Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World's Most Inspiring Online Design Community
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (815 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810996103 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Thanks for participating, and to those of you that aren't hanging out on Threadless already, come join the fun!. From the AuthorI'd like to give a huge shout out to the artists, staffers (many of whom are modeling tees in the photography throughout this book), bloggers, scorers and everyone else who has helped make Threadless what it is
Nick D. said Worth its weight in gold.. This book should be essential reading for every designer/illustrator/creative person. It's visually stunning and thought-provoking, with hundreds of wonderfully diverse designs spanning an entire decade of Threadless t-shirts.Aesthetics aside, it's also a wonderfully refreshing read. Because this book isn't JUST a collection of the designs you've been browsing/buying for years. It's also a portrait of a company founded by two people who stumbled onto success (fiscal and otherwise). The Threadless co-founders ("the two Jakes") eschew business school buzzwords like "crowdsource" and "collective innovation consortium;" b. Inspiring story of Threadless [[VIDEOID:mo2LVCJBAQ1Q1PG]]This book is on the inspiring success story of Threadless, told chronologically through its founders and the designers who submitted T-shirt art on the site.It's really interesting to read about the stuff that happens behind the scenes, the highs and lows of starting a company, the reaction of the community, and basically just building something big from small through trial and error. You also get to see how T-shirt printing from Threadless has evolved over the years with new technology in printing. If you're interested in entrepreneurial stories, this book is for you.On Threadless, the comm. "Inspirational crowd-sourced creativity" according to J. Bosiljevac. Threadless.com might be the perfect example of how to launch a dot-com company in the post dot-com bust era. It was founded on a simple idea and a strong community--the idea of an "ongoing t-shirt design competition" in which the winning designs, selected by the community, would be produced. It also allows for community input--people can comment on submissions, make suggestions for improvement, etc. And the profits are shared between the company and the winning designers.This book tells that story, from the early days in which the founders of Threadless were just a couple of design students, through the current state
Threadless is the phenomenally successful T-shirt company with millions and millions of tees sold since it began in 2000. Over the past 10 years, the company has amassed a vast archive of very cool, very hip, and often very entertaining designs, and Threadless is a spectacular showcase of 400 of the very best T-shirts created by the community--a barometer of art and design over the past decade. magazine to hail Threadless as "the most innovative small company in America." There are also profiles of individual designers and "think pieces" from influential admirers, including design guru John Maeda, Jeff Howe of Wired, and bestselling business/marketing writer Seth Godin.. Much more than a book of extraordinary graphics, Threadless tells the extremely interesting story that inspired Inc. It pioneered the online business model of crowd-sourced or community-driven design, in which people submit designs that are voted on by the site's 1 million users and printed