I want a black t-shirt with glow-in-the-dark text that says "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue." There's only one place I know of online that could print such a shirt for me (or rather a dozen such shirts - minimum orders are pretty much standard for screen printing). Are there 11 other people out there that would be willing to pay about $13 plus shipping for each of these? (And, more to the point, are any of them going to read this?)
Yeah, I know there's another company that makes shirts with that text, but it doesn't glow in the dark. And doesn't that sort of defeat the point? I mean, if you can't read it when it's pitch black... Plus, it's got their logo on it. (I've always thought that logos should make clothing less, rather than more, expensive. In some cases it does, such as the free t-shirts given out by some companies. Nike continues to baffle me - a successful company whose primary product is advertisements for itself.) The small logos that some websites put on their products annoy me quite a bit, because they detract from the design and don't accomplish much. Word of mouth will probably make many more sales than those irritating microscopic billboards. If someone is interested in purchasing a shirt from the same source I got mine from, are they more likely to ask me where I got it or lean over to stare at the tiny text? Sure I'm a geek but even I can manage that much social interaction. Or is the company more afraid that their products are so indistinctive that even the owner of the shirt won't be able to recognize where it's from?
In other news, my favorite shirt (the <GEEK></GEEK> one) is still missing. Sigh... I've been searching the house periodically for months, and still no sign of it.
UPDATE: It seems that many of you are finding this page by Googling for "geek fashion". You might want to look at this posting for more information.
Yeah, I know there's another company that makes shirts with that text, but it doesn't glow in the dark. And doesn't that sort of defeat the point? I mean, if you can't read it when it's pitch black... Plus, it's got their logo on it. (I've always thought that logos should make clothing less, rather than more, expensive. In some cases it does, such as the free t-shirts given out by some companies. Nike continues to baffle me - a successful company whose primary product is advertisements for itself.) The small logos that some websites put on their products annoy me quite a bit, because they detract from the design and don't accomplish much. Word of mouth will probably make many more sales than those irritating microscopic billboards. If someone is interested in purchasing a shirt from the same source I got mine from, are they more likely to ask me where I got it or lean over to stare at the tiny text? Sure I'm a geek but even I can manage that much social interaction. Or is the company more afraid that their products are so indistinctive that even the owner of the shirt won't be able to recognize where it's from?
In other news, my favorite shirt (the <GEEK></GEEK> one) is still missing. Sigh... I've been searching the house periodically for months, and still no sign of it.
UPDATE: It seems that many of you are finding this page by Googling for "geek fashion". You might want to look at this posting for more information.