BOLD IS BEAUTIFUL FOR SALE ON DBH!

Finally.

http://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/detail/2515?category=mens

1. 

   Cole said 5 months ago

   ordered. duh.

2. 

   Incarnadine said 5 months ago

   effff jefff hahaha (I ordered it too)

3. 

   ez-kun said 5 months ago

   they seem to have done an excellent job with the printing process.
   Congrats Jeff, guess you had that coming:P

4. 

   jimiyo said 5 months ago

   oh snap! looks like they did a good job getting them colors on the dark shirt too. i wonder how they did it, id like to know who the sep guy is

   that shiii is hard. look at those fades into black on the outer edges

   nice little birfday present eh from dbh

5. 

   Setup85 said 5 months ago

   Second shirt im getting this week at DBH. This and http://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/detail/2479?category=mens

6. 

   Danimal! said 5 months ago

   I’ve never ordered from dbh. Do there sizes compare to AA or do they fit like a generic gildan or jerzee? I wear a large normally but in AA i have to get XL.

7. 

   Cole said 5 months ago

   they have their own brand of shirts and then some are printed on AA (i think) their brand seem to fit a little loser than the AA

8. 

   collisiontheory said 5 months ago

   what a great birthday present!

9. 

   Jon Kruse said 5 months ago

   That print looks really nice.

10. 

    skull with hair said 5 months ago

    that shit is bonkers! i feel like they printed it a little bit too low on the shirt, but the quality is amazing. i take back everything i’ve ever said about you designing shirts that are impossible to print.

11. 

    jfinley said 5 months ago

    Wow they did do a great job. Although I second SWH that they printed it just a tad too low, but oh well. The colors and size are spot on.

    No ladies sizes?

12. 

    chrisrushing said 5 months ago

    effffffff

    amazing. thats an insane print... they do crazy work there. geeze.

13. 

    Randomentity said 5 months ago

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFF! haha

14. 

    Simply Complicated said 5 months ago

    im not going to lie their printers are straight ridiculous lol, they can do anything haha, i remember getting the beta invite and thinking it was going to flop lol

15. 

    Randomentity said 5 months ago

    so mad my check hasn’t cleared my account yet....

16. 

    MykeCatastrophic said 5 months ago

    That’s absolutely nuts!
    I can’t even begin to imagine how hard it was to print that!

17. 

    RikkiB said 5 months ago

    jfinley said: Wow they did do a great job. Although I second SWH that they printed it just a tad too low, but oh well. The colors and size are spot on. No ladies sizes?

    Sometimes ladies ones come up the day after.
    Looks awesome - happy that you kept it in the comp?

18. 

    jsheldon said 5 months ago

    congrats! looks like they did an amazing job printing it and proved the doubters wrong.

19. 

    heavyprints said 5 months ago

    omgwtfbbq! That shit is the shit. I have made my first DBH purchase.

20. 

    jfinley said 5 months ago

    I have updated the emptees page for this shirt!

    http://emptees.com/tees/159-bold-is-beautiful

21. 

    Cheeto said 5 months ago

    I’ll say this, it was not an easy print to do. The entire DBH team works hard on every shirt we print. This one was definitely tough, but we enjoyed the challenge. Our seps guy is amazing and so is production. I was amazed at the way the colors turned out so I snapped a few extra pics to show it off. Great job to the artist JFinley.

22. 

    marc said 5 months ago

    Hello everyone wanted to say congrats to Jeff, our separator Dan’s head exploded in a mass of blood and carnage when dealing with this colorful masterpiece of goodness. We took lots of photos, I think we ended up using 10 jumbo screens and took us around 7 samples or so to get the colors and the application correct. so, Jeff whats the next challenge? we are ready!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/77653114@N00/2557925974/

23. 

    Master_Control said 5 months ago

    Congrats Jeff. Good deal man.

    How did they go about screening this? How many colors?

24. 

    Joe said 5 months ago

    MasterControl said: Congrats Jeff. Good deal man. How did they go about screening this? How many colors?

    9 colors, according to the shirt’s page on DBH.

25. 

    jimiyo said 5 months ago

    thats so cool the guys from DBH are here... Dan the separator needs some mad props!

26. 

    Master_Control said 5 months ago

    Joe said:

    MasterControl said: Congrats Jeff. Good deal man. How did they go about screening this? How many colors?

    9 colors, according to the shirt’s page on DBH.

    Wow. That’s the most I’ve heard of on a shirt haha.

27. 

    manos said 5 months ago

    Incredible! Both technically and artistically.

28. 

    Master_Control said 5 months ago

    marc said: Hello everyone wanted to say congrats to Jeff, our separator Dan’s head exploded in a mass of blood and carnage when dealing with this colorful masterpiece of goodness. We took lots of photos, I think we ended up using 10 jumbo screens and took us around 7 samples or so to get the colors and the application correct. so, Jeff whats the next challenge? we are ready! http://www.flickr.com/photos/77653114@N00/2557925974/

    Do very many of the winning artists separate their own designs or do you guys usually have to take care of that?

29. 

    marc said 5 months ago

    The first sample we did was - very not so good - it was a suck. So the beatings continued until the printing improved! Dan the separator (does anyone else find that hard to spell?) has some real secret ways in how he does his color works - he closes the door and shuts the blind and if you try to go in large objects are thrown at your head. He even has a separator method patent pending and his last assistant was found stuff in the dryer for trying to poach his recipe for success.

    I went and opened a flickr account and uploaded all of the images - Tom and I were going to do a little write up tomorrow but the pics pretty much map it out.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/whompy/sets/72157605479567933/

30. 

    Joe said 5 months ago

    I’m sure you all have your hands full... but you’ve shown how competent you are at printing almost anything, and if you ever decided to go into that in addition to DBH, I’m sure you’d have clients lining up in an instant!

31. 

    marc said 5 months ago

    MasterControl said: Do very many of the winning artists separate their own designs or do you guys usually have to take care of that?

    We do it all in house - some artists give us a nice layered illustrator file with each color separated - others a super high res tiff or psd file - doesn’t really matter to us - we do all the separating, sampling, production, finishing - everything right here in our building in nice sunny Irvine, California, so we have full control

    However we receive the final art file is how art is going to be printed - for example in Bold is Beautiful the art file we got from the birthday boy was a little different from the original sub- the red ribbon backgrounds were not as intricate along with some subtle color changes - we see changes to the final art quite a bit actually now that I think of it - We welcome collaborating with the artist on printing styles and ideas in regards to colors adn techniques.

    We want artists to be artists - not just whitty, one liner illustrators (although we do appreciate plucky comic relief). We want to push the limits of screen printing (Bold is Beautiful is a good example of a color challenge) - now if you really want to throw us for a loop - challenge us just mix together everything crazy and hard - throw in an all over belt print, with embroidery of the ribbons, some flock, some cut and sew and the back for letters, add in a metalic ink and some type of all over garment dye and we have ourselves a real challenge (and possibly the ugliest t-shirt in the universe) - granted we may have to sell the shirt for $50 to cover the costs - but, be an artist first and foremost - worry about how to print it later.

32. 

    herman said 5 months ago

    you guys must’ve put alot of effort and time into it. Feels anything is possible with DBH.

33. 

    marc said 5 months ago

    Joe said: I’m sure you all have your hands full... but you’ve shown how competent you are at printing almost anything, and if you ever decided to go into that in addition to DBH, I’m sure you’d have clients lining up in an instant!

    Joe we love your blog BTW - we really need to get on creating a forum on DBH - this is very fun (BTW - I LOVE whoever coded this forum - very cool stuff). If we get a spare moment then we will just print more DBH tees - we have received over 6,00 pieces of art in the running for Shirt of the Day - over 160 artists have won on DBH so far (and we reject quite a bit of art too which is not up to standard). So we are looking for other ways to push out more shirts for more artists (spread the love).

34. 

    Master_Control said 5 months ago

    yeah, that’s cool to hear. sounds like you guys definitely have your shit in line over there haha.

35. 

    heavyprints said 5 months ago

    Yeah, you guys did an amazing job on that print. The seperator needs a raise, or something.

    P.S. put in a good word for my submissions. haha!

36. 

    Joe said 5 months ago

    Yeah, I figured you were up to your ears in tees to print just for DBH! I would be pretty excited if you started doing a 'Two for Tuesday' or something...

37. 

    Cheeto said 5 months ago

    Marc is absolutely right. "Be an artist first and foremost" Let us worry about how and if it can be printed.

    We’re just simple country folk with big dreams, wild imaginations and glazed over eyes from getting this one as close to JFinley’s original artwork as possible.

38. 

    skull with hair said 5 months ago

    marc said:

    and we reject quite a bit of art too which is not up to standard.

    i guess my shit isn’t up to standard, because you’ve rejected what i submitted.

39. 

    Oliver said 5 months ago

    looking forward to when mine gets printed. hopefully not in the same month though.

40. 

    marc said 5 months ago

    skull with hair said: marc said:

    and we reject quite a bit of art too which is not up to standard.

    i guess my shit isn’t up to standard, because you’ve rejected what i submitted.

    What design did you submit? post a link and I will tell you why - we are actually fairly liberal with what goes through - we only reject if the subject matter is totally offensive, being used or entered into another contest or if the art files themselves are unusable (corrupt .jpg file or something weird). What is lame is when we reject designs you only get an automated message which cites a bunch of different reasons. for example if you submitted this tee http://emptees.com/tees/730-rolling-bones then yes, we would have rejected it - all your other work is really really good, so I am a little bothered why you got rejected (assuming it was not phalic, mammorial, or otherwise related to the parts which are private)

    By standard - I mean the basic standards we have in place (no nudity, racially offensive stuff, cuss words, dead babies) - I did not mean up to design standard - design and art is completely subjective (IMO) so who are we to say whether a design is "good" or not - thats what the communities job is

41. 

    skull with hair said 5 months ago

    marc said:

    skull with hair said: marc said:

    and we reject quite a bit of art too which is not up to standard.

    i guess my shit isn’t up to standard, because you’ve rejected what i submitted.

    What design did you submit? post a link and I will tell you why - we are actually fairly liberal with what goes through - we only reject if the subject matter is totally offensive, being used or entered into another contest or if the art files themselves are unusable (corrupt .jpg file or something weird). What is lame is when we reject designs you only get an automated message which cites a bunch of different reasons. for example if you submitted this tee http://emptees.com/tees/730-rolling-bones then yes, we would have rejected it - all your other work is really really good, so I am a little bothered why you got rejected (assuming it was not phalic, mammorial, or otherwise related to the parts which are private)

    By standard - I mean the basic standards we have in place (no nudity, racially offensive stuff, cuss words, dead babies) - I did not mean up to design standard - design and art is completely subjective (IMO) so who are we to say whether a design is "good" or not - thats what the communities job is

    hey marc, thanks for responding so quickly. this is the design i submitted...

    

    i don’t feel that it is "totally offensive" but i guess that is up for you guys to decide. i’m a little curious as to if this counts as nudity because its a cartoon, but i’m assuming this is why. i can’t really be mad if that is your policy but i actually didn’t even receive the automated message telling me it was rejected so i never knew what to think (yes i checked my junk mail).

    regardless i think you guys are rad and if that is the case i will see what shit i have that is acceptable and maybe resubmit. holler.

42. 

    marc said 5 months ago

    LOL - thats funny! - I agree there are MUCH more offensive things then hamburger boobs - however, I can confirm, this would have been rejected due to the nipples (and the cream sauce doesn’t help your case either) - sorry man (for what its worth I think some of your other work is WAY better and would do better on a tee).

    Also, sorry about not getting the email, we will check on that (we have had other people tell us the same thing, so your not going crazy).

    good luck in the future, I’m sure the emptees crowd will throw a few votes your way for whatever you submit in the future!

43. 

    jaynajaynajayna said 5 months ago

    Man. DBH is like. Awesome. That flickr was fun to look through, makes me feel slightly/severely retarded when it comes to printing as I’ve only ever done real simple 2 colors in my basement on a drafting table

44. 

    skull with hair said 5 months ago

    marc said:and the cream sauce doesn’t help your case either

    Bitch! that’s mayonnaise! you have a dirty mind!

    but really, thanks for the followup! im glad you guys care enough to do so. i promise ill post something soon without cum on it!

45. 

    collisiontheory said 5 months ago

    marc said:

    MasterControl said: Do very many of the winning artists separate their own designs or do you guys usually have to take care of that?

    We do it all in house - some artists give us a nice layered illustrator file with each color separated - others a super high res tiff or psd file - doesn’t really matter to us - we do all the separating, sampling, production, finishing - everything right here in our building in nice sunny Irvine, California, so we have full control

    However we receive the final art file is how art is going to be printed - for example in Bold is Beautiful the art file we got from the birthday boy was a little different from the original sub- the red ribbon backgrounds were not as intricate along with some subtle color changes - we see changes to the final art quite a bit actually now that I think of it - We welcome collaborating with the artist on printing styles and ideas in regards to colors adn techniques.

    We want artists to be artists - not just whitty, one liner illustrators (although we do appreciate plucky comic relief). We want to push the limits of screen printing (Bold is Beautiful is a good example of a color challenge) - now if you really want to throw us for a loop - challenge us just mix together everything crazy and hard - throw in an all over belt print, with embroidery of the ribbons, some flock, some cut and sew and the back for letters, add in a metalic ink and some type of all over garment dye and we have ourselves a real challenge (and possibly the ugliest t-shirt in the universe) - granted we may have to sell the shirt for $50 to cover the costs - but, be an artist first and foremost - worry about how to print it later.

    Tom and Marc! Good to see you guys here! I’m sure emptees drives a ton of traffic to DBH. By the way, I’ve got some challenging entries which you guys should start to print! hehe

46. 

    marc said 5 months ago

    jaynajaynajayna said: Man. DBH is like. Awesome. That flickr was fun to look through, makes me feel slightly/severely retarded when it comes to printing as I’ve only ever done real simple 2 colors in my basement on a drafting table

    I have never told anyone - but bear hugs is one of my favorite designs. shhh don’t tell anyone. I wish I could have one printed on every color. thank you.

47. 

    herman said 5 months ago

    the game has been upped. I’ll definitely make more challenges for you guys, haha.

48. 

    jaynajaynajayna said 5 months ago

    marc said:

    jaynajaynajayna said: Man. DBH is like. Awesome. That flickr was fun to look through, makes me feel slightly/severely retarded when it comes to printing as I’ve only ever done real simple 2 colors in my basement on a drafting table

    I have never told anyone - but bear hugs is one of my favorite designs. shhh don’t tell anyone. I wish I could have one printed on every color. thank you.

    Aw sucks. That is nuts. And so awesome to hear. It was such a huge thing for me since before then all my tshirt biz was the aforementioned shirts printed in my basement that were always just fun to do/know people in random places were wearing them more than a money maker, I never really though I could/would do anything with it. And now I’m like... getting attention for stuff! It’s nuts. I am going to definitely be submitting a bunch more in the future. So yeah thank YOU. Not only for the opportunity but also paying my rent for the summer.

    /end ridiculous gratitude (but not really)

49. 

    Randomentity said 5 months ago

    JUST ORDERED! along with Robot Attack and Revalations

50. 

    gaunty said 5 months ago

    congrats on the print Jeff and well done for having the balls to print it DBH!

51. 

    benwatson said 5 months ago

    That print came out really solid, congrats Jeff.

52. 

    Randomentity said 5 months ago

    Ray Frenden said: Is Robot Attack the Black Rock one? I have a dude in that, but I never really followed how it went over or anything. I know it was printed, but I never really subbed to DBH, so I didn’t chart its progress on the site.

    

    this one
    so sick! when i get i’ll look for yours.

53. 

    jsheldon said 5 months ago

    marc said: The first sample we did was - very not so good - it was a suck. So the beatings continued until the printing improved! Dan the separator (does anyone else find that hard to spell?) has some real secret ways in how he does his color works - he closes the door and shuts the blind and if you try to go in large objects are thrown at your head. He even has a separator method patent pending and his last assistant was found stuff in the dryer for trying to poach his recipe for success. I went and opened a flickr account and uploaded all of the images - Tom and I were going to do a little write up tomorrow but the pics pretty much map it out. http://www.flickr.com/photos/whompy/sets/72157605479567933/

    Thanks for posting the photos. It’s cool to see some of the work that goes into the printing and how you get such insane print quality. It’s awesome that you guys are all about pushing the printing to new levels!

54. 

    jfinley said 5 months ago

    Cool to see the guys from DBH here. I had condfidence in you the whole time, so I’m not really surprised. BUT, I was getting a little worried that if would never be printed. Was releasing it on my birthday just a coincidence? Haha.

    I’ll be subbing some more stuff now that I see how the system works and how long it usually takes.

    You can expect more challenging stuff, although CollisionTheory seems to have fun with making you guys sweat too!

55. 

    mattg said 5 months ago

    Congrats Jeff and Happy B-day! Thanks again for subbing it! We love the challenge of an intricate print. Can’t wait to see what’s next!

56. 

    {miles to go} said 5 months ago

    looks great but i wish it was maybe am inch higher on the tee. im sure maybe because of the width they had to put it where it is, but still looks great.

57. 

    hyperhyphen said 5 months ago

    marc said: The first sample we did was - very not so good - it was a suck. So the beatings continued until the printing improved! Dan the separator (does anyone else find that hard to spell?) has some real secret ways in how he does his color works - he closes the door and shuts the blind and if you try to go in large objects are thrown at your head. He even has a separator method patent pending and his last assistant was found stuff in the dryer for trying to poach his recipe for success. I went and opened a flickr account and uploaded all of the images - Tom and I were going to do a little write up tomorrow but the pics pretty much map it out. http://www.flickr.com/photos/whompy/sets/72157605479567933/

    I must say I am impressed with your printing skills, I work 5 years in one of the largest t-shirt printing companies in Europe, with big clients, but they could never compete with you (and they had all the equipment and ink invented), I’m speechless really...and thanks for printing my design, even if it was a manifesto a little bit :) I can’t wait to finish my exams and submit again but until then there will be 50000 users and counting...that’s gonna be more challenging

58. 

    sjkaufman1 said 5 months ago

    Looks awesome Jeff!

59. 

    Incarnadine said 5 months ago

    jfinley said:I’ll be subbing some more stuff now that I see how the system works and how long it usually takes. You can expect more challenging stuff, although CollisionTheory seems to have fun with making you guys sweat too!

    uh oh. you should warn us next time you submit something, hahaha.

60. 

    collisiontheory said 5 months ago

    jfinley said: You can expect more challenging stuff, although CollisionTheory seems to have fun with making you guys sweat too!

    Haha nothing like yours though. Seriously, this is great. I think DBH should move on to some major cut and sew, some all-over repeating patterns would be awesome!

61. 

    chrisrushing said 5 months ago

    PRINT MY SHIRT!

    haha...

    good to see the DBH guys on here... im blown away by the size and quality of the prints.

62. 

    derekdeal said 5 months ago

    please?

    http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/8362

63. 

    AndrewOliv said 5 months ago

    derekdeal said: please? http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/8362

    still?! well with jeff’s out of the way atleast your’s is +1 spot on the print list.

64. 

    jaynajaynajayna said 5 months ago

    derekdeal said: please? http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/8362

    f’real

65. 

    sittingduck said 5 months ago

    I need to sub to dbh so bad ....

66. 

    ryanmiller said 5 months ago

    chrisrushing said: PRINT MY SHIRT!

    :)

67. 

    marc said 5 months ago

    hyperhyphen said:

    marc said: The first sample we did was - very not so good - it was a suck. So the beatings continued until the printing improved! Dan the separator (does anyone else find that hard to spell?) has some real secret ways in how he does his color works - he closes the door and shuts the blind and if you try to go in large objects are thrown at your head. He even has a separator method patent pending and his last assistant was found stuff in the dryer for trying to poach his recipe for success. I went and opened a flickr account and uploaded all of the images - Tom and I were going to do a little write up tomorrow but the pics pretty much map it out. http://www.flickr.com/photos/whompy/sets/72157605479567933/

    I must say I am impressed with your printing skills, I work 5 years in one of the largest t-shirt printing companies in Europe, with big clients, but they could never compete with you (and they had all the equipment and ink invented), I’m speechless really...and thanks for printing my design, even if it was a manifesto a little bit :) I can’t wait to finish my exams and submit again but until then there will be 50000 users and counting...that’s gonna be more challenging

    I have to say Wintertale has gotten quite a following - although this tee is a bit off of folks radars, for various reasons, folks I know who have multiple DBH shirts frequently quote Wintertale as their favorite - the coloring and style are very different from the typical hard lined illustrations on most tees - great job, stoked to see you sub again ;)

    derekdeal said: please? http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/8362

    Derek - I LOVE your style - reminds me very much of the famous skateboard artist - Jim Phillips - (check out Volcom Volcomics Art Show
    

    

68. 

    derekdeal said 5 months ago

    thanks a ton marc, im really not worthy of that comparison. I hope you guys find some room for some gnarlier designs in the dbh line one day.

    that phillips/french collab annihilates

69. 

    jfinley said 5 months ago

    Marc - do you plan on printing girl’s tees of Bold is Beautiful?

70. 

    hyperhyphen said 5 months ago

    I also had that question on dbh site, but still no answer.... Maybe when is gonna be reprinted ;)
    Beautiful is Bold :)

71. 

    skull with hair said 5 months ago

    check out the world’s shittiest Bold is Beautiful rip (attempt)...

    

    http://rediswhite.com/designs/73/rate

72. 

    manos said 5 months ago

    Similar but not a rip. Crappy? Yes of course.

73. 

    Randomentity said 5 months ago

    has anyone got theirs yet? i’m still waiiiiiiiiting.

74. 

    heavyprints said 5 months ago

    I’m waiting, too. So excited. It said it shipped monday morning. DBH ships by carrier pigeon though, and it has been hot this week.

75. 

    Danimal! said 5 months ago

    

    Got it yesterday in the mail.
    So fucking pumped.

76. 

    chrisrushing said 5 months ago

    I got it in the mail yesterday too......... AND i’m wearing it also.

77. 

    molasses4masses said 5 months ago

    I posted about it yesterday.

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