Thursday, July 02, 2009Lucky1988 has been participating in the derbies for more than a year and this is his first derby win but 4th print. Here's more about him.
Shirt.Woot Stats? (first derby / shirts bought / shirts printed)
44 (Summer) / 25 / 4. Here's the breakdown of shirts I've had printed:
- Editors Choice '08: Double-Take Derby 3
- Mystery Derby '09: First place
- 2 dailies (Kris Blingle, Breakfast Club)
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009Derby 101's theme was
"Fake Bands". It's been a long time since even incidental text has been allowed much less a theme that leaves things open to all-text slogan shirts. Thankfully, the theme was specific enough and Woot was strict enough to keep things pretty clean. One additional necessary wrinkle is that the band must not exist -- pretty tough when you look around -- there's a lot of bands out there. Anyway, I really enjoyed the entries this week and had trouble limiting my picks to a reasonable number but here's my favorites as well as yours. As usual, click on the thumbnail to see the full-size shirt and comments on Shirt.Woot.
The "Indestructible Drummer" Award
As I write this, "The Sex Drugs" is battling with FOUR other shirts for third. I'm throwing my vote behind this great shirt. Wonderful stylized colors and textures. Very much the kind of shirt I like. Great work from newcomer LeonRyan.
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Monday, June 29, 2009Cmdixon2's "Circle of Sea" returns as "SeaLife" and as a side print at
DesignByHumans. Check it out and vote it up.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009Derby 100's theme was
"Mystery". For the most part, this theme was treated as "murder mystery or mythical creature" -- Woot was pretty firm about things being on topic and there aren't too many ways to interpret "mystery" that can be easily defended. In addition to the theme, Woot tried hiding artist names for fun and experimentation. It didn't work since their solution was very incomplete -- there were several ways to find out the artist if you really wanted to know. However, the casual voter probably didn't bother checking for names and there was no indication that not knowing the artist name really affected voting patterns. There was some pleasantly unusual entries this week -- here's my favorites. As usual, click on the thumbnail to see the full-size shirt and comments on Shirt.Woot.
The "Awkward Silence" Award
"Mystery Date" is a great idea very well executed. I love the desaturated colors and the rich textures. Very pro.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009Derby 99's theme was
"the Sun". A very general theme and one that naturally lent itself to plenty of artistic and abstract designs. As you saw by
yesterday's post, I liked a good number of the designs this week. Here's my favorites as well as yours. As usual, click on the thumbnail to see the full-size shirt and comments on Shirt.Woot.
The "Reading Rainbow" Award
Radscoolian's "Retro system" is a cool abstract solar system design with a variety of textures and subtle colors. Very wearable.
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