Threadless.com is the phenomenally successful T-shirt company with millions and millions of tees sold since it began in 2000. It pioneered the online business model of crowd-sourced or community-driven design, in which people submit designs that are voted on by the site's 1 million users and printed. Over the past 10 years, the company has amassed a vast archive of very cool, very hip, and often very entertaining designs, and Threadless is a spectacular showcase of 300 of the very best T-shirts created by the community--a barometer of art and design over the past decade. Much more than a book of extraordinary graphics, Threadless tells the extremely interesting story that inspired Inc. magazine to hail Threadless.com as "the most innovative small company in America." There are also profiles of individual designers and "think pieces" from influential admirers, including design guru John Maeda, Jeff Howe of Wired, and bestselling business/marketing writer Seth Godin.
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Threadless co-founder Jake Nickell'sThreadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World's Most Inspiring Online Design Community is just what you'd want in a history of one of the Internet's most consistently interesting and creative commercial endeavors. Threadless has an astonishing story to tell -- a story about business and community co-existing and even thriving, a story about naive entrepreneurs who were able to iterate quickly using the power of the Internet to get it right, a story about art and fun and creativity. The Threadless book is a treat -- more informative than an artbook, less boring than a Harvard Business Review case-study, a sweet-spot between commercialism and passion, like the site itself --Cory Doctorow
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By S. Wells
Format:Paperback
The book is absolutely packed with great designs and stories of the designs the artists, Threadless' history and everything you could possibly want to see. They've obviously spent a huge amount of time collecting the information and writing the book, compared to many other tee books this is actually readable and will take a fair few hours compared to the half hour of some others. The book is listed chronologically documenting the history of Threadless but this is broken up with a huge collection of images of their tees each with a small amount of information and some with more. Also many of the more popular designers have their own section in the book about their Threadless and other designs and also companies such as Glennz that have almost come out of Threadless. For me this book hits exactly what you want out of a tee book rather than just a collection of images of nice shirts the emphasis is on the story telling aspect be that of the company the designer or the story told by the design itself.
Overall I am extremely impressed and would say if you are going to own one book about t-shirts this should certainly be it (if two it should be this and the Maki book!)
Overall I am extremely impressed and would say if you are going to own one book about t-shirts this should certainly be it (if two it should be this and the Maki book!)
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By Lizy.B
Format:Paperback
As a graphic design student i find this book extremely inspiring. the stuff in it is amazing and the artwork is fabulous. eye candy cover to cover, a must buy!! its a great book to flick through simply for all the brilliant images, glad i bought it
By Eric2000
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Book was purchased for my daughter who has just started printing t-shirts, bags etc.
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Awesome book
Great book, as a graphic design student books are essential and this without fail is fun and inspiring, i bought it after looking at the website for the first time and thought why... Read more
Published 2 months ago by R. JONES
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Great book
If you are intrested in this sort of thing it is a great big inspirational book.
You should check it out and purchase for some great screen printing ideas!
You should check it out and purchase for some great screen printing ideas!
Published 2 months ago by Shaun mccormick
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awesome book on threadless.
I've been involved in threadless for a few years now, and bought this book about six months ago I think. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mr. Grant P. Killoran
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Inspiring story of Threadless
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Published on 16 Mar 2011 by Parka
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It's ok... but I've expected other thing
This book is more like an inspiration book for designers than something that explains Threadless history; and that's what I bought it so I'm a little dissapointed. Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2011 by Juanan
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The book is just as good as the designs they print
I've been first told about Threadless back in 2005 and became a fan ever since. There is where I saw the most brilliant designs and always wondered "how did they do it". Read more
Published on 27 Nov 2010 by dgt79
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AWSOME
Gorgeous. Excellent. Wonderful. Fascinating. Beautiful. Interesting. And it smells great!
If you are a fan of Threadless and their awesome world of visual yum, you will... Read more
If you are a fan of Threadless and their awesome world of visual yum, you will... Read more
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