OMG! Collaborative shirts!

January 13, 2005 2:08 PM

The folks at Threadless have launched a new collaborative contest type way to make shirts at OMG Clothing. You sign up, submit a slogan, and everyone votes on them, with the best scores getting made into shirts. Threadless has always done graphical submissions, but I suspect more people can come up with a funny phrase than a crazy cool vector art graphic.
posted by mathowie (12 comments total)

Cute idea, but a lot of the slogans I see so far are stupid. Real stupid. Like, already on a $5 t-shirt that you can buy in {insert tourist trap here}. Hopefully Mefiers can think of better.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 2:19 PM on January 13, 2005 [1 favorite]

more people can come up with a funny phrase than a crazy cool vector art graphic.

Because... wit and brevity are more common than flashy graphics?
posted by Wolfdog at 2:39 PM on January 13, 2005

It takes more effort to make a pretty picture. A witty slogan feels like less work.

Or more literally: I've never submitted anything to threadless over the years, but in five minutes I posted three slogans to OMG.
posted by mathowie at 3:04 PM on January 13, 2005

Could it be? My secret dream to design shirts finally being realised through a web-based competition?

Probably not, but thanks for the link.

(and maybe we could combine interesting phrases with crazy cool vector art graphics?)
posted by cosmonik at 3:04 PM on January 13, 2005

Out of the five "witty" slogans I see when I click that link, two are misspelled. I love Threadless, but I think I'll stick to their graphic tees.
posted by makonan at 4:46 PM on January 13, 2005

And hey, if they snub your wit and wisdom, then take your slogan on over to CafePress and make your own shirts.

I agree that wittiness is far easier to come up with than a slick graphic, one's one step, the other is many steps and I can't draw.

I liked the site that took spam subject lines and made them into t-shirts just for the WTF? factor to the non-internets types.
posted by fenriq at 4:47 PM on January 13, 2005

Are you sure? I make a mean omelette.
» by dobbs

heh
posted by bdave at 7:05 PM on January 13, 2005

I've rated the graphic tees on Threadless, and some of them are really great. Even the less than great ones have a fair amount of effort invested by the artist / illustrator. I know that everyone can't draw well, but I never felt that I had invested more by rating, than the artist had by drawing. Given that it takes more time and effort to rate the slogans than it does to type them.... How much are they going to pay ME to rate these?
posted by R. Mutt at 7:34 PM on January 13, 2005

Perhaps they'd be better when actually on a shirt, having been styled in some way, but man ... if more than one in five hundred of these isn't purest dreck, I'd be surprised.
posted by kenko at 9:07 PM on January 13, 2005

See also
posted by sad_otter at 10:21 PM on January 13, 2005

So, this guy's shirt looks too much like these shirts (scroll down the page to see) to be a coincidence. I emailed Garraud for comment because since they both have co.uk websites (but Airside is unfortunately defunct), maybe they're actually the same person. Otherwise, so not cool, and my love for Battle Royale may cause me to do something crazy, like write a very nasty letter.
posted by kindle at 3:04 AM on January 14, 2005

God I love those Battle Royale shirts. I never noticed that Mourning Girl one.. thanks Kindle.

They wouldn't accecpt just 42.
posted by Lizc at 1:24 PM on January 14, 2005