DBH10K 4th Place

Design by Humans have just announced their 4th place winner in their grand DBH10K contest. While the top spot will get you $10,000, 4th gets you a thousand. Still a sweet prize. In this case 4th place goes to Jimiyo’s Fight the Good Fight. This design must have taken a lot of time as the detail is amazing. I like Jimiyo’s work but with a few exceptions they are not t-shirts I would wear. That mostly stems from the fact that middle aged ladies over here wear tops with designs similar to what he produces, in fact similar to this one.

Animal Kingdom Rules Threadless

My two favorites of the new Threadless t-shirts have a similar theme. They both involve relationships between animals that have no real business being together. The first (a reprint) is spotted cow and a chicken standing over their spotted egg. What is it about cartoon animals that makes them so appealing? The design of these animals is totally non-realistic with out of proportion body parts that just add to the cuteness of the image. I just love this shirt.

The second is the Amazing Circus where monkeys and elephants can be trapeze artists. In this t-shirt the egg shaped elephant is definitely the star of the show as he flies through the air in search of the Curious George lookalike monkey’s arms.

Threadless T-Shirts

As it says on the homepage Threadless is a community based t-shirt company with an on-going, open call for tee design submissions. According to their website, you could get paid up to $12,500 for your submission. If that isn’t motivation for creativity I don’t know what is.

The result of this opportunity is of course and abundance of great t-shirts, a few of which I have included in this post.