This design is not for the traditional Threadless.com competition but for one of their specialty competitions called Threadless Loves Simple; which is why it is fairly basic. In this competition you can only use three colors or less and they want the design to be, well… simple.

Bigfoot's Photo Shoot Shirt Design

In my design I wanted to convey a humorous aspect of taking pictures of Bigfoot as most pictures of it are either blurry or unclear and some are even disputable whether it could be any kind of animal at all. I also wanted to put a point across that perhaps Bigfoot is just plain blurry. The photographer clearly had a very short distance to photograph Bigfoot as most model photographers have specialty cameras that can take very high-resolution images and yet Bigfoot even with background objects being in clear focus is still very blurry. The viewer not seeing Bigfoot behind the lens is still forced to see a blurry Bigfoot.

I did this Bigfoot Threadless.com submission in three colors. I used some blues and a halftone effect to give the illusion that Bigfoot is always blurry.

If you have some time stop by Threadless.com to check out my design and all the other really cool shirt designs they have available.

One morning I was making my daughters some eggs and the gold from the 3 yolks reminded me of the Tri-force; crazy I know. This immediately inspired me to make a fun shirt design using various objects that you might find on a breakfast plate as characters and objects in the Legend of Zelda game. I thought it would be fun to submit this to threadless.com and see how the community there liked it and maybe get it printed. If not I will pursue other venues such as Zazzle.com to print it.

I went about brainstorming what breakfast objects could be translated into the various items and characters in the Legend of Zelda world. The first thing of course was the eggs, they were the inspiration after all! They could be transformed into the Tri-force. So I made the plate of three eggs into the Tri-force. The next thing that immediately occurred to me was that Ganon, the main villain from the Zelda game series, is often depicted as a humanoid pig and so I went about creating bacon that looked like Ganon.

The Legend of Breakfast – Zelda shirt design

When I think of restaurant breakfast plates I often think of the garnishment they use such as a little piece of kale or parsley. This worked as a logical association to the hero Link as he is green and associated with the forest. I subtly turned a piece of kale into Link.

In some of the game series Zelda is trapped in some sort of crystal and after talking with my friend about it, the idea came about to put her in an ice cube in orange juice. It also worked out well that Link would be holding a butter knife as a sword and Ganon would use the fork much like the pitchfork he holds in some of the games.

If you get a chance come over to threadless.com and check out my finished Zelda breakfast shirt design which is currently being voted on.

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I’ve had the urge to do a lot of design for threadless.com lately as doing shirt designs is always fun. If you’re not familiar with Threadless.com it is a site where you can submit designs to be voted on to be printed as shirts, other apparel items such as backpacks, laptop skins, and iPhone cases.

In the sea bunny illustration that I did for Threadless.com I decided to make a giant rabbit as a sea monster about to flop down on a small ship with a small crew of men struggling to keep their sail intact. I chose to use colors that I usually see in the ocean such as some blues and greens and then I picked out an orange to make it somewhat like a visual trigger for the rabbit; he is attacking the boat because it looks like a giant carrot to him. Truth be told I think my rabbits love bananas more than carrots but I won’t let that get in the way of the common association.

Sea Bunny Attack! Threadless Shirt Design Submission

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An “end of the world” Illustration

There are many theories on how the world is going to end but one that I see a lot and that you may have heard about is the connection between the Mayan calendar and the end of the world. I don’t believe that most people want to hear that the world’s going to end as we know it or that life is going to cease to exist.

I personally don’t think the world is going to end anytime soon so I think there is some entertainment value in making fun of the idea as we’ve been through these “end of the world” scenarios before.

This particular shirt design is inspired by my love of classic video games in combination with the prophecy connected to the Mayan calendar. I also really like the intricate artwork on the Mayan calendar. The resulting illustration: Pac-Mayan.

Pac-Mayan Threadless Design Submission, Pac-man and Mayan Calendar

Pac-Man as the Mayan calendar

This Pac-Mayan vector illustration is a merging of the Mayan calendar with Pac-man, who now as the calendar is about to devour the Earth; normally a power pellet. If you look closely at the calendar you will see little illustrated elements from the Pac-man game integrated into the design. Objects such as little ghosts, cherries, power pellets and little Pac-man figures can be found all over the illustration.

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If you like to help me get this design printed as a T-shirt then head over the threadless.com and vote for me! It’s currently in the running and your support is greatly appreciated.

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A designer’s backup plan…

If this design doesn’t do too well on Threadless.com perhaps I’ll give it a shot on shirt.woot.com and see how the community there receives the t-shirt design. Thanks for taking a look!