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T Minus by Brian Walline (thunderpeel) is the most eye-catching shirt this week at Threadless, both for its bold orange color and for the fact that it looks more like a DBH offering than a typical Threadless print. The huge scale of the sunburst looks fantastic, and along with the dark lines of the arrows it approximates the stripes of a tiger nicely. I'm also a big fan of the amount of motion conveyed, it really feels like a still frame of an action cartoon.



As Day Is Swallowed Up By Night by David Creighton-Pester (WanderingBert) is the winner of the Moby Loves Threadless contest, which had a theme of Last Night. The concept it self is clever (day being attacked by night), but I think the real power of the design is in the details. The use of elements from each sky to form their characters is fun, especially the moon as night's sole eye. The use of rough textures supports the personality of the creatures and helps to make this composition stand out in the crowd. Definitely a worthy competition winner.

Fancy Attitude by The Artist's Guide is this week's Select. While the shirt itself is pretty good looking, I have to say that I'm more excited about the zine that comes with the shirt than I am about the shirt itself. It's a nice enough shirt design, with a colorful and loose cartooned style. But nothing about it stands out as unique or interesting to me. I feel as though I've seen all these elements before, and that there is nothing particularly powerful about this specific arrangement of them. I'd wear it, but I'm not moved to purchase it.



Get It To Go by Adam Benjamin White is another favorite of mine, centering on that longstanding mystery of fast food containers- what is the Other button for? The style is straight out of eighties comic books, complete with halftone dots and expressive type treatments. The gross-out imagery is so excessive I think most will have a visceral reaction to it, which of course only adds to the humor of the strange tentacled drink contrasted with its crisp and clean brethren. For the wide appeal and unique graphics, I think this is going to be a Threadless classic.

Ghost On The Machine by Brock Davis (Laser Bread) relies on glow in the dark ink for its humor, but not to the point of being crippled by it. In the daylight, there's no joke at all, just a copy machine. It's a well-drawn copy machine, though, so while it's a bit of a baffling choice of an outfit it isn't unattractive. In the dark, the joke of a ghost using the copier for office hijinks is revealed. For me, the reason it works is because of the way the use of glow mirrors the reality- copiers are boring most of the time, but maybe when no one is looking...

Threadless prints new shirts every week, chosen from the designs submitted by and voted on by site members. Winners get $2000 cash and $500 in Threadless credit, with the possibility to earn more through Bestee awards, poster prints, and reprints.

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