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I wanted to reinterpret the natural effect of light as it passes through a prism. Added my own twist with a burst of colors instead of just straight lines. I have 2 options for the placement utilizing the front and back of the shirt.
This is obviously also inspired by Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album cover. Just don’t tell me this is a rip =)haha
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oh and i think i like the version with the color divided rays on the back better, an even smarter twist here
I like the top left the best. Reminds me of Pink Floyd, which is good too.
This is a lot cooler then my other rainbow shirt, and Ladybug Hunter is right top left is the best.
The one on the left is excellent, I tend to wear jackets, or over shirts with my shirts, so I wouldn’t want so much of the design being covered.
Wow this jumped out pretty fast. Glad you guys liked it. Thanks for all the comments and votes! Hipauliee I hope they print this.
everyones saying top left, but i think its way cooler on the back, DBH doesnt do enough interesting stuff on the back of their shirts, i think this would be wicked with the 2 placement!
I’ve never had this many votes before! Thanks everyone for the comments and the votes. Hope they print this!
Not a rip on Floyd, more of a tribute. Also, I agree with the color on the back. Seems to lead the eye more.
I really think it’s wrong to someone get $750 to do this simple job that anyone can do.
i think it is wrong there are dicks on this site bashing other people’s work. yeah? I am sure everyone agrees with me.
precirf is right. hipauliee what’s your problem? The only dick on here is you!
Jealousy seems to be a huge problem on this site. Nice design man, don’t let the ghost profiles get to you.
Lol yeah thanks jon seems like 1 person using different profiles
go the one on the right, because i wouldnt want that fluro near my face. it looks more interesting as well. the comment about it looking 90’s (or ‘new rave’ which is only just over) is in relation to the use of fluro, which usually i hate. i like this tho. (im only critisisng this cuz i love Pink Floyd). one up +1
2 that hater(s), * off and die, the last thing we need is you.
First placement is better, i wouldn’t wear it because i’m not a pink floyd fan but it’s nice
The only thing that bothers me about this is that you say you reinterpreted the natural prism effect without just straight lines. But, for me, the straight lines are too easily recognisable below the splatters. To me it would have been a lot stronger if you’d worked the colours into a more fluid pattern, and not just put splatters over flat blocks of colour.
Just my opinion, but I really think this would have been stronger with more work.
Good point anushka but I didn’t want to totally lose the shapes of the flat blocks of color. I wanted to keep the rainbow blocks in tact so you’ll know it’s still the effect of light passing through a prism. I just added the splatters from the base going up to make it look more of an explosion of color. But anyhow, I’ll prob still add some more detail on the base to make it more seamless. =) Thanks for the input.
This looks good dude, I wouldn’t normally wear rainbow colors. This might be the first lol
Right, that’s fucking it. This takes the biscuit. THAT is Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Nevermind about it being ‘Pink Floyd-ish’, it IS Pink Floyd. Total rip-off.
VOTE MINUS!
amurphy – I don’t think so. The cover of The Dark Side of the Moon used an already well-known illustration of light coming though a prism. The motif is kinda public domain. Just try to google image search for ‘prism’.
alright considering it usually takes about a month for them to decide on really cool designs, i say around june 15th this gets printed.
I WANT THIS TO PRINT SO BAD! i mean, idk, i’ve seen it before BUT I STILL LOVE IT! really nice. and to me, i like the color work on the front better than on the back. KUDOSKUDOS! MAKE PEOPLE VOTE so this gets printed haha!
I didn’t know pink floyd started a t-shirt contest on DBH. Have all good ideas been used, that we need to remake famous images? I’m not trying to knock it. Just i’m tired of the lack of creativity on this site.
Well pink floyd remade this prism image too so does that mean they have no creativity whatsoever?
Execpt pink floyd dark side of the moon prism accompanies amzaing music.The album cover ties in with the whole piece.This is just an honest bite that is profiting off of the experience of pink flody’s music. Is it good? 177 people seem to think so. I honestly agree with William4Suo.
collisiontheory i agree with what is said. I like the design but it does appear to be profiting on Pink Floyd’s iconic album cover. It is not a tribute but a remake. I think the idea could be pushed further.
So you’re saying because floyd came out with an amazing album makes it ok to remake an image? I should probably start a band and sell a bazillion copies so I could justify this tee. I still don’t think it’s a bite at all. Plus I don’t think all the people who voted for this voted because it’s ‘pink floydish’.
The prism is associated with Pink Floyd and you have admitied this is a tribute to Pink Floyd. Look man it’s cool, it’s a bite and you’re probaley gonna win 750 dollars. Just don’t act like this is original or creative.
Oh well I guess you’re entitled to an opinion. I still think it’s pretty fresh and creative. I’d love to see what you think is original and creative so I could learn a thing or two from you.
Yeah I have a fresh idea for a design for you! You could take the beatles and place serveal famous people behind them and title it Sgt Peppers Recycled Design! Man it’ll get hundreds of votes! So fresh and so damn creative!
Funny you mentioned that because there is a shirt with the Sgt Pepper’s album pose and it’s all John Malkovich instead of the beatles and other people. I thought that was ‘fresh and damn creative’!
voted… i love it. Sure I can see the connection people would make between this and the album, but I dont think anyone wearing it would wear it to support pink floyd, nor would I make the assumption that anyone wearing it would be a pink floyd fan. Its a modern take on a classic piece. I like it.
I don’t feel like its a rip at all – it’s just an effing prism. Floyd used it, so it is tied into their iconism. However, look up any prism schematic and you’ll find something similar. I think it’s a pretty fresh take on it, and it would look damn good printed.
ok, i commented on this before, and i sorta changed my mind, yeah, it is a bit hackneyed, but i still like this. i agree that piossibly if you could push it to the next level? but if not, then im still def buying it! i still like it, and i don’t exactly think it’s a rip off. i mean, pink floyd’s design wasn’t that original anyways, so you created a more interesting version of a prism and colors, not exactly a more interesting version of pink floyd’s album cover. its good, great!
I love this… it’s an obvious tribute to Pink Floyd but you manage to make the design your own… nice work, I’d totally buy this
dear lord so much drama over a simple design!! Just get this printed and it will shut those douche bags up.
I don’t see how this can be a pink floyd rip off at all. It’s not like they invented fucking physics. If you choose that argument than you might as well say Pink Floyd ripped off Isaac Newton.
brilliant design, beautifully executed.
My only complaint is that the light is refracting in the wrong direction. ;)
pink floyd knock off but i LOVE it man you did a great job next time try to incorporate like the wall or wish you were here or sumthin like that now that would be sick
jeez 266 votes
there should be a law against killin it like the way you’re killin it
really creative! i think the one on the right with the single white stripe at the front which bleeds into the colour at the back is far more powerful! first vote ever on DBH
Geez, this has a ridiculous amount of votes. Priiint iiiit DBH. I’ll buy it!
ohhh I think I figured out why I can vote on designs 2 times now! it happens every time one is about to be printed. It happened to parasite, and that bold design. WOO. going to buy this.
Great design. Andy Warhol painted Cambell’s soup cans and reprinted images of Marilyn Monroe, changing only the colors. No one challenged his creativity. Vincent Van Gogh painted “A Modern Olympia” as a direct reinterpretation of Manet’s “Olympia”. No one criticized Van Gogh! The Dada artist Marcel Duchamp drew a mustache on a poster of the “Mona Lisa” and sold it as original art. His off-beat art inspired multiple modern art movements. While I can see how other people may find this derivative, I see it only as one artist citing another.
Man I hope this gets printed soon, too me the fact that it resembles pink floyd is what makes this shirt really cool! It’s like a modern remake of the old boring design :)
you said at 200 something it ws “probably the most you’d ever get.”
Hahah. I wonder what the most voted shirt is? Might be this.
nice rendition of dark side of the moon. Rainbow in the front looks better in the back in my opinion
Nice. I like the prism on the front with only a hint of color, then the explosion on the back.
Love it! Please print this either way, though I do prefer the right design where the color wraps around the back, makes it more interesting.
i wish this shirt would hurry up and win shirt of the day!!! it obviously deserves it.
350+ votes so far and we can’t buy it O_o?
that’s sad.
Good Job By The Way =)
what the hell…. is this web cite rigged? 359 votes and we still cant buy it? WTF is going on here ppl!? lol come one now DBH get on the ball!
Man! This is totally a rip of that thing we used in earth science! What was it called…? Uhh… Oh that’s right the Pink Floyd Doohickey, thingamajinger. Etienne-Louis Malus in 1808 first discovered the phenomenon and i think he’d say, “totally rad shirt dude!”
collisiontheory, Why hasnt this shirt won yet? I havent seen any shirts on this site for more than this one. What is up???
+1 Get. Not because I love Pink Floyd (most of their work) but because this is totally my style. I want it. Now. Please DBH? Yes? Thanks in advance!
i’m assuming the only reason this hasn’t already been printed is because it’s so close to the original. I’m not sure they’d be able to print it.
Awesome. I love the burst of green after the light hits the prism.
i dont think its a bite ,its science, pink floyd didnt make this image.. science an light did, havin said that i dont know why it has so many votes, but just cause pink floyd used the same concept as an album cover doesnt mean no one else should ever use the same idea.
maybe they didnt print it cause id guess with that many votes someone s obviusly useing fake accounts.its ok but not that good to warrent the 400 votes.. or original.
If they were suspicious of foul play (false votes) or if they thought it too close to the original to print (which is preposterous) why haven’t they pulled it from the voting stage yet?
Yeah i doubt the fake votes unless somebody else is doing it for me lol
now that’s what I call scoring…:) already voted just stopped to say congrats and this will be a cool shirt
this is a cool shirt, one of the few i’d actually like to buy and wear! it would be even cooler on a neat colored tee, not sure which color tho… hmmm… are all these votes on merit or do you hava a ton of friends you shamelessly promoted to it…
this is tight! just now came across it!, I like the bottom right design the best +1
Come on…print this fucking shirt you stupid bitches at Design by humans HQ!
Whoa take it easy saleen.. In time i have a feeling they will.
in response to the fake vote comment… they have IP address tracking.
i think it’s too similar with the Pink Floyd’s, thats why DBH dont want to print it,lol…
voted!
do you have any formal design, formal art knowledge or you are just a sucker curious ?
It looks like they just mocked it up on the shirt and not the actual print yet. =)
Thanks guys! I can’t wait for the actual printed shirts though.
yes we’ve been there before. check out the submission comments.
Congrats man! I knew you would win with this one. You’re a DBH master!
Congrats! When are we going to see the you + Jimiyo panda one?
Also, for everybody wondering: it says ‘Front & Back Print’ in the description. So there must be something on the back.
btw… it does kind of look like a mock up. the shoulder looks unnatural with the shirt… hmmm
yeah I get it that you are saying it is inspired by dark side of the moon and not just basically copied, but to me it is so similar that there really isnt anything new about it.
congrats on the print though, just because I don’t see the newness of it dosen’t neccassarily mean it isnt I guess.
well it wont let me put a link in this comment box, but what i did was took the mona lisa, revised it a little and added splatters to it.
does that make it a new design?
seriously though, i wanted that ‘burst of color’ effect on the prism instead of the normal rainbow coming out. i guess that wasn’t so obvious? if you’re questioning the use of the imagery, it’s pretty much public domain so it’s cool.
if you say its cool, then its cool. haha
i just think that most kids have no idea where that original art came from.
of course we know where it came from man ;) you could look at it like an homage
blah. so this getting printed and im not surprised. slightly disappointed tho.
“it’s pretty much public domain so it’s cool.”
if you check out wikipedia for dark side of the moon and then click on the album cover, you will see that is is very much NOT public domain, but what do i know?
listen, i think you are a good graphic artist, and i think you are a good designer and everything, but this one in particular is just plainly and simply not original.
I am a big pink floyd fan, or their music and the artwork that is on their packaging, so that is the only reason i am commenting in the first place. enough said from me.
ah but dude pink floyd doesn’t own the rights to the refracting prism. they just borrowed that from science. use google images for “prism”. people just think pink floyd came up with the imagery but it’s really just a natural phenomenon. now if i took the exact same image from the album and put that on the shirt then that’s a different story.
yeah people need to get over the whole pink floyd thing. The prism is a concept of it’s own, I mean IT’S SCIENCE COME ON! That shit is in your high school text book. This is a good shirt sir congrats
I have to agree with tomburns, this one is plainly a Floydian slip.
actually, this suffered lot of influence of the asian industries that just know to fake things, including designs, cause they have no creativity
Heyheyhey… No need for insults here, maluse. this is a creation of its own, I never heard of copyright on rainbow colours and triangles and it is not that similar to that Pink Floyd cover at all… it only adapts its aesthetic and is therefore an hommage, basta:)
Really awesome that they decided to print this! It’ll surely be with my next order. But DBH, why the mock ups lately? Just wonderin’.
Congratz collisiontheory! Your a mad man with mad skillls to back!
The light in your design is refracting completely differently than that in the album cover by Hipgnosis. Actually, now that I think about it then (and this is not meant as a critique at all), isn’t the light refracting in the ‘wrong’ direction in your design? Did you use anything to reference how the light refracts, or did you just pick an angle?
i agree with tomburns, it’s alright, but this isnt your art, you added some gomedia splatters… congrats though i guess
collisiontheory, just because it isnt copyrighted doesn’t people don’t see what it is. we don’t take the scythe and hammer, make it red white and blue and call it democracy do we?
PINK FLOYD DID NOT INVENT THE FUCKING PRISM!
Can people please get over it already?
Seriously. The reason this shirt is successful is because it takes a well known image/idea and adds to it to evolve it into a new concept. This is done all the fucking time. Fucking Magritte. Warhol. Banksy. For crying out loud people get out of your bedrooms of your parents house and you might look beyond your pink floyd posters. Watch this shirt is going to be a great seller!
Ah thank you jayna!! You got it. Sometimes people just don’t understand.
when most people see this shirt they dont think of prisms and triangles, they think of pink floyd. they dont say “gee this design has no copyrights, therefore it’s original”. ipso facto people think you ripped off pink floyd. the fact that you said “Just don’t tell me this is a rip =)haha” for the shirt’s comments makes it even worse. and jayna, i dont even like pink floyd, im just saying that this is uninspired and unoriginal. “viva la revolucion” what image comes to mind? exactly.
oh boy… regardless of what others say this designs kicks ass! btw Andy Warhol totally ripped cambell’s tomato soup can art… soon as i get some extra dough im coppin this
It’s not a bit deal to me that the artist was inspired by Pink Floyd. They even stated that. It’s neat that you made the idea your own, grats. : ) I don’t know if I can buy it right now but maybe sometime!
i’m not a pink floy fan at all, but i found the idea really great ! that’s why i ordered one…and to be honest it’s one of the designs on DBH that i was most expectong.
i just bought it cos i love floyd haha
jus remember, hes probs a floyd fan too!!!
wow!!! galing!!! saludo ako sayo sir!!! congrats!!!! very nice concept!!! galing talga ng pinoy!!!
I can’t believe science had the nerve to rip Pink Floyd.. And for TomBurns who said this was like “taking the Mona Lisa and adding something and calling it a new design” that’s not even close. The Mona Lisa is an original artwork created by Da Vinci, that would be considered a rip. A prism (as stated several times before me) is a part of science.
Not to start anything Tom but since you’re trying so hard at killing his design.. lets look at some of yours. World map of Pangea? Rainbow and pot of gold? TV bars? And an adaptation of the Revolution fist… you’re so original, you should definitely be calling him out.
Anyway, Collision – not really my style but nice design and nice take on the original SCIENCE prism. Congrats!
hands down. best design in a while. shirt of the week, shirt of the month
Sick print. Congrats on the win and screw all the haters. I’m ordering this. :)
Awesome, the greatest shirt with this idea I have ever seen. Congrats!
nice design… dunno if id wear it because of the raindbow=gay pride conatations, haha not that im homophob or nuttin’ ….anyways sent it too my friend who’ll love it cos he has this tattooed on his forearm. nice bro love your other work on your site too. big it up.
great design dude .. congrats..
yeah i dont look at this and think of pink floyd really… pink floyd design makes you focus on the prism itself … first thing i see if the refracted light which is quite a cool idea..
nice design, wouldnt mind seeing the back though (or isnt there any ink on the back??)
I guess all the new shirt designs these days are ripping from the grateful dead album covers. All I see is skulls skulls skulls. Na man good work, Everybody is inspired with different ideas through different things, who cares if it looks like Pink Floyd, they did inspire a lot a musical artist. Again good work, now its time to get “Paid” check my designs out.
hahaha I was kind of hoping they’d choose this for the week just to stick it to everyone. Congrats!
thanks everyone! i guess some people still can’t seem to get over it. tsk tsk
love your work collision just bought it!
15minoflame i do not know you can take a multi colored paint splatter and refer that to gay pride, thats just ignorant of your part and an insult to the art of imagery.
Need to get this in large!
I like the twist on the Pink Floyd image.. makes the shirt more unique than a dark side of the moon shirt.
Looks great when I finally got the shirt. My co-workers think it’s gay. Secretly, they are jealous. But seriously, good job.
This shirt is awesome, I ordered it a couple of days ago. Can’t wait to get it.
wooooooooow, U r on fire… u so deserve it :) I`m waiting for more man :D
Woah I just got this in the mail today. The colors are really vibrant, this shirt is grat!
does the shirt continue onto the back? Love to see it get reprinted! The shirt is fantastic!
does the shirt continue onto the back? Love to see it get reprinted! The shirt is fantastic!
p p p please reprint or there is a slight chance i might develop a stutter!!!
i can’t stand people who say this is pink floyd, i LOVE this shirt and i hate pink floyd, god damn…
and im pretty sure this shirt has spawned the most comments out of any other on DBH lol
PLEASE reprint
I know its been said but i really want this and i can’t wear an XL :[
and i love the idea of it being inspired by pink floyd and the twist you put on it. Great job.
REPRINT! REPRINT! REPRINT!
I’ve been going to the gym, but XL? I’m not that swollen yet :)
Come on, such a great design! Our fat demands XXL, can’t help it :). PF is becoming cult :)
Definitely pink floyd hehe. Kidding aside, when will be the next reprint? I’m getting one if ever. Congrats man, dig the solid colors.
thanks for the reprint… im really happy I joined dbh for this shirt
Prism (optics) By Isaac Newton = 1704
Pink floyd’s The Dark side of the moon = 1973
I dont think Pink floyd were scientics who discovered light’s refraction
I’d like to buy that one, but it appears that only the XXL size is avaible
:(
it looks like those colors aren’t exactly the classic colors of the rainbow. I like it. (:
The colors are in a different order that what a real prism would produce… and not as on PFs Dark Side. Should be ROYGBV (“Roy G Biv”).
Yea, reprint. When is this gonna be back in stock. I was hoping to get it for a concert on New Years Eve. Please Reprint in Mens L or XL.
Reprint mens M please. I’ve been waiting to get this for half a year already!
Like everyone else, I’d love to see this reprinted…this is one of the coolest shirts I’ve seen. Please reprint in men’s M or L! Thanks!
i will totally buy this shirt one of the if not the best design i have seen yet.
how come this isnt reprinted? i would buy this in a second. mens large
Please reprint!!!
“There is no dark side of the moon, really. As a matter of fact it’s all dark.”
I love your shirts. In my opinion you have the greatest style of anyone on this website. I own some of yours.
You should check out mine. Its my first submission: http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/61339?page=1
ive been waiting on this to get printed for awhile
i love this, one of the best takes on DARK SIDE OF THE MOON for sure
Apparently hanging on in quiet desperation is my way also.
Reprint!!!!… Please?
awesome! +1