloquent said: "there is nothing new under the sun" and the wheel was not invented by one man alone. No it was invented many places at the same time without them knowing about each other.

It's the same with design, especially nowadays when everyone and his dog, seams to wanna be a designer, ore to know more about it then the designer him/her self.



That said, when I was finished doing this design, I realized that the idea was rather on the surface and not very difficult to come up with. It kind of suggests it self in a way. So it was bound to have been done before.

I Googled it and came up with the same as you (so it's not new to me), but that is different, so after checking some more, and a few questions to a couple of fellow designers friends of mine. Still nothing, so then I reckon it's OK.



But if anyone should find a duplicate not made by me, I will be happy to redraw my design. But I don't think you will, cos like I said I have tried that myself and drew blank.





Happy holidays to all

You are an inspiration to us all

Barcodes & zebras aren't the only 2 black & white striped objects which exist. Try something more fresh next time- conceptually fresh, since you clearly have skills. I never really understood the connection so many have with merging barcodes with zebras anyway- it's not like you can purchase a live zebra at the grocery store. Something that makes more sense is to merge cage lines with a zebra, as a statement against zoos or whatever. 2

maybe if the zebra head was decapitated and laying next to him

ohhhh I gat it the Zebra is having its period. 5$

Lots of good suggestions her, this place is cooking from creativity.And thank you all for your comments.

The idea with zebra and bar codes isn't something I'm planing to go deeper in to.

So I will suggest that you test the ideas yourself, and don't forget to post, so we can see.



Peace and love to you all

lol I feel bad for you to have to explain over and over again that you didn't copy this design. Anyway, I love the message behind it, the message I see in it. The design isn't really my style though, but great symbolism.

welll, original or not, the design is majorly uninteresting. whatever it means: 0

0

beacuse you're annoying

So "mickimoose" you don't give votes for the art, but for the person...????

Sorry but I thought this was a t-shirt motive competition, not a popularity contest.



So now I've heard that too he he.

I must say it is a bit annoying when people like this get involved. One has to be careful of ones opinions, cos there are people like "mickimoose" here, and ...well you can see for your selfs above. "0 beacuse you're annoying".

So as one can see the art is secondary for idiots like this. There is too much of this here. Too many people that has no clue, but they give "advice" on every comment they make. And it is always something minor bullshit, easily pointed to even if you know squat about design ore graphics. And they are also often of very low age,and thus no experience ore education. But obviously knows better than seasoned designers (not referring to myself).



You can criticize my art all you want, but I didn't come here to get slandered for my opinions, by idiots.

This is a t-shirt contest, NOT a personality competition. Vote for the art not the person.

I thought that was obvious...

*hands tash a clue*

Your bar code number should not have serifs in it. Bar codes are printed so small, they all use san-serif. For that technical oversight I will have to deduct a few points. :(

why do you keep explaining your self?? your art should just stand by itself. I wouldn't have even said anything if I were you.... if people don't like it or don't think its creative then it's their problem.

you just keep digging yourself into a deeper hole.



I like the drawing on the zebra by the way.

clip art zebra, blood makes no sense, serif numbers, idea is not original.

Messy and booooooring. Everybody is doing naive art thees days, it is soooo damn NOT original.

I know it is against the grain, but I hate art like this. It's like skills no longer count. Don't get me wrong, I like abstract art in many cases, but I hate stuff where it looks as if the artist drew with his left hand (if right handed). Actually this is a often used technique, but I don't get it. It leaves me cold. It doesn't even provoke me, and THAT is tragic.

Another thing is that it has been done to death, the last five years, so it's yesterdays news.



Sorry

He he just wana point out that "fatheed" Stole the whole comment from me. He just cut it right out of a comment I did some houres ago. He probably didn't agree with my critique of the tee I commented on, and thought it would be a great revenge (talking about childish) to toss it back.

But that's ok, if you thing my writing is THAT good, just go ahead. Take all you want, I make a good living as a designer/illustrator, so I really don't need it myself.

But be aware, it is not very original to copy others he he he :-)

To fatheed: this is not what one would call naive art.

To canadianbeaver : Your wrong, it is NOT clip art. I drew it.



To the rest of you: thank you very much for voting and commenting. It is very rewarding to get both good and bad critique. And it is a nice feeling to see that other people look at my art and have opinions. That is why I do what I do.

So once again thank you very much all of you....

i don't get, 0

Messy I don't get it... 0

I don't get you.

Your passive-aggressive rhetoric gives me a semi. 0

Hey, I can spend five minutes finding an image off google, trace it, and add generic downloaded Photoshop splatter brushes, too. But for someone who claims to be a professional Photoshop user and teacher, it's pretty damn amateur. You take yourself far too seriously.



Like you said, your designs are much better suited for this "Redbubble" thing, where anyone who knows how to use Photoshop (Or MS Paint, for that matter) can slap a half-assed vector trace on a shirt, sell it for a ridiculous price, and get a piece of the profit back. Whereas here, where people with fully functional eyes and some sense of taste get to say "No" to crappy work.



Saying you're only here for "research" or because you're "bored" or whatever is just a convenient way to excuse your garbage work, your frustration at the Threadless audience, and your obvious humiliation. Because if you didn't care, you wouldn't even bother responding.



Hay, have a great day, champ!

so wait, why ARE there skyscrapers riding a zebra?? am i missing something here?

I give up this is too stupid :-)



At least the people are voting, that means they have an opinion (ore it would have been out of the race days ago). And as fare as I am concerned, that is what art is all about. So my goal is reached no matter what one may think and/ore mean.

I find it positive that so many people have opinions about my art, that is and will always be rewarding.

What I find a bit more on the negative side, is that when people get pissed with your critique, they go and slander your art regardless, and that is a bit on the negative and childish side (at least that is how it come across). And you also often see that those with the harshest slanders, don't have art in the contest them selfs (safe place to be I would presume).

Another annoyance I would say, is that if somebody don't like that you answer ore try to explain things they point out ore are in other ways dissatisfied with, when it comes to your art. You run the risk of a verbal nose full. That would be ok if it was directed against the art, but it is often directed towards the artist personally. I find that way below.

I've had people slander my spelling (I'm Norwegian thus not perfect in English despite spell checker), my age (47 ok ok I'm old, but can't help it so please don't hold it against me), I've been accused of copying (no profs), accused of using clip art and tracing it (only tracing I do is to trace my sketches, unless a customer want to have something that one can produce faster and better with a photo and tracing. But it would of course be my own photos, ore shot after my instructions) and I could go on but I reckon you get the drift...



To be hones I find it saddening, and it makes me feel uneasy (probably what those persons wanted anyway), so from now on they can feel happy and content. Cos from now on I'll shut up and let everybody ramble on.

That makes it one less voice, one less vote, one less opinion and one less color in the big picture. Hope you're happy. I know I'm not.



Peace and love to you all

p0wned.

Commercialism of modern culture is leading to the destruction of wildlife? Bar codes are actually made from skinned zebras? Bar codes are angry and enjoy stabbing zebras in the back for stealing their colors?



Listen, if you had amazing work, and you were a dick to people who left criticism that was not constructive whatsoever, people would probably be commenting on here saying you're a dick. The reason they are coming back with the same things that you've said is because you were a hypocrite.



You referred to people's works as "naive art", which could be true (though I don't think either one of us is an accurate judge of that). But, the fact is, when you critique someone that way, you can't expect people to come back at you with the white lies they give everyone else. They will come back brutally honest, and that is what they did.



Fact is, believe it or not, the tired and overdone bar code-zebra thing has been about 50 times too many, and if you're going to do something that's been done before, you have to do it creatively. You, however, certainly did it very generically, and it's just a fairly boring image.



Plus, when you're going around saying people have "naive art" simply because you're bitter that they are getting positive comments (you don't leave these "critiques" so much on subs that aren't doing well in the first place), it would help if you didn't have a shirt design with a naked chick holding a gun, with text beneath it that reads "Jealous." Something about that just doesn't quite strike me as fine art.



War and hate to you alone.



(get it? it's a joke, lol @ u)



Just kidding, we can be friends if you stop being such a douche.



xoxo hugz 'n' kissez

Maybe if the Zebra was wearing Italian loafers and had a studded dog collar on. And personally, I really prefer coniferous zebras.

if it was just a zebra with barcodes it would have been tired and overdone - but the blood splatter... i mean really, it is genius - fantastic job

"You're a knob end and a twat."



You've got skill, but since you're an @$$ nobody is going to vote you well. How's that formarketting research?

I think Id like it better if the zebra was a mail man and the bar codes were Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and the blood splatter was a speech bubble that said "You've got mail!"

OR if all the bar codes were spikes and he put roasting pork and potatoes on the spikes - with a big bowl of gravy under the zebra -

You've got mail would be good, but I'd rather see that Zebra being Sleepless in Seattle.

fatheed on Dec 27 '07

Messy and booooooring. Everybody is doing naive art thees days, it is soooo damn NOT original.

I know it is against the grain, but I hate art like this. It's like skills no longer count. Don't get me wrong, I like abstract art in many cases, but I hate stuff where it looks as if the artist drew with his left hand (if right handed). Actually this is a often used technique, but I don't get it. It leaves me cold. It doesn't even provoke me, and THAT is tragic.

Another thing is that it has been done to death, the last five years, so it's yesterdays news.



Sorry



I know it's not his comment, but this is not your drawing, so it fits.

Posn on Dec 24 '07

Thank you "harryx" and "Jalindal" yea That's me on "the bubble". That is where I actually get some of my stuff sold. I hope I haven't broken any rules by doing so.



Actually, yes, you have broken any rules by doing so.

I don't think that it's the design people are saying that they've seen before, but it's the concept that has been done over and over again.

Just for some clarification, since we now know English isn't your first language.

Well it has been done.



http://www.threadless.com/submission/82762/zebracode



http://www.threadless.com/submission/71099/Zebra_Code

True dat.

Double true.

Nothing new here.

agreed, its cool, but its a pretty trite, except for the blood, which seems just out of place. I could see if it had a splash of paint or someting (diferent colors of paint) but then hey, even more cliche. Oh well. it looks nice though.

Most of you seem to be ignoring the fact that he is selling this exact same design on another website!



That automatically makes this a zero!

Agreed profE

would have been much better without the red

and if it weren't being sold on another site!

maybe rework it without the zebra?

not that i am looking to jump into a debate about a 'done' design... but you mentioned a few rambling points ago that individuals commenting hadn't submitted art themselves... and as one of these individuals, i am able to admit that when i am unable to create a unique and impressive concept, i know better than to splash red and try to re-sell an old one.

and while my critique may mean nothing, as i am no artist, i AM a consumer... and unfortunately, our opinion matters as well.



you are the used-car salesman of "art"

1,95 points, I can live with that. Lots of opinions, even more important (to me at least, but don't miss understand, I would welcome the money a print would bring. But I assume that is in any case out of question since I am and have been selling it somewhere else, and that is apparently a breach of rules, which I of course respect, but through being hasty and stupid I didn't read all the rules. But I did sign and agree, so that is OK ).

So all there is left, is to thank everybody for voting and commenting.

Have I nice new years eve everybody....

oups sorry it was 1, 97 points. Even nicer :-)

love it! but have a look at this:



http://de.dawanda.com/product/6862162-ZEBRASTREIFENCODE-TShirt-Gr-M-Siebdruck



?!?

ohh, I guess you'll have to register to see what I see - your design!