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Title: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: DoctorMalboro on April 29th, 2011, 11:10 PM
http://store.linux.com/product_info.php?products_id=76

It should be... :whistle:

 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: becometa on April 30th, 2011, 12:02 AM
No way...  :ph34r:
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: live627 on April 30th, 2011, 01:26 AM
Instead of the tux and "linux.com" on the sleeve it should be a wedge and "wedge.org"
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Arantor on April 30th, 2011, 01:29 AM
/meis going into town tomorrow, is going to get one of those t-shirt transfer shirts :D
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Dismal Shadow on April 30th, 2011, 01:36 AM
Quote from Arantor on April 30th, 2011, 01:29 AM
/meis going into town tomorrow, is going to get one of those t-shirt transfer shirts :D
They sell one of those...in your town?
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Arantor on April 30th, 2011, 01:45 AM
Iron on transfers? Sure, it's even common place around here.

Basically, it's a special paper that you feed through your printer, you print the image in reverse, then iron it on to a plain t-shirt.

(I live in a town of ~30k residents, and am only a 15 minute train journey from the city of Brighton, or even only 45 minutes from London. Well connected, eh.)
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Dismal Shadow on April 30th, 2011, 01:47 AM
Ahhhh, oh yes, it's common everywhere. I misunderstood you when I thought you meant they sell one of those original shirt. :/
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Arantor on April 30th, 2011, 01:50 AM
Heh, sorry if I was confusing.

No, I'll make my own version of the Wedge awesomeness if they have any of the transfers in stock - they don't always, and it's weird here this weekend because of the 'wedding festivities' (yawn). I just hope I can make a suitably large image without too many jaggies... not sure which font was used for the Wedge logo (and whether I have it or not) - the gradient I can reproduce relatively easily, and the wedge shape should transfer into Inkscape's tracer fairly easily... need it big :D
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: DoctorMalboro on April 30th, 2011, 02:58 AM
Send me the sketch, because I bloody want one!
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Nao on April 30th, 2011, 10:29 AM
The logo details were discussed in the logo topic. I'm sure Bloc has a large version of it...? Ideally it should be vectorized.
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: MultiformeIngegno on April 30th, 2011, 10:38 AM
Inkscape is the way! :D
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: CJ Jackson on April 30th, 2011, 11:14 AM
Quote from Arantor on April 30th, 2011, 01:45 AM
Basically, it's a special paper that you feed through your printer, you print the image in reverse, then iron it on to a plain t-shirt.
Do they work with laser jet printers?  :)
Posted: April 30th, 2011, 11:13 AM
Quote from MultiformeIngegno on April 30th, 2011, 10:38 AM
Inkscape is the way! :D
For hobbyist I agree, for employment Adobe Illustrator, sadly.
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Nao on April 30th, 2011, 04:31 PM
I doubt it does...
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Arantor on April 30th, 2011, 04:39 PM
Well, I have an ink-jet printer (and have done it before on said printer) but they were out of the transfer paper today with lots of fools making t-shirts for the royal wedding ::)

Though what I might do is see how many people are interested and see about doing a proper print run with some of the folks that print comic t-shirts (I got a few friends of friends who might be interested in doing a deal - very likely looking at minimum of 12 there)
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: spoogs on April 30th, 2011, 05:00 PM
I'm interested :)
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Nao on April 30th, 2011, 05:21 PM
I'm not much of a T-shirt guy (plus I only wear long sleeve T-shirts, and most online stores don't carry these AFAIK), but I guess if we made a Wedge T-shirt I'd have to have one... And wear it :P

I never made a single Cyna or Kyodai T-shirt. Just the idea of it... Brr.
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Arantor on April 30th, 2011, 05:27 PM
I'd make sure the neck was big enough ;)

Actually, I'm fairly sure I can rustle up long sleeve shirts (and/or polo neck shirts), almost depends on just what we want to do there.
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: chilly on April 30th, 2011, 08:10 PM
/mewants one :)
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: dazed on May 1st, 2011, 12:30 AM
Count me in.

Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: DoctorMalboro on May 1st, 2011, 12:33 AM
It would be a great way to have some donations... ;)
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Arantor on May 1st, 2011, 12:42 AM
Quote from DoctorMalboro on May 1st, 2011, 12:33 AM
It would be a great way to have some donations... ;)
This is something that occurred to me in passing. I'm well aware that phpBB sells plushies of their mascot Bertie(http://www.phpbb.com/shop/), and that MyBB is designing a mascot so that they can possibly sell merch. I'm also aware that SMF have t-shirts (both Nao and myself own SMF t-shirts) but they were always perks for being team/major contributors and the last time the notion of selling them for funding for servers etc, the idea was turned down (I won't get into details but it was basically said that they didn't need the money and preferred to keep the t-shirts as a team thing)

I do not want it to be a profiteering exercise, so if we ever do anything other than a limited edition run for supporters or whatever, I really can't see us doing it for any serious profit - but that's just my opinion right now, sat in a darkened room, late at night, in between struggling to make a new feature work. (i.e. Not with my business-sense brain in gear.)

It's never been about the money with us, but I guess one day we could consider it for funding servers down the line if needed.

(Right now: I'm just trying to get an idea of interest, so I can go investigate pricing and so on. More that are interested, the cheaper it gets per item.)
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: spoogs on May 1st, 2011, 02:58 AM
pish/posh... we dont care if you make money we just want shirts  :eheh:
we buy shirts you do as you please with the funds, be it server/site related or a night out on the town.
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Stef on May 1st, 2011, 11:16 AM
I want one also.
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Drunken Clam on May 3rd, 2011, 09:28 AM
Quote from spoogs on May 1st, 2011, 02:58 AM
pish/posh... we dont care if you make money we just want shirts  :eheh:
we buy shirts you do as you please with the funds, be it server/site related or a night out on the town.
+1
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: PantsManUK on May 3rd, 2011, 11:21 AM
MERCH!!!!11eleven
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: borg1985 on May 3rd, 2011, 09:29 PM
I'd probably buy one.
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: MultiformeIngegno on May 3rd, 2011, 09:36 PM
Quote from borg1985 on May 3rd, 2011, 09:29 PM
I'd probably buy one.
@Arantor/Nao: It reminded me of "I know one friend of mine who would buy it" (cit.). :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: t34 on June 14th, 2011, 11:05 PM
I'll buy one.
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: snoopy-virtual on June 14th, 2011, 11:42 PM
Hey. I had missed this topic.

I want one too.  ^_^
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: busterone on June 15th, 2011, 01:17 AM
Yea, I would buy one too.  :cool:
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Norodo on June 15th, 2011, 01:53 AM
Count me in on getting one... :)
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Nao on June 15th, 2011, 08:42 AM
Our logo ain't even final ;)
Title: Re: Wedge official shirt?
Post by: Norodo on June 15th, 2011, 12:29 PM
Well unless you make it disgusting you can still count me in :P