He’s got style and on-screen personality, so it’s no surprise that Donald Fauntleroy Duck has landed major roles in cartoons and comics over the past 77 years. Feature films, short films, video games, TV, books, you name it! Donald has done it all. And even though he’s been at it for years, this iconic character shows no signs of retiring his sailor cap any time soon.
Your challenge is to design a t-shirt inspired by Donald Duck. Plenty of tees already feature his legendary yellow-orange bill and smiling eyes, so use this challenge as an opportunity to create a unique design that captures the essence of Donald’s being, like his cheerfulness or penchant for losing his temper. Capture classic Donald, or adventurer Donald, or whichever Donald you like!
UP FOR GRABS
-$2000 cash
-$250 Threadless gift certificate
-Jeff Shelly’s original 11x14 sketch of Donald Duck framed with the chosen design
-$700 in Donald Duck prizes
Chad the puppet is running a voting challenge with us this month. Chad’s a very lovable politician who knows just how important voting is! That’s why the community member who votes on the most designs this month will receive:
- a $1,000 Threadless gift code
- you’ll get to pick an unprinted design to be printed
- AND you’ll receive a mini puppet of Chad!
BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE! Everyone who scores 500 designs or more between Nov. 29 and Dec. 23 will be entered in a random drawing to receive one of five $50 Threadless gift codes! Just think of all the things you could do with $50 at Threadless. You could buy the best gifts ever for your friends. You could even gift the gift code. Or, you could be a scrooge and spend all $50 on tees for yourself.
First love. Forever love. Dirty love. Sexy love. Crazy love. Friendly love. Plain love. Messy love. Strange love. Secret love. Topsy, turvy love. A groovy kind of love. Shout it from the rooftops kind of love. Love for pets. Love for moms. Love for dads. Love for math. Love of chemistry. Love of your chemistry teacher. Love lost. New found love. Love of war. Love of peace.
And of course, love of designing tees!
Your challenge is to design a tee based on the idea of love.
Show us how much you care and start designing! It's like making a mixtape for the whole Threadless community.
Today we launched The Preppy Collection with designs chosen from the Threadless Loves Polos challenge. We printed both cardigans for guys and girly and polos for guys. Ross put together these images to show off the details of the polos. Check it out!
You may have seen them in your neighborhood already. They’re huge, shiny, and filled with Threadless swag! That’s right, we have tees, hoodies, totes and more in super swanky kiosks throughout Chicagoland. If they kick buns in Chicago, you could be seeing them everywhere, even overseas! World domination: imminent!
What makes them great?
No shipping costs! (duh)
New products weekly, just like online.
Crazy robot serves you at the push of a button.
Meet one in person!
Dominick's - 2550 N. Clybourn Ave, Chicago, IL 60614 map
Jewel - 2940 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60657 map
Yorktown Mall - 203 Yorktown Center, Lombard, IL 60148 map
Woodfield Mall - 5 Woodfield Mall Schaumburg, IL 60173-5097 map
Have a great time and don’t forget to send us pics! Each attendee of the Meetup with the most cheer will get a $25 Threadless gift certificate. And, as a group, that Meetup will get to select an unprinted design to get printed!
If you’re attending, make sure to tweet with #threadlessday
Add at least 5 Threadless shirts to your Amazon wish list and you could win those shirts just by sharing!
All you have to do is share your entire wish list on Twitter or Facebook with the phrase "I want to win my whole #threadlist from @threadless! But if I don't, here are some present ideas..."
The contest runs all weekend and we'll pick 5 random winners to win ALL THE SHIRTS on their list (up tp 10) on Monday 12/5.
Here at Threadless, we know just how exciting and awesome online communities can be. This week’s Threadspotting, therefore, will be dedicated to some awesome vloggers doing very special work with their vlog community– and they’ve been spotted doing so in Threadless gear! WOOT!
Brothers Hank and John Green are the minds behind the very funny, perfectly nerdy Vlogbrothers channel on Youtube, but their reputations don’t stop there. The community that they’ve built around these vlogs, lovingly called Nerd Fighters, have taken it upon themselves to “fight world suck,” as they put it. Through their vlogs, music (yes, music!) and online community, these guys have been helping raise money for various charities.
Both Gary and Leah have spotted Hank wearing some classic Threadless tees. Thanks guys, and thank you, Hank!
Make sure to check out Project for Awesome, a project these guys created that asks Youtubers to upload videos promoting their favorite charities on one specific day with the hopes of flooding Youtube with enough videos to spread some awareness and raise some money! So cool!
Remember, as always, if you see Threadless tees in the wild, send us a note at sightings@threadless.com and we'll talk about them here... AND we'll give you some Street Team Points to boot! Enjoy!
We’d like to introduce you to some new friends of ours. Drew, Roxy, Roman & Chad will be hanging out & hosting challenges with some amazing prizes to sprinkle some fun this holiday season. Check them out below!
Drew loves to draw. He’s convinced us to run a loves challenge in his honor!
Chad wants your vote. He’ll be hosting a voting challenge all month to see who scores the most designs overall!
Roman is the adventurer. He’s hosting a Photoshop challenge this month. Help him fill up his photo album with photos from around the globe!
Roxy is the Rocker. Get in on her contest to help her finish a song!
We hope you’ll like these guys as much as we already do!
That’s 12 more days to submit a design shows the problems in a family of cuckoo birds. Or why zombie parents just don’t understand. Or why Big Foot blames his bloodline for never being able to find cool shoes in his size!
Review the challenge here and then get to work, Threadfam.
Do you subscribe to our newsletter via a gmail account? If so, you might be wondering why you didn't get our sale announcement email yesterday. Well, that's because for some reason Google has decided you don't want to see our emails. Despite our best efforts to send you a bit of inbox joy and to only send email to people who open our email, our emails this week have been landing in the spam box on Google.
Fortunately for us all, Google's actually pretty democratic about this kind of thing. We can all help fix this without sleeping in parks or occupying squares. All you need to do is the following:
- in gmail, search for: in:anywhere threadless
- in the list of emails, look for those that are tagged as "spam" and select them (or click into one)
- click the "move to inbox" button
You're done! You've just helped ensure you'll get future emails from us and that other subscribers are more likely to get theirs too.
Of course, we'd also value your feedback on our email. Drop a comment here or you can email me personally at cam@threadless.com if you want to comment offline.
We're going to be unleashing our holiday gift guides in full fuzzy fashion when the sale drops tomorrow, however, we want to give you a sneak peek of our 4 new pals and some of their favorite tees!
We hope you’re all kickin’ back getting ready for the big day of eating, football, and sitting. We certainly are. But once your tryptophan hangover releases you from your slumber, we figure you’re gonna have some time on your hands. So, here’s a list of stuff to keep yourself busy the rest of the weekend while you snack on leftovers!
Threadless loves Political Parodies - After you hear all the government conspiracies Uncle Tom keeps rambling on about, maybe you’ll have some fresh ideas.
Mothers Month T-shirt Design Challenge - Show mom how much you care by designing a tee in honor of her (and tell her thank you for that delicious dinner she just prepared!)
18 Threadless employees shaved their faces clean on November 1st and are growing some sweet lip covers for charity. 12 Mo Bros and 6 Mo Sistas are will be revealing their organic and non-organic 'staches at the end of the month.
We'll post a link to the pictures and we'll have you pick your faves. In the mean time, consider donating to Team Threadstache!
