Okay I lied.

Okay so I said last weeks was my last derby design but I couldn't help myself. I enjoy the challenge of being given a topic one day and having to come up with something and designing it within a 24 hour period. Good for the mental muscles. This weeks topic was school. Here's what I came up with.

Revenge De La Nerds:



Okay so this one is a little disturbing and not sure where it came from in the recesses of my mind.

Next one is an homage to my favorite Elementary School game 4 Square. Originally the design had the text "Tri-State Four Square Champs" in it. But the derby only allowed for "incidental text" so I took it out which doesn't make it as complete looking as it was before, but I still like the concept and may revamp it.

4 Square 4 Life:

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Derby days

I'm really enjoying doing these shirt derbies on woot.com. They announce a topic every thursday and you can start submitting Friday. then people who've bought stuff from woot before are able to vote on they're favorites. I like it because it forces me to come up with an idea from the theme word and execute it in a very short period of time. None of my shirts have come close to being chosen but each one is getting more votes than the last. I bought a screen printing kit about a year ago and have yet to use it but I'm thinking about finally making my own shirts. Here's to trying new things.

The theme for this week is the number 2. My first submission for this week was inspired by my love of Number 2 pencils Right now this one only has about 22 votes:



I had a second idea as well and decided to go ahead and give it a shot. I was actually thinking about doing a tandem bike for my first design but couldn't figure out how to make it interesting or visually appealing. Somehow in brainstorming I thought of Panda's on a tandem bike and came up with the riding pandem. so here it is. So far this one has 39 votes but I just uploaded last night. I don't think it has a chance of getting into the hundreds but who knows. it's growing faster than a lot of designs. If you want to vote for it click here:

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