Reply To: Report from Scandinavia

[Rezwan]

OK folks, I’ve set up our preliminary cafepress store: http://www.cafepress.com/focusfusion

I plan to upgrade to premium so that we can have every kind of product with each of our designs (e.g., I haven’t set it up for all the products yet, this is an initial sampling with a variety of images on a variety of things. If we go premium I think we can have it all).

Before announcing the store on the website proper, I’d like it if you T-shirt designing and comentating folks can chip in with some final suggestions and improvements. The store is online, of course, so you could rush out and buy a T-shirt right now.

Some concerns I have:

1) The default product description. It’s limited to a certain number of characters. Right now I have there:

Fusion: It’s closer than you think! The T-shirts and other products are already here! Each item depicts a proton (hydrogen) and a boron molecule, stripped of electrons (in a plasma state) fusing an

It cut off in the middle of “and”. We could just stop at “fusing.” Or say something different entirely. Keep it short. They don’t give us much space to explain the design. Perhaps I can include a hyperlink.

2) The back: Seems a little strong compared to the front. I experimented with the Jr. Baby Doll T – I assumed the red is supposed to match with the pink front, but it’s much too strong. Also, for that shirt I put the image on top in the back instead of center, which makes the image get very small. In any case, I think just plain text on the back for some of the shirts might be just fine. In fact, the thing we have for the back of some T-shirts could be a front design.

3) The buttons and clock. Clock is nice for “it’s closer than you think” motif. The only thing here is we need to get the http://www.focusfusion.org line to also curve so it can fit on the button and clock. Need a separate design for the round objects.

4) Mug image placement. This has always bugged me w/ cafepress. You can’t have a front and a back on the mug. So, is it better for the person drinking to see the image, or the people the person is hanging out with to see it? Left handed or right, center…

Looking forward to your feedback.