Common Craft Blog
Designing Common Craft T-Shirts on Pixish.com
By leelefever on August 21, 2008 - 10:57am
As you may have seen, the Common Craft Store has a section for merchandise that is looking pretty minimal at the moment. At the same time, we often get requests for t-shirts. Hopefully, we're about to solve this problem.
We've created a new "assignment" on a website called Pixish. Using Pixish, we can describe an image we need and have a community of creative people submit their ideas. The creator of the winning images win "rewards" - often money, links, etc.
We're hoping to identify 2-3 images that we can put on t-shirts and other fun things that are offered in our store. If you're creative and want to participate, please do. The details are here.
We're offering $200US to the winners, plus some link-love from this blog. The assignment ends on September 15th.
What would you like to see on a Common Craft t-shirt?
New Models
I used Pixish shortly after its launch to get some options for a new blog header for DB.com. I was surprised by the high quality of the results.
If you'll permit me a little kind-of-related pimpage, one of our clients (DreamBank) has commissioned a video ad from AdHack, run by my friend James. Their current catchphrase is "DIY Advertising", and they use a similar spec, crowd-sourced approach to generating ads (or ideas for ads). The successful 60-second video ad gets 1000 Canadian bucks.
Details are here: http://tinyurl.com/644e8z
Spec?
I may be off, here … but this just feels like spec.
And we all know: good designers don't do spec, and good corporate citizens don't solicit it.
Award
OT comment, sorry - Just wanted to let you know I've tagged you for a blogging award http://suzanne-catching-up.blogspot.com/2008/08 ...
Pixish experience
Lee, I'll be really interested to hear about your experience with Pixish.
There are getting to be a good number of creator-meeting-buyer sites out there, from Pixish to Ponoko to our our AdHack. I think some of the workflow lessons from each can help the others.
I'm keen to hear what you find with Pixish, so please post an update on your experience. I think Derek (of Pixish) would be keen to hear about it too.