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- Centigrade
Hey / hello / word up,
I'm doing a bit of research for a project.
Do any of you guys and gals submit to threadless?And can you elaborate on why and why not?
Cheers for help.
- Miguex0
I did waaaaaaaaay back in the day, it wasn't very popular then (outside the design community) and they were offering a smaller incentive (something like $150) my shirt never got picked up, and to be honest, I'm glad it didn't looking back now.
Eventually I decided I didn't need them to make shirts, all you need is a couple of hundred bucks and you can make your own shirts.
:)
- cheers. Good feedback.Centigrade
- Same experience, more or less, back when they only had a dozen or so designs.duckseason
- I still have a red shirt from them that it was from I believe the 1st print, and never wore it, because it was a size smallerMiguex
- My first two were the brown Presstube T and navy 123Klan T.duckseason
- ideaist0
No.
Mediocrity.
- the creative or the website offering?Centigrade
- His own.
detritus - *btm-tschingg!
just kidding, Ideaist.detritus
- dbloc0
deadless
- mg330
Look around at some of the garbage that gets submitted. Even if your work were on par with the best illustrators there, is that the crowd you want to be in? T-shirts are a dime a dozen, but if you're skills and style are excellent, it's probably more worth your time to sell/distribute yourself or find some actual vendors that might be interested.
- Miguex0
^
I don't think is deadless, these guys found a goldmine and they expanded a lot since they 1st started
- trooperbill0
ohh good thread. we're setting up a tshirt store powered by submissions too!
- Glitterati_Duane0
I have submitted in the past but had the same realization as Miguex. If you check out most popular t-shirt brands most of their t shirts wouldn't even make it past the prelim on Threadless. That doesn't mean that their designs suck though. Threadless submissions have to appeal to a WIDE audience. They're basically the pop music equivalent of t-shirts. You can focus on your own audience if you develop your own brand.
- totally, but I must say.. my design submission sucked hahahaMiguex
- mg330
I think there was actually a business course at Harvard that studied Threadless' model. I think in their first "good" year they made $12 million.
- bjladams0
the continual rejection from threadless irked me. i eventually stopped submitting and started printing my own, which lead on to other business and eventually gave me the confidence to make the jump from my day job and start out on my own.
- albums0
Threadsourcing™
- Centigrade0
There seems to be two things emerging here:
People don't like the quality of the designs as it's now too open.
And
People don't like the process of submitting - ie. potentially wasting your time. (as with all crowdsourced ventures).- I'm generally against crowdsourcing but I actually like a lot of the designs that get pickedGlitterati_Duane