Shirt of the Week - June 14, 2008
Bold is Beautiful
by jfinley from Cleveland, OH
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jfinley has no other designs in the running. This is the 1st winning design for jfinley.
My first tee on DBH!
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holy sh*t this is fantastic! awesome first entry! you totally get my vote :D
Wow this is totally amazing for your very “first t-shirt design” EVER!
Good luck finster, totally gonna blow dbh’s mind. Emptees Represent!
is pretty awesome.. i wish the colors were more selected.. like, just a few colors.. the rainbow seems to break a little bit.. nice one man!
little too much for a tee if you ask me, i think it would be a sweet desktop background though
Mr Go Media, good to your work on here. I’ll be buying when it’s printed! Despite Jedidiah not accepting it. +1
Thanks everyone! I really hope this gets printed. It could be the start of something very special. sniff
seriously…i just keep looking at this. thats the first time ever on this site. thank you for blessing my eyes
I really dig this but it feels more like a TV station/motion graphics piece. Still voted because it’s your first time finley. hehe
wow… reminds me of that new song from justice… DVNO… great great design! i want this ! *vote
I think the next tee should be the amiture sketch of a Leprechaun. I WANT THE GOLD! if you need any help designing it my dad passed down an Irish flute to me.
ok, jeff…so you had to blow all our chances ftw?
damn…(when i say all our chances, i mean all my chances:P)
sure. i have to vote, or my conscience is gonna kick me in the ballz:D
im voting for this because ive wanted to get ahold of this damn shirt for a long-ass time
YUS, lets do this. Make it happen!(to sound a little like Jo Swanson)
I’m not that deranged
Hope this design does get the TEE of the week.
Its cool!
PS. I like this site, just signed up to vote but its really cool.
I have always been a fan of your work. This is an incredibly intricate and beautiful design. Green with envy. :)
Welcome to Sparta Sir, would you like a tour of your famous deep hole. Told you the fan boys would come threw.
HAHAHA amazing… only a few hours and its got almost 100 votes. wow.
should bet STOD by friday. ha!
nicely done sir finley. i WILL buy this beast.
unless you are a browns fan…
whoa… you just submitted this?! nice man. 100 votes already. i wont be surprised if this wins in the future.
are you awake to see this stuff jeff? and you were wondering if you’ll get voted..pfuu.
even ads on deviantart? you got it going real good:) good for you!
Go Media asks, I deliver..
I did my part, hope it gets picked Jeff!
(by the way the browns suck, go hawks)
Mr. Finley – You’re work shows much promise. Keep trying and someday you’ll be a fine young designer – who knows, maybe you’ll own your very own design firm. Good on ya, son. [wink.wink]
Come on 300!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finley is the man.
This is bery bold and beautiful!
It’s about time you submitted something on here Jeff!
I love this!
hey man, seen your stuff on emptees, glad to see the community is spreading the love…
nice execution btw
Jeeze, I said i thought you’d do well on here, not take over the whole freaking place!
Awesome job, really like the layout. Your use of color is cool how you still made it look bad ass but used… ROY G. BIV.
Uh oh.
+1
I’m pretty sure you’ll be holding a few “printed” cards pretty quick.
This is gonna catch up on herman’s Migratory pattern pretty soon!
YES. You dont know how happy I am that this t-shirt is going to get printed. Now I have to earn some money so i can buy it :D
Designs like these don’t just have to be on full page glossy magazine ads. Times are changing like what it always does.
Setup85: point taken. the work is great.
i’d just love to know the t-shirt printer who can pull off the detail that this work needs. (seriously!)
dude if this wins, there better be a crapload of sales. haha.
i might buy one. idk about black though.
I just wish I could’ve gotten the colors as bright as they need to be to do this design justice. I discovered an amazing program that I need to get. Its so expensive though!
Awesome pic! but I would never wear something like it on a tee:p Too flashy for clothing imo^^
I don’t like that on dbh many put rejected designs by somebody else as if it would be a last chance – ultimate treatment for designers hurt ego. But probably is the fact that some are really good and need to be printed even if some narrow minded clients rejected them, and this is a good example, even if to me seems very hard to print. But hopefully, if this one gets printed you will do some exclusive dbh designs. Still, I think the designer is voted here rather than the design considering the number of votes.. you have a lot of friends :)
actually hyper this isnt my favorite of jeffs, this is an experiment in tee shirt printing. I wanna see if dbh has the chops
this design is super solid. ill buy it when it goes up, if its printed as big as the mock that is.
this design is super solid. ill buy it when it goes up, if its printed as big as the mock that is.
It’s a nice design so it gets my vote, but it would be too “loud” for me to wear.
Great Staff, ffff so many people here ! We have got to make a party here ! Champagne !
been wanting this t-shirt for ages!
good luck getting it printed, I voted :D
Amazing work Jeff!
man. its hard to say this, but after staring at this for the past few days has really made me change my mind. it’s just TOO bold. heh. im sure other people are going to buy this IF it wins, but i cant see myself wearing this now. a little too hot topic for me. great design though.
dude, hot topic? common!!!
wheres all the blood and illegible band name. hot topic carries nothing that compares to this.
ok sorry i offended you…
i forgot this is the best thing that
has ever hit this site. :)
I agree with cole, does not look to Hot Topic to me. Pretty bright design going on.
hah sorry… i couldnt think of a good example. idk… i liked it at first but seeing it sooo much just turned me off to the bright colors. I think it is amazing. really. but not on a shirt. :/ that’s just my opinion. the other 341 people have me beat.
i think this the most votes i have ever seen for a design. if they dont print this then its rigged for sure.
this design is nice as a club invite or a poster..but as a t-shirt..i’m not so sure…not that it matters anyway. It’s gonna get printed.
I don’t know if this is feasibly print-able, given the nature of inks.
Sorry, I should explain myself. What I mean is that if you look at some t-shirt designs, especially designs on black, they tend to lend themselves to flat colors with simple cell-shaded gradients, because so far as I know it’s hard to acheive smooth gradients and color transitions with plastisol ink and silkscreen. There are some alternative inks and processes, but I don’t think they work well on black.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, because I’m trying to learn more about production!
lol@ the person who said it is too bold, thats kinda the theme.
i like it but i wonder why your site says “Rejected design but it could be used in the upcoming apparel line for Go Media in a slightly modified form.”
yeah, depending on the silkscreening process lot definition is lost comparing to offset process, I would print this on discharge process as it support better resolution screens.
Regarding the illustration, it is very rich visually, congrat
Cyanide – Well, the client I did it for did not accept it, so at the time I posted it to our portfolio, we had plans to release it ourselves.
Dude, I seriously cannot wait until this gets printed. This thing is gonna sell out the first day.
OMG, just looked at your website, ****king amazing work, this one here is the “less better” one, congrats
give it a week, this ones getting printed. I’ll wear it in a second.
i’m not sure i’d ever wear this design.. but the artwork is so cool, man!
one thing i’d definitely do is make this my background (:
This shirt is brilliant, you should put some of the other designs up here too.
I joined dbh just so I could vote for this design. I want a shirt! It better get printed.
could this ever really be printed? there is so much color and shadowing and differents hues…etc. i vtd i was your 300th vote, i’m not bashing your work or anything and didn’t want to start drama. i wonder because my aunt has a tee printing shop, small local one, and i’ve done some designs for her and she can do 8 color seps but this seems like it’d be a 40 color sep, idk,lol.
yea dude thats pretty sick how you did the letters. i mean the whole design is pretty cool but it looks like it was done professionally
isn’t it time they just print this thing? and for your next design, i’d like to see more colors =)
this tee pretty much blows my mind. I just joined the site to vote for it but I’ve already bought two shirts and have some upcoming designs that I’ll be submitting
Nice work Jeff
421 votes? Yes it’s a great piece. But on a t shirt? I think 421 people on here have lost their minds. That or a shit load of fake accounts have done a great job.
If this doesn’t print (insert potentially annoyed comment here).
But DBH usually takes a good bit to decide a design is printworthy… considering only 5 a week can be chosen, they have to make sure the guys who got a ton of votes a few weeks back get their prints in first…
hence why this hasn’t printed yet
(unless there are a ton of fake accounts I don’t know about).
Also, that’s what I keep telling myself for my Piano design. Oh well maybe?
These votes have to be a result of designer popularity. I guess that’s the downside of community. Honestly, this looks like it should say “back to school!” have some splayed pencils and be worn by a five year old.
i kinda agree with boxelder, i dont see whats all the fuss about this, it looks tacky to me, not trying to be negative but i think this is a hyped up submisson just because of the artist, who has awesome stuff (much cooler than this) just my opinion though, i voted anyways cus i wanna see it hit 500 :p
totally agreed ^. AND. why am i able to vote again! I voted like when this was first submitted and now i can again… weird. oh well. +2 I guess!
Yes it has. The only difference is that one says small rather than bold. Go on Gomedia and see the same design.
That’s so lame. DBH will be dumb to print this. This designer is a hack.
So 440 votes for something that has been done before? DBH please print something that is not on another site. There is a dozen great design on this site. It is sad because most these people don’t know your trying to pull a fast one Jbitch!
So 440 votes for something that has been done before? DBH please print something that is not on another site. There is a dozen great design on this site. It is sad because most these people don’t know your trying to pull a fast one Jbitch!
This shirt has not been printed. What you saw on the Go Media site is just a mockup. It’s got the same t-shirt template as a lot of other designs on our site.
The only time this design came close to being printed was my friend Jimmy experimented a bit and printed off a sample. Thats’ it.
You guys can’t really be that stupid. The design on the Go Media website is a MOCK. It hasn’t actually been printed, why do you think Jeff is posting it here? SO IT WILL GET PRINTED. Oh and Jbitch? Come on, you can’t think of anything better than that? Maybe you had a glass of stupid with your morning bowl of FAIL.
i dont know what technology they got but wouldnt this require seven or something screens of flurecent or shimmer inks as well as white to print onto black? it would have to be expensive to print.
look at the ‘mock up’ on jays page it doesnt look like he printed this. his top design looks sick printed and is an awesome shirt, but this… on a tshirt. its still waaaay better than ‘a is for apple’ ? wtf?
What’s with the haters? Ha this is a sick shirt, though I’m starting to get worried it won’t get printed. But seriously you guys, try to know what you’re talking about before you start calling somebody a hack and accusing them of cheating
Good going Jeff. I think you’ve made the most talked about / bitched about shirt on this site.
With any luck you’ll hit 500.
Has that been done on DBH before?
I didn’t like this until I’d seen the mock-up on your site. This really should be printed as soon as possible.
wow…does mattchamp have 3 different profiles? It’s pretty ironic that you’re calling this loud and dumb dude, considering your multiple posts are the equivalent to a drunken frat guy at a football game.
if this prints… I will sell my left nut. yeah that’s not gonna happen
oh jeff… you just ruined any chances I had at SOTW… haha… looks great though, I’m sure you’ll be satisfied with this one!
they must be real proud of that print because they took enough pictures of it. turned out great. congrats jeff
Hats off to whoever did the seps, the print came out beautiful.. Oh and the design ain’t too shabby either. :)
Wow great job DBH! I was skeptical but you pulled it off. If only there were ladies sizes for my girl.
DBH, wow. thank you for putting the time in to print this. that is dedication.
Yes !!! (now, i say good by to my chance to be shirt of the week !!!) Congrat’s
dang. looks so much better in person than on that template. Great job man.
Like i always say…anything is possible! Big ups to my main man JFin for the win. We can’t wait to see what’s next!
9 colours wow. Suprised they didn´t have a new price. Still 24 bucks, that´s cheap.
Congrats on your first print! Let’s hope more are on the way because I don’t see myself wearing this haha. Keep it up!
omg they did it and it came out great, dbh rules this was a hard one to print but the result is stunning. Hmmm but whyyyyy? Girls can’t have this, whyyyyy????
oh like this getting printed was a surprise!
this getting printed as well as it did, is a surprise. way to go DBH printer guys!
The date for this tee still says June 5th, which it should say June 6th
YES! finally it got printed. i knew it would.
(that design is actually my current desktop wallpaper)
Dang dude… Good stuff!! Recently seen you stuff online… Very Gifted my friend. I’m definitely gonna snag one of those tees…
- Dayne “Romidion” Henry
This is the first time in a LONG time I came on and saw a design where I un-slouched out my seat just to get a better look while muttering “You gotta be freakin’ kiddin’ me.” Fabulous! I love it. Rocks so much! Can’t wait to get it.
Wowowow, the detail of this design is really really nice. I am not one for buying message shirts, but this one is going to be an exception, I’m afraid.
wow, congrats on shirt of the week! Haha and to think how many people were saying it wouldn’t get printed.
-Derek
haha quite the obvious choice for SOTW! congrats jeff. i’m sure this is selling tons!
I want a girl’s shirt! come on pleassssseeeeee? I am Jeff’s lady I deserve to have one
God, I hate this. Why is bold so beautiful when it looks like a screenshot from a d-grade version of Star Wars? But evidently a lot of people out there like it, so congrats on the win…
follow the followed leader which makes one at the back of the line..
a must have!!! I bought it for my shop!
I uploaded a design, so if you like it, feel free to vote for it! ;-)
Thanks!
hi there..
Nice design..
+1 From me
i’m newbe in DBh could You check MY Design Vintage V.2..
thx
I love the integration of, well, bold 3D fonts in this tee. I just received it in the mail!
This is really sweet for your first shirt.
Ill be posting my first shirt soon too.
People Did You Make This Design??? Cause I Swear This Image Is Copyrighted By The “Go-Media” Company!!!!
Srry For The Last Message I Just Found Out You Are With “Go-Media” LOL But ANYWAYS I Love The design. I Have The Wallpaper Edition!!!
I just received this shirt in the mail…its everything i expected and more. SO amazing, Great shirt!
dudeee after i told my friend to go to this site this is the shirt he bought! nice job
wow^^ thats a damn good first try :)