Pixeltees

July 13, 2003 10:47 AM

Pixeltees - use a (shockwave) editor to produce t-shirt designs. The low resolution, restricted palette and video-game connotations give interesting restrictions - a lot of designs are terrible, but some are pretty neat.
posted by andrew cooke (13 comments total)

only found this last night - apologies if it's been around for ages - but since then i've spent hours working on designs. be warned - once the editor wouldn't save an image, so i reckon it's best to save early and often.
posted by andrew cooke at 10:50 AM on July 13, 2003

As far as I can see, this is no different than trying to make a picture using Paint program that comes with Windows. Same restricted palette, etc.

I was hoping the site would take the drawing and sort of "fix it up", giving it more of that GameBoy look.

It doesn't, and I haven't the time nor talent to do the work.
Dammit! What good are computers?
posted by Ayn Marx at 1:01 PM on July 13, 2003

Like the idea of the site, but their "commissions" for the sellers aren't very attractive.
posted by jca at 2:21 PM on July 13, 2003

And who tracks how many shirts are actually sold ?
posted by elpapacito at 4:27 PM on July 13, 2003

if someone bought one of my designs, i'd be happy just to know it was out there. i guess i'd start worrying if sales exploded into the thousands, but if i thought that was likely i wouldn't be pootling round on that site anyway...
posted by andrew cooke at 5:21 PM on July 13, 2003

Rap Troll's of Austin is the best Pixeltees shop by far.
posted by kmel at 7:09 PM on July 13, 2003

it's a shame the program doesn't have a function that lets you paste from a elsewhere.
posted by crunchland at 7:30 PM on July 13, 2003

Kmel, that Rap Troll's of Austin shop is the funniest thing I've seen in weeks. I think this one is probably my favorite. But would I actually wear it?
posted by sklero at 7:47 PM on July 13, 2003

Crunchland: You can paste from the clipboard, using shift-V instead of ctrl-V.
posted by ajblust at 9:12 PM on July 13, 2003

Awesome... Blatant capitalist self-link.
posted by ODiV at 9:15 PM on July 13, 2003

I think I broke it. :(
posted by ODiV at 4:40 AM on July 14, 2003

you totally broke it, you bastard... :(

well it might come back...... someday.
posted by phylum sinter at 7:59 AM on July 14, 2003

http://hughbot.pixeltees.com

This is the funnest thing ever.
posted by hughbot at 9:01 AM on July 15, 2003