Now THAT is how you kick off a design competition!

1) Get lots of artists 2) Ask them to each draw a robot 3) Put them all together 4) Use metallic ink accents 5) Get more comments on your submission with the word ‘awesome’ in it than any other design 6) Win $5000.

I think its pretty funny that blogs (mostly me) have been making a big deal out of DBHs reward policy (i.e. big bucks) and then they end up giving it to a collaboration of 25 different artists (although Legion of Doom is actually just 2 people). Not that the money is all that important really, yes, it is an initial hook, but quality designs are going to be the true test of whether DBH can make it, and this truly is a quality design.

There’s also an interview with the Legion of Doom is you feel like a read.

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I guess the sale came a lot sooner than I expected, since the sale is now upon us.

You know the deal, $10 tees (markdowns on other products), long waits for your tees to arrive, and everything selling out fast.

So if you want it, get on it.

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I really do write about this thing way more than it deserves, especially as I’ll probably never be a visitor/patron of the store. Still, the latest updates does include a few interesting tidbits:

“There will only be 20 designs for sale in the store at any given moment. Each of the 20 designs gets its own special area complete with an LCD display cycling through various photos and close-ups of the design, comments from the original submission and other rad stuff. The designs for sale will change weekly, as will the store window.”

“The kicker is that - at the store - we will be launching the new tees the Friday before they get released on the website. While you won’t have access to our entire catalog from the store, you will have a head-start on what comes out on the website.”

They also say that they do plan to open more stores, in what they describe as artsy communities (San Fran, Austin, Boston [artsy?], Seattle etc.), which is cool, but seems to be reliant on how well the Chicago store goes, so I would describe it as a plan in a pretty loose sense.

Also, its pretty much 100% confirmed by Jake Nickell that there is going to be a $10 sale coming up very soon (so you might want to hold off on an order), my guess is that the theme this time will be for ‘back-to-school’ or simply as a celebration of the store opening.

Check out the whole blog post (and inevitable outpourings of Thread-love in comments) here.

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Presumably in a move to shift older stock, Ten Bills are offering some of their tees at the astoundingly low price of $5 a piece, which is so low that it actually tempts me to actually pay for a tee (me? paying? unbelievable!).

they’ve also got in some cool logo shaped keychains that are packed free with your order when you spend $30+, which means you have to buy 6 discounted tees to qualify for the freebie, crazy!

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