Help me decide on these t-shirt designs: please vote

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While I don’t typically get nervous on stage, I do experience a decent amount of anxiety about going on the road, which I’m set to do in 3 weeks. Most of this anxiety revolves around being as prepared as possible for everything. Making sure your stuff at home is handled (grass cut, mail held, bills paid, etc.), and the other part is making sure you’ve got merch to sell (CDs,t-shirts, etc).  To be honest I’m always kind of uneasy about the t-shirt part of it.  I’m no graphic designer and I don’t pretend to know what people respond to or want to see.  It goes without saying that while I do have a good amount of creative ideas, I feel much more comfortable about all things music-related.

At any rate, I have been working with a graphic designer on several designs; some for tour and some that will be sold exclusively on this site when I reopen the webstore in a couple weeks.  Instead of trying to guess what everybody likes, it seems to make more sense to just ask you all directly.  So, here’s five t-shirt designs.  Have look and let me know what your favorite three are. You can vote for three of the five.  This will help me a great deal, so thanks in advance for your help.

1. “Blue Panther” Design

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. “Drugs, Sex…” t-shirt design

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. “word is blog” (ed & dre version) t-shirt design

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. “Fuck a Job” t-shirt design…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. “word is blog” design

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please remember to choose your top 3. Thanks for your help!

Which THREE(3) t-shirts designs do you like the most?

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  • Kupi

    you can't go wrong with Falling Down. just don't get sued!

  • printmatic

    getting sued would definitely be all bad! ha!

  • j. pitts

    When I buy a t-shirt of a hip hop artist, I would like it to explicitly say that I am a fan of such an artist, and with these shirts I don't think it's all too obvious. Sure, the Blue Panther shirt actually says Blueprint, but I don't get the reference. The others you would have to listen to the show or have peeped 8 million stories to know. I think a shirt that is like just the straight up cover of Chamber Music would be dope, because it has your face and your name on the shirt. Or like, a drawing of you at a computer screen going into you on stage with the words “Mama always told me that ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE” -Blueprint on it, something like that.

  • printmatic

    thanks for the reply. good point. as far as t-shirt designs, I've seen both sides of the coin: the side where some people want something explicitly with your name on it, and the other side where people don't want something really obvious (like your face or picture) on it, and they just want to support. i remember touring back with this band called The Islands in 2006 and they had 6 shirts on the table and only one of them had their band name on them. They had everything from drawings of themselves to pictures of song titles, etc. I was on the other end with three different Blueprint designs. Even the new fans i picked up weren't at the point where they were going to buy a Blueprint shirt, so i didnt sell many shirts. I've thought about that a lot since then.

    So what I've tried to do with these particular designs was marry both opinions down the middle, but in a more subtle way, but not subtle at all if you know the music like you said.

    i think there's also an angle that I'm working on for these shirts that isn't fully developed yet, but has good potential. the response and feedback is encouraging–it's just got to be planned out right and executed well.

    as far as the Blue Panther one goes, me and the designer were actually on Instant Messenger a few days ago talking about comic books and he asked me my favorite comic book characters. I told him daredevil and black panther, and 30 minutes later he sent it to me and i loved it. but you're right that there is no direct reference to my music in the design. i guess we've just always been into comic books, and therefore other people who are into comics may dig the shirt too.

  • Rocom

    WORD! Love me some comic books. Supporting an artist is doing just that. Whether it has their name on it or not, a dope design is a dope design. If I get a cool t-shirt and help out a band I like, it's win-win.

  • Spencerlyman7

    You need to throw one out there with just the quote
    “Creation vs Theaft, Learn The Difference!”
    On the front

    Then maybe throw your mug on the back with BLUEPRINT in big bold letters.

    One of my favorite lines of yours.

    Otherwise, FUCKAJOB is the front runner in these options.

  • printmatic

    thanks man. i never thought about that line before but it could make a good one

  • d-quo

    ————————————————-
    “Spencerlyman7 [Moderator] 08/20/2010 12:05 PM
    You need to throw one out there with just the quote
    “Creation vs Theaft, Learn The Difference!”
    On the front”
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    theft versus theaft, Learn the Difference!

    Now THAT would be a good t-shirt design. lol.