Wednesday, January 25, 2012Derby 235's theme was
"Dubious Honors". I can't quite call it a "wide open" theme since the topic is somewhat obscure and the rejectionator was out in full force to keep people from trying to shoehorn random references, but with text and pop culture allowed, there was still a lot of freedom. Mostly that freedom was wasted. I did feel like there was a fair amount of experimentation being done by the artists but most of it didn't really work. Here's a few exceptions. As usual, click on the thumbnail to see the full-size shirt and comments on Shirt.Woot.
The "Double Deuce" Award
Kevlar51's "The Most Even Prime Number" took a few days to grow on me. The combination of big bold text, the colors, and the math joke finally won me over.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012Here's your chance to have some influence on the Best Loser Awards. You can now post your image right here in the comment thread. Give me some reason why your favorite shirt is the greatest thing Woot will ever see and I'll include the best ones. Voting closes at midnight!
A few rules:
- Please don't nominate yourself!
- No more than 2 nominations per person.
- Please use the 240x240 design detail image if possible.
- Please include your email address in the appropriate field below.
- Please describe the REASON you like the shirt -- I need more than "I like it".
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Monday, January 23, 2012For those who are curious, here's my original write-up that Woot picked from for the Panelist Picks.
Despite all my weekly complaining, Woot has asked me back for another year to opine on my top shirts of the year. Like last year, I don't own many of these and hope to remedy that if Woot chooses to print them. In addition to my top 5 for the year, I also mention some alternative (non-t-shirt) print suggestions as well as a few shirts from the BestLoser archives that have never printed that I'd love to see finally make it to print.
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Monday, January 23, 2012Here's a couple shirts selected from from the
Derby 227 Loser Awards that are now available to be either submitted to another contest or sold outright via a print-to-order service. To be more specific, it's been over 60 days for these shirts and they're either free of Honorable Mentions or have already made their way through a Double-Take Derby. If you agree that you'd like to see these again, post your comment here to let the artist know!
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012Derby 234's theme was
"Underwater". Great theme with lots of solid entries... with one big "but". I understand light filtering through water is beautiful but now I'm quite sick of seeing that illustrated as typical shiny blue halftones. So you won't see any of those in this week's BLAs. Here's some great designs that avoided that crutch. As usual, click on the thumbnail to see the full-size shirt and comments on Shirt.Woot.
The "Free Killy" Award
It's wonderful to see Artulo back with his signature flowing linework. Also, I love the composition and balance here -- a very wearable shirt.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012Here's your chance to have some influence on the Best Loser Awards. You can now post your image right here in the comment thread. Give me some reason why your favorite shirt is the greatest thing Woot will ever see and I'll include the best ones. Voting closes at midnight!
A few rules:
- Please don't nominate yourself!
- No more than 2 nominations per person.
- Please use the 240x240 design detail image if possible.
- Please include your email address in the appropriate field below.
- Please describe the REASON you like the shirt -- I need more than "I like it".
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