Threadless T-Shirts - Persian Phoenix

Persian Phoenix

Submitted by:

legofish
on Oct 12 '06

More by legofish

Average score:

2.53 out of 5

Number scored:

2,352 people

Scoring finished:

577 days ago

Comments:

135 comments

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legofish on Oct 05 '06

This is my first threadless submission. It's my rendition of the legendary Persian phoenix. According to legends, this magnificent bird answers the call of he/she who sets her feather ablaze.

I've used a lot of Persian design elements in this, including some subtle Persian floral motifs mixed with some tribal shapes.

leahface on Oct 12 '06

I love the colors. 5$

waterscent on Oct 12 '06

I very much like the composition of the classical persian drawing with the elements of modern art

natesone on Oct 12 '06

cool design but i'm not sure i'm diggin that orange shape?

ladypuce on Oct 12 '06

nicely done, but the orange shape is weird

Kazem on Oct 12 '06

Great art, it flatters our culture. By the way to those wondering about the orange 'shape'. It is Persian writing saying "Simorgh" which means Phoenix. It is intelligently placed in the design.

legofish on Oct 12 '06

thanks. the orange shape is actually the word "Persia" done in Persian calligraphy.

Kazem on Oct 12 '06

My bad, LOL, sorry legofish. I was in two minds, yes it says Persia.

Lambda on Oct 12 '06

Lovely. $5

TinyPixie777 on Oct 12 '06

different color shirt for me, but the design is amazing!

pink mushroom on Oct 12 '06

SUPERBBB like a pink MUSHROOM. :D $5

vooo on Oct 12 '06

I really like the design. it is briliant, and the colour combination in out of this world.

Dr. Elusis on Oct 12 '06

My god, beautiful. I would just like it on a different color shirt, something that compliments the design and theme more.

dwalk51 on Oct 12 '06

OH, MY, GOD, THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE PRETTIEST THING OR DESIGN, WHATEVE i THINK IVE EVER SEEN ON THREADLESS, i AM GOING TO WRITE A LETTER OF UTTER DISCONTENT IF THIS DOES NOT GET PRINTED

Topolab on Oct 12 '06

Very nice. Extremely detailed and cool to look at.

falconx on Oct 12 '06

coolest desgin in the whole entire universe. This guy's got some talent.

Sassquatch on Oct 12 '06

Fabulous!

exin on Oct 12 '06

I like it so much more now that I know the orange bit is actually foreign lettering. sweet design

alishroom on Oct 12 '06

Amazing design, very fluent and amazing incoorporation of the culture in your work! Great job

niavaroon on Oct 12 '06

oh thats neaaat! one of a kind design. very detailed, yet each part resembles a story in Persian culture. I love it!

Hormoz on Oct 12 '06

Kicks ASS in six figures. $5.

lazeproject on Oct 12 '06

This is magnificant, detailed, and profondly colorized.
Alas i have to wait for it to get printed on tshirts, or i would buy it now 50$
very original, whoever you are

Abedi on Oct 12 '06

It's a very artistic and beautiful design. It's unique.

LongLiveQueequeg on Oct 13 '06

beautiful, though i do agree it would be nice to see it on some diff. color shirts.

Persian_beauty on Oct 13 '06

You are such a talented Iranian man...I am sooo proud of you....GREAT JOB dear...

Keep up the good work...you are a true artist :)

blacknight on Oct 13 '06

wicked. $5.

bilbo23 on Oct 13 '06

wow... very nice illustration ... great job!

pmobini on Oct 13 '06

great design as always

johnhoffmeister on Oct 13 '06

Awesome, I love it.

PoLo78 on Oct 13 '06

Excellent! I love the melding of the calligraphy into the design.

mazquito on Oct 13 '06

Brilliantly and superbly done. Our Persian Heritage is depicted very artisticaly.

camranm on Oct 13 '06

Well done legofish, as usual :)

seta20 on Oct 13 '06

Its realy nice.

Baaraan on Oct 13 '06

Nice Job.
Good Luck ...

AngieZ on Oct 13 '06

I signed up to threadless just to score this design. I love it! And, I want this shirt RIGHT NOW! ;-)

RBavand on Oct 13 '06

Beautiful design. I'll buy it immediately.

hootan23 on Oct 13 '06

when can I order mine?!? ;)
An AMAZING Design by An AMAZING ARTIST

Hooti DXB

eyeranian on Oct 13 '06

Great Job!

empire999 on Oct 13 '06

THIS IS WAY, WAY, WAY,....TOO BEAUTIFUL!
I LOVE IT!

pmobini on Oct 13 '06

Awesom. Farideh

thespacebass on Oct 13 '06

FABULOUS!!!

Proshat on Oct 14 '06

Perfect... 30morgh had always been my favorite Legend.

telunit on Oct 14 '06

a great design!

saniiranii on Oct 14 '06

It's absolutely the prettiest shirt i've ever seen.. I so want! *cries*
Sanii.

Sam19 on Oct 14 '06

That's really awesome. My friend is Persian and I read some parts of the Epic (shanama? sp) and I knew of the Persian Phoenix. It looks realllly good and I bet it would have alot of Persian customers too! I'd buy it ;)

deese02 on Oct 14 '06

This is so pretty, I would wear it in a heart beat.

Akibare on Oct 14 '06

Gorgeous design; I just wish it was placed on the other shoulder. That's just personal aesthetic, though. I'd still definitely wear it.

x6488 on Oct 14 '06

$5. Very nice work. The t-shirt color could be a different color, but I'm not sure what.

Looneygirl on Oct 14 '06

Very cool!

webgard on Oct 14 '06

Lovely. Great design.

ehsansh on Oct 15 '06

don't they have a score of 20 ?! beautiful.

MoJo23 on Oct 15 '06

Awsome! I love it!

cyrus_achamenian on Oct 15 '06

yeah...wonderful man!!really great

Mehran on Oct 15 '06

Neat design! Very innovative. Colors are just beautiful. Well done.

Ricky Animation on Oct 15 '06

Did you do any research for the persian designs, cause if you did, good job. You can never go wrong with research and reference. BUt man, your design is awesome, one the best Ive seen. Really inspiring. I'd buy it. Hope it gets printed dude! Can't wait to see what you do next! Keep up the good work!

efcue on Oct 15 '06

P does it again. I can't believe this guy isn't completely and all-out famous yet!

oshekari on Oct 15 '06

I will definitely buy this shirt!! Have you ever thought of designing a shirt with just persian script, that spells something interesting? I've been looking for something like that for awhile!

dymaxion on Oct 16 '06

breathless...

Magicalantern on Oct 16 '06

ABSOLUTELY WICKED and BAHAL! I have always asked myslef when is an Iranian artist (are you?) going to print a t-shirt with old school persian motifs? HERE IT IS! I really like the design-I think it plays well in the mind frame of young westerners who are enchanted my the ancient East in this globalised world that needs more ART and creatvity and less WAR and stupidity.
Suggestions: What is on the back of the t-shirt? don't leave it white. hage the same desing in a very small size (e.g. like an icon) printed on the middle of the neck line.
- I am not sure about the pink and orange colours of the flower's interior. And the orange farsi script? Try a lighter shade of brown. The orange is to strong. Play around with the colours.

FUNKY NICE. Barikala!

When is it coming out on print? Hope soon. I am buying it.

Payam59 on Oct 16 '06

wow, Great Artwork about Persian famous bird , I love it!!

Luke... on Oct 16 '06

interestingly abstract

doostijoon on Oct 16 '06

so beautiful, well done. i really love it.composition is really attractive

anar on Oct 16 '06

I liked it a lot. just think would be better on a girl's shirt because of the cut.

boudava on Oct 16 '06

Fantastic. great desig.

Sivasi on Oct 16 '06

Beautiful design and decoration. A difinite A+. Well-done Legofish.

green_abobora on Oct 16 '06

sick of this kinda draw

Lazio on Oct 16 '06

lovely, will definitely buy it. $5

nickaix on Oct 16 '06

Huh, here I was gonna complain that the flame didn't look fire-y enough. Did not even notice the calligraphy till someone pointed it out. Guess my only concern is, who is gonna realize this beautiful thing refers to the phoenix? Maybe do what someone said and put the logo small on the back too, but w/ the word PHOENIX spelled out for the benefit of the Westerners among us?

HFA on Oct 16 '06

very artistic, nice job

mayssamj on Oct 17 '06

looks so stylish and *phoenixious* ! good job.

mesbakh on Oct 17 '06

logo jan chakerim!

janman on Oct 17 '06

Oh, it is one the best design that I ever seen, I love it.

maziarhsr on Oct 17 '06

Beautiful

Sean.Euphoria on Oct 17 '06

It's amazing but I think it'd look better if the pheonix's wings incorporated some of the color scheme.

safoura on Oct 17 '06

perfect, amazing, i will buy it anyway.

roya_sed on Oct 17 '06

Great design! Good luck :)

Sudi M. on Oct 17 '06

very cool.
I will buy it.

Rachel Raygun on Oct 17 '06

hahahaha. nice try...

yhaniy on Oct 17 '06

Great! thanx for designing it! I am definetely going to buy!

maryamava on Oct 17 '06

Beautiful design, great job...

tesco on Oct 17 '06

lol at all these fake comments

Manos on Oct 17 '06

awwwwww

sarairnl on Oct 17 '06

very very beautiful design, ik like it very much.Goed luck

tesco on Oct 17 '06

I take it back, these are real comments from his fanclub! lol so sorry dude

OlliRudi on Oct 17 '06

haha

(matthijs) on Oct 17 '06

this fanclub?

and about the shirt, it's pretty well executed, but looks too much like a shirt you can buy just about everywhere

aramak on Oct 17 '06

fantastic! good job maaaaan! don know what 2 say! great design..specially the word"iran" in orange. best wishes...

bortwein on Oct 17 '06

why are 90% of the comments by new new new users that have only voted on 1 submission and have an average score of 5?

lajevardi on Oct 17 '06

Absolutely Great.

legofish on Oct 17 '06

thanks for all the comments and i'm glad you like the design.
To Bortwein and a few others who seem to think the comments are fake I must say there's a thing called 'promoting your design' which I have been able to do successfully. I have posted my design on my weblog and several high traffic sites (with mainly Persian readership) and managed to get it out to many people to see. That's why new users who saw the design there and liked it are signing up here to vote for it.
I'm going to write a blog post on my threadless blog and explain further. In the mean time if you still have a hard time believing this you can try asking threadless to give you the IP list of all the commenters.

Reilly Stroope on Oct 17 '06

I am persian, and I would like to say that I love this design as much as persian law will allow.

jublin on Oct 17 '06

persian comments and designs for the win!

staffell on Oct 17 '06

your IPersian address will give you away!

blonde8007 on Oct 17 '06

wow thats just crazy. you're pathetic.

Monday_Askew on Oct 17 '06

Swoosh!

That's cool beans, man.

mdortiz on Oct 17 '06

Gorgeous, but different back color?

twinzun on Oct 17 '06

You look but You don't see.
Nice color but....
I don't like it.

backtozero on Oct 18 '06

not Persian.. but still..$5!
great design.

ttime on Oct 18 '06

ohh this is very good disign!!!!

amir reza on Oct 18 '06

Fantabulous!Smashing!MORE POWER TO YOUR ELBOW,MAN!

amir reza on Oct 18 '06

PRETTY COOL!

amirmaleki on Oct 18 '06

that's very beautiful design. i love it very much. for me it mean's peace !

sibil on Oct 18 '06

This is THE design!! WICKED

Amirhesabdar on Oct 18 '06

WoW!a gorgeous Tee-shirt!

Lazio on Oct 18 '06

legofish I kinda like nickaix's idea about having the logo small-printed on the back too.
Also once you've submitted this is it possbile to change the shirt colour? Although I have to say I quite like the gray.

AtoosaK on Oct 18 '06

Great stuff. Well done to you. I appreciate your hard work.

Reilly Stroope on Oct 18 '06

This is the best design ever, and I am persian.

the persian on Oct 18 '06

I hate this design, and I am persian.

Reilly Stroope on Oct 18 '06

Then you are not a true persian.

notyourtype on Oct 18 '06

This might be an awesome design for all the persians up there, but it doesn't interest me for one second. I really don't understand where all these so called fans come from and why they seem to think this is 'the best t-shirt ever'...

sefid on Oct 18 '06

I love this T-shirt. Its beautiful!

bahamin on Oct 18 '06

It is really Irani:)

ehsangholi on Oct 18 '06

This is fantastic. I'd love to wear it

ehsangholi on Oct 18 '06

I agree, back color should be different

saniiranii on Oct 18 '06

Gosh some of you guys are just so pathetically jealous! Legofish's design is beautiful and for all of you who think the IPersian addresses are fake, then think again. Just as he said, he's promoted his design, and rightly so.. because a design as such shouldn't go un-noticed. Those who became a member in this website were not forced into becoming a member here, rather chose to become one. Threadless does not specify that you have to be a long-term member in order to vote, it only says that you 'must' be a member to vote. If you don't like what you see, I suggest you skip it, but if you find yourself giving this design a rating of '1' for no other reason than out of jealousy, I must say you're a complete loser. Run along and get a life! My respect to legofish.. He shall ALWAYS have the support of us Iranians. Sanii.

spires on Oct 18 '06

this design sucks!

denticulation on Oct 18 '06

I scrolled through this marathon of glowing comments with disbelief - almost no constructive critisicm, just mushy praise. What a sense of relief when I hit tesco's comment, and then others. Now I don't feel nervous to say that I do not like this design, and indeed, this is quite similar to something you could buy at Mandee, or Forever 21, etc. It's generic, not to mention jumbled and poorly composed. Sorry.

Hormoz on Oct 18 '06

Hey Denticulation, i think the problem is not the design, is your poor understanding of elements that make a good design, so don't feel sorry if you don't get it. you can always start to learn more about good artistic elements by borrowing some related books from the closest library. This design ROCKS!

firedancing4life on Oct 19 '06

maybe a design that is centered. excellent linework!

OMG Brill on Oct 19 '06

Not sure how I feel about this. At first impulse, I'd want to buy it, but when I stop to look at it, I ask myself, "What would this shirt say about me?"

Larkkspur on Oct 19 '06

I like the orange bit; it looks like both the start of the flame and, as the designer said, it spells Persia in traditional script.

I don't like the placement much, and wish the head of the phoenix was at the other shoulder crossing the shirt to the opposite bottom corner (thereby covering the entire front with detail).

chronically bizarre on Oct 19 '06

holy craaaap, this design is fantabulous $5

chronically bizarre on Oct 19 '06

btw, the orange bit is awesome

spires on Oct 19 '06

Do you think Threadless will fall for this?

legofish on Oct 19 '06

Denti, this is not an art forum and I haven't posted this design here to look for "constructuve criticism". As far as Threadless is concerned the voting/commenting system is there to gauge people's interest in the shirt and get an idea of how it would sell. And judging by the comments, there's an awful lot of people who want to buy it.

Spires, no. I'm sure Threadless wouldn't fall for it if the comments were fake.

docquan on Oct 19 '06

This is one of the iller designs I've seen today. However, the fact that I'm not Persian, and more importantly that I have nothing to do with anything that could even be remotely considered Persian leads me to think that I have no desire to purchase this shirt.

Great design, though. Move it down a little bit on the shirt and you may or may not have a keeper.

sooski on Oct 19 '06

I like it. I'd prefer it over a feminine cocktail dress than a T-shirt though.

hosseinsh on Oct 19 '06

I love this design.

pantea on Oct 21 '06

I like this shirt much and I would buy it, but I was too late for scoring, sorry!

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fariborz on Oct 23 '06

It is really very very nice.it is a combination of the new age and old classical design.Phoenix is an iranian bird myth and the designer has a good taste to mix it up with the poweful lovely design showing its magnificense.I like it so much and doesnt matter it is late for scoring.

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Sara888 on Oct 29 '06

I love it it is awesome, I wanna buy something like this

8 days later

afshin on Nov 06 '06

I ike it.

hadi on Nov 06 '06

I’m actually very picky when I’m buying something like a t-shirt. But this one is actually the one I would defiantly buy….the design is absolutely outstanding and elegant. It’s colourful, cool and confident. Its strength is its simplicity. Isn’t the Combination of the black and the orange colour just beautiful? That’s what we can call it “cool for ever”….well job done!

4 days later

Etmorpi on Nov 11 '06

Kheili khubieh! I would buy.

3 days later

saeid.aslani on Nov 14 '06

Kheili jalebe . chejoori mishe kharidesh ?

347 days later

David_Wei on Oct 28 '07

This is absolutely amazing. Please print it so I can buy like 3 shirts of it.