1.) Actually, Medicine is the Best Medicine (should be off white–compare it to the background color).

2.) It's just safer to assume I know karate (should be off white).

3.) If you can read this…Make me a sandwich (should be light gray).

Khaki is the ONLY color that accurately describes what I ended up with. = (

1.) Actually, Medicine is the Best Medicine (should be off white–compare it to the background color).

2.) It's just safer to assume I know karate (should be off white).

3.) If you can read this…Make me a sandwich (should be light gray).

Khaki is the ONLY color that accurately describes what I ended up with. = (

You should check out Lucky Threadz. A lot of the artists from Threadless are working with those guys now and they are compensated a pre-negotiated percentage for every single one of their shirts that sells. I know b/c I signed on with them to print a few designs that never made it up on the Lucky Threadz site – no wonder why with the stuff they have up there, but it did allow me to see the artist agreement. I think it’s a much better way to do it.

The point with the Threadless shirts is absolutely true. Adam regulary lowers the spirit of the whole Spreadshirt company when he shows up with the best things not made by us.

Adam, I really like the idea to make you to the new “Competition Basher” of Spreadhirt. In the old days companies always claimed “We’re better than….”. But today we just explain that our competitors are worse. This makes quite less effort for us and you have a real innovative new profession beyond industry ambassadoring

well the design was around when i first found Threadless in 2005, and the prize then was $400 and $100 store credit. not a lot.

Maybe they should knock a couple of dollars each tee when it is on a reprint, since some money from the initial run is going towards the artist?

Also, on Jake Nickell’s threadless page he recently(ish) blogged about the amount they offer designers, and wondered if they were paying too much, which is funny because I thought they were paying too little. I know they offer the largest monetary reward, but what the artist earns per t-shirt sold is surely one of the lowest in the industry.

1. That the community is ‘messy’ (by which I felt like you meant ‘off-topic and inane’), I feel might actually help some aspects of the community, although I personally do like on-topic discussion of designs and the new critique feature.
3. The single Threadless Select tee that I’ve purchased is nice. It’s printed on American Apparel, so I knew what to expect. I really haven’t had a problem with them being inconsistently sized, as I hear some people complain about. The print quality is also substantially better than their normal tees. The print is softer, smoother, and thinner. This print will certainly not crack.
4. The non-Select tees seem to be the same, though.
5. This is such a tricky thing… while you don’t want to print so many that the limited-edition-ness of the shirts isn’t a bonus, you don’t want to print so few that people get so frustrated with not being able to buy a shirt that they just give up. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was happening: I remember that some shirts would sell out before the newsletter announcing new shirts came out, so you’d have to check the website itself if you actually wanted to get something. They’ve fixed the timing on that, I think (unless it’s just that they print way more of each design).
6. But Threadless don’t care about their sales, they care about FUN (according to that movie)!

I’m going to be writing a final paper for a Sociology class (Technology and Society) about Threadless, so I’ll let you know how that goes (and maybe put it up on Fantastic Blognanza). I might use some of the stuff from your dissertation. I also hope to have enough time to do a thorough enough examination of the forums to support my arguments…