Comments on: Designed By Humans Fires Back – Rockstar Residuals

By: Introducing the Fortnightly Thread | Tee Junction - The T-shirt Blog. Coupon Codes, Sales, Offers

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:35:50 +0000

[...] 3. New design contest Design By Humans. This has picked up plenty of blog coverage, looks a well funded and slickly put together competitor to the established guys. Read the first part of my interview with them here. Around the web: – Their shirts in the shop – Their shirts up close – How quickly they respond to customer requests, this one for shipping (see comments) – Their printing techniques – Prize comparison over at Tcritic [...]

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:26:11 +0000

Stan,
You hear wrong. I am not affiliated with DBH. I am an art student and I have personally won a couple times with Designed by Humans. They pay real cash and their shirts are great quality. Threadless is a good site/company too. I feel the competition increased the quality and options in shirts as well as give more artists an opportunity to show off our work. Kudos to both and inform yourself a bit more.

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Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:48:20 +0000

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By: stan Wright

stan Wright — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:40:39 +0000

I hear that the people at DBH are using their own designs as the “winners” and have not paid anyone a cent of prize money. They are just trying to ride the Threadless money train without giving back.

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HipHipUK » Blog Archive » Introducing the Fortnightly Thread — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:24:32 +0000

By: Stefan Hayden » Blog Archive » Threadless and Designed By Humans fight for the best designers through better pricing

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:10:21 +0000

[...] to see Threadless and Designed By Humans fight for the best designers through better pricing. It’s amazing that both companies are small and nimble enough to respond to each other so quickly. # if (ShowGoogleAd == 1) { document.write(”"); } [...]

By: Toby Munitz

Toby Munitz — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:08:44 +0000

Do you really think Threadless has tees that have sold over 10,000 per style/color?

By: karl

karl — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:46:27 +0000

Good question Toby, but DBH only launched recently so I don’t think they’ll have any stats like that yet. It’s certainly something they should publish though

By: Toby Munitz

Toby Munitz — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:42:17 +0000

I would like to know the % of artworks that have exceed 10,000 tees and over what span of time…. This would be interesting.
For sure.

By: karl

karl — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:55:43 +0000

As has been said before, there is plenty of room in the t-shirt marketplace for a lot of companies. There will never be a Coke, Pepsi type duopoly in this business.

That being said, when your business is dependent upon consumer generated content you are in a battle for talent. My prediction is that both threadless and DBH are going to evolve their own cultures/communities and I think the designs are going to be quite distinct, and different.

By: Okkin

Okkin — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:39:18 +0000

oo wow thats some nifty prize thing they got over there at DBH, Threadless looks like they got themselves a challenge. The cool thing Threadless will always have though, are those special contest they hold, with cool prizes. Unless DBHs gets stuff like that, i think Threadless will be fine.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:32:59 +0000

Sorry for the confusion. Yes, it is a stackable prize.

So selling 10K shirts would get you $10,000 cash plus whatever else you earned from Shirt of the Day, Week, and Month.

We’ll try to make that a little more clear on the site.

By: karl

karl — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:53:41 +0000

Totally agree that at this point you’re much more likely to sell 10K shirts through threadless, although I think even that is limited to designs like the communist party and flowers in the attic.

As for the rockstart residuals, I totally read it as a stacking prize, here’s a quote:

“These payments will be issued to the artist when their design reaches the following levels of fame”

By: Jemaleddin

Jemaleddin — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:41:30 +0000

But is that accurate? You could also read it so that the total amount you get for 10,000 shirts is $5,000. So when you sell 1,000 shirts, you get $500, and when you sell your second 1,000, you get another $500 for a total of $1,000. Right? It’s kinda vague.

The other difference between the two sites is that I think you have a better chance of selling 10,000 shirts through Threadless. =-)