An American Idol once said that “In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes!”

The future is now!

I think this statement displays a profound awareness of human nature and is both a reflection and prediction central to the ideologies of the pop art movement …

In turn this passage inspired me to better understand humanity in the present world by trying to find out how Andy’s quote was relevant today. I soon began focusing on people’s insatiable relationship with the media. I needed to find the essence of fame in today’s culture and then find a way to cleverly and succinctly depict it.

My research had many focuses including advertising, photography, print, viral, word of mouth, television and of course web but my main focus areas soon became reality TV and the internet. From there I took an idea and found appropriate and specific examples that I thought would best convey my message.

To get a good understanding of the way Warhol thought I was forced to look closely at the inherent beauty within the subject matter, of things we see every day and pay little attention to. By harnessing the existing power of the chosen logos and reapplying them to Warhol’s saying I was then able to add validity to Andy’s words

Hopefully the end result succinctly conveys the ingenious foresight of Warhol’s statement. It was a joy to design something for this contest. I have always thought of threadless as a glorious embodiment of pop art. A place where witty, beautiful, brilliant, yet supposedly low culture designs are embraced, encouraged and held in high regard, considered the equal of high brow art hanging on gallery walls.

simulated process design on a white shirt

Thanks for looking

Yes! I love how subtle yet recognizable the logos are. Very well presented!

OH MAN. SO GOOD DUDE!

great idea, great pop life design 5

sweet

you're awesome, dude! great concept and execution, i want it!

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nice! clever idea :)

This is awesome man! Great shirt, good luck against the Warhol/Jackson shirt. World's First Segway!

Well executed! The bananas are a nice touch too.

haha i like it. Very clever. I like the banana's too!
Also, please rate mine :)
http://www.threadless.com/critique/55789/BANG

so clever! $

so good $$

REALLY good!

Awesome! I'd like it better on a non-white shirt thouhg

AWEsome!!

hahah! awesome take! really clever!

wow super clever.

nice use of text and logo marks. I like the use of the banana as quotes. 5


you may like mine. I also used an Andy Warhol quote. If you'd like to comment mine - Haring + Warhol

clever concept

Brilliant!

nice!!!!

oh sweet it's up, sorry about the long winded explanation, thought i better add another explanation just in case you didn't get enough...

oh the irony!!!

Loving it!!!

I cant see the placement right now (some pc problem I guess), but the design is awesome, and the quote is really great, warhol was a prophet!

Oh there it is, great placement too

This is brillaint, Damn I will I had thought of it. You awesome $5

awesomeeee concept!!!! LOVE$5

sooo coooool!

genius

winner!!

I LOVE this design, but how in heck did it get past the copyright fanatics?!

pure genius.. love it..

print print print!!!

okay so i see You Tube... Google... Myspace.. Facebook... Yahoo... and of course the American Idol logo... what are those other fonts i am not quite recognizing?!?!

it'll bug me if no one tells me lol

that is sooooo cool!! by far the best design i've seen for the pop art contest (and i've seen a lot of). great, great, great, great idea. i'm worried about the copyrighted logos, but besides that it's perfect!!!!! 555555555$$!!!!!!!

true that ^^ what he said exactly..
GOOD LUCK!

this is genius

superb

thanks guys,

a logo is a very specific thing, these are not logos, it is a sentence that shares familiar attributes to several logos and in its entirety is a totally different thing all together

stephaknee88 i'd love to tell you but i wouldn't dare ruin all of your fun:) perhaps others will be kinder than i am:P

awesomeee!

aahhhhhhh!!! not cool.... they all look SO FAMILIAR and its driving me CRAZY!!

besides threadless are pretty tight with copyright issues, if they approve it that's a good start:)

haha stephaknee88 that's the idea...

they better approve it! its amazing!

and...gurrrrrr

Perfect for the theme!

@ stephaknee88 - Flickr is there too

hey thanks whoo one more figured out, the rest still bugging me :P

I say this is rather spiffy clever - well done.

this is pretty damn awesome

this is super damn awesome

to stephaknee99, here's wat i got that u didn't write:
Blogger, Twitter, Wikipedia.

So, thats everything except the banana quotes, the word "in", and the word "for"

thanks! ! !
but the word IN does look pretty darn familiar too...
but i digress :P

freakin genius!! love it and i really hope it gets printed.

Love it man! 5$

Way to totally rape the modern world of logos and famous making programs to indulge in the best use of logo manipulation I think i've ever seen! Andy McCambellsSoupFace would be mightily proud of this.

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Genius! 5

actually looks pretty good and is very relevant to today.

coolness

very good

genius!

And I thought you couldn't speel?
5$!!!

GENIUS.

hey andreas im sorry to bother you, but i was wondering how to make those "SUB'D DESIGN" post in the blog forum... if anyone can give a hint on that i'll appreciate. I know this is not the place but I've tried everywhere

this is great!!

cool!!!

GREAT $5

nice logo implement. this is really great worl. love it.

winner! must 5$! :))

haha!!
Very clever!!

COOL!
5$

So much coolness !!!

Cool, but an old idea
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcobardus/3887128006/

yea, "Gnnd" that's pretty similar, but i think this one is much better executed and it uses more logos.

winner

i dont really like it

Really clever and very well done. Just doesn't look that great on the tee, imho.

Very clever concept and well-executed!

Nice idea but really not beautiful to be used.

thanks guys, i think the google logo slightly compromises the aesthetic with it's colours but i thought it was fundamentaly important enough to the concept to include it

also if i was being analy retentive the overall composition of the shirt the andy warhol signature would be slghtly smaller, i just wanted it to be clear to read

to be honest i thought the shirt looked suprisingly good, but i'm quite happy to adress a couple of issues if the design is chosen for print

PS: love the haters

and Gnnd if you think this concept is the same as the very obscure reference you made, i think you missed the whole point of the design

I like it!

nice work!

i should add that i'm absolutely blown away by the positive response this design has received...

so stoked so many people like it:))))))))))

print! :)

winner 5

cool

very clever!

clever!

really clever! great

very very smart.

splendid!

very clever meeeen....like it!..

So clever! $5

Clever awesomeness! Print

Love the thinking! Warhol would have fived it and the same goes for me $5

haha, i hope so:)

great work! I especially love the Andy Warhol bananas as quotation marks.

So true. Great work, man.

the google font needs a change

that's pretty deep man - 5!

very very cleverrrrrrr. great job!

cool colors and design. very nice

super !!!!!!

Great Idea!

PRINT!!

superb

EXCELLENT!!!!

this is a brilliant take on the concept. 5

Nicely done!

Kind of like my sub.

http://www.threadless.com/submission/238283/Identity_Crisis

wow, more comments this is so sweet... i feel like a mini Alvarejo celebrity:)))))

cool sub bezomy, looks like we shared simimilar inspirations

Very well said and created! Keep up the GREAT work!

awesome 5$$$

tight

very nice work

Typographically terrific!

The idea and execution is supercool, but I dont know if i'd wear it because of the nerdy first impression

brilliant!

so cool!!

CONGRATS ON WINNING THE WHOLE ENTIRE CONTEST

5!!!!!!!

thanks all, keep the high scores and comments coming, i'm off on another sea fairing adventure...

fingers crossed for a good score and mimi emails:P

winner!!