Ever since I found out about shirt.woot.com, I’ve loved it. Shirts sell for $15 max, usually $10, and shipping is free! I’ve ordered one shirt off there so far. But wait, there’s more! They have a thing called a derby, a competition held once a week where users submit their ideas for a shirt that fulfills a predetermined theme for the week. I always take a look at the up and coming ideas to see what people come up with. There have been many creative ideas, but I haven’t been able to come up with my own idea until now. The theme this week is independence (in time for the 4th of July). I thought it would be cool to design a shirt with ascii art, so I opened notepad. Before I even typed a character in notepad, the backslash and forward slash (slanting lines) got me to thinking about dominoes, and the idea hit me. I would design a shirt with falling dominoes, except one of them wouldn’t fall. My idea ended up looking like this:
The idea is that the domino is free from Newton and gravity. I like the simplicity, but it may be too simple to win. I do think it looks good on a shirt, though =)
Anyways, if you would like to see this shirt in real life, please vote for it here.
June 30, 2008 at 1.51 am
Nice… Simple, but good first shirt. Look forward to seeing future designs!
July 6, 2008 at 12.34 am
Looks good. Have you tried submitting anything to Threadless (threadless.com) They release a handful of user designed shirts each week not just one.
July 9, 2008 at 1.46 am
Oh yeah I’ve heard of threadless, designbyhumans, etc. I like shirt.woot.com because it’s fun to come up with ideas for the theme of the week. It’s hard coming up with a shirt idea of my own, so the guideline they give is welcomed. Also, they print off the top 3 shirt designs of the week.