I think we all saw this coming with your steadily growing quivers of awesome in your submission arrow collection. One of my favorites from you (but certainly not the only one) that I was hoping would be printed. I looks fantastic on red, and I'm glad it'll be yet another recent red tee purchase for me. Congrats again and let's see these next please!

Congrats oh so much man on your first type tee! And just a couple of days ago I called you a slogan hotshot but I didn't know you were already on fire in a molten lava flying throw the sky kind of way. Love this slogan man, congrats!

I'm mega-excited about my latest collab with the one and only (I've looked everywhere, sure enough, no more than this one) Wanderingbert, and maybe you will too:



With Mosquito88:



With AlexMacDuff:



With Sassatattoo:




Hopefully more JOT collabs coming up with JayRaWz, Kookylove and Fat Pigeon!

NOTE: JUST BECAUSE I DIDN'T PUT YOU ON ANY OF THESE LISTS DOESN'T MEAN IN ANY WAY THAT EVERYONE ELSE PLAES IN COMPARISON TO THOSE LISTED HERE. THERE'S FAR TOO MANY AMAZIG SLOGANEERS TO MENTION IN ONE BLOG, SO PLEASE DON'T BE OFFENDED! whew.


With the beginning of the new year almost upon us and a record-breaking 104 type tees coming out in 2009, I thought we could give an extra-special shout-out to those who have been swinging as hard as they can for the slogan fences in 2008 and totally deserve one if not one hundred of those type tees with their slogan on it that have not been printed yet, and even a few people who should be printed again and other assorted make-believe award categories.


Top 10 No Slogan Prints Yet (in no particular order)

-Bio-Bot 9000: This one's a no-brainer and the guy almost DEF has a print coming that he won't give up the goods about, but it must be mentioned. Print this flaming truckasauras avatar'd dude but quick! "Pessimists" is the go-to obvious slogan in his witty repertoire, but there's oh so many obvious others.

-Davidfromdallas: My vote for the Threadless "Slogan Newcomer of the Year", the man dishes out feisty word wonders day after day like he's got the Threadless mindset on infinite lockdown.

-krokun: He might not make the biggest roar, but those slogans of his sure have a ton of bite in them! Krokun's slogans improved with a quality spike that is the exact opposite of how fast the economy fell apart this year.

-MadIron: When is this man gonna get his time in the ink-squirting printing factory? He's a master at showing the other side of a long-heard and completely cliche concept or saying, making it seem shiny and brand-spankin hilarious again.

-jess4002: If you think I'm putting jess in this list only because she is one of the most unselfish, supportive and timely bumpers of things she likes on Threadless, I have one thing to say: take a look at her slogan page and prepare to eat your salty cynical words without a an after-diss breath mint.

-jaywalkergraphics: I'm pretty shocked the man hasn't gotten one or even TWO type tees at the rate he fires up his brain and churns out the witty winners. His winning slogan for the 9th OSC contest is a good place to start, but so many others await underneath. Plus the guy got married this year and still found the time to make us laugh by way of funny word combos on a very regular basis.

-5napple: He's been a bit busy and away from Threadless for the last couple of months, but man o miggity man does he have what it takes and what Threadless craves in a type tee. 5napple achieved the impossible, going from a somewhat loathed initial presence (due to the fact that he took a bunch of people's slogans that were taken out of the contest but still left on their slogan pages and remade them) to a completely beloved and original voice in the slogan kingdom.

-lunchboxbrain: Besides being the king of type treatments on Threadless before the newest JOT contest was a blipped twinkle in Threadless's database RAM, he's also got some amazing slogans to go with those eyetastic ways to visualize them the best.

-courtney pie: The all-around goofy-around champion of the slogan blogwaves! She tends to go for the goofy insight or well-placed pun punch to the gut of the funny bone.

-Everyone else so none of you hogtie and poop and feather me!



These Folks Need Another Slogan Print

-juliejeremiah: She was one of the first new prints after OMG Clothing changed from its own random slogan site to part of the Threadless central crew, it's high time she gets another one and has a plethora to choose from. Her "You Say Tomato" slogan is not only not printed but for some reason not going into its 4th reprint yet.

-Larlar: The original slogan dynamo got two slogans out of the gate when Threadless was only releasing one every four fortnights, retired early from the field and has since come roaring back with some of the strongest and smartest slogan fare on the current scene. Besides all the recent genius nuggets he has mind mined, he's got a slew of awesome oldies i still need tattoo'd onto shirts that i can purchase and wear for a month straight before peeling off.

-nintechno: The co-founder and co-runner of the Official Slogan Club FINALLY made it into the Threadless printing pantheon this year with a fantastic slogan, but he still has so much shirt wisdom left untold to those outside the Threadless minority that need to be educated as soon as possible. I don't think anyone is better at making a clever word pun with so few actual words to it yet the mental picture it paints for you is so vivid.

-ZombieToArt: Have you seen this man's list of soon-to-be-or-should-to-be winners? "Russian Roulette" would be a risky yet amazing type tee to print.

-SnakeMan: His first slogan print must have been randomly picked out of a rabbit's hat, because ten more could have easily taken its place with a wit so sharp razors made out of diamond dust break apart upon the lightest impact.

-Torakamikaze: We all know Torasteve is about as funny as someone can be at all times of their waking life (and I've heard he has some fantastic comments whilst sleepwalking as well). He also happens to have a dozen more slogans that are prime for the type tee picking ready to rock and load...and then wear.


5 Hotshot Slogan Newbies

-jeiji
-Retroludo
-bean12
-Krimson
-ivejustquitsmoking


The Ol' Reliables of 2008

-Maltzmania
-Martiandrivein
-TimScribble
-simpletinrobot
-againstbound

Most Innovative Uses Of A Slogan in 2008

-Maltzmania for his extensive experimentation in the fields of glow-in-the-dark double joke shirts (which got printed) and front/back jokes that work funny when just seeing one or the other as well as together (which will most likely be printed next year).

-Krokun for his tireless efforts at trying to achieve the perfect UV slogan that makes sense with or without the sunlight energizing the ink that creates even more see-able funny.


MIA Sloganeers in 2008

-snacktivity: The dude was 16 years of age when he took the slogan world by storm when the world was only the size of a stage prop on the Threadless scene and culture. He hammered out slogan after slogan that seemed like it was coming from someone double or triple his age. Unfortunately he probably found went to college, found a girlfriend and non-internet folks to chill with and shall never to return except to point and laugh at us slogan fiends.

-The Sam: An overwhelming amount of slogan entries reside in The Sam's world of slogandom, but they are worth the visual hike as many are great takes on older slogan styles or new-fangled word awesome.

-backtozero: Very few designs and even fewer slogans came from this guy in 2008, but his earlier outings prove fierce enough to stage a rebirth in popularity if given the chance and the attention they deserve.

-Aristarchus: Sure the man hasn't been seen in over a year and looks as if he shall never return to these witty internet confines, but I hope to find out one day what happened to and see more prints and new slogans from probably the most entertaining children's English teacher in the U S of A.


Best Slogan Blogs Of 2008

-It's gotta be far and away Martiandrivein's 365 slogan blog idea. It's really challenged and invigorated a lot of sloganeer sideline sitters onto the playing field day in and day out, whether they've got slogan gold or just the fool's version. It really makes your slogan writing skills get whipped into shape.

-A close second is Pizazz's "Sloganstorm" blog, where everyone must stay on target Star Wars-style by creating a slogan around the above person's random topic and then give a topic even more ridiculous and impossible for the next poor slogan sucker.


5 Favorite Printed Type Tees Of The Year

-Magic is just stuff science hasn't made boring yet.
-Roses are green. Violets are yellow. Also, I'm colorblind.
-You can't spell random without tangerine swordfish disco car.
-I feel all warm & fuzzy inside. Like i swallowed a kitten.
-Origami turned my pants into this shirt.



Feel free to suggest others and examples of what you think should make the jump to wearable funny sentence! Let's make 2009 the best year for the slogan family yet!

Hey, what's up?

You're all looking well.





ps- This was just a blog to mess with DFD and Hector's "Dear Threadless" fued but they totally didn't see it and now it just looks like i'm pimping out my stuff which has already gotten more than enough attention. Joke fail.

Here be mine in order of "thank you for making sounds that brought much joy into my life and ears":

1. Los Campesinos!, We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed/Hold On Now, Youngster...




Two albums in one year by a band who plays like the Apocalypse could be hiding behind the next drastic pile of note changes. The five words to describe this band would be "very,very, very, very alive".

2. Gnarls Barkely, The Odd Couple


To me the better of their two albums, with much darker tones and more varied musicality mixing together to make a murky yet joyous masterpiece. Dangermouse's best work of the year.

3. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Festival Thyme EP


The Trail of Dead are back to feeling like their old selves by somehow merging their old thrash-punk guitar attacks with their modern penchant for Who and Yes-styled theatrics. This is what I imagine a knight riding a dragon who is about to defend his castle from an oncoming robot army attack would listen to.

4. Coldplay, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends


Some people complain that this band is too bland. After listening over and over to this sprawling and diverse yet completely in control monster of a record, I hereby change the meaning of the word "bland" to mean "epic on the scale of ten thousand water buffalo raining from the sky."

5. Electric President, Sleep Well


It's what the baby of The Postal Service and the movie "Legend" would sound and feel like.

6. Girl Talk, Feed The Animals


The master masher gets better and crunkier with each release. One of my favorite moments of the five-hundred mile an hour velocity of this mashterpiece: Kelly Clarkson feeling perfectly at home in a Nine Inch Nail'ed domicile.

7. This Piano Plays Itself, S/T


Little-known band I randomly downloaded and couldn't get enough of their seven soaring electro-pop anthems, fronted by a singer that sounds like the most angelic version of the Simpsons "Pimply-Faced Teenager" you could, or try, to imagine.

8. The Raconteurs, Consolers Of The Lonely


Once again, the second group on this list of all-star collabers bests the first by pretty much taking every form of Americana they can find in a junkyard and restoring them to a full polish with modern embellishments.

9. Portishead, Third


Portishead's first album in a decade doesn't pick off where the last one ended, and that's a good thing. It's like they've been running alongside modern music's bullet train of genres the entire time and just now decided to leap ahead again.

10. TV On The Radio, Dear Science


Sometimes making your music more mainstream destroys what made you special in the first place, but TVOTR put on their dancing shoes and successfully merge mainstream commerce and artistic integrity even better than MIA's second record did.

11. One Day As A Lion, S/T


I read a review about this album that said it sounded like "Led Zeppelin meets Dr Dre." Since there's no better and simpler way to describe the album, let's just leave it at that. Welcome back, Zach-y boy.

12. +/-, Xs On your Eyes


This band will never get the attention it deserves, and it deserves plenty. Once again they dish out almost a dozen soundscapes that would tread a similiar path of Bloc Party but suddenly veer enough into Pavement indie rock territory.

13. Parenthetical Girls, Entanglements


Part orchestra, part Dr. Tooth's Electric Mayhem Band. Just call it musical Tourettes and I don't want to have the cure.

14. Be Your Own Pet, Get Awkward


I'm still morning the loss of this band now broken up, a Southern deep-fried punk band that delivered more riffs per moment than a Chinese take-out joint. Plus, the lead singer's voice sounded like she was slapping you hard in the face, but her fingertips were made of mouths trying to make out with you as well.

15. Ours, Mercy (Dancing For The Death Of An Imaginary Enemy)


Jangly yet dark guitarist heaven, where the lead singer achieves some vocal highs and lows I thought only possible with the help of T-Pain's vocoder best friend.

16. Sigur Rós, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust


Not their best work, but picking out my least favorite Sigur Ros album is like getting me to decide which one of my left hands I would get rid of.

17. Q-Tip, The Renaissance


A groove-tastic return to what Q-Tip does best: talk all kinds of pretty against a jazzed-out beat.

18. Ben Folds, Way To Normal


Ben Folds makes a throw-away album that you fish out of the trashcan, smooth out the edges to, and listen again and again without quite knowing why. This one's more in line with his side side project Fear of Pop than his first two more melancholy and traditional piano-pop solos.

19. Mountains In The Sky, Electron Suite


This isn't The Avalanches, but until those guys get their act together and make another art-class musical collage that quenches my soul, this wonderful collection of buzzy, fizzy, somehow familiar and unfamiliar at once tunes will fill that nook and cranny of my musical heart.

20. The Mars Volta, The Bedlam In Goliath


Whoa, there's SEVERAL songs on this album that clock in at under five minutes! Are we sure this isn't an imposter album done by the keyboardist and putting it under the bands name?

21. Death Cab For Cutie, Narrow Stairs


Not even close to my favorite DCFC album, but their musical maturity and evolving songcraft is certainly fascinating to listen to, and their killer opening song is there and more killinger than ever.

22. Crystal Castles, S/T


I've never actually tried to have a threeway fuckfest with a Nintendo Entertainment System and the arcade cabinet of Galaga, but this is probably what sounds would come out of the bedroom if I did.

23. M83, Saturdays=Youth


It's like angelic voices that descended from heaven who only know what life is like on Earth from watching the Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles.

24. Deerhoof, Offend Maggie


What if Radiohead would go back to being more poppy and then broadcast to an alien radio station before being beamed back for mere Earthlings to listen to?

25. Cloud Cult, Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)


What the Polyphonic Spree would sound like if they didn't end every song in a sing-a-long and let electronics do more oft he talking.


What be yours? It doesn't have to be 25, it can be two if that's all that moved you this year.

Hey all! So it seems people are digging this idea for a slogan mash t-shirt:

There's one I thought of the other day that I'd really like to do with the slogan community if anyone is interested. I am a huge fan of the " I (icon) Something" slogans (examples are: I (drawing of a heart that is also a cup) Coffee, I (drawing of a realistic heart) Accuracy, etc), but I don't think there is enough drawing power even with the best one to be printed on Threadless. But how about a t-shirt with 20, 30, 40 maybe even 50 or so of these specific kinds of "I (HEART) Something"-type slogan/designs on one shirt?

We can belt print them (or just do this one the front of the tee) and try to get as many original and hilarious and innovative ones that we can think up. We'll get a designer to put the whole thing together in a flowing way and submit it after coming up with the appropriately eye-shatteringly awesome name for it.

Voting for which slogans go on the shirt will be determined, but everyone involved will most likely be limited to one slogan each, so take your time on it and make it awesome!

PHASE ONE COMPLETE
If you are interested in this idea, please say so in this blog and specify if you would like to be a sloganeer, you could illustrate some of these ideas, or both.


PHASE TWO BEGINS!
If you are a sloganeer, please send your ONE best idea with as much description as you'd like for the icon that will be illustrated in the " I (Heart) Something" slogan to the email address:

sloganmash@gmail.com

Sloganeers who are also illustrating their piece can send their completed files to the email address above as well. Please send the file with a decent resolution (I believe in the 300 dpi range and/or vectored) in .psd, .ai , .png or if you must .jpeg format.

We will narrow down or pair up the best slogans with artists for phase 3!


We also need someone who has a bit more skill in the layout department than I do to volunteer to help put the whole thing together. Anyone interested? I would gladly give them a portion of my winnings if this shirt would get printed.


Colors Being Used: Red and black on a white tee. Possible pink/purple highlights if needed and we'll try to NOT USE the traditional "I Heart New York" font as much as possible to keep this away from any legal troubles. Similiar fonts are welcome tho.


Voting Procedure (subject to change): ONE slogan can be entered in for voting upon. We'll probably just have everyone vote for their favorite ten slogans (you cannot vote for your own of course), the ones with the most votes could be on the shirts, and if more than one slogan from a person is on the list we pick the higher one. If it's a tie, then it's the one the sloganeer likes more. Also, we'll make it that anyone who wants to be involved needs to vote or yours can't be on the tee even if it's voted in to ensure a lot of votes and get the best slogans. Sneaky, eh? Make no mistake, we will be trying to get EVERYONE who enters slogans for this mash to get a slogan on the shirt!


Deadline: To Be Announced.


SLOGAN PARTICIPANTS
-simpletinrobot
-TimScribble
-spacesick2
-Ste7en
-jayrawz
-davidfromdallas
-martiandrivein
-Wheelie Weird
-Maltzmania
-rossmat8
-Juliejeremiah
-magichellride
-Bio-bot 9000
-ivejustquitsmoking
-laxmaster92
-TheInfamousBaka
-Krimson
-Krokun
-rhythmdev9
-Chipmnk
-Skinnyeddy
-Mosquito88
-One Eyed Willy
-toopersent
-Larlar
-Ferfo
-SIGNFREAK
-KBShakedown
-Retroludo
-rbthatcher
-lunboxbrain
-Rhodescholar
-banana suit
-rbthatcher
-courtney pie
-jeiji



ILLUSTRATOR PARTICIPANTS
-mz. kat-ii
-spacesick2
-jayrawz
-davidfromdallas
-martiandrivein
-NiNTH WHEEL
-Krimson
-Jublin
-Wonderlove
-Mosquito88
-d3d
-ISABOA
-gumbolimbo
-toopersent
-westicles
-lunchboxbrain
-ratkiss
-HAHA.sg
-jeiji

To sign up for the Slogan Mash, click here!



Hey all sloganeers, sloganistas, or any other word you can use to describe those who have dedicated their life (well, spare mili-minutes) to perfecting the funny pun, insight, kerfuffle etc here at Threadless.

There's been talk amongst the slogan folks about doing a Slogan Mash-Up like the recent successes of the Monster Mash and the Snowtacular! subs. Many ideas have been bandied about (Krokun and Bio-Bot among others had some awesome ones), and many of them are very good ones and certainly a good way to go with the theme.

There's one I thought of the other day that I'd really like to do with the slogan community if anyone is interested. I am a huge fan of the " I (icon) Something" slogans (examples are: I (drawing of a heart that is also a cup) Coffee, I (drawing of a realistic heart) Accuracy, etc), but I don't think there is enough drawing power even with the best one to be printed on Threadless. But how about a t-shirt with 20, 30, 40 maybe even 50 or so of these specific kinds of "I (HEART) Something"-type slogan/designs on one shirt?

We can belt print them and try to get as many original and hilarious and innovative ones that we can think up. People can submit up to five, we can all vote on which ones are the best and then get designers to do whichever ones they find most appealing or the sloganeers can do them themselves. We'll get a designer to put the whole thing together in a flowing way and submit it after coming up with the appropriately eye-shatteringly awesome name for it.

Does anyone have the slightest bit of interest in doing this concept, both in the slogan and/or design department? Lemme know and I'll start getting the idea and ingredients together. I'm thinking one of mine would be "I ? Punctuation" or at least a bunch of punctuation that makes a heart or the internet number heart sign.

While some people celebrate the religious side of Christmas as it really was intended, many merrily gorge themselves on its consumerist aspect by trying to fit as many Santa sleigh blow-up figures as they can on one small patch of lawn outside their home.

As a longtime lover of shiny green and red objects, I enjoy a festive display of obscene power usage for no good reason as much as the next automobile-driving gawker that's about to smack into the festive fender in front of them, but more importantly I like the way everyone comes together to look one another in the face and say, "Hey, you might be a waste of molecules and clean air, but I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt that you're a swell person THIS time."

Also, the music is hella fun on the aural muscles. What's the criteria for a Christmas song you didn't ask? Well, I haven't figured out the exact formula, but as an outsider peering through the snow-covered windows of orgasmic Christmas morning rituals all my life, it seems to be lyrics involving unstirred mice and nailed-up socks stuffed with chocolate, filling the inside of your guitar and keyboards with tinsel, and someone shaking giant maracas filled with jingle bells until the bells disintegrate or the person's arms fall off. If the ingredients come together properly, you can actually see the snow flakes flying out of your CD player or rendering your ipod no longer usable due to inner water damage, but only after all Christmas songs are filtered through the playlist. Talk about a Christmas miracle!

My girlfriend adores these songs on a level I didn't think possible until I heard them myself. If it was up to her, every station on the radio- even the Satanic and techno stations which are sometimes the same turn of the dial- would play nothing but Christmas tunes until a week before the following Christmas. In fact, there would probably be an entire radio station that plays nothing but that "Christmas Donkey (Ee-Aw Ee-Aw!)" song until you crammed angel ornaments into both your ears, making sure you found the ones with the sharpest wings to go into both drums first.

I made this Christmas mix for her, and I thought some of you awesome Threadless folks might find some good yule-y times in it too. The first part is just some straight-up EPs that were recently released, with the final 15 or so tracks being a lil' sampling of Holiday cheer I found passed out in my itune's back alley after OD'ing on eggnog that was well past its "Sell By" date from Christmas two years ago.

It's not a very smooth or seamlessly put-together mix, but hopefully it will bring you a bit of multicultural cheer for this time of year!

Download Hannukah Harry Does Christmas! by clicking here. It's like chestnuts roasting on an open fire for your ears!

1. The City On Christmas by The Honorary Title
2. Salvation by The Honorary Title
3. Winter Wonderland by The Honorary Title
4. Merry Christmas Baby by The Honorary Title
5. We Wish You A Merry Christmas by Weezer
6. O Come All Ye Faithful by Weezer
7. O Holy Night by Weezer
8. The First Noel by Weezer
9. Hark! The Herald Angel Sing by Weezer
10. Silent Night by Weezer
11. Christmas in Hollis by RUN-DMC
12. The Christmas Song by The Raveonettes
13. Have A Patrick Swayze Christmas by Mystery Science Theater 3000
14. I'm Dreaming Of A Green Christmas by MC Lars
15. Free Radicals (A Hallucination Of The Christmas Skeleton Pleading With A Suicide Bomber) by Flaming Lips
16. Space Christmas by Shonen Knife
17. Christmas At Ground Zero by "Weird" Al Yankovic
18. Little Drummer Boy by Sufjan Stevens
19. The First Snowflake by The Boy Least Likely To
20. Cold White Christmas by Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
21. Sexy Christmas Baby Mine by Morphine
22. Merry Fucking Christmas by South Park
23. How The Jew Stole Christmas by Jon Stewart
24. Christmas Goat by Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant And Karl Pilkington
25. The Twelve Days Of Christmas by Norm McDonald
26. I Hope I Sell A Lot Of Records At Christmastime by Princess Superstar



Here's some visual ipod accompaniment to ring, clang, honk, and fondle in the new year:






NOW LET'S ALL SIT AROUND THE HANNUKAH BUSH AND GET DRUNK ON MANISHEVITZ WINE!!!!

Hello all! As usual, I have some idears for the current contest. And as usual, I can't even draw a stick figure with pizazz (all the more sad because my mother was an art teacher and majored in calligraphy), so I was wondering if anyone with some sweet illo flow skillz might wanna do one with me?

Leave your email here if you are interested, or email me at frickinawesome@gmail.com or just say "I wanna!" if i already have your address.

Thanks all!