Rejected T-Shirt ideas: Seals

Every now and then I like to post a T-shirt design that, while awesome, would likely never find its way to an actual T-shirt.

Mistakes happen. It's part of life. However, as a journalist, I find it interesting that if you mess up one word somewhere in an article, you can rest assured at least 20 people will be calling the paper to let you know about it.

Funny that none of those people ever call to comment on the other 265,000 words I spelled correctly that week, but I digress.

Thinking about these "simple mistakes" got me wondering what sort of affect such an error would have on a T-shirt design. That's where the image on the right comes from.

If you ask me, it looks way better this way.

Rejected T-shirt ideas: prOn

Every now and then, I like to think up T-shirt designs that will almost certainly never end up on an actual T-shirt. Clearly, since there's no way to make money off something specifically designed to never be used, I'm in this for the art.

And with that, I give you my latest creation. While it's not hard to imagine a Japanese teen donning this bad boy on the streets of Tokyo, blissfully unaware of what it says or what it's referencing, I doubt you will ever find anything like this at the local GAP.

Hell, I'm not sure even Hot Topic would pick this logo up, and they'll put just about anything on a shirt.

But, again, this is for the art. I've crammed about three poor attempts at humor into this single, simple image, so enjoy it.

Rejected T-Shirt ideas: Pi

The above is the latest in our line of rejected T-shirt ideas. Despite the design's mathematical, scientific and culinary accuracy, do not expect to see it proudly displayed on shop mannequins anytime soon. Sadly, there is far too much "fact" in this particular logo for the casual observer to take in all at once, and so it is rejected.

Rejected T-shirt ideas: Pawned

This latest offering in the staticechoes.com rejected t-shirt line will never appear at retail. The subtle, yet effective, parallels drawn between the wizard's game of chess and a popular term in nerdy gaming dialogue are too far outside the realms of normal folks' comprehension.

Rather than grasp the clever (oh-so-clever) play on words and imagery, the average viewer would instead assume the shirt had something to do with the selling one's goods to a man stationed behind a fenced-in register for a fraction of what said goods are actually worth.

Alas, staticechoes' genius is once again its own worst enemy.

Rejected T-shirt ideas: Fire Escape

Continuing the staticEchoes fashion line with the latest in spring offerings, we proudly deliver this design for the universally popular rejected t-shirt campaign.

Marvel at its simplicity. Revel in the agony. Swim in the punny nature of it all.

Once again, I don't think any company (even Hot Topic) will ever allow such an image to appear on their clothing. Therefore, feel free to print it out and iron it on. Extra points for e-mailing pictures of you wearing any of the rejected t-shirt images.

Extra extra points for finding a way to deface public property with said image. This art belongs to the people, folks. It needs to be released upon the masses.

I mean, just look at it...Such a raw, emotional image...It simply cannot be contained.

Rejected T-shirt Ideas: Issues

Continuing the long line (three total now!) of rejected T-shirt ideas, I give you "Issues."

For those unfamiliar, these posts feature orignal artwork that looks oddly like the kind of stuff you might see on a t-shirt these days, but probably wouldn't actually sell too well if they were ever actually released on the masses.

Why wouldn't they sell? Because, as the attached example clearly demonstrates, the designs are far too hip to be accepted by the "underground crowd," yet far too gritty and raw to appear on the backs of the Banana Republic folk.

My genious...It torments me.

Rejected t-shirt ideas: Slinky

Continuing our ongoing saga of rejected t-shirt ideas, statiecEchoes' latest entry takes a turn for nestalgia.

It recently occurred to me a lot of t-shirts have pictures of classic T.V. shows or toys smeared across the front. Some particularly cool folks even wear them pre-roughed-up.

Back in my day (the 80s and 90s, I guess), when those T.V. shows and toys were actually cool, we roughed up our own clothes, dagnabit. Now everything comes pre-faded and pre-torn.

Tell you what. Next time you get the urge to buy those stylin threads, why not save yourself thirty bucks, buy some normal clothes, then offer a hobo five bucks to beat the crap out of you. The clothes will now look exactly like the more trendy styles and, if my math is correct, that still saves you, I don't know, like a million dollars.

Anyway, I decided to do my own spin on the classic toy t-shirt idea. What, exactly, does the wearer of this t-shirt have against Slinkys? Was he perhaps abused by a Slinky as a child? Did a Slinky run out on he and his mother? We may never know.

One thing is for certain, though, and that is the fact no company would ever print this bad boy on their shirts.

Rejected t-shirt ideas: Duty

With a bit of help from an outside influence (we shall call her Clue), we're rolling out a new feature here on staticEchoes.com called "Rejected t-shirt ideas." I'm sure the title of this post gave that away, but for those who move a bit slower than the rest of the pack, there you go.

The idea is simple. We create t-shirts that will most likely never be picked up by any manufacturer who actually wishes to make money. Every other Web site has their own clothing line, so why not staticEchoes.com, right?

And so, I give you the first entry in our sure-to-be-a-hit feature "Rejected t-shirt ideas." Feel free to print this one out and iron it on to anything and everything within your legal rights.

As for the design, I was considering those inspirational posters with, say, a picture of a wave rolling in and the word "Perseverance" stamped under it. Go into just about any office building in the country and you're likely to find one. Anyway, those things annoy me. As such, I decided to try my hand at creating my own inspirational one-liner/picture combo with plenty of pun.

Enjoy!