Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World's Most Inspiring Online Design Community

This book should be essential reading for every designer/illustrator/creative person. It's visually stunning and thought-provoking, with hundreds of wonderfully diverse designs spanning an entire decade of Threadless t-shirts.Aesthetics aside, it's also a wonderfully refreshing read. Because this book isn't JUST a collection of the designs you've been browsing/buying for years. It's also a portrait of a company founded by two people who stumbled onto success (fiscal and otherwise). The Threadless co-founders ("the two Jakes") eschew business school buzzwords like "crowdsource" and "collective innovation consortium;" both willfully admit they're not particularly good businessmen and needed outside help when their company took off. They're just a pair of guys who wanted to make some cool t-shirts. Both come off as genuine and incredibly likable, ostensibly proving that success is as simple as a good idea, a passion and a strong work ethic.Hence, the books succeeds on two levels; first as a collection of inspiring/interesting images, second as a wonderful narrative about two friends who psuedo-accidentally monetized a wonderful idea and brought graphic designers together by forming a community/marketplace where good design is both encouraged and rewarded.Halfway through your first reading you'll want to drop everything and open up a new Photoshop file.Buy this book. Then buy another for your best friend.

This book is awe-inspiring. All the designs and down-to-earth stories about the now-successful designers really motivate me to have faith in what I do. It shows how design is always supposed to be fun and be about the people. Just an awesome book!To those who gave it 1 star, I think next time you should read the description more carefully. It's not a book that shows you how to design t-shirts like any tutorial book and what not. Just spend 1 minute considering your buying choice and keep that 1-star for something else.

This is an awesome book, and if anything, stands to be an amazing source of inspiration and insight into the creative world that is Threadless. I found myself reading (but more looking) through this probably 5 times and im still not done. taken there is ample free source on the threadless website, but it still feels good owning a piece of this empire. great book and im glad it has strong binding.

I've always been a threadless fan, not only because of their bussiness model (wich now that i've read the hold book i understand better, this ppl are amazing) but because of the art involved and how they've helped hundreds of talents thru their website and stores.Amazing arts and all of them been credited to their creators.5 stars to threadless

Pretty nice book for aspiring t-shirt design artists.

My brother is a graphic designer. He found this book VERY good. He is a very talented person but you know sometimes you just don't get the inspiration. This book as he says is totally "inspirational". If you want to have ideas about cool designs, this is the book for you!

It's not surprising that one of the best web-sites produces an amazing book.It was so great reading the story of this amazing company from the eye's of threadless' founder.Good both for people looking for inspiration in business and for people looking for artistic inspiration.The perfect book! ^_^

they have some great full page prints that I actually cut out of the book and framed for my bookshelf...I wish all the designs were full page without page numbers overlaying them.

I've been first told about Threadless back in 2005 and became a fan ever since. There is where I saw the most brilliant designs and always wondered "how did they do it". Everything is in the book, how they started with a hobby, how they grew a community around it, how it became a successful business model. I did enjoy reading the book and I'm happy to have it in my library.

Great book, as a graphic design student books are essential and this without fail is fun and inspiring, i bought it after looking at the website for the first time and thought why not, if you like graphics im sure you will love this book

Got this for my sister who wants to work in T-Shirt design. They have some great ideas in here, many of which you can purchase on their website.

The book is really lovely and will inspire me to create lots of new original designs for my own work. It's got a nice layout and seems to be packed with lots of designs. However the book itself seems to have been bent in half at some stage so that's what makes this a 3 star review rather than a 4 star.

Some nice ideas but mostly full of pretentious, juvenile nonsense