T-shirt ideas / feedback

Fri Oct 26 02:40:59 EDT 2007

If someone can hook me up with a contact on the xo against green or orange i
can make it happen. working towards finding a supplier. cafepress allows for
infinite variation.

suggest letting ranking/voting decide on at least some designs; makes sense
from standpoint of those that would get purchased. don't know if caa is
controlling branding to the point of choosing/dictating "prime" designs, but
ranking would allow lifting out most popular for manufacturing run.
manufacturing run would bring back more $$ to kids. right now cafepress
pricing is simple $1.00 beyond their price. haven't had time to ask
cafepress to do @ cost for olpc. if someone wants to help reach out, or to
help on adapting art for a real manufacturing run, etc., let me know.

I don't think square logo is ideal, but I really did like it against white.
i think it is strong and would have a good response. there's also a
horizontal logo layout.

one option is to float design mockups through phpmyfaq

i asked a student in a class i'm teaching to come up with a mockup for a
tour t-shirt -- i think this would go over well (attached) -- I was thinking
back to my rock n roll days. recently I've been wearing my tour lanyard and
backstage pass -- and i think that would be fun too.

the idea is to have maybe target countries as tourdates. not sure if
cafepress could handle this. i test ordered merch and will receive some fri,
some monday. it's a start. there's two doodz who are helping, and maybe a
high school class that can do adaptations (I'm thinking of asking them to
make adaptations in different languages). want to get away from cafepress
but it's a start. and also a way to include more designs.

On 10/26/07, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's a lovely, simple t-shirt design that has been used to date
> [care of pentagram?], just a large XO on an orange or green
> background.  Perhaps we can find a way to have those made on a more
> continuous basis and made available publicly.  I don't think the
> square OLPC logo makes an ideal shirt design... perhaps as part of a
> design.
>
> a shirt with the joke warning messages on one side would be neat
> (perhaps w/ something prettier in the center square)...  and the 10m
> design is interesting (would that be one half on each side?)
>
> SJ
>
> On 10/25/07, Seth Woodworth <seth at isforinsects.com> wrote:
> > Todd, I will be sending you an email about several things for the site
> in
> > just a minute.
> >
> > Ian, I would love to see students thrown at the idea.  Feel free to use
> the
> > ideas on the wiki page, there are some darn good ones on there.  Maybe
> if
> > you give each student a different phrase/image?  At the very least they
> > would provide a lot more ideas as a test bed.
> >
> > But mostly I would say not yet Ian.  Maybe in a week's time we could
> discuss
> > it further?  A timeline should be the first priority.  Those of you who
> want
> > to help out, speak up and we'll all get together and schedule what's
> gonna
> > happen maybe?
> >
> >
> > On 10/25/07, Ian Daniher <it.daniher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Todd,
> > > If you need someone to do some work on Photoshop, Illustrator, or
> such,
> > and you're able to provide specifics tasks, and an example or two, I can
> get
> > a high school layout and design class to spend a couple of weeks on OLPC
> > related work.
> > > Keep me posted,
> > > --
> > > Ian Daniher
> > > it.daniher at gmail.com
> > > Skype : it.daniher
> > > irc.freenode.com: DyDisMe
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 10/24/07, Todd Kelsey <tekelsey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Seth,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the kick in the butt.
> > > >
> > > > This url should respond shortly: http://www.laptopspace.org
> > > >
> > > > disclaimers:
> > > > > current images are just placeholders, not public yet, not meant to
> be
> > comprehensive, just a start
> > > > > more designs can be added
> > > > > suggesting a "community design" section and a google group to help
> > people who'd like to suggest designs to load up and vote and promote to
> > page. for anyone who is tickled by the idea it would be nice to actually
> > come up with a t-shirt idea that was built with a laptop. perhaps
> something
> > for the kids and for the b1g1 people.
> > > >
> > > > helpful links:
> > > > http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/help/images.aspx#res
> > > > > this links has some information on preparing images for cafepress,
> > etc.
> > > >
> > > > In my opinion we'll need to move on from cafepress but it works for
> now.
> > > >
> > > > If anyone knows photoshop/illustrator or gimp/inkscape and could
> help
> > out, let me know . . .
> > > >
> > > > -Todd
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 10/24/07, Todd Kelsey <tekelsey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Seth,
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > There is a solution already in progress and I would be glad to
> work
> > with you on brainstorming if you'd like to email me separately. There is
> an
> > external entity that is handling the xogiving.org campaign and they may
> have
> > plans for implementation but in the meantime we can still implement. I
> have
> > the olpc logo in vector art format and a couple of students have been
> > helping put things together. The cafepress store will be up at a url
> > shortly, and until/unless an official olpc staff member or the third
> party
> > entity says to do otherwise, we can put ideas together. It would be
> > wonderful to have help on it. Cafépress is cool but they also take
> > significant overhead, so it seems like it is best to plan for the
> future.
> > Cafepress can certainly be an easy way to get feedback and see which
> sizes
> > will sell etc. moving towards a manufacturing run will help bring back
> more
> > revenue into olpc for the kids. I was a rock n roll dude in another life
> so
> > I favor working on a world tour t-shirt too, plus a laminate design.
> (like
> > faux backstage pass). Suggest surveymonkey to get peoples' opinions on
> > t-shirt designs. Could be a contest. Could eventually let kids make
> their
> > own.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyway please feel free to email me and thanks for caring about
> the
> > kids.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -Todd
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ________________________________
> >
> > > > >
> > > > > From: devel-bounces at lists.laptop.org [mailto:
> > devel-bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Seth Woodworth
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:24 PM
> > > > > To: devel at lists.laptop.org
> > > > > Subject: T-shirt ideas / feedback
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello everyone, isforinsects here.
> > > > >
> > > > > There have been a couple suggestions for t-shirts floating around
> on
> > the wiki and elsewhere.
> > > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/T-shirts
> > > > >
> > > > > I think that it's a great way to build community, and increase
> > awareness so I mocked up a few ideas in InDesign.
> > > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Shirt_10_million.png
> > > > > (more to come)
> > > > >
> > > > > There are several great ideas on the wiki page, and all of them
> could
> > become shirts via cafepress if anyone so cared.  It would also become a
> > slight revenue stream for OLPC community building if sold via cafepress
> or
> > similar web-printing outfits.
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone have feedback on design and/or any ideas for
> > implementation?  I'm not going to go start a store somewhere unless the
> > community is into the idea.
> > > > >
> > > > > Seth
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Todd Kelsey
> > > > 630.808.6444
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