// June 24th, 2006 // No Comments » // Art Submissions, General
Just wanted to share a cool tutorial on using inkscape that Eric Skiff from The Alternative Music Show shared in a comment on my previous inkscape post. His tutorial titled Open Source fun with Inkscape and SVG has been around a while but is still really helping in getting to know inkscape. Also just noticed that inkscape 0.44 was just released so go get it!
[tags]inkscape[/tags]
// June 22nd, 2006 // 5 Comments » // Art Submissions, Artist Q&A, Fashion & Tees
We’ve completely reworked our payout program for innerTee and so far the response has been really good. The new payout plan is mainly due to the great feedback, suggestions and conversations with all of the artists we’ve been working with. We’ve been trying to ensure that innerTee is easy to use and stays focused on the art & design provided by our community.
Here’s a really simple graphic showing some of the art we’ve been using to illustrate how it works:
It’s really pretty simple…
1. you submit an element/group of elements
2. they get approved and a price is set for each unique element
3. you share/promote/mix your elements as you see fit
4. when a mix is purchased you get 100% of that element price
That’s it! No tricky % of sale or any of that. We are looking at some volume incentives for our top sellers but that’s still being fine tuned. There is no limit to how many elements you can submit and no limit to how many mixes can be created with each element. The possibilities are endless and many of the artists we talk to come up with ideas that we never intended but are a perfect fit.
Thanks again to everyone who has been helping out!
[tags]innertee, artist, mix, community, co-creation,design,t-shirt[/tags]
// June 20th, 2006 // 1 Comment » // General
This was too funny not to post about. It seems ol Screech has gotten himself into a bind again, this time he’s losing his house??? Karl Long over at Tcritic has pics up of the actual tee Screech is selling to save his house. Man, where are Slater & Zack when you need em?
// June 18th, 2006 // No Comments » // Artist Q&A, General
Well we are inching closer to launch and its starting to get pretty interesting. Our dev crew (Nathan, Kyle & Drew) are really making some great progress, well when I’m not IM’ing them about 5000 random things. It really is pretty amazing that we are getting to the point of being able to start testing the site and start tweaking some of the concepts that we have about how its all going to work.
I think descisions like building the site on drupal are going to be key in the continual innovation of what innerTee will become and trying to stay in the open source mindframe while managing a ecommerce site will really be interesting.
I’ve also been chatting some with Tara Hunt and her Pinko Marketing crew and the concepts and ideals they are promoting really fit well with what we hope innerTee can become.
Making innerTee a true collaborative converstion with our community of designers and mixers is really the heart of what will make this thing go!
[tags]innertee, pinko marketing, open source, drupal[/tags]
// June 13th, 2006 // No Comments » // General, Web tech
There is a great discussion going in right now within the Bootstrap Austin group regarding Austin’s ability to produce some higher profile startups focused on business-to-consumer. Consensus is that Austin start-ups tend to be much more B2B focused and even the VC community here has admitted their reluctance to invest in B2C after the dot-bomb days that saw all of the local efforts go up in flames.
I guess the bigger question is, should Austin even try to compete or just focus on B2B and stay away from the sexy land of consumers? Will be interesting to see what happens but I think Austin could learn a thing or too regardless about the energy and innovation that seems to reside out in them thar hills.
[tags]bootstrap, austin, startups, siliconhills, business, consumer[/tags]
// June 7th, 2006 // No Comments » // Art Submissions, Artist Q&A, Fashion & Tees
Doh, so I got smacked for not running an anti-spam plugin. Woke up this AM w/800+ comments. None of them to do with tees or art although it seems I can get a great deal on some prescription drugs.
Am trying to recover the post as well that had the submissions links but here they are again!
