Thread: T-shirt ideas for cafepress.com

I want to open a store on cafepress.com. I'm pretty sure I could stick with an Aussie/geek theme, although there are a gazillion geek t-shirts on the web already...

Anyway, these are my designs so far. I think I need to work on the text readability some more though.

- Are they marketable, i.e. would you buy them?
- Do you know any witty geek/Aussie oriented ideas that I could turn into a shirt?

Both shirts are good in concept. Execution I'm not so sure about - mainly the choice of fonts.

I wouldn't buy one, but there's no doubt people would. That Australian will definitely attract some interest.

Oh the irony with the second shirt.

yeah i can see what you're obviously trying to do with the 2nd shirt, however the message is still "fuck off"

You've really got to take into consideration that people seeing the shirts are going to have all of 1.5 seconds to read it. All I can see from the two thumbnails is "...of racists". You need to be clear and concise. I have a serious stack of t-shirt designs I'm willing to split profits with if you want them to put up. I mean a fucking stack.

you can use my Phantom Turd Strike operative for a tiny slice of the profits

Originally Posted by grandinferno

Oh the irony with the second shirt.

Yeah my American friend suggested it to me. It's a takeoff of the popular bumper stickers, shirts etc. Like this: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/...10/01/Foff.jpg

Originally Posted by grandinferno

You've really got to take into consideration that people seeing the shirts are going to have all of 1.5 seconds to read it. All I can see from the two thumbnails is "...of racists". You need to be clear and concise. I have a serious stack of t-shirt designs I'm willing to split profits with if you want them to put up. I mean a fucking stack.

How come you haven't opened your own store yet?

I didn't want the "fuck off we're full" part to be the eye catcher of the shirt, but at the same time don't want it to blend in with the bg. And the other one is a bit too busy to be quickly readable. I see what you mean. I'll work on it.

Originally Posted by Aegis

you can use my Phantom Turd Strike operative for a tiny slice of the profits

Phantom Turd Strike? I googled it but didn't come up with much. Do I want to know? :/

Originally Posted by Brookie23

I didn't want the "fuck off we're full" part to be the eye catcher of the shirt

But you thought "racists" would be the better eye catcher?

I know what it's a take off of. It's still pretty silly IMO. *nudges and winks*

I can't be bothered opening anything tbh. I'll see if I can hunt them up. Some of them are fucking cool... but prolly a bit "arty".

Originally Posted by rec

But you thought "racists" would be the better eye catcher?

Yeah, the emphasis is on that part coz it's mocking the original stickers etc.