Threadless announced the winners of their annual Bestee competition yesterday, and this design by Emmy Cicierega won the top prize, getting $20,000 in the process. Threadless, being those wiley PR scamps that they are decided to tell Emmy about this over Skype, and her reaction is pretty adorable, it’s really nice to share the moment with her and see how happy she is to win the top prize. If you were wondering, I’m pretty sure I’d have been dancing in one form or another by the end of the vid had I been the winner.
There has been a bit of a brew-ha-ha about her winning. From what I can tell the Bestee competition turned into a popularity contest rather than what was actually the best design of the year, when you’re running something on the internet that involves voting it almost always turns into a popularity contest rather than an unbiased look at the competition entrants, so it sounds like Emmy was just better at marketing herself than the other people in the running.
It’s a nice enough tee but not particularly to my tastes, possibly because we have curtains in our bathroom that bear a passing resemblance to the design.
Usually I’m a bit dubious of tees that have print extending all the way up to the arms like this one does because they’re so hard to print well, but I think it works really well in this instance, possibly because waves are always a bit crazy and unstoppable, so it makes sense to have them spreading out as much as possible. That said, I’d still like to see a picture of the back of this tee to see just how far Threadless have printed onto the back.
I don’t find this tee particularly stunning, but it is just a really lovely, pretty print that I’m sure I would enjoy wearing. For those of you reading this post on the front page, check out the gallery to see the rest of this week’s releases at Threadless, it’s a strong week for them.
Just like Ten Dollar Tony says in the video above, some tees (not all, but it ain’t Christmas so quit your whinin’) are $10 at Threadless until February 18th. Sometimes these sales get extended but with this being such a short sale it’s hard to tell whether there will be any extension on this, so if you want to make a purchase do it before the servers melt.
Now seems like a fairly appropriate time to remind you that I’m selling $25 Threadless gift certificates in the HYA Big Cartel store for the reasonable price of £12.50, or $19.60ish if you want to keep things in dollars. My supplies of certificates are running pretty low after a few sales last week, but I know people with quite a lot, so there’s no danger of your order going unfulfilled. Naturally, if you order at GC towards the end of the sale period I can’t guarantee getting it to you before the end of the sale.
This Threadless submission has been doing the rounds on tee blogs recently, and it’s been receiving a lot of attention, I usually don’t mention Threadless submissions since you guys can’t buy them. It’s a fun design, but I think people may have been going a bit overboard with their praise of it, as surely the [...]
For no particular reason this Threadless tee reminds me of The Fantastic Mr. Fox, because the movie and this tee hardly share a similar visual style now, do they?
Out of interest, anyone else see that film, I liked it, although maybe it was a bit too Wes Anderson-y for its own good.
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Even though they’re very much different styles of design, I can’t help but think of the previous Threadless tee I posted (Geekology by Aaron Hogg) when I look at this supremely retro geeky tee. I’m digging the large print, especially as you need a large print to do a design like this justice to fit [...]
This is likely to be the last deals post of the year because I’m taking Mrs. HYA (we aren’t actually married, but saying ‘my girlfriend’ doesn’t sound quite as fun) to London for the weekend, and tomorrow is looking like it’s going to be a busy one in terms of non-fun non-tee related activity, and [...]
After the success and popularity of my previous list posts such at the 202 Star Wars t-shirts and robot lists (and of course the ridiculously meta list of t-shirt lists), I started saving up links of tees that fit into various categories, but there’s no point me just saving them up indefinitely, so it’s about [...]
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All tees will be $9 for 24 hours only (Starts 11/27 12:01 am CT, ends 11/27 11:59 pm CT)*! So make sure you’ve got all your holiday gift choices all lined up and ready to go, fire up the Internet early in the mornin’, and let the deals begin!
