Anxious for updates

Anybody else finding themselves anxious for the next derby preview update? With all this stay-at-home time on my hands, I find myself checking the site frequently, hoping for a sneak peak so I can get rolling on designs! Haha!

Hope all are doing well, and the same can be said for your loved ones!

  • SubBass49

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I’m working on it!! But let’s use this as an opportunity to get some feedback! What are some derby themes you’d like to see?!?!

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Oh so many…Haha!

Prepare for a brain-storm of epic proportions (most of which may or may not be trash or have been used before without me realizing).

  • No Kawaii
  • Art History
  • Puns Only
  • Food Fight
  • Light & Shadow
  • Masks in Pop Culture
  • Surrealism
  • Music
  • Celebs that are no longer with us
  • Summertime in Quarantine
  • Water
  • The Blues (so many potential interpretations on this)
  • Coffee
  • Brown-out (only shirts subbed on brown)
  • Locals Only (Shirts that reference city landmarks that only the locals know)
  • Film quotes
  • Out of context
  • All Your Base Are Belong To Us (many interpretations of base)
  • Sky’s the limit
  • Cereal
  • Brand labels in our modern times
  • Rhyming animals (combine 2 or more animals that rhyme)
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  • Shirts for bands that don’t exist
  • Vinyl Records
  • Cassettes
  • Retro/obsolete technology
  • Advertising
  • Classic Memes reimagined
  • Standup Comedy
  • Symmetry
  • Color Theory (all designs use a formal color harmony)
  • Lines only
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  • Languages other than English
  • Philosophy
  • Fables
  • Sports
  • Tourist shirt from a random geographic coordinate: RANDOM.ORG - Geographic Coordinates
  • Illustrate a single line from a song
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  • The Jabberwocky (illustrate a line from the poem?)
  • Transportation
  • Childrens books that should never be made
  • Candy from an alternate universe
  • Beverage from an alternate universe
  • Tourism ad or shirt for an alternate universe
  • Dad jokes
  • Kid jokes
  • Classic pranks
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-Books never written by animals
-Favorite food of famous authors
-Restaurants from other planets
-Cross-species animals
-memes before the internet
-Famous toys that were never invented
-Fake ailments
-Themes parks from other planets/dimensions or universes
-Super powers that nobody really wants
-Pets that have no business being pets
-Terrible super hero day jobs
-Fake junk food
-plant/animal hybrids
-Video game power ups that never were
-Unfamous Cryptids
-Fake holidays for getting out of work

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Wanted to thank @Lady5tark for choosing the theme of The Blues. Honestly, some of the most fun I’ve ever had with a theme! So much room for creative interpretation. Makes me crave more similar challenges in the future…color-related challenges in particular.

Can’t wait to sub my designs tonight! (giddy)

Bumping this thread since there’s no new theme posted yet, and it has lots of possible theme ideas within.

=)

Rabbits
Penguins
Turtles
Ninjas
Pirates
Sarcasm
Procrastination
Anti-sports sports
books
elitist self awareness
sci-fi
cute animals doing mundane things
ironic outdoor/wilderness
negative space wilderness
quotes from movies used inappropriately…
music
Did I miss anything? LOL

I vote for “Did I miss anything? LOL”

That’d be a fun derby

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How about an Anti-derby derby.
Basically
None of the following…
Rabbits
Penguins
Turtles
Ninjas
Pirates
Sarcasm
Procrastination
Anti-sports sports
books
elitist self awareness
sci-fi
cute animals doing mundane things
ironic outdoor/wilderness
negative space wilderness
quotes from movies used inappropriately…
music
pop-culture
text only

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Might be even harder than the out of context one. I like it.

Are you TRYING to hurt me?

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Just bumping this thread in case inspiration is needed for the new derby theme… :grin:

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We need themes to bring back some normal, or to distract.

Distraction
Fish
Under-rated sports
Seeds
The last book you read
signs
creature comforts
ghost stories
underground
superhero slogans
Henchmen and minions
Jobs
mechanical devices
Digital devices
Prehistoric critters, NO DINOS
Retro styles

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Really like the Retro Styles one…would be fun, and potentially cut down on the exhausting overabundance of Mandalorian stuff.

May need to do a “no star wars” add-on to it…
Would love to add example of specific retro styles. Makes me feel old when some goes all 80’s as a retro style…
I love the artwork of this guy.

http://www.derekart.com/illustration.html

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