I haven’t done a straight slogan tee in awhile, and I’ve always had the idea in my head that it’d be great to die at the hands (or whatever) of one of Earth’s mightiest and most mysterious creatures.
I’m 25; it’s time to put my childish dreams of dying guns blazing in a zombie apocalypse to rest and go for a more realistic goal.
I’m thinking pink and rubine on Lime, but I could see this going a number of ways.
17 Comments
hideouscarwreck said 8 months ago
haha ... i actually kinda like this.
especially the "colossal squid" cause we all know how much we see those on emptees.
andrE w. said 8 months ago
i like the idea of this. theres not chance i could wear those colors, but i dont think im the audience you are catering too. either way, love the idea. i always thought a lion would be the best wya to die. but not like in africa, but a new lion at the zoo who they jsut kidnapped, and he jumps the fence and everyone runs but you dropped your phone in a plant and you are looknig for it so you didnt see the lion then you hear everyone like 'AHHH' and you turn around and ur like 'oh shi' and ur face gets bitten off. thatd shitd be all over youtube.
seibei said 8 months ago
this will be the one shirt I make that breaks my informal "no squids" rule.
I may mock up some other colors for this, cause I don’t think everyone wants to look like a pinata that barfed on a piece of candy. but, then again...
Joe said 8 months ago
I think this would appeal to the Dinosaur Comics crowd.
Andwhat! said 8 months ago
i dig this. i like it on a lime shirt, but not with the pink
seibei said 8 months ago
duly noted...I’ll kick around some new color schemes asap.
seibei said 8 months ago
colossal squids are more bad ass than giant squid, if I remember correctly - also, I don’t wanna use the word "giant" on there twice.
Cole said 8 months ago
i think getting mauled by a bear or tumbling off a cliff would be the way to go if i got to chose my fate.
seibei said 8 months ago
totally fair. have you ever seen that part in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life where a dude gets to choose his method of execution, and is chased off a cliff by like twenty topless babes?
sadly, ALSO I WOULDN’T MIND GETTING CHASED BY 20 TOPLESS BABES OFF A CLIFF is probably too wordy, even for me.
{miles to go} said 8 months ago
im digging on the test shirt, just did one myself too, but as the others, not that the colors look bad but i think are limiting to its wearability/sales potentially. also, maybe a better adjective than "giant". with colossal, it makes giant monster sound tame.
like:
"i refuse to die to anything less than an eight headed puss oozing monster, colossal squid or maybe, like a zombie shark?
something more ridiculous maybe?
seibei said 8 months ago
hmmmm...thanks Greg, those aren’t bad ideas.
and yeah, I’m definitely gonna do this one in different colors. I’ll try and change the mock up later today and see what I come up with...
Weston said 8 months ago
I think you should add "or something" to the end.
seibei said 8 months ago
hmmm, not a bad idea - cause I like ending it with that uncertainty of "maybe like a shark?" so "or something?" might be good on the end...thanks!
AYYOGOLDSTEIN said 8 months ago
My death:
Death by Cloverfield monster
or
Death by Cloverfield motion sickness.
Jon Kruse said 8 months ago
Cool idea.
For the design I think it is lacking in some seibei style. I would love to see it in hand lettered type like the Sandwich Dinosaur or Who Wants to Live Forever. I would also say just do solid type with no stroke.
Also hang the punctuation so it’s more like a block of type.
http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/hanging_punctuation_in_indesign.html
seibei said 8 months ago
Thanks Jon!
I’ve actually had a great idea for this - it’s gonna be a good bit different and add some illustration. I’ll have a mock-up for it soon.
Jon Kruse said 2 months ago
Whatever happened to this idea?