Life Of A Punctuation Mark.
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Oct 20 '10
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ben chen on Oct 20 '10 good job!!!!!
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WOW, whoever it was your partner FA, he/she did an amazing job taking the original version even deeper into the realms of awesomeness
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reags on Oct 20 '10 nice rework!
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dandingeroz on Oct 20 '10 nice $5
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Much much much better! neat concept
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thechild on Oct 20 '10 really nice work here, great concept and pulled off perfectly 5 from me
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outstanding dude!! 5$
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L-M-N-O-P on Oct 21 '10 Guess what dude?
This is FRICKINAWESOME! |
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FRICKINAWESOME on Oct 21 '10 Thanks so much everyone for the early comments!
Step right up and guess which wonderful Threadless artist collabed on this design with me! |
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Morkki on Oct 21 '10 Nice, I see you've put a lot of thought in this
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badbasilisk on Oct 21 '10 sweet stuff dudes
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nice work!
clear concept. |
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alexmdc on Oct 21 '10 cool!
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Tony Centeno on Oct 21 '10 Very Good Work MAn!!!! 5$
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ArTrOcItY on Oct 21 '10 Awesomeeee!!
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super cooool $
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Excellent concept and illo dudes!
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like it!
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great concept!!!!!!! and very nice illustration!
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well done!
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Naolito on Oct 21 '10 Very nice!
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BubuSam on Oct 21 '10 Great concept!!
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Nice job! This is a very thought provoking idea, in fact it's mind-bottling! I looked at the original design first, and your explanation. I never realized how much symbolism is in those marks. Wow. $5
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This is very creative. 5
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cool concept and style. looks great on the shirt! $$$$$$$$5
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interesting concept!
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love it $5
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HorsefaceDee on Oct 21 '10 neat!
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dschwen on Oct 21 '10 Typographic masterpiece. Great work you guys! $5
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parallelish on Oct 21 '10 8)
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Great work FA and the other person!
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Kim Mak on Oct 21 '10 nice work!
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GRANDR on Oct 21 '10 Very cool!!!
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B 7 on Oct 21 '10 brilliant concept, great ideas and nice illustration. This is ace
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Ivantobealone on Oct 21 '10 That's really genius!! Nothing but $5!!!
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randyotter3000 on Oct 21 '10 wow this is pretty cool!
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Anything Goes on Oct 21 '10 Great style and I love the concept!
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Crazy concept, you da man!
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Hoping this PRINT! It has a frickinAWESOME concept really well executed!
Congrats, 5$!,./(don't know how to make the fancy brackets...) |
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wytrab8 on Oct 21 '10 Loved reading the explanation behind this very thoughtful concept. And the execution is great
( ) . ; ! $5 / ? ~ { } |
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Great concept, great design :D
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YaaH on Oct 21 '10 ♥
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i really like it. only objection is that the slash look older than the following two. question mark and (especially) accent mark have a younger look, they look more like a teen or man with deambulation problem than an old man unable to walk. But anyway, is a good idea and fit in threadless catalogue.
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opifan64 on Oct 21 '10 very cool collab!
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So freakin awesome man!
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xiaobaosg on Oct 22 '10 haaa! Great concept!
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kooky love on Oct 22 '10 GREAT $5
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deep space monkey on Oct 22 '10 yeah, this is a great concept
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This is good man!
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rompetelcuero on Oct 22 '10 Wonderful perception!
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nielquisaba on Oct 23 '10 $$$$$$$5
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great update to a solid concept!
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Excellent work, concept and execution are top notch. I do agree about the slash looking older, but that's a minor detail. It's also a bit too horizontal for my taste, but totally TL material. Fiving.
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Awesome concept & perception!
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ibyes on Oct 23 '10 rae41 on Oct 21 '10
i really like it. only objection is that the slash look older than the following two. Nice work though. |
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nice concept
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jaja, I love the idea!!
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pia.tra on Oct 24 '10 cool idea
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this is crazy creative- love it
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CazKing on Oct 24 '10 nice!
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Great idea! 5$
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rodrigobhz on Oct 24 '10 Wow! What amazing concept and illo!
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Love it.
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Killer concept!
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sebasebi on Oct 25 '10 Nice work!
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nice!!
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other half made by westicles?
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polynothing on Oct 25 '10 $5 sweet!
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brainrust on Oct 25 '10 It was good before and it's better now. Nice one!
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aahh... great concept. :-)
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nice work
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dacat on Oct 26 '10 Great concept and execution guys, well done!
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I think my only problem with this design is that without the explanation given, the general viewer has no idea what's the significance of the punctuation marks.
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FRICKINAWESOME on Oct 26 '10 foxatee on Oct 26 '10
I think my only problem with this design is that without the explanation given, the general viewer has no idea what's the significance of the punctuation marks. Thanks for your comments...I don't agree, I just wanted to give a deeper explanation of the thoughts behind each piece of punctuation, but I think the visual clues of both the punctuation and the characters will be more than enough for people to understand what the meaning of the tee is. |
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i'm still very much at !, but i haven't got a clue how to deal with $
very interesting and daring concept! although i think / looks a bit too old already. i mean, 3 out of 7 are disabled, maybe the staff is a bit too much? but otherwise very well executed. the () and {} make it look like a formule (for life), i like that a lot! very nice! |
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westond on Oct 26 '10 That looks really great!
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Andreas Mohacsy on Oct 26 '10 cool
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Very intelligent design executed with a keen attention to detail and thoughtfulness that to me represents a print...$5
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Montro on Oct 26 '10 pretty awesome. great thinking!!
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totally awesome.
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Almost miss this ! Hope this was not the last $5
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ratkiss on Oct 27 '10 Well done! :)
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Mr.Wayne on Oct 27 '10 Amazing!
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mreisel on Oct 27 '10 awesome, frickin!
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holy crap! I almost missed this! AWESOME!
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robsonborges on Oct 27 '10 Nice project FriakiziksRules! 5$
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it looks iconic...but there's too many elements in the design that it looks confusing...nevertheless it looks iconic.....
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Very clever concept!
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TangYauHoong on Oct 27 '10 great design!
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FRICKINAWESOME on Oct 28 '10 Thanks a ton everybody....especially to Mr. Randyotter3000 who was the kick-ass artist who helped rev up this remake with me!
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ooooh sorry i missed this one, supa cool!
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awesome work, awesome concept, just awesome!
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Frosby on Nov 11 '10 very interesting idea. The exclamation mark guy also works as a stand alone image, pardon the pun!
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17 days later
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I really love this man... it's fun, clever, and bittersweet all in one. This has to be a print.
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FRICKINAWESOME on Dec 05 '10 Thanks a ton for the extra interest in this design guys, it was a really personal design and I'm glad others are seeing some meanings behind this that click with them as well.
Again, thanks to phillydesigner for putting the first version of this together with me and Randyotter3000 for illustrating the characters in this version. |
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This must be print!
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niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice
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waiting for prints...
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About my design
( ) parenthesis: Represents where we come from before birth, the energy we are before we are a person. Also represents purity and a mother's womb with its smooth curves.
. period: newborn child, still round, sweet, simple.
; semi colon: child to teenager. A visual cue of the period growing into something bigger, growing up higher. Also denotes not being fully assure of oneself yet, hence a semi colon.
! exclamation point: the twenties through thirties. The big time in life, the time when you are at your peak and living life to its fullest!
$ dollar sign: The main time in ones life, forties to sixties, where the primary focus of life is providing money for various things- family, home, car, college for kids, planning for retirement, etc. Also is the most complex time or dealing with the most issues, hence the twisted nature of the symbol. The halfway point of the design and in life.
/ slash/division mark: this is retirement to eighties, a time when things are slashed from your life or divided amongst many things, when your health starts failing and things you easily could do all your life you can't do as well or at all any more. Visually, a slash looks off balanced, almost falling over.
? question mark: the eighties up until close to passing away. The question mark is like the exclamation mark, but with a hunched over back. It shows old age taking hold of you, as well as questioning life, what it is, what happened over your life and where you are going next.
~ accent mark: the time right before death to dying. A bit like a withered version of the line that makes up the exclamation and slash mark, as well as being off the ground. The accent mark starts at a higher, almost floating position, showing that the mark is about to leave this earthly realm to its next stage of life/death.
{ } fancy brackets: Paralleling the curved parenthesis at the beginning, but show that the energy you came from is something you go back to, although you have now changed it with your lifetime's worth of experiences..
A Frickinawesome and ? collaboration... guess who the other half of this design was made by in the blogs for a chance to win a free tee!
Special thanks to wytrab8 for the presentation.