Cameesa - The Blog

Congratulations goes out to the_jcw and madeforyou for making it to print. The_jcw for “The Day of Bad Rain” and madeforyou for the first Cameesa logo tee.

Black Rock Collective is a collaborative design team composed of illustrators and apparel designers who are successful on sites such as Threadless and Design By Humans. As I look through the list of team members some familiar names appear. Particularly Priscilla Wilson and Tom Burns. Probably from their work on Threadless. I did take a look a through some of the portfolios and there’s some awesome work there. One I portfolio I was impressed with was Aeiko’s (aka Pete Harrison). Very versatile!

I noticed that one Black Rock Collective member has registered on Cameesa, Luke Wisner. I can’t wait to see a submission.

BRC has an awesome submission over at Design By Humans, Altitude Sickness. It looks like they are creating some awesome work together. BRC is another great example of the power of teams.

When sitting down and brainstorming a t-shirt design you can find inspiration from many places. One notable place I look to is street art due to its rawness and edge. I know many times when looking for the next t-shirt idea I do look at the work of Banksy, Faile and Shepard Fairy and other street artists to get the ball rolling. While searching for some inspiration and street art I came across the blog “Wooster Collective” that is dedicated to celebrating street art. There are lots of interesting works to get ideas from. (Image: Gunflower, in the streets of Paris, via Wooster Collective).

I recently came across the Emptees site and was extremely impressed with not only the community of talented designers but with the elegant execution of the site by Indie Labs. Note: Indie Labs also is behind “Big Cartel”, the easy to use online store application for apparel designers. The interface for Emptees is clean and simple as the site is divided intuitively into 3 sections: Tees, People and Talk. The home page is also well conceived displaying not only the top Tees but the most recent conversations in the talk section as well.

I recently posted the news of our launch on Emptees and received some great feedback (My Post) . Thanks to all who responded. For those who’ve sent emails I will be in touch shortly. An interesting point was made by TAC in terms of creating a point system. I think this is a great idea as the team has discussed this on numerous occasions. I will also post news about particular community features in the near future as we are getting ready “beta” testing.

Again, many thanks to the Emptees community.