Monday, September 05, 2005

Full of Shirt

I was looking at the different shirts for sale on my favourite webcomics. There were a fair few good shirts I would buy if I had any money. Some that are ok but I wouldn't buy and a fair few pretty poor designs. I guess t-shirt design is a bit hit and miss, but still I'd have thought you could do a little research beforehand.
As much as I love Penny Arcade, and I really do love them, their line of shirts is a bit bizarre. Some are very good, I like the fruit fucker in action and the new tube samurai. But the "Rogues do it from behind" shirt is imo really poor execution on a good idea. On their F'ing Metal shirt one of Jesus' hands has four fingers and the other has three. Maybe it was intentional, maybe it didn't bother them but it bothers me enough that I wouldn't buy the shirt not to mention F'ing was a bit of a let down. I'm still not sure whether I like the Gabe and Tycho shirts.
I was also a little bit unimpressed with Megatokyo's urge to slap their url all over everything. I get that you want traffic and all but sometimes it totally ruins a good design. Even if they just dropped the .com it would be an improvement.
I really like the Diesel Sweeties shirts unfortunately I am generally adverse to pixels on a tshirt but I do like their smoother designs.
I like one or two of the Questionable Content shirts. I don't really like 'teh' and I am piss poor but I would still buy a teh shirt if it came with the girl in the picture. In fact... I'd buy ten. My favourite QC shirt, the airplane, is no longer in print I think.

At the moment there's about nine shirts and one hoodie and one awareness bracelet (Support the Pwned) that I'd like to buy. Pity I have no money.

Another thing I noticed is that shirts with colourful designs aren't really popular any more. The best designs seem to be the ones that choose a limited pallet. Threadless supports this style of design whether or not it's reasons are aesthetic or financial. I almost said? wrote? typed fiscal, I'm not sure if thats right but the word fiscal makes me giggle. The thing is I think monochromatic designs look better personally. But that means Mambo shirts are out... their style of design is no longer cool. Although I'm not sure Mambo was ever cool for kids my age.

I've seriously considered giving up buying clothes with any sort of design. Just buying a whole bunch of plain blue, black, white and brown t-shirts and some long sleeved shirts to wear underneath them in winter. It's just too much effort to keep buying shirts and wearing a different shirt everyday. The choices are just too much. It's worrying that little things like choosing what shirt to wear in the morning stress me out. No wonder the lecturors at uni all wear the same clothes every day.

I wish I had someone to choose my clothes for me.

Also, I can't wait till my website is popular enough to warrant me making shirt designs. Hopefully I'll be a bit better at designing shirts.

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