Last week I sat down with Jana Eggers, who as you probably know is Spreadshirts CEO. We sat down to discuss the OLP! We talked about how the project is going so far, last weeks shortlisted designs, and some tips and advice for your future submissions. The video is about 5mins long, I’ve also summarized the main points below for those not into video or on dial-up. Jana’s only one voice, so don’t take these suggestions as things you have to do to win, but obviously as CEO her view is very important and I think shes speaking for us all.
Update, longer version now available. In this one we talk more about specific designs and just more in general really, running time is 10mins. Watch it here
Key points:
- Great start to the project, shes having a lot of fun commenting the entries
- Really impressed with the quality of submissions, even those submitted by less experienced designers but whose concepts have been really strong.
Tips for future submissions:
- We’ve seen enough hang tags :) If your going to do tag ideas though, maybe we could explore the tags inside the neck idea further.
- Feel free to be more artistic, and a less literal with your designs (ie they don’t have to include shirt, tag, etc)
- Prefers stacked (one above the other) Spread & Shirt, with more emphasis given to Spread. Our research has suggested that people can best understand it that way.
- Feel free to go a little crazier, surprise us a little more.
We have a longer version as well that we’re editing, we’ll blog it in a day or two.
Whoh, whoh, whoh…. do you really mean that? “Go crazy”. Man, if you want crazy, I’ll give you crazy!
Yes… go crazy! :-) I can’t wait to see what happens!
What you think about this one:
http://olp.spreadshirt.net/entries/2007/09/28/supernew/#more-6728
?
Thanx :)
Yeah!!!
I ve been away for a while since I think the designs picked and featured so far, are as crazy as pink cotton candy… which is, not exaggeratedly crazy by any reasonable standard of craziness. That’s the reason why I really liked Jana’s announcement.
So where are the Hieronymus Bosch’s of logo design?
Show me your three headed spreadshirt monsters!
Breath life into the mortal sins of t-shirt design!
Because personalization is not about good design, it is about HUMAN design.
Spreadshirt can encompass all the lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride that humans are capable of!
I demand you to stop the fluffy eye-candy and start spreading blood and wine and spilling milk and honey! spreadshirt shall be a feast of the senses.
Get your brains out of those tiny boxes labeled “good design” and create something that people will still frown upon in a hundred years time!
lol ;)
nice vid!