Saturday, July 31, 2010

Woot T-shirt Derby Time Again

Once again, it's time for the Woot T-shirt Derby. A few weeks ago, I decided to quit --- for reasons best not gotten into --- but a week later, I decided to un-quit --- because I was inspired by the theme. This week's theme is Physics and one of my favorite aspects of physics is how it applies to the game of pool. And I thought a couple images from pool would make a good T-shirt. So, I came up with this:

If you like it, you can vote for it by clicking here.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Woot T-shirt Derby -- City

This week's Woot T-shirt Derby theme is The City, and I'm pretty sure Sex In would be grounds for rejection. Instead, I started thinking about what I connect to cities, and that's the hustle and bustle. Of course, skylines and tall buildings, too, but that's a little too generic.

If you like what you see and the detailed pictures below, please click here and vote! Thanks.

I originally wanted the design to be much busier than this, with lots of traffic signs and billboards and a big "Open All Night" in neon, but ... aside from needing to stick to 6 colors and not having a good neon available, there comes a point where a design gets too busy. I would have easily exceeded that point.

Some details:
Washington DC's capitol building and part of the Golden Gate Bridge:

A statue of ... George Washington? ... and part of City Hall in Philadelphia:


A city traffic cop who could be almost anywhere, but is also based on the Philadelphia police:


A dinosaur skeleton from a Natural History Museum (or ... THE Natural History Museum, which is in DC):


One of those new big league "neighborhood" ballparks that could be anywhere, but this one is based on Philadelphia:

Friday, June 18, 2010

Woot T-shirt Derby --- again

Yes, it's another week and time for another Woot T-shirt derby entry. This week's theme is "Devolution", as in the devolution of humanity. So I chose to take this opportunity to mock the current trend of protesters who have no idea what they're protesting about, the mobs who rally behind seemingly any idiot with a soap box.







But wait, there's more. This Woot T-shirt Derby is brought to you by ........... the band Devo, who's first album in forever (seemingly) is titled "Devolution". Coincidence? Um ... that would be a no. But the Devo sponsorship explains why the protesters depicted have decided to beat each other up in the name of Peace and Love in front of a giant Devo Hat.

If you like my interpretation of Devolution, you can vote for it by clicking here, or on the image directly below.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Job Search T-shirt Test Drive

Ah, another week, another Shirt Woot T-shirt Derby. This week's theme is The Interview Shirt. Fortunately (so to speak) other people who are designing Woot shirts have very different interview experiences than I have. In the actual shirt design, the button on the right side of the chest says "I'm Brilliant". I hope you like it and vote. You can see the actual shirt and vote for it by clicking here.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

This Week's Woot Shirt Derby

Another week, another T-shirt design.

The theme this week is Intergalactic Cup, a riff off the World Cup. I took blatant advantage of the fact that they're never that strict about theme, to make this. I hope people like it and vote for it.

Some detail pictures:

Friday, April 30, 2010

Latest Woot T-shirt

The latest Woot T-shirt Theme is Spring, so here is my depiction of the spring ritual of rabbits eating your garden. You can vote for the T-shirt by clicking on the image. Votes are appreciated. Feedback is appreciated.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Super Hero T-shirt

So, this week's Woot T-shirt derby theme is Golden-Age and Silver-Age comics. I thought the idea was to produce something complete with all those annoying visible dots from the 40's through 70's (really through at least the mid-80's until printing got a whole lot better) and sound effects.
So, I got this idea:

A well-meaning but not really knowing what he's doing super-hero is battling an evil armor-clad master-mind when he uses his heat vision to melt the armor. But the armor-clad villain ducks and the super-hero sets fire to the entire city instead. He sulks off in shame. I hope you enjoy, and you can click on the image above to go to Woot and vote.