It’s true Katie Campbell aka campkatie is the designer of This is My Life, the chosen Threadless Loves YOU! tee. But she’s so much more than that. She’s a Floridian art student MOVIE STAR! Read all about it.
Tell us about this design (This Is My Life). How did you get the idea? How did you create it?
I originally designed This is My Life as a graphic for my homepage on my portfolio site. I wanted it to be simple, timeless and friendly. It just seemed perfect for the Loves YOU contest.
Tell us about the mediums and process you use to create art.
My best brainstorm sessions come when I'm driving. I have random sheets of paper and notes on my phone with ideas and sketches. Depending on what it is, I'll either dive straight into the computer, Illustrator or Photoshop or start drawing with charcoal and ink. Either way I usually make a mess in the beginning :) My best designs come from a strong beginning concept. I minored in painting in college, but unfortunately don't have as much time to put towards my fine art. Figurative Oil painting was my love.
What’s your favorite piece of art you created? What’s your favorite piece of art in your home?
An oil painting I did in college of my ex-girlfriend. We had to use a limited palette and I finished it in one day. Her hair is all crazy and I wrapped a scarf around her face so only her eyes and above are showing.
My fave art in my home is a print from the Polaroid Kid of a train hopper girl with an arrow in her mouth.
Tell us a little bit about where you grew up.
Tallahassee, FL. The armpit of Florida. Had a wide range of friends and was always busy playing sports and doing artsy things. If I wasn't playing a sport, I was watching my brother, dad or an FSU game. Weekends were spent swimming at either a pool, nearby beach or river.
Ever have a "15 minutes of fame"? What was it?
I was an extra in the Miley Cyrus movie, The Last Song. I'm a "hip shopper" during her musical montage while looking for the perfect dress.
What's something you believed in your childhood that you don't believe anymore?
money grows on trees
How often do you draw?
Everyday
Thanks for chattin’ Katie! We can’t wait to see what you come up with next.
This edition of Threadspotting comes to you with a little twist. Many of you (and I mean MANY) have sent in sightings of Danny Pudi’s character, Abed, wearing various Threadless tees on NBC’s Community. Well, we’ve compiled the majority of them, and now we’re going to play a game called “Name Those Designs!”
The rules are simple: Check out the photos below and, in the comment section, list the names of the designs AND the artist in the correct order. The first person to list the designs correctly in the the right order wins! Simple, right?
What do you win?
A giftcode for a Threadless tee of your choice
20 Street Team Points
Glory... so much glory!
Ready, set, GO!
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Good luck to everyone, and thanks to all who’ve submitted these sightings! Remember, as always, if you see Threadless tees in the wild, send us a note at sightings@threadless.com and we'll talk about them here... AND we'll give you some Street Team Points to boot! Enjoy!
We love the way you craftily glue words together to make hilarious phrases and pithy sentences. But after much thought, we’ve decided that slogans are kinda hard to judge without seeing them as part of a final design. So, we’re removing slogans submission and voting from Threadless.com.
What does this mean for all you witty wordsmiths out there? In order to judge slogans fairly, we want you to collab with artists and submit your slogans in finished designs so they can go through the normal voting process. This will give those people who score your slogans an idea of what the final tee will look like. (It also means that if you split the tee prizing 50/50, sloganeers get $1k instead of $500!)
Comment in this blog if you are a sloganeer who needs an artist or an artist who wants to bring some slogans to life! And good luck, collab-ers!
In other exciting Gap news, we’ve launched Threadless Loves Vote Bright, the new Gap design challenge! Design a politically themed tee for one of two chances at $5K!
We're celebrating this special day with a little collection of tees that you might be interested in checking out!
After you check those out, watch this Skype interview that our resident comics dude Lance did with Jeffrey Brown, the author and illustrator of the amazing Darth Vader and Son!
And when you're done with that... COMMENT BELOW about something fun you're doing today for The 4th or something you've done on past 4th or something you WISH you could do. Cause we have one of these for you. If you're the lucky random commenter, that is. Pickin' a winner at 4. Use the 4th, Luke.
The kind of question that's only born in the late hours of a coding binge: Does Siricha make everything taste better?
After a quick run to Jewel for supplies, the order of the challengers was set: When the random number is 42, you know it's going to be a good day.
First up was Scott, who chose mango, which seemed like a safe choice: "Absolutely foul"
And a terrible start to our plan.
Dan was next. not only making a brave choice with applesauce, but saturating it: "It has the same effect as Cinnamon. I'd eat it again, but with less Siricha"
Next was Shaun, with a chocolate-covered, creme filled donut: "This is so good!"
Easily the best food of the challenge, Shaun went back for seconds:
Betsy crashed our tech-only party to try the mango/Siricha combo: "Not bad."
I was next, and I had been eyeing the yogurt with Oreo: It tasted like an Indian dessert. Really, really good.
Down to the dregs, Isaac went for the generic frosted wheat cereal: It's like I'm making sushi
"Crunchy with a curious mix of satisfying sweetness and arousing spice."
And finally, fittingly, our newest techie, AJ, went last, stuck with the dreaded "Gel" cup: "Are you sure you took the plastic film off?"
"No. No. No."
The takeaway? Siricha tastes good on anything that doesn't contain fruit. Tell your friends.
We're looking for food items for the next challenge. Drop some ideas in the comments.
Thanks to everyone who came out on April 13 for the CBLDF + Threadless C2E2 party! We hung out, drank Finch’s beer, raffled off prizes provided by CBLDF, did some doodlin’, and had a fashion show to reveal Comics-On Tees: Volume 5! It was a blast and we can’t wait for next year!
Don’t forget, there’s just one more day to submit a comic tee design to the CBLDF design challenge for Comics-On Tees Vol. 6! The script is written by Neil Gaiman and the chosen design will be released as part of a series with tees designed by Ben Templesmith, Brandon Graham, and John Cassaday!
We’re doing a super cool challenge with CanvasPop! You can score a photo canvas of your art! To enter, snap an Instagram picture of something you drew, wrote, or built and tag it #makegreat. CanvasPop will pick one lucky Instagrammer each week, so there are plenty of chances to enter. Click here to get makin’!
CanvasPop prints digital photos on canvases. Using Instagram’s simplicity and built-in filters, CanvasPop gives you gallery-quality photos on canvas, ready to brighten any room...instantly! CanvasPop the first company to specialize in printing Instagram photos on canvas.
Do you have an iPhone or iPod touch? Is it completely naked? Or even worse, is it clothed in a sub par, boring ol’ case? Well you are in luck, Griffin is having a $9.99 sale! You can snag yourself an awesome iPhone case for one cent less than a ten spot! Get over there now and show your iPhone or iPod touch some iLove!
This week’s Threadspotting features Modern Family character Luke Dunphy sporting ”Boom Box” by Alex Solis. If you’re not familiar, Modern Family is this itsy-bitsy comedy series on ABC in which... who am I kidding, you guys know already know about Modern Family! “Boom Box” was spotted in the most recent episode, titled “The Last Walt.” Speaking of The Last Waltz, anyone else still hung up on the loss of Levon Helm? I know I am.
Thanks to everyone that bombarded the Threadspotting inbox with this sighting! Remember, as always, if you see Threadless tees in the wild, send us a note at sightings@threadless.com and we'll talk about them here... AND we'll give you some Street Team Points to boot! Enjoy!
In East Africa, WellDone provides materials and education so villagers can build their own wells. These DIY wells last longer, are less expensive to build, and help communities stay connected. This celebration of water has helped more than 30,000 people work towards self-sufficiency, develop pride in their work, and grow healthier.
Create a t-shirt design that celebrates water and the human spirit. The chosen design will be sold on Threadless, and 25% of the sales will go towards WellDone.
One lucky member who scores 50 or more designs from this challenge will receive a $50 Threadless gift certificate.
UPDATE: Hey guys! We're extending the jetpacks challenge until Monday, May 21! We've got a lot of GREAT pop culture and humor designs! WE want to see what else you've got! Show us your sophisticated side! Or your fine art side! We want to round out out the submission pool with a few more traditional art designs so our final collection has a lot of variety. Remember: it does NOT have to be jetpack themed.
People of Earth, we're introducing the brand new Threadless Jetpack! It has special pockets that hold your laptop, iPad, iPod, and iPhone, freeze-dried ice cream sandwiches and all your pens & pencils. Plus, you can use the entire front panel as your whole canvas to design! It's the bag of the future!
Submit any kind of design you want for this cool new age carrying device! Your designs do not have to be related to the future or jetpacks at all! Simple designs using fewer than 5 colors are encouraged!
And check this out: The good folks at Bound Custom Journals are providing some journals to the chosen designer so you can start stuffin' your jetpack with awesome!
It doesn't matter if you drink ounces, centiliters, or gallons, this one-size-fits all drink sweater called a Freaker will keep your beverages cool and your hands dry and we’re designing our own! Over 300 freaker designs have bene submitted and it’s time to tell us your favorites! Score 50 Freaker submissions before April 30 and you’ll be entered in a random drawing to snag all six of the current Freakers!
So go ahead and give ‘em the old one through five. And we’ll make sure your scorin’ hand stays dry!
