Threadless T-Shirts - Design By Numbers

Design By Numbers by Royal Sapien

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857 days ago

Submitted on:

Apr 25 '06

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2,081 people

Comments:

47 comments

Final average score:

1.87 out of 5

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by Royal Sapien

It's all in the spirit of fun.

teametc on Apr 25 '06

nice ribbing on the designers, although outside of threadless i dont know how much this would make sense as a shirt.

killerbeez on Apr 25 '06

I really liked this a lot-- kind of like a 4AD album cover from the nineties-- until I saw that it was just the designer being an asshole. Disappointing!

Big Ed on Apr 25 '06

I don't think you're an a-hole, but I definitely don't get it at all.

cherrycoke on Apr 25 '06

Hahahahaha.

poofie on Apr 25 '06

where are the skulls and guns?

BloodyMidget on Apr 25 '06

Do you have a link to the entire image not covered up by the shirt? I wanted to try this out...I think that it would be funny to see...

kc_6201 on Apr 25 '06

Should have added some hearts and cephalopods and what poofie said...
Anyway, this is amusing and still manages to be aesthetically pleasing.

boxy_ on Apr 25 '06

ha, agree 200% with this design, irony is that the layout is pretty bad

stfu_meanyhead on Apr 25 '06

i dont get it at all.
or know what the picture is.
is anyone else like that???
or is it just me?...

I_heart_ducks on Apr 25 '06

um... who puts tons of tiny angular buildings on a shirt?

chudoc324 on Apr 25 '06

Yes! Love it! I find this concept to be brilliant and would love to have it on a shirt.
Well played.

Royal Sapien on Apr 25 '06

I apologize for not including skulls, guns, hearts, sea life, flowers, etc. I agree that hearts were certainly a major omission, as were cephalopods on Threadless, but I wanted to keep the legend somewhat managable so I narrowed my list.

It sucks that some people think it's mean, but I wouldn't own dozens of Threadless T's if I didn't like the designers that contribute. I own shirts with squids and hearts and stars and birds and, yes, buildings on them.

It's a joke.

JAHRASTAFARi on Apr 25 '06

ffffffresh.

deadspeaker on Apr 25 '06

<3 $5.

Booper on Apr 25 '06

The numbers don't seem to convey the pictures they're supposed to very well.

Dromhus on Apr 26 '06

Beautimus!

ovarycowboy on Apr 26 '06

hahahahaha love the idea, better excecution maybe? still gets a 5 though, but no buy.

Strychnine on Apr 26 '06

Bwuahahahahaha. This shirt speaks the truth. You chose a difficult concept to execute, and I am not sure if I would want it on a shirt in its present form, +4.

direnerd on Apr 26 '06

Plus sign? I don't think I've ever seen that.

Maybe if the pattern stood on it's own, and the legend was more of a surprise. It's funny, but it would be twice as funny if the legend were there but weren't so important.

lucyfarfort on Apr 26 '06

I was going to do a submission which tried to incorporate all of the elements most frequently seen on Threadless for a laugh as well, but it was going to be more in your face than this. I opted not to 'cause no one would wear it. I was inspired to do this after submitting a design which i realised later was really overdone (had butterfiles in it basically).

I would like to set up a competition in which designers have to produce an interesing image for a tee using as many over used elements as possible 'cause i think it would be funny.

Anyway i think its amusing.

cunning47 on Apr 26 '06

needs more fruit with faces!!

Royal Sapien on Apr 26 '06

lucyfarfort, I love that idea! If you ever have the comp, I'd love to submit something. Thanks for the conceptual support.

sweetmonkeytuesday on Apr 26 '06

hahaha.... i love it! but i don't think someone who's not familiar with threadless would understand it

Borgy on Apr 26 '06

It's a really cool looking design, but I absolutely don't understand the legend.

It also seems like too much reading.

Good looking shirt, though. Creative idea.

leftoverusername on Apr 26 '06

Yeah, you definitely missed fruit with faces, blood splatters, and suicides. But oh well, it's a clever and puckish sort of shirt. And yes, puckish is a real word.

iotadial on Apr 26 '06

i refuse to design by numbers, that is the bottom line.

iotadial on Apr 26 '06

oh, like your design tho, clever

Atl Ape on Apr 27 '06

dang i guess i better trash my new butterfly with vector dripping on a target and a sparkly, twisted vine,balancing atop a building with birds flying overhead design!
Lol j/k
I like it. its clever. To bad now a milion other shirts will come out with the same "anti-design by numbers" theme which will then defeat the whole purpose of this original idea. sucks huh?

Barcelona on Apr 27 '06

great concept dog keep them coming

fifty50 on Apr 27 '06

nice concept. Would have been perfect last year when everybody was doing that still

crazy_kaylee on Apr 27 '06

its pretty spiffeh! i think it should be on a different spot on the shirt though. not so high i guess.

matt casey on Apr 28 '06

i think itd look better on a navy blue or black

indigoglass on Apr 28 '06

hilarious, clever, etc etc!

nie on Apr 29 '06

I love it and I don't even care if my friends would understand it or not. $5, although someone in a previous comment mentioned that you don't typically see shirts with tons of tiny, angular buildings, and that's pretty true, but a minor detail anyway.

4qu4 on Apr 29 '06

because it's so true, it works for me. i'd buy it.

Royal Sapien on Apr 29 '06

Thanks for all the support! I'm chuffed the concept is being received so well. It's very encouraging.

(aside: the perceived multitude of tiny angular buildings is actually meant to represent two buildings jutting in from the sides with their edges made of numbers. i now see i could have made that more clear somehow, but just wanted to explain since the forum is provided.)

toutbeaucoup on Apr 29 '06

seriously funny, but not so cool on a tshirt I think.

revolution.number.nine on Apr 30 '06

i love it. but not as a shirt.

xsarsx on Apr 30 '06

i love it.
and who cares if people not on threadless dont get it? as long as it makes me giggle every time i look in a mirror, id wear it.
i dont wear things based on what other people will think.

schonste on Apr 30 '06

lol. Awesome illustration but I wouldn't wear it on a shirt. But it's true, anyway.

shirtflirt on Apr 30 '06

i get it but it's not my style

a lot of people will like this tho

retrospectrum on Apr 30 '06

Haha. Well played. $4

hobbledehoy on Apr 30 '06

nice. I'd buy it.

.Sunshine. on Apr 30 '06

I like it.

I wish I could zoom in on it and see everything all nice and big.
(:
4.

TastesLikeGrandpa on May 01 '06

Hilarious.
You forgot Pandas, Pirates, Ninjas, Skulls, and Monsters.
5

geishaberry on May 01 '06

Oh man, thank you so much for this. Probably not good shirt material but I'm so glad someone else is as bored with the same old crap threadless gets every day as I am.

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