Giant Bomb Community T-Shirt Design Request

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#1  Edited By Ryan  Staff
When?
When?
If you've not yet seen it, we've launched a fun new shirt design at the Giant Bomb store. If you saw the old Giant Bomb store, you might notice that there's significantly less variety--the idea here is that we'll focus on a single shirt design for a limited run of shirts, then move on to something new. We're still in the process of printing and shipping the current design, but we're already thinking about the next one, like a bloodthirsty pack of t-shirt sharks. Since the Space Neon Lobsters design came from a ridiculously talented member of the Giant Bomb community, we thought we'd see if you awesome folks would like to take a stab at our next shirt design.

The underlying concept of the next shirt is NEVER. If you followed our E3 coverage, you're probably familiar with the NEVER lady from the Nintendo press conference. If not, here's a little inspirado. 

  


I'm not calling this a contest, on the admittedly rare chance that we end up producing something internally, but here's a few guidelines to keep in mind if you want your design to stand a chance of actually being produced:

1. The fewer colors, the better. This is simple economics: more colors means more money.

2. No copyrighted stuff. We're not selling these at the swap meet, so no Rasta Bart Simpson or whatever crap you pulled off Google image search, OK?

3. I don't have a third guideline, but it seems like these things should always come in threes. So, uhh... wha-bam! There it is.

4. Oh wait, I do have a third guideline! Crap! Anyway, your original designs should either be in a vector format (preferred) or at least 300dpi. There are other considerations like fonts and stuff, but we'll get to that later.

So with that, let's start seeing some t-shirt magic, people!
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#2  Edited By TheMustacheHero

Sounds fun.

but I'm sure my design (if I make one) will NEVER be chosen.

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#3  Edited By Endogene

Well be sure to see a if not some entries from me.

edit: I'm a bit confused, is the next T-shirt that you guys are making based on the "never" meme (i guess it is a meme now) or is that what we are supposed find our inspiration in? Also is there a deadline for this?

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#4  Edited By End_Boss

Here's an idea for your next line of t-shirts:

SHIP THEM TO CANADA.


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#5  Edited By ParanoidFreak

I'll try out some designs, but I'm not the best at designing , so I probably won't post anything.

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#6  Edited By tekmojo

Should I try someting for this contest...?


MAYBE?
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@End_Boss said:
" Here's an idea for your next line of t-shirts:

SHIP THEM TO CANADA.

"
Yeah man, some love for Canada, 
While I'm willing to go to a friend's house in the US to get the shirt, cause  love y'all at GB, that's still kinda shitty 
:) 

Whatever design I could do, would NEVER be chosen
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#8  Edited By Jeffsekai

I never shirt would be sweet, but please SHIP TO CANADA!

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#9  Edited By Kou_Leifoh

Ryan Davis punching out some bad guys!!!

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#10  Edited By fresh2deafbill

3X please

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#11  Edited By Coltonio7

Idea was thought of between Systech and I.

Small Changes Added.
Small Changes Added.



Front - Done By Systech
Front - Done By Systech

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#12  Edited By alsnuts2

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#13  Edited By RHCPfan24

Haha, I love this idea. The two designs so far are hilarious, but probably won't be chosen :(

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The best shirt would be the exact picture of the woman with the "never" banner.  Might be copyright but if it's possible it'd be best design.

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#15  Edited By MOLE

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I would like to see the Giantbomb Logo in the back like how it is already, but in the front is a picture of an Atom Bomb flying downwards with unique designs around it giving the appearence as if its falling.
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#16  Edited By crunchmonkey

Maybe? NEVER!
Maybe? NEVER!

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#17  Edited By dethfish

I expect some hilarious things to come from this.

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#18  Edited By buzz_clik
@alsnuts2: Made me laugh!

@Stephen_Von_Cloud said:
" The best shirt would be the exact picture of the woman with the "never" banner.  Might be copyright but if it's possible it'd be best design. "
Agreed, that'd be the purest version of the gag, and it would still be funny. But part of the joke (for me, anyway) is now taking it out of context and turning it into a graphic that doesn't hang on that original thing. Sort of 'variation on a theme' type stuff.

Ultimately, though, I still concur that the original thing is still hard to beat as a streamlined idea. Just a woman looking disapprovingly with the word 'NEVER' is a pretty self-encapsulating and funny concept.
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#19  Edited By End_Boss

You could just put the transcript of the "Never" conversation on the front of t-shirt. Yeah, you could do that and then you could

SHIP THEM TO CANADA.


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@End_Boss said:
" You could just put the transcript of the "Never" conversation on the front of t-shirt. Yeah, you could do that and then you could

SHIP THEM TO CANADA.

"
I live in Canada, and they shipped my Limited edition Brad T-shirt here.
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#21  Edited By buzz_clik

NEVER
NEVER

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#22  Edited By Coltonio7
@buzz_clik said:
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NEVER
NEVER
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Hey Buzz...you have a shirt already! D=

Actually, that kicks my shirt's ass. Looks really good!
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#23  Edited By TimeWaffle
@buzz_clik said:
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NEVER
NEVER
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I'd buy that if it was in black
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#24  Edited By buzz_clik
@Coltonio7: Sorry, I couldn't help myself... *blush* Compulsive designer.
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@buzz_clik said:
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NEVER
NEVER
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Very nice, like it in yellow too.
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#26  Edited By Coltonio7
@buzz_clik: Who's hella good at what he does.
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#27  Edited By ponyslayer
@buzz_clik said:
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NEVER
NEVER
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i would buy that :)
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#28  Edited By dethfish
@buzz_clik:  I like that one. I don't know about the color but otherwise it seems great.
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#29  Edited By buzz_clik
@Dethfish77: Yeah, the colour was more born out of the 'power up' block being yellow (makes it a single colour black printing job). Well, that and the fact I didn't want to do a black shirt.
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#30  Edited By Coltonio7
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#31  Edited By buzz_clik
@Coltonio7: *laugh* Winner. Awesome.
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#32  Edited By TwoOneFive
@Coltonio7: lmao!! 


How about one that depicts how nintendo researched this. 
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#33  Edited By cloneslayer
@Coltonio7 said:
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LOL
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#34  Edited By alsnuts2
@Coltonio7:

That is Absurdly hilarious
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#35  Edited By buzz_clik
@alsnuts2: I know, it's brilliantly meta-licious!
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#36  Edited By Dalai

Maybe?
Maybe?

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#37  Edited By dethfish
@buzz_clik:  Maybe you like it like that but I think it might be cooler if the words and block were the same color but the main shirt color was like a navy blue or something.

Also, there needs to be a Game Cop reference somewhere.
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#38  Edited By Systech
@Dethfish77 said:
" @buzz_clik:  Maybe you like it like that but I think it might be cooler if the words and block were the same color but the main shirt color was like a navy blue or something.Also, there needs to be a Game Cop reference somewhere. "
I agree. buzz_clik, I am contracting you to make a Game Cop shirt!
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#40  Edited By dethfish
@systech said:
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@Dethfish77 said:
" @buzz_clik:  Maybe you like it like that but I think it might be cooler if the words and block were the same color but the main shirt color was like a navy blue or something.Also, there needs to be a Game Cop reference somewhere. "
I agree. buzz_clik, I am contracting you to make a Game Cop shirt!"

I think it would be hilarious if they made a shirt that had Game Cop saying "I gotta drive to the other side of town because ecstasy prices are better there".
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#41  Edited By Systech
@Dethfish77 said:
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@systech said:
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@Dethfish77 said:
" @buzz_clik:  Maybe you like it like that but I think it might be cooler if the words and block were the same color but the main shirt color was like a navy blue or something.Also, there needs to be a Game Cop reference somewhere. "
I agree. buzz_clik, I am contracting you to make a Game Cop shirt!"
I think it would be hilarious if they made a shirt that had Game Cop saying "I gotta drive to the other side of town because ecstasy prices are better there". "
I wish that I could wear that shirt and not have cops come up to me.
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#42  Edited By TheKidNixon
@systech said:
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@Dethfish77 said:
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@systech said:
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@Dethfish77 said:
" @buzz_clik:  Maybe you like it like that but I think it might be cooler if the words and block were the same color but the main shirt color was like a navy blue or something.Also, there needs to be a Game Cop reference somewhere. "
I agree. buzz_clik, I am contracting you to make a Game Cop shirt!"
I think it would be hilarious if they made a shirt that had Game Cop saying "I gotta drive to the other side of town because ecstasy prices are better there". "
I wish that I could wear that shirt and not have cops come up to me.
"
No joke. I get enough random out-of-the-corner-of-your-eye looks from people just with Jeff bombhead shirt.
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#43  Edited By buzz_clik
@TwoOneFive: *laugh* Noice.
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#44  Edited By TwoOneFive

Somebody make a GameCop shirt with the Sony Translator standing behind him. 

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#45  Edited By dethfish
@Dalai:  I like that one too. There could be a 2nd one that has 2 other people like Vinny and Brad with the word Active under them and on the back it says "We're playing videos games! WAAAH!"
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#46  Edited By buzz_clik
@Dalai: Yep, I like this one too! *thumbs up*
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#47  Edited By yetiantics

Lets show some love for GameCop while we're at it.

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#48  Edited By VitaminWaterYum

Question to staff: Are the shirt colors limited to black/white? Also,  does the style of the shirt matter? Are you guys looking for more of a graphical design or is typography ok?

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#49  Edited By Player1
@Dalai: I like it. 

Also. Can anyone link me to that forum post that shows all of the staff review pictures. Like the Jeff with TNT in his mouth. And the rockstar brad? Thanks.
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