November 06, 2004

Artistic George - MoFi T-Shirts? This idea came from the fertile noggin of Space Kitty while under the influence of Musso and Frank's expert mixologists. How about the members of MoFi come up with some T Shirt design ideas? We could have Cafe Press whip them up and the proceeds could go to Tracicle to help keep us in bananas. Any thoughts monkeys?
posted by squidranch 20 years ago
  • I ♥ MoFi
  • I like the idea.
  • A T-Shirt covered with every tagline ever written on this site. Or the top 100. Or a picture of me. Nah, the tagline thing.
  • I'm on your chest and you can't do any- thing about it TAKE IT OFF! centered with http://www.monkeyfilter.com underneath
  • MoFi T's: Put a monkey on your back.
  • What an incredible idea! Many )))'s to space kitty and you as well, squidranch. /this I must ponder deeply upon...
  • this is a great idea. May i suggest a jury of pros under tracicle's direction to maximise quality? If tracicle thinks this is a good idea, pro designers who are monkeys could apply here, she picks, um, three, and they jury submissions.
  • Please, keep in mind that lavender is neither a spring, fall, winter, or summer.
  • I'd submit a design, and seeing all the submissions would be amusing. I don't want a shirt, though.
  • Want
  • Yeah, it's agreat idea. I wonder who brought it up first.
  • something like this?
  • Yah, yah, yah, Wendell, we know. Credit where credit is due. Here's your banana. I'm sorry, we can't do taglines. Unless you want a burnoose or a caftan. T-shirts aren't long enough to hold all the greatness.
  • chriss: loveit loveit loveit ))) for you you you!
  • As long as we don't end up looking like this kid.
  • Oh my. Somebody stop me before I go into graphics overload trying to come up with T-shirt designs!
  • Does Cafe Press do limited edition poetry collections, with hand-sewn bindings, leather covers and illustrated plates? Because there's this epic I'd like to publish...
  • I would be happy with the current logo, if suitable compensation could be arranged with the designer - taz, I believe?
  • Chriss: Yes!
  • I want a t-shirt with a monkey cross-stitch pattern all ready to sew.
  • If coppermac's design wins, he get a shirt that says "I don't want a shirt."
  • iron-ons?
  • Irony-ons
  • I ♥ MoFi Given the recent obsession with tags, shouldn't that be <♥>MoFi?
  • http://mike.whybark.com/assets/banana.jpg sigh. no images inline.
  • chriss: )
  • Chris and mwhybark ...
  • Please, let's use someone other than Cafepress. Properly silkscreened T-shirts are much better quality than Cafepress's iron-on transfers. And, as for the design, I propose the logo we see every day at the top of this very page. I would wear it with pride.
  • I ♥ Chriss' (Chriss's?) design. Although I probably wouldn't wear it as it doesn't feature a band too obscure for you to have heard of so I wouldn't feel all big and cool and clever wearing it. Ha!
  • Although I probably wouldn't wear it as it doesn't feature a band too obscure for you to have heard of so I wouldn't feel all big and cool and clever wearing it. Ha!
    but by wearing it you could be expressing your adminration for The Banana
  • Is there a way to incorporate usernames, if we want? I wouldn't mind a coffee mug, or something for my desk.
  • I like both Chriss' and mwhybarks. Either I would wear with pride.
  • Well, Cafe Press was just an idea. If anyone out there has a silkscreen company that they like and trust, let's use them.
  • chriss's design gets my vote. (Do robot monkeys dream of electric bananas?)
  • If anyone out there has a silkscreen company that they like and trust, let's use them. How about No Sweat? Nice shirts and a clean conscience.
  • I really like Tinfoil Sorting Hat's idea. It's clever, it's a bit of an in-joke and best of all it's simple. maybe coupled with the site logo. Chriss' is good too, but a little vibrator-y for my taste.
  • I wouldn't mind a coffee mug, or something for my desk. and so it begins. First the T-shirt, then the mugs, soon it blossoms into hats, furniture, bondage outfits, Lear jets and gum wrappers. When will the madness end? And YES! I heart the logo. Perhaps underneath we could think up a clever line involving our favorite fruit? Something like "I bought the wrong bananas" or perhaps just the words "All hail Monkeybashi."
  • Logo on the front, "All Hail Monkeybashi" on the back. And the learjet may be a bit of a push, but what about this?
  • I like chriss' design, with the brown-grey fabric and everything. Cafepress only does white/light colors, so it'd have to be silkscreened.
  • If we do Cafepress, can we do other items as well? I want these.
  • I'll get a hi-res version done today. anybody volunteered to administer this yet? Also, should I make a new banana or just use Andy's?
  • So far, I like all the ideas. But I think that before we decide on any design, that we should let the mofi-ites bounce the idea around a bit in their tiny simian brains. Who knows what we might come up with given a bit of time. But let's give it a week or two before we start voting on them, don't you think?
  • Is there any way to post this to a graphic design competition blog, anyone know of such an animal? Let the "hive mind" of the interweb do the design for us?
  • I'm with Squid--let's do a competition type thing over the course of a week or two to see what us resourceful monkeys can come up with. As to how we might go about doing that, my web skillz are certainly not up to the challenge of hosting such a beast--any volunteers? BTW: if you like my design, I can either submit it to a contest or make it available as a hi-res PDF for whoever wants it (Its 100% vector, so file size and all that hooha is not an issue...)
  • Chriss: I like your design. Alot. Me wants all that vector-y goodness for to put on a poster.
  • Revs of the LP cover idea. The embedded thumb link to productoin-scale images, so, like, don't click on them. Maybe I should pull the links, but I don't think I have time to today. I think I'm still working on it anyway.
  • i like... <♥>MoFi No Sweat Monkeybashi on the back, all using the 'M' from up top of the page. Silk-screened please? All cotton? /can't wear synthetic materials. Can I really get my name too? Let's see what else...scoop-neck? colours? This is great timing too. Love the exchange rate!
  • I ♥ Monkeybashi thongs? /uncalled for
  • wait, wouldn't it be cool if there was a shirt with shoutouts to everyone (or at least the slightly more famous of us) on it? Actually, that's kind of a bad idea but I think I'll just post it anyway.
  • The shout out thing is a bit too much like pandering to the cool kids. Unless we have everyone (and that changes all the time) it's kinda like "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
  • Yeah, no shoutouts. I still think it would be cool to have some of the better taglines on the back, though.
  • Wow, some incredibly productive monkeys! And props to Wendell for the original idea. Here's a company I use for custom work - Fifi LaRoux - I have an adorable hoodie they made for me. Although the website isn't very extensive, they do have a men's and women's line, more products than are shown there and the ability to custom order any color combo. If anybody wants to use them, let me know & I'm happy to coordinate.
  • But MCT, WHICH taglines would we use? There are SO MANY good ones. *twitches with indecision
  • Should we have a seperate thread for tagline nominations? As far as design, I really think we should have a banana on the front and a monkey on the back. (Geez, that sounds like a tagline)
  • Like the general idea Wendell (banana front, monkey back). I'll post a link back to this in a week, just to keep it on the minds of the MoFi-ites and a week after that we'll do a vote thread. Everyone ok with that?
  • This is awesomely fabulously cool, and I'm down for a t-shirt, coffee mug, mousepad, everything. It'll be great Christmas presents. :) How about I find a good polling wossit and anyone with a design can send them to me. I'll put them up on the server for a couple of weeks and people can vote for, say, the five best designs. I'll say now that I don't have the time, let alone the knowledge, to organise t-shirt printing but I'd rather they were sold at cost than anyone make a profit - although a little something for whoever goes to all the trouble would be fair. If we use the MoFi logo, it would be nice to let Taz know, since she designed it. (I'm pretty sure - after all, it was almost a year ago that she did it and my memory is hazy.)
  • Of course it was taz. You know it was!
  • Cool Tracicle. You do whatever is needed to do the poll thing. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help it along. And on a totally unrelated note: I'm watching The Day After Tomorrow on DVD and I agree with the politics but it sux.
  • I understand why shout-outs is a bad idea, but would it be cool to have caricatures based on some of the more popular monkey's screenames? It seems kind of different to me...like appreciating the people who make monkeyfilter fun/interesting rather than saying they're more important than others...I spent like an hour refining pete_best's towelless ass and I'd rather there was some point to all of it...
  • I came up with this design many many moons ago, was going to cafepress it, but then never did anything with it. Not a specifically MoFi thing, per se, but a little tribute to our favourite poet and our favourite dictator. I love chriss's design, btw. Great stuff.
  • Awesome. I want four.
  • Right, email me designs, people! I'll have them up in the next couple of days for general viewing/voting.
  • This is fun.:)
  • I really do like all the designs so far. I'm not saying that I would buy one of each, but it would be nice to have a line of MoFi shirts/stickers/mugs/etc. to choose from. And I would like the moon too please, blood-red and full, just like last week.
  • I'd buy a Turkmenbashi tee.
  • can we get small/petite/youth sizes? some of us "less equal" animals are pretty tiny. merci!
  • And I would like the moon too please, blood-red and full, just like last week. posted by PY at 09:52PM UTC on November 08 Here you go, f8xmulder and rogerd the monkeys in the moon.
  • I want a t-shirt with a monkey cross-stitch pattern all ready to sew. Like this, maybe?
  • Thanks bratcat! That would be great on a tee. Move over man in the moon, and make room for the monkeys.
  • You are welcome.
  • A couple more rough'n'ready sketches: "More Bananas. Less Flinging." "Cockpunch" I suspect the, um, "childlike" quality of the illustrations could be improved, with time and plagiarism.
  • The "childlike" quality of the More Bananas sketch is part of its appeal, Flash.
  • I think "Cockpunch" is a bit Dufy-esque, no? This is my effort, btw.
  • a non-cafe press option would also make more money for mofi (if this is to serve partially as a fundraiser), since we'd get bulk discounts. no sweat and american apparel are both good choices for the stock.
  • I love the look of that monkey, Plegmund.
  • Exceptional, Plegmund.
  • Nice, Pleg!
  • I love them all. And this should go on the sidebar.
  • I was worried that this had died on the vine. I even wrote monkeybashi about this and never heard from her. Then I check the side bar and all you folks are still contributing. Way to go monkeys!
  • Chriss...could I get a copy of your design? I'd like to make one for myself if you're still willing to send it, as I think CafePress lets you do single shirts... Email's in my profile.
  • Dammit! My brain is fried. I'll set that voting thingy up tonight if people are still keen. I've only actually received one design thus far but I'll grab copies of the ones in this thread and throw them up too.
  • I have one coming ... design that is. Think Christophine and coppermac wanted to do one as well.
  • Hi rez URLs: http://mike.whybark.com/images/Banana_2k_sq_A.jpg http://mike.whybark.com/images/Banana_2k_sq_B.jpg http://mike.whybark.com/images/Banana_2k_sq_C.jpg http://mike.whybark.com/images/Banana_2k_sq_D.jpg
  • Right then. Turns out I have no HTML filter on my MoFi account - yay being teh admin. I'm about to start a new thread on this and post the current designs as inline images. When you have some, post the link and I'll put the image straight up. :) I'll leave the voting until we have a decent number of designs and they're all up.
  • beauty mwhybark. Is that the virgin mary in that 2nd banana?
  • Love the expression on the last monkey, FedoraUndershirt.
  • Could we settle this by the first of the month? It would simplify my Secret Santa shopping immeasurably. I like the MoFi logo best. Its texty and jungly and it doesn't have an electrical cord.
  • I'm so busy with things, and don't have access to my graphics program right now... my Photoshop is on a hard drive that isn't working, and the "temporary" demo install of Paintshop Pro that I installed in order to get done the graphics I needed to do has run out of time. So, much as I'd like to contribute, I'm one person you don't need to wait on a design from. Besides, there have been so many good ones from other Monkeys already!
  • Since people are fond of the old logo, how about a slightly "enhanced" version? This example would need sharpening up, of course. Apologies to Taz.
  • Christophine - what about GIMP for windows? Google that bad boy up and you'll be sittin' pretty. (Okay the interface takes getting used to, but it's got all the tools you need)
  • beauty, Plegmund!
  • That's it, Plegmund!
  • Here is another idea (background colour is only there to accentuate the white in the design). I have several more ideas but not sure I'll have time to complete them. Going to aim for one more.
  • *applauds beeza* Good stuff.
  • Does this remind you of anyone?
  • *is faintly disturbed*
  • You have offended the Monkeybashi. Now you must pay the price! Haaaiiiah! *throws 100-Ton Hammer* *throws back out instead*
  • AARRRGGGHHH! I have been smote! My most abject apologies to Monkeybashi *sob*
  • *waves from the floor* Help, I've fallen and I can't get up! ... Anybody?
  • *offers Alnedra a hand* It's okay, islander. I...think. I pictured myself as a cute little capuchin, actually.
  • Like this one? Or this jovial chap? Definitely not. Monkey grapevine! And its consequences. This site, while cute, disturbed me. Ok, I'm gonna stop derailing the thread now.