Threadless has just announced on their blog that they will be paying artists $500 any time they do a reprint of a winning design, and will be upping the prize money to $2000 in cash, and $500 in credit for other threadless stuff. Interestingly they also announced that winning designers get to join the exclusive Alumni Club:
This announcement comes of course hot on the heals of the launch last week of Designed By Humans, which many agreed was one of the only potential competitors to threadless. Ironically one of the threadless founders made the comment that there wasn’t really any competition as the t-shirt market was so large, of course one of the quotes in this recent announcement was:
Good for you guys Threadless 
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Not paying designers for reprints was one of Adam Fletcher’s top marks against Threadless, for ethical reasons if not anything else (it’s number 4). I’m glad they decided to do that, but I’m slightly worried about how the Alumni Club will affect the community; my worry is that it might divide the community (at least symbolically), potentially alienating non-winners. Only time will tell, though, I suppose!
Inevitably, great minds think alike. Stay tuned….Design By Humans announcement coming tomorrow.
I didn’t know Threadless had competition!
It seems they think otherwise. hehe
threadless getting even better? ridiculous!
Design By Humans just announced artist residuals! They call it the DBH Rockstar Awards. Check it out!
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