Free George Lois tees for QBNers.
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- PatrickKing
My side venture, TypographyShop just released the second in our series "The Ten Commandments of George Lois."
http://typographyshop.com/george…Since the QBN community has been good to us I'd like to give thanks by awarding the t-shirt of their choice to five randomly selected QBN users who sign up for our mailing list between now and Thanksgiving morning at 9am EST. http://typographyshop.com/mailin…
The quotation reads "The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything." When I first approached George about collaborating, this quote was his immediate suggestion. My favorite quote of his, "Great ideas can't be tested. Only mediocre ideas can be tested" was the first release in the series.
- detritus0
Clumsy commas?
- PatrickKing0
It was tricky as could be having no less than 3 lines of hanging punctuation on a justified setting. I did dozens of settings for this, many of which I posted at Dribbble: http://dribbble.com/PatrickKing Many of them wouldn't have had that issue. My writer friends had a huge problem with the punctuation to begin with, but I didn't want to edit George's syntax.
George picked this one and I ran the punctuation issue by a number of designer friends and type community geeks who thought it worked.
- attentionspan0
i seriously wouldnt wear this
- not beacause of the design - just sounds ughattentionspan
- maybe a bit pretentious?CyBrain
- capn_ron0
i signed up.
- 74LEO0
I always felt weird telling a stranger to hold still while I read the bullshit on their shirt. 9x outta 10 I asked them for my time back that I wasted. People want kick ass shirts that are designed well.
- PatrickKing0
Thanks capn_ron Many might not wear it, but we did well with his last quotation. When I googled this quote it came up all over the place, so some folks appreciate the sentiment. The full quote is usually preceded by the words "Creativity can solve any problem." Which would have made it even longer. Maybe the next one needs to say just that.
We're talking about releasing these in poster form as well, signed by George as I don't want to just do t-shirts.
- dMullins0
haters are a dime a dozen.
- PatrickKing0
I'm all for brevity. One of our best sellers simply says "Sans."
- PatrickKing0
Years before I started designing t-shirts as a way to escape my design practice to paint (which I'm still waiting for) I would quote the great Fran Lebowitz who loved to say "If I don't want to hear from you what makes you think I want to hear from your fucking t-shirt?"
Years later when I learned that printed t-shirts are the largest selling item of clothing on earth I changed my tune.
- georgesIII0
Dear Sir Patrick King
We are the proprietors of all copyright in a literary/artistic/musical work entitled Georges / GeorgesII / GeorgesIII/ Georges IV(The "Name"). We have reserved all rights in the Work, which was first expressed in material form on "QBN"
It has come to our attention that your work entitled "George Lois tees " is identical/substantially similar to our copyrighted Work. Permission was neither asked nor granted to reproduce our Work and your Work therefore constitutes infringement of our rights. In terms of the Copyright Statutes, we are entitled to an injunction against your continued infringement, as well as to recover damages from you for the loss we have suffered as a result of your infringing conduct.
In the circumstances, we demand that you immediately:
1. remove all infringing content and notify us in writing that you have done so;
2. credit all infringing content to ourselves in the following manner: GeorgesIII Rocks;
3. pay a licensing fee in the amount of 1500 Canadian Tire bonds;
4. immediately cease the use and distribution of copyrighted material;
5. deliver-up for destruction all unused or undistributed copies;
6. undertake in writing to desist from using any of our copyrighted Work in future without prior written authority from us.
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- PatrickKing0
um. GeorgesIII rocks. How's that?
- Thank you,
now I'll register to your mailing list ehehhehegeorgesIII
- Thank you,
- PatrickBateman0
i like this screenprint of them better:
- Jaline0
I'm not a fan of the quotes. But I do like the simple ones, like "Sans", and "Letterpress".
- akrok0
did you see the typo?
- PatrickKing0
Typo?
- helvetica condensed bold?maquito
- Helvetica Neue 77 Bold Condensed? I don't see a typo there.PatrickKing
- PatrickKing0
That's one of the best shirts out there. The folks at Collapse http://www.collapse-design.co.uk… are a great bunch. People have knocked this one off, but there's is the original.
- I meant to say "theirs."PatrickKing
- I would say Experimental Jetset did it first with the John Paul Ringo & George shirt.Centigrade
- TillyLosch0
I work at an agency: am buying a George Lois T-shirt for my boss. Can suck up and send a worthwhile message.
