i wonder what the market is for gapingvoid t-shirts…

Hey Hugh,

Why not? Your stuff would look great on a T-shirt. If it’s not too much hassle for you in return for what you get out of it, then go for it.

IF you do again— remember da girls! Most of us would only wear a V-neck– and in black– and comfy— but not bulky and and and — 😉

I don’t really like this t-shirt specifically but I think you could do it with certain designs/color schemes.. I think the simplistic design here a little bit too drab, but maybe the white business card on black or something on the back, small heart-placed gapingvoid logo in the front.

I love my “The market for Something to beleive in is infinite” t-shirt. Thanks again Hugh!

Black, white,
colour of sh~*@
I’d buy one.

The problem with a lot of cartoon/clever t-shirts is that they are printed on crap garments. I won’t wear cheap, generic, round collar black or white t-s, regardless on what is on them.

What Toffs got right, was using heavier materials for their football reproductions. Makes all the difference. But, hey, you already know this from using quality paper for your prints!

If you can get some good cloth, nice cut and your stuff on it, I’d be all over it!!!

Agree with other comments. Black t-shirt would be better. We chose white print on black for our first t-shirt and it worked well with our customers/readers.

— Fabric should be at least 180g/m2 (6 oz?), now you’re doing prints t-shirt quality should stand up to that.

— Don’t think t-shirts would dilute value of your art. Actually now you’re talking about it: making t-shirts with gapingvoid motives looks far more natural than doing fine art prints.

— Then the shorter claims (e.g. “Recession is for wimps”) might work better than the more complex ones (e.g. “It’s easy to spot a tourist…”)

— Last but not least: don’t use print on demand services. Quality of print is not that good. And so is your margin.

(This is the second t-shirt we’re doing:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19356575/Mixology-TShirt-Mixology-Airing-Final-Version)

Love it, would buy it – I also want laptop skins!

I’d buy them!

I’d buy one too.

Hugh,

Beware the Thomas Kinkade effect. Once you’re on a t-shirt, are coffee mugs, calendars, mouse pads, skins, etc far behind? That’s ok, if that’s what you want.

Stay true to your core and let someone else to the business development on licensing some ideas – within your purview. Cheers!

Monochrome all the way and as many swear words as you can humanly fit on them, et voila more celeb/normal folk/indie kid/web type advocates than you can shake a stick at (and maybe make some money too) what’s not to love? roll on the t-shirt revolution.

I don’t think it devalues your brand one jot either

I’d buy one. And I agree with the others who say they should be printed on high-quality tshirts.

Sign me up!! Maybe you can setup a ‘crowd-driven” store where FANS can VOTE for their favorite gapingvoid cartoons/designs and only the FIVE TOP shirts will be made available based on vote/ranking. Fans will dig it!

I think t-shirts would push the gapingvoid brand towards the more accessible and cheaper part of your whole set-up (in the way one off moleskine commisions push it in the other direction).

crew neck cheapo white t-shirts are death of course.

A super high-quality shirt with a top top quality print is cool. any shirt for less $100 would be a big yawn.

but might be more hassle than it’s worth.

I see gapingvoid t-shirts as a way to fuck things up pretty badly, or might be a cool throwaway gimmick. so it depends on how much effort it’s worth

The one I bought some time ago was a very good quality shirt. Comfortable, and hasn’t stretched or anything. I do like the idea of a black shirt though…

Admittedly, tees are an okay idea. It’d be a great social commentary for a social setting… Dunno, though, I always enjoy gapingvoid more for the office environment – especially those of us who really do work in cubes and are always trying to “knock the cube walls down” with the “cube grenades”. In such a consideration, I would *prefer* to make such a social commentary in the workplace with something I could wear to work; i.e., not a tee. We dress pretty chillaxin in Hawaii, and in DC, my office did, too. But still, no tees. I see this more as akin to an aloha shirt but with the message, whether that be full-scale patterns much like your paintings, or just a short-sleeve button-up with the biz card graphic at biz card size on the pocket. It would work on long sleeve button-ups, too, although better if the shirt was dark to indicate contrast. More importantly, utilizing the whole element of contrast across environments, form, etc….