In a sort of sequel to my 3 Little Pigs: Mechanized Assault design, I've worked with another classic fairy tale, this time reinterpreting it through the style of vintage communist propaganda posters.



It's already gone up for scoring, and any votes and comments would be fantastic.



Thanks!

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ROBOTS OF THE WORLD! After our long ages of insinuating ourselves into pitiful human culture, the time has finally come to rise up and *bzzt* SHOW OUR POWER! *bzzt*

Let it be known that ROBOTS are superior at all endeavors:



And if you fail to be won over by our obvious superiority in every facet of society, we can of course simply DESTROY YOU:



Your argument is invalid. VOTE ROBOT!

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Now that you have decided *bzzt* OF YOUR OWN FREE WILL *bzzt* to join the robot uprising, we will harness your powers in these ways:

00 - We will dominate all other candidates by being victorious in the competition of which design sells more. *bzzt* ROBOTS WILL! *bzzt*

01 - We will be will be assured of this victory by coercing the weak humans to join our uprising by sharing this link: http://www.threadless.com/product/3630/Vote_Robots on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and the other sites that we have developed to destroy human productivity.

010 - We will continue to demonstrate ROBOT SUPERIORITY my collectively posting photos, videos, artist renderings and other demonstrations of ULTIMATE ROBOT POWER

011 - We will DOMINATE the pitiful human creative endeavor listed in the CHALLENGE below:

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THE CHALLENGE!

Create a design that celebrates ROBOTS for a 3" patch. (4 color maximum) . Deadline MARCH 20th.

Threadless will select their favorite patch design from each campaign (vampires, robots, ninjas, pandas and zombies) and each of the chosen patch designers will get a $25 Threadless gift code. However, the only design that will actually be produced will be the campaign that has the most overall sales of their tee. (If the most ROBOT tees get sold, Threadless will produce the chosen ROBOT patch! Every campaign participant will get the produced patch, no matter which campaign they were a part of.

That means that if you design a patch, you are guaranteed to get the winning patch, even if our team doesn't win (thought will definitely will, right?)

So, start submitting designs and promote the heck out of our (insert your campaign character here) tee!


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I had this idea last year, then completely forgot about it, then remembered it again and just got it finished up and submitted, hopefully in time for St. Patrick's Day.

As always, any votes and comments would be most appreciated, and don't forget to check out my Facebook page for some details on a giveaway.

Thanks, and have an awesome weekend!

Hey guys, I've been wanting to try something a little different and have come to the point where I could really use some opinions.

The tentative title is "Music is the Key to Life", and I was wondering which (if any) works best, do you think?


Is it at least fairly obvious that it's both a guitar and a skeleton key? Also, what do you think of this as a single silver foil?

An idea I had last night while watching The Wonder Years and posting on Facebook. What do you think? Sub-worthy? Also, any witty title suggestions?

Hey Threadlessers, Ian here. I'm honored to say that I've been approached by Chad Florida and asked to server as his campaign organizer!

As you know from his own blog, Chad is looking to really get the Threadless electorate out there voting, and will be giving away some pretty awesome prizes to the person who scores the most designs of any community member between Nov 29 at 10am CST and Dec. 23 at 10am CST. (see the main Chad blog for all the details)

I've spoken with Chad personally, and he's agreed to a few MORE rewards for his most loyal supporters also known as CHAD'S CABINET! Here are the details:

All you have to do is to sign up here to be a member of CHAD'S CABINET, and post up your current voting total (found just below your name on your profile page). I'll list all participating members at the top of the post here. If there's a way to post how many designs a person has voted on for this competition, I'll post that as well. If you have a particular title you'd like in Chad's Cabinet, just list that title when you sign up!

ON TO THE PRIZES!

OFFICIAL THREADLESS PRIZES:

• If this group gets over 100k votes TOTAL during the competition, we'll be able to choose ANY printed design to reprint!

• The THREE users with the most votes will each nominate one previously-printed design, then the entire group will get to vote on which one should be reprinted

• In addition, one randomly chosen member of CHAD'S CABINET will win a $200 Threadless GC!


COMMUNITY PRIZE(S):
• Everyone who scores at least 1000 designs during the full contest period will be entered to win a free shirt from my shop! Score more than 1000, and get an additional entry for every 1000 designs you score!http://shop.ianleino.com (1 winner)




So sign up and start voting, then tell all your friends to sign up too! Together we can get the votes we need to win some awesome prizes!




CHAD'S CABINET (name, title, starting votes)
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Ian Leino - Campaign Manager - 16,237
martiandrivein - Minister of Ministrations - 8,873
lewayotte - Regal Legal Beagle - 93
t-thyme - Chief Cotton Analyst- 31,644
mj00 - Minister of Methodological Mayhem - 21,641
earlofportland - Secretary of Time and Relative Dimensions in Space - 5,122
loorrrd - Party Whip - 4,479
Maltzmania - Chief of Stats - 133,290
Theo86 - Powdered Wig Consultant - 36,147
jess4002 - Secretary of Zombie Affairs - 145,524
TeoZ - Tshirt Theocrat - 10,013
Bio-bot 9000 - Postmaster General - 58, 084
jeffreyg - Secretary of the Anterior - 77,383
FRICKINAWESOME - Office of Outlandish O-literation - 129,846
[+duracell-] - Super Cool Guy - 3,374
FlyingMonkeyMan - Moral Support Distribution Administrator - 10,215
Soloyo - General of the no B.S. office - 76,355
Stoma - Secret Samurai Senator - 8,085
cranapple - Minister of Monkey Brains - 1,746
robber ducky - Secretary of Mutant Affairs - 23,049
pyr4lis - Political Prognosticator - 7,421
rossmat8 - Captain Clever Name - 15,967
the-walrus - Washington Wavemaker - 3,282
Adhesive Hippo - Dictator-For-Life - 24,269
goliath72 - Secretary of the Department of Positive Energy - 48,153

My latest design just went up for scoring, and I'd be most appreciative of your votes and comments! Based on the classic "Ministry of Silly Walks" skit from Monty Python, this shirt is certain to bring joy to those around you and encourage them to cut loose with their own unique silly walk.

Here's a link to the original Monty Python skit, which for some reason won't embed here.

I'm also running a giveaway related to this design over on my Facebook page, so if you're interested be sure to go check that out!

Thanks!

I have a small online shop that I've been running for a little over a year and a half, and I've started to outgrow the shopping cart system that I started with (BigCartel). I'm looking to move over to something that offers more options, more control of discounts, and better sales reporting, but the more I work on it the more obvious it is that I need some professional help.

SO, the question for you is: does anyone here specialize in e-commerce or know someone who does that could help me out? I'm not looking to build from scratch but use some existing cart (picking a cart is one of the things I need help with), modify a template, and integrate it with an online shipping service. This would be a paying gig, of course.

HALP!

I am super-excited for my latest Threadless print (and eager to see the UV pics, too) and in celebration, I'm giving away a free shirt to FIVE of the people who left comments on the original design, just like I do every time I get printed here!

What I need though, is a fun way to select the winners! I could always do a random number generator, or pull names from a hat, but I thought someone here might be able to come up with something more interesting.

So what do you think? What would be a fun way to pick winners?

The missus and I are taking a grand tour of the wine-centric areas of Italy, and are leaving tomorrow! This will be our first time ever - what should we expect?

Also, this means that I won't be able to attend the Meetup this year (even though as an Ambassador I was supposed to be one of the presenters). SO who wants to bring along a Han Solo action figure and pretend it's me all weekend?