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07.09.2020 | TOP PICKS Daily Shirt Designs

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Design reviews and links below. Stars 19806showing_smallout of 5

Book Dragon

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Thank you TaylorRoss1!

The Replicant

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Thank you Hafaell!

Terms

Concept – a general notion or idea

Render – to represent, depict, as in drawing or painting, the ability or skill to represent an idea using an image

Composition – the act of combining parts or elements to form a whole. The manner of being composed; structure.

Color – overall color palette. The quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.

Linework – Quality of lines produced, variety or contrast of thickness, clean, or expressive.

Typography – The art or process of expression through type and letterforms.

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06.16.2020 | TOP PICKS Daily Shirt Designs

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Design reviews and links below. Stars 19806showing_smallout of 5

GREETINGS FROM MT

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Thank you gaci!

Let Equality Bloom

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Thank you BrookeFischerArt!

THE BOOGEYMAN

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Thank you Ddjvigo!

 

Terms

Concept – a general notion or idea

Render – to represent, depict, as in drawing or painting, the ability or skill to represent an idea using an image

Composition – the act of combining parts or elements to form a whole. The manner of being composed; structure.

Color – overall color palette. The quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.

Linework – Quality of lines produced, variety or contrast of thickness, clean, or expressive.

Typography – The art or process of expression through type and letterforms.

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01.06.2016 | TOP PICKS Daily Shirt Designs

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Hey guys, I AM BACK!!!

Sorry for the ridiculously long pause. Life happened. But I redesigned a few things. Changed some stuff here and there and I am back! I will be rating tees with 19806showing.jpeg out of 5.

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01.06.2016 – Evil Border

Fantastic details and positive/negative play

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Thank you, RicoMambo!

 

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01.06.2016 – Host

Love this episode, creepy!

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Thank you, Mathew Glasby!

 

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01.06.2016 – Chihiros Adventure

Great play with positive/negative space

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Thank you, Once Upon a Tees!

 

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01.06.2016 – Dark Forces Continue

Great details and play with scale

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Thank you, batang9tees!

 

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01.06.2016 – Rey

Great details

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Thank you, batang9tees!

 

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01.06.2016 – Don’t Hold My Hand

Simple but a must have!

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Thank you, JLaneDesign!

04/23/2015 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

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WOW! It has been forever since my last post! To all my avid followers, I am sorry for the hiatus. My professional life has changed in the last few months. I am now a Graphic Designer for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts! Which has been awesome…

I still check out the different daily tee shirt sites regularly, but I haven’t had time to share. I hope to be able to make time going forward and share my favorite designs!

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4/23/15 Top Pick; Speak Friend and Enter

TextmateIcon Color – Great glow effect using contrast.

TextmateIcon Composition – Wonderful use of positive and negative areas.

Thank You ddjvigo

Buy This Shirt! Speak Friend and Enter

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4/23/15 Top Pick; Yoda Best

TextmateIcon Color – Nice, warm, earthy colors. I really enjoy the variety of colors on the banner giving it a glowing appearance.

TextmateIcon Composition – Simple characteristic pose balanced with the round detailed frame and curved banner.

TextmateIcon Lines and Forms – I love Tim Shumate’s bold lines and big eyes.

Thank You Tim Shumate

Buy This Shirt! Yoda Best

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4/23/15 Top Pick; Hells Kitchen Hero

TextmateIcon Composition – Wonderful combination of balanced circles throughout the design.

TextmateIcon Color – I love monochromatic designs. Simple positive and negative play.

Thank You TeeKetch

Buy This Shirt! Hells Kitchen Hero

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4/23/15 Top Pick; Jill’s Herbal Tea

TextmateIcon Color – I really enjoy the warm brown used for all the line work. It gives the design a warm, soft, comfortable feel. Like drinking a cup of tea would.

TextmateIcon Lines and Forms – Adorable dopey eyes, nose, and ears. Cute!

Thank You Coinbox Tees

Buy This Shirt! Jill’s Herbal Tea

07/17/2014 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

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07/17/2014 Top Pick; Bag Inn

Complimentary breakfast and second breakfast. Just don’t “chip the glasses and crack the plates, that’s what Bilbo Baggins hates!”

star Composition – All the well rendered elements work nicely together creating a nice little entrance.

star Lines and Forms – Sketch-like quality of the lines and shapes give this design a quaint, pub-like feel.

Thank You tjost

Buy this Shirt! Bag Inn

 

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07/17/2014 Top Pick; Vitruvian Gollum

star Concept – I really enjoy the elvish writing on the circle around this Vitruvian figure serving as a Ring. It justly shows how Gollum is eternally locked within The Ring’s hold.

star Lines and Forms – Wonderful sketch-like quality to the lines and figure.

Thank You CupidsArt

Buy this Shirt! Vitruvian Gollum

 

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07/17/2014 Top Pick; War is Coming

“Apes together, strong!”  I LOVED this movie! Totally love Andy Serkis. Gollum and Caesar the Ape!

star Composition – Bold, intense simplified image of this incredible leader. This shirt also glows in the dark!

star Texture – Nice contrast between the well-shaped nooks and crannies of the positive and negative space. This creates a great rough texture. The lighter areas give the face dimension and contrast nicely with the enthralling dark eyes. Caesar looks intense!

Thank You illproxy

Buy this Shirt! War is Coming

06/06/2014 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

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06/06/14 Top Pick; Nexus 6

As the saying goes “The eyes are the window to the soul”, or not if you’re a replicant. Your pupillary dilation (or lack thereof) in response to emotional provocation will give you away. We call it Voight-Kampff for short.

star Composition –  Interesting emblem style design centered around the eye. I really enjoy the bioengineered android owl with wings spread out in the lower center. Its wings create unity and detail in the design.

starLines – The lines in the wings create a nice striated circular frame, wrapping around the focal point. The radiating lines also help bring attention to the eye.

Thank You Buzatron

Buy This Shirt! Nexus 6

 

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06/06/14 Top Pick; Sauron’s Dark Ale

starComposition –  Wonderfully elaborate oblong frame. I really enjoy all the details within the frame. Sauron’s ornate helmet and armor is centered and extends past the frame giving him an important presence. Most of the text is contained in the banner, giving it a “label” appearance.

starLines – Wonderful amount of detail expressed by the various lines creating the Celtic knots.

Thank You teeninja

Buy This Shirt! Sauron’s Dark Ale

05/27/2014 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

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Okay, first of all I want to thank everyone who is supporting and reading my blog! Second, I want to explain how busy I’ve been lately. Outside of this blog I have a full-time job, do freelance design and photography, and have a 2-year old daughter. I know, “woe is me”, right?

Anyway, I’m trying something a little different to simplify things so I can get these posts done faster while maintaining quality and the daily post quota.

Still with me? Awesome! I hope you enjoy the posts going forward with the new format. I’ll still be posting more “Website to doorstep reviews” but those take a lot of time. Stay tuned!!!

 

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05/27/14 Top Pick; Tiny Dark Tower

star Creativity  – Interesting Tiny Tower and Lord of the Rings concept. I enjoy the little scenes within each level.

star Execution – Nice pixel art design with a wonderful amount of details on the simplified figures.

star Color Scheme – Wonderful color combinations on the warm gray background.

 

Thank You Spiritgreen & Oakenspirit

Buy This Shirt! Tiny Dark Tower

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05/27/14 Top Pick; Dragon

star Figures – Both figures are rendered very nicely in a sketch like quality.

star Composition – Wonderful asymmetric design. The larger “Mother of Dragons” head is nicely balanced with the smaller, darker Khal Drogo head.

star Texture –  Smooth pen and ink texture with interesting ink blots on a light gray background.

star Complexity – Great thin lines and dynamic angles in the figure’s hair develop a baby dragon.

 

Thank You 2mzdesign

Buy This Shirt! Dragon

05/03/2014 Top 3 Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

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05/03/14 Top 3 Pick: Sounds of the 80s Vol.2

80’s music is awesome, but this collection transforms any event into a blast! Wonderful concept in having these mini-cassettes represent the Autobot Transformers. I enjoy these bold, warm colors and the solid shapes. The lines that make up each cassette are clean, thin, and descriptive. Wonderful choice in having a graph background giving it a mathematic/geometric theme and when adding the gradient gives it a totally 80’s feel!

Thank You Pinteezy

Buy This Shirt! Sounds of the 80s Vol.2

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05/03/14 Top 3 Pick: Wondershot

A rare Chrono Trigger design! Here we have the lovable nerd, Lucca, with her trusty Wondershot! I love simple mono color designs. I feel like by using a single color the lines of the design really stand out. The amount of beautiful details in the figure’s head and gun are lovely. The composition of the gear wheels fits nicely with the figure’s pose and the Chrono Trigger “clock” motif. The large type in a curve and at an angle completes the design creating a cute little united piece.

Thank You Nina Matsumoto

Buy This Shirt! Wondershot

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05/03/14 Top 3 Pick: Nine Companions

This fellowship is united for the sole purpose to destroy The Ring. Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, Boromir, and Aragorn. On their way to Mordor, each figure is nicely rendered as a silhouette. Wonderful use of negative and positive space. I absolutely enjoy the colors and shapes of all the different layers within the composition. Each layer seems to interlock together nicely and show the vast journey ahead. This shirt is offered in black, brown, or green. All options are nice, since all the options are dark and the gradation of colors maintain their spatial effect.

Thank You Asners

Buy This Shirt! Nine Companions

While you’re surfing the Internet today, please swing by Crystals For Life, a charity marathon gamers are running for a good cause! The Wondershot design is one of the 6 sponsored designs from The Yetee, where $3 from every design goes straight to JDRF! Please check out this awesome cause!

04/08/2014 Top 3 Picks- Daily Shirt Designs

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04/08/14 Top 3 Pick; Gandalf’s Fireworks

No one does fireworks quite like Gandalf! Just keep an eye on Merry and Pippin, there hasn’t been a dragon in these parts for ages… This design has an old-time etching style. The composition is bilaterally balanced and is visually interesting. I enjoy the texture and the different typographic elements. The flat light blue -gray color on the dark indigo background  creates a nice contrast.

Thank You Azafran

Buy this Shirt! Gandalf’s Fireworks

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04/08/14 Top 3 Pick; Tech Meth

This moth/bee provides the honey Heisenberg uses to sweeten his cooks. The design is composed from simple outlines. Wonderful thick to thin ratio of line width to create overall color. The basic geometry is nicely balanced. The large circular seal overhead anchors the design and repeats and relates to the circles within the insect.

Thank You David Bear

Buy this Shirt! Tech Meth

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04/08/14 Top 3 Pick; Steamboat Stevie

“Where’s Esteban? Esteban was eaten! He was bitten? Eaten! [pause] He was swallowed whole? No! Chewed!” Stevie is out for revenge on his steamboat after the death of his friend Esteban and he’s packing’ dynamite. Super cute design referencing a movie I absolutely love! Nice big cartoon eyes along with thin Mickey Mouse limbs and big round shoes behind an enlarged ship’s wheel. Pleasant, calm, nautical color scheme.

Thank You TeoZ

Buy this Shirt! Steamboat Stevie