Threadless T-Shirts - The Elevator's being Serviced

The Elevator's being Serviced

Submitted by:

Ian Leino
on Jun 02 '05

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Average score:

2.54 out of 5

Number scored:

1,134 people

Scoring finished:

1074 days ago

Comments:

36 comments

Design forum

Ian Leino on Jun 01 '05

One of the main genres of pulp novels was the detective story. Still gritty and violent, there was also a great amount of tension and mystery, which is what I'm hoping to capture with this design.

Skog on Jun 02 '05

Cool!!! I'd wear this for sure! Is the blood spelling out IFC?

dojo_chemeleon on Jun 02 '05

needs a bit more clarity, as far as concept.
needs more subtlety as far as graphic.

Harmsway on Jun 02 '05

i love the design of this one, this is perhaps the most original one i have seen yet, you need more clarity in the design as dojo said i kind of cant tell its a gun in his hand

sporktastiq on Jun 02 '05

wow this shirt is beautiful, its nice that someone didnt put the logo...

RaeKuusou on Jun 02 '05

by far the best of all the ifc designs i've seen.
very,very well done. don't change a thing!

Moglandor on Jun 02 '05

The red laser sight(?) is a little weird. Hard to tell what it is.

Ian Leino on Jun 02 '05

Thanks for the comments so far. For a little more clarity, please see the larger version in my profile.

Cassanova_Frankenstein on Jun 02 '05

very gory...is this meant for the IFC competition?

sundaygirl__ on Jun 03 '05

wow. nicely done
xx

crazy dimond on Jun 03 '05

this is a very creative design / solution for a t-shirt... a comepent execution, high style and referencing comtempory cinema... follwing the graphic novel theme...mayb too competent for a t-shirt design! greats work keep it up man!

little_hobbit_feet on Jun 03 '05

lose the laser sight, tidy up IFC in the back and I'd give it a 5.
Beautiful design, excellent use of colour.
3 the way it is.

grayehound on Jun 03 '05

Nice sense of light and shape and very appropriate for the theme. I'm tending to agree with the laser light comments above. Lasers don't tend to get broader until they are much further from the gun, so it's triangluar shape reads wrong. I think the text is perfect as is...kinda a little surprise when you see it. Nice work Ian!

Avarice on Jun 03 '05

For a pulp kind of feel, I would have personally preferred a more classic style gun, a revolver of some kind. And I do believe the lazer sight is unnecessary. Having said that, I love the shadowy feel and tension, and I think the composition works very well. I love extreme light and shadow, and it works exceptionally well in this design. :)

AFM13 on Jun 03 '05

a little 2 busy 4 such a small pic. I like the ifc part. A little touch up, and i say this is could be the winner from what i seen so far.

the_boys_a_mess on Jun 04 '05

looks like frank miller.
i dont know how i feel about that.
just a thought.

Roysterini on Jun 04 '05

nice design, but I wouldn't wear it. Too gruesome.

ron! on Jun 04 '05

I love the idea, but...I don't know, something just isn't right.

Basehead on Jun 04 '05

Simply amazing. I Love the fact that the cigarette is smoking more than the gun is. You might want to place it a little lower though, just don't change the art.

SincereTease on Jun 04 '05

i love it but lose the laser.

Ian Leino on Jun 05 '05

So the laser was a last minute idea to help draw attention to the gun, but in retrospect, I agree that it takes away from the design rather than adds to it. As that seems to be the consensus from what I have read in the comments so far, if this design is selected for printing, I would happily remove the laser.

Gothnoo on Jun 05 '05

perhaps make the gun seem more like a conventional gun. it looks very strange right now.

brokennightmare on Jun 05 '05

I'm not much for the blood on the door. I don't know it just looks brunched up and...unnatural.

Laumki on Jun 05 '05

I don't like the stripes in the elevator!

atombender on Jun 05 '05

Woah!

Red, black, and guns! So original!

But it's good for a Red-Black-Gun design.

4

Metamorphosis on Jun 06 '05

i think the ifc text should be a little bit more obvious.. i mean, the point of this t-shirt is to advertise them somewhat.. and if people don't notice the IFC text, then it's not really advertising

Pedey on Jun 06 '05

Fair cool, $5.

SemantiTheft on Jun 06 '05

What's with the "SB" footprints?

the Rav on Jun 06 '05

Lose the laser.
Make the gun a revolver.
Give me some red on the end of the cig.
I like it.

overratedreality on Jun 06 '05

more gruesome than subtle, not really my style

give it a 4 because I would probably still buy it XD

unicornfluff on Jun 07 '05

Yeah ... the footprints are "SB" ... Surely that's not just coincidence ...
Anyway, I completely agree with the Rav on this one.
Gorgeous design.
5

Ian Leino on Jun 07 '05

Yeah, Rav definitely nailed the necessary changes for this one (if only I had asked him before I submitted!) I'd definitely make all those changes if this is chosen (but don't want to clog the boards with another submission for these limited changes).

As far as the footprints, the "SB" is completely unintentional, and is just a compression artifact (not a logo, or anything evil like that.)