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ejend wrote:I sure this has been said before but it seems like the designs that are entered in the first 2 days are the ones that end up winning. Ijust hope people look again on Wednesday or Thursday and revote. Just my opinion...

There are actally a few examples of late entry shirts winning. Cool Breeze was a late entry, I believe.

Pensketch wrote:Honestly? It looks to me like a random collection of images from an "urban style" vector graphics pack. Don't get me wrong, great designs can be done using images from graphics packs ( http://www.gomediazine.com/success-stories/user-showcase-highlight-round-6/ ) and I've used a few of them myself in both my entries this week (skyline behind the zombies and telephone poles shooting out of the guy's head) and as the ink splotch background for my "Zombunny Brainers" However in all those cases, the vector pack isn't the main focus of the design.

So it's not so much what you're using, but how you choose to use it. And to me this just looks like you went through and grabbed random "street" images and plopped them in a pile with almost no thought to how they interact with each other.

That said, this kind of stuff is popular, and you'll probably get far more votes than anything I make will. It just won't get my vote. Sorry if that seems harsh, but you did ask.

I appreciate the feedback, no need to apologize. I actually went and found the images I was looking to use and converted them to vectors with PS and AI. I had this idea in my head as soon as I saw the theme -- to mix things associated with the city in an attempt to recreate the busy-ness of city life -- kind of a mashup of sorts. I wanted the street to run the length of the shirt, the lamp to rise above it all, the manhole to be in the middle of the design, and the others to fill in the space as I saw fit.

I also realize these shirts are popular, and it was a design I could see myself wearing, and hopefully others like it too. I'll tweak it some more and submit it sometime later today, I hope.

Thanks again for the feedback.

I took my first submission down. Before I resubmit with fixed colors, what do you think of this:



As opposed to just this:

2ASquared wrote:I took my first submission down. Before I resubmit with fixed colors, what do you think of this:
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As opposed to just this:
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It depends on what you are going for. The drop shadow does make it pop off the shirt, but it's not something you would see in a spray painted design. Perhaps different areas of black spray paint behind the white, so it doesn't look as cookie-cuter?

ejend wrote:I am sure this has been said before but it seems like the designs that are entered in the first 2 days are the ones that end up winning. I just hope people look again on Wednesday or Thursday and revote. Just my opinion...

I don't vote until the end of the Derby for just that reason.

Also, Woot - I've lived in rural, suburban, and urban areas and I tell you that raccoons are an URBAN problem, not a rural one - just noticing your incorrect reason for rejecting the raccoon shirts someone submitted.

chippyswans wrote:As I said...I dont like it...but I don't see how putting white where city lights are a copyright violation. It doesn't really matter who took the picture. It's common knowledge where population centers are located. And I can guarantee you that the shape of the United States isn't copyrighted.

Come one people some people spend hours making a design for the shirts. If you can take (steal) an image and spend 2 mins to put it on you shouldnt be allowed to submit anymore.

Shirts been done:

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chippyswans wrote:As I said...I dont like it...but I don't see how putting white where city lights are a copyright violation. It doesn't really matter who took the picture. It's common knowledge where population centers are located. And I can guarantee you that the shape of the United States isn't copyrighted.

I hope they don't flat out reject it. The concern I have is he pretty much put a filter on an image. They have put the hammer down on the not original before.

very very nice design - good work

Well, I resubmitted the design, I don't feel like changing it anymore, and I'm satisfied with how it turned out.

Pensketch wrote:It depends on what you are going for. The drop shadow does make it pop off the shirt, but it's not something you would see in a spray painted design. Perhaps different areas of black spray paint behind the white, so it doesn't look as cookie-cuter?

I agree the that by itself it looks cookie cutter, but I tried darker splotches behind and it really wasn't working out, so here's what I went with:

Vote here if you like it, and I'd love to hear any thoughts or feedback!
http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/EntryWindow.aspx?id=3061

2ASquared wrote:Well, I resubmitted the design, I don't feel like changing it anymore, and I'm satisfied with how it turned out.

I agree the that by itself it looks cookie cutter, but I tried darker splotches behind and it really wasn't working out, so here's what I went with:

Vote here if you like it, and I'd love to hear any thoughts or feedback!
http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/EntryWindow.aspx?id=3061

looks like the light blue one that has been submitted... still cool

not a fan of the curve on the bottom... not sure why

Don't change a thing, you struck oil! I like the grimy urban feel to it. One of those votes are mine.

Thanks. I appreciate the comments. After all the other comments I did some work on it and I still like the grimy version better myself. It would look prettier without the pollution.. but then again, so would the mountains here in Colorado...

lulz @ this one - i like it




great derby so far... alot of great designs

kriscad wrote:
great derby so far... alot of great designs

I have to agree there. I was very timid when they said no words, but it has really opened up graphic minds. Good call woot, just hope it won' t be a continuous restriction.

nice! repositioned! great shirt. very nicely done.

discodancing wrote:

nice! repositioned! great shirt. very nicely done.

I agree that it was smart to re-submit it in the center, but I don't necessarily think it's better that way. For some reason, everyone here likes the designs centered in the middle of the shirt, but I think this design looked much better at the bottom. I was actually going to submit mine with the design at the bottom, but realized it would lose a lot of votes.

partner wrote:I agree that it was smart to re-submit it in the center, but I don't necessarily think it's better that way. For some reason, everyone here likes the designs centered in the middle of the shirt, but I think this design looked much better at the bottom. I was actually going to submit mine with the design at the bottom, but realized it would lose a lot of votes.

But it had 144 votes already, now its 5. It was about to break into the fog, now its no where. Dont think it was smart idea. IMO

jesszen wrote:... It would look prettier without the pollution.. but then again, so would the mountains here in Colorado...

Where in Colorado are you? I'm in Colorado Springs.

Hey, the early shirt gets the worm.
Or the early bird gets the vote.

We shouldn't have to rewrite metaphorical proverbs to suit our latter entries.

partner wrote:I agree that it was smart to re-submit it in the center, but I don't necessarily think it's better that way. For some reason, everyone here likes the designs centered in the middle of the shirt, but I think this design looked much better at the bottom. I was actually going to submit mine with the design at the bottom, but realized it would lose a lot of votes.

It's just so hard to predict what those non-designer, non-forum-posting wooters will vote for and buy.
It must be hard to be woot. They've been trying to do that forever.

alright, i don't think i'm gonna add anything to this at this point, so submitted it is.

For the record, what is woot's policy regarding the copying of a photograph to use as a shirt design? Does it have to be copyrighted, or does it matter?

To woot:

I think it would be a good idea to limit the entries to one per person and limit the votes to 3 per person.

The current state of things creates scatter bombs of votes and designs. Votes and designs should be well thought out and precious, IMO.

Jack: I like it. Clever idea. Then again, I'm not that surprised...

Could I get some thoughts from everyone on this?

I would love to see a derby go by without another fricking zombie posting. They are getting old, we get it... they eat brains.

jast1980 wrote:I would love to see a derby go by without another fricking zombie posting. They are getting old, we get it... they eat brains.

I would love to see a derby where said zombie design wins. Until that time, I say, zombies away!

jast1980 wrote:I would love to see a derby go by without another fricking zombie posting. They are getting old, we get it... they eat brains.

I got the Zombie Hunting shirt, love it....

Zombies, Monkeys or Zombie Monkeys keep em coming.

This shirt is a combination of 75% Awesome, 50% funny and 50% well done.
Please vote for this shirt.

partner wrote:I agree that it was smart to re-submit it in the center, but I don't necessarily think it's better that way. For some reason, everyone here likes the designs centered in the middle of the shirt, but I think this design looked much better at the bottom. I was actually going to submit mine with the design at the bottom, but realized it would lose a lot of votes.

well, i think images centered are just generally more wearable. Creatively I like the idea of varied placement, but it can be difficult to wear shirts with designs predominantly at the bottom. It's not visible while sitting, tucked in, if you are carrying something, etc. Anyhow, in this case I don't think there is much in the design that reinforces a need to place it at the bottom - and for me I'd prefer to have the design in a more wearable location.

chippyswans wrote:As I said...I dont like it...but I don't see how putting white where city lights are a copyright violation. It doesn't really matter who took the picture. It's common knowledge where population centers are located. And I can guarantee you that the shape of the United States isn't copyrighted.

unless the shirt designer took the photograph OR if the photograph is license-free, then it's all right.

stevieg123 wrote:To woot:

I think it would be a good idea to limit the entries to one per person and limit the votes to 3 per person.

The current state of things creates scatter bombs of votes and designs. Votes and designs should be well thought out and precious, IMO.

I like that idea, the number of votes should be limited, 3 is a great number. I don't think entries should be limited though. One more thought to add to this, perhaps there should only be one or two days of voting? I the current system is causing people to rush to get their designs finished so they can get as many votes as possible. Giving the artists more time will not only result in better designs, but it will give voters a chance to see every design before the voting starts.

Pensketch wrote:If it's to look spray painted on a wall, you might be better off going with the asphalt shirt instead of the sky blue. Maybe yellow paint on asphalt?

i like that idea... what if they used the red or cranberry shirt and put some various arranged orange bricks behind it so it looks like red and orange bricks?

Now that City Skylime is rejected, I see no point of every visiting shirt.woot ever again.

Jack31081 wrote:regardless of the designer's intent, it's a suicide shirt. If the guy was wearing a parachute, it'd be a completely different story and would actually get the theme across without the need for a title. If you put this shirt on and ask 100 people what it means, you're going to get suicide probably 95 times out of 100.

although it really is a gutsy move and it'd be a really sick shirt to wear.

Seems like my design has fallen into the shuffle...any thoughts on it?

discodancing wrote:

nice! repositioned! great shirt. very nicely done.

great design

just not liking it on white tee

ruesifus wrote:

This shirt is a combination of 75% Awesome, 50% funny and 50% well done.
Please vote for this shirt.

i have to say - its one of my top 5 picks...

very well done!

JCBarry wrote:Jack: I like it. Clever idea. Then again, I'm not that surprised...

Could I get some thoughts from everyone on this?

its getting there... it's just missing that "it"! not sure... imagine it on a shirt... its like still missing something IMO

kriscad wrote:its getting there... it's just missing that "it"! not sure... imagine it on a shirt... its like still missing something IMO

throw a kid in the tire

That took me a long time.. It better break 50! hahaha..

[Edit @ JCBarry]

Yeah I agree with lightofdarkness, you should redraw the tire with a kid in it.

mylife64 wrote:I would love to see a derby where said zombie design wins. Until that time, I say, zombies away!

WORD (except I really don't think they need to stop even when there's a winner). I really, really want a Pensketch Zombie shirt. Maybe the Halloween Derby will be my lucky chance.