Idea Store

some tee designs & slogans thingy

• More community-driven
• Less commercial
• Less focused on design skills - so, witty people who can’t draw can submit plain text slogans; win! (No more discovering a tee you’d love except for how it’s been implemented)

• UK-based, with .co.uk instead of/in addition to .com (and/or .org.uk instead of/in addition to .org)
• Repository of ideas for people to make their own cool tees with - users must state slogans/designs belong to them in order to submit
• High emphasis on not stealing other people’s stuff
• Creative Commons licensed; so you can use any of the designs/slogans as long as you credit the designer/writer (on the tee???)
• Commercial - not sure about this one. Would it be possible to buy tees that include (some of?) the designs/slogans? If so, would they be non-profit?
• I think if there’s a commercial aspect, it needs to be completely voluntary & opt-in
• Plus, the designer/write should be fairly compensated (not like on CafePress where if you want a decent profit on your stuff you need to price it to be even more ridiculously expensive than it starts out as)
• If the site is selling tees, these should be ethically-produced & fairly priced

Hmm, I think that’s all I can think of for now!

Update: TypeTees is much more similar to this idea than Threadless is: “An artistic take on the “slogan tee”. Community submitted and scored slogans set in beautiful typefaces or custom type. Each week two new TypeTees are available!” (It doesn’t say this anywhere I can see this on the site, so I didn’t find it until I did more digging! It’s on the parent company, skinnyCorp’s website).

My idea for a UK-based, less commercial, more focused on people physically making their own tees from a public sharing of users’ ideas still stands! :)

Update: My friend Edi has a great idea for putting the design on a piece of fabric that you can then attach to a tee, enabling lots of designs for one tee. Fab!