My Zazzle store has passed the 100 mark, in public products for sale!

[capri0mni]

Yay?!

"They" say shop owners can't expect sales to expand to outsiders until they reach a minimum of 1,000 products (I guess 'cause that's at the level where they start putting links to the store on the Zazzle home page). But at least I've gone a sizable way toward that goal?

Anyway, here's the shirt design that put me at #101:

[Description Quote]:
"It's the End of the World as we Know it!" So warn the pundits and doomsayers of every generation. But the world as we know it is always ending, because it's always changing, and becoming something new. The text here features this familiar warning, but "end" has been crossed out, and replaced with "Start." And "know" has been replaced with "Imagine."

The graphic is hand-drawn line art of a map of the Earth, with the land masses filled with hearts and spiral designs. It was based on NASA imagery of Earth, rendered in the Peirce Quincuncial projection (centered around the north pole), which means that all but the smallest of Pacific Islands and Antarctica fit neatly, front and center.
[End Quote]

[photo link to the product in the store]:

As we Imagine it by Chimerigons
Browse Line T-Shirts

(This particular link is for kids' tee, but I've put the exact same design on adult tees and baby clothes)

I'm also thinking of putting those words (without the graphic) on bumper stickers and trucker hats...

Comments

[pebblerocker]

I love that design -- the whole fits together very well, with the land masses going into three corners and the words in the fourth.

[capri0mni]

:-) Yes, just so. This was actually a design idea I came up with back in August, but I couldn't figure out how to fit a map of the world onto the front of a tee-shirt in a way that did not privilege one country/culture over the others. And then, a couple of weeks ago, XKCD did this comic on all the various different map projections, and I saw the Peirce Quincuncial for the first time, and realized it was perfect: http://xkcd.com/977/

I wanted to find a poster / wall art for it, but couldn't find any, anywhere online. But Wikimedia Commons had the NASA-based image, and because it was created by government workers on official government business, it was copyright free from the start. So I was free to use it as the basis of a product for sale without fear of copyright infringement.

Also, it gave me plenty of space to fit the key message up near the shoulder, where it would be visible even if you're sitting down (which it would have to be, if I'm going to be wearing my own designs).