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Do you associate your shirts with the artist instead?

If there's one aspect about buying shirts from the crowdsourced/competition t-shirt sites, it's that you can play a part of getting them printed (via the voting process) and that there's interaction with the artists who are designing them in the derby comments/forums.

On the other hand, I do see many folks refer to the resulting shirts more as a commodity item rather than the art and the artist behind it. That it's not a shirt designed by BootsBoots, or PatrickSpens, or Walmazan, but rather, "It's (just) a Woot shirt".

Am I among the few who references their shirts by the artist who designed them instead? ... and more for the human element, rather than the commodity element?

by narfcake
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I think I'm more guilty of discriminating the shirts I don't buy based on artist rather than referring to the ones I do buy by artist. Though I am good enough to be able to pick out the style of some derby shirt artists and guess pretty well who designed it before looking.

meh3884
5 months ago

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@meh3884: Haha, I think there are quite a few of us that fall into that category. Even so, seeing some change in the said artist, I have a few of his, three of which I bought on purpose as opposed to incidentally or accidentally.

BTW, while I have my favorite artists, no one gets free votes. From my own top-10 (in terms of quantity, which collectively totals 79 of my shirts), I only have votes to four of them in this current derby.

narfcake
5 months ago

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I do both, depending on the context. If it's my brother who introduced me to the woot sites, I'll be more likely to specify the artist who designed the shirt. If it's someone who has no particular knowledge of the site(s), I'll be more generic.

It also depends on whether I remember at that moment who the artist is. (Sometimes I think I'd forget my own name if I didn't wear a name tag at work; that's how horrible I am with names.)

msklzannie
5 months ago

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What?

I, like most other people, prefer shirts to be made in some East-Asian textile factory by some child who makes barely enough to starve every day. Those are the artists that I associate with making my shirts.

Remember, tiny stitches = tiny fingers.

curtisuxor
5 months ago

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Interesting question. I have finally accumulated enough woot shirts to actually make the distinction between individual artists. I do have a few personal favorites, but they are not an auto vote for me. An example: I love Ramyb's shirts, in particular the penguins. Not such a big fan of this weeks shirt though. My votes this week have actually went to the amazing Solstice shirt by CrescentDebris and Marching Break by Radscoolian (penguins!) so far. My fave this year is Escape by patrickspens, but I have a soft spot for midgerock and keep hoping he(?) gets a print. I use dianasprinkle's Super Effective as an avatar. My favorite of all time is still Nevermore. Just got the hoodie. Love.

I like to mix it up.

dreamyvelvet
5 months ago

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@dreamyvelvet: Some artists have a very distinctive style that's easily recognizable; others have a wide enough variety that it's only known by looking up their name to spot who it is. And it is those cases when the artists do venture from their norm, and in turn, expand themselves into other styles and designs, that I appreciate.

For this derby, zero votes to bunnies, zero votes to penguins. We've had enough of them already - one artist more than others. ^_^

In the grand scheme of Woot, my nod to shirt-of-2011 has to go to Patrick Spens again, though for Acquired Taste instead of Escape. My personal nod would be to DoOomcat's Unstealthiest Ninja; I'm hoping the sequel makes it.

@msklzannie: Good point about being generic. Strangers probably understand "shirt.woot.com" more than "5 Second Rule, Derby #165, by 1st place winner SeedUvPain".

narfcake
5 months ago

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@dreamyvelvet: I guess you missed this, then: http://shirt.woot.com/Friends.aspx?k=19347

Midgerock does solid work, you should follow him on FB as he gets printed at several of the other sites (plus redbubble)

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