EHW Merch?

[neurotix]

48 minutes ago, Fluxmaven said:

I don't think the logo recolor works well with things like the gradient or whatever this is supposed to be. I'd just flatten the whole logo and make it the same color as the other text. 

 

 

As for the other ideas, I think the modded GPU would look cool to fill that space. 

 

 

Thanks for your input, duly taken.

 

Having a bad pain day today despite all the pills so will probably work on it tomorrow. I might not be able to flatten the logo as I don't have the font it was made with, but I'll put a modded GPU toned in cyan and possibly make it transparent.

 

I am also going to make a folding at home shirt based on the old OCN one I have:

 

 

 

I'm going to recreate it but in red and white. I found a pretty similar font and I think I can probably redo something very similar. Of course, instead of the OCN flame in the bottom we will have the "EX" from the ExtremeHW logo, and the protein is easy to find too.

Edited January 11, 2023 by neurotix

[Avacado]

5 minutes ago, neurotix said:

 

Thanks for your input, duly taken.

 

Having a bad pain day today despite all the pills so will probably work on it tomorrow. I might not be able to flatten the logo as I don't have the font it was made with, but I'll put a modded GPU toned in cyan and possibly make it transparent.

 

I am also going to make a folding at home shirt based on the old OCN one I have:

 

 

 

I'm going to recreate it but in red and white. I found a pretty similar font and I think I can probably redo something very similar.

Dope. 

[neurotix]

1 minute ago, Avacado said:

Dope. 

Tyvm

[neurotix]

Here's the retro shirt. I think it turned out quite well compared to the other one I posted. I posterized a vmodded GPU then added a layer over it with a cyan and magenta gradient and set the opacity very low. I also fixed/flattened the logo and now it also has the "pushing it to the limit". The grid was totally remade to be high res. I added a starfield in the background. I think I'm done with it. Time to move on to trying to replicate the OCN folding@home shirt, but for EHW.

 

Edited January 12, 2023 by neurotix
realized the image had a cyan line along the top. fixed.

[UltraMega]

@ENTERPRISE I haven't read through this whole thread so sorry if someone already mentioned this, but there are services now that will sell merch for you. like T-Shirts that are only printed when ordered, so you don't have to worry about inventory or anything, just get a cut of the profits. 

 

When I worked at Digital Storm, they would take the cover off of corsair AIO coolers and replace them with DS ones. It would be super cool to have something like that for EHW if at all possible. 

 

 

Man those Bolt cases were truly a nightmare that never should have existed. Anyway, here is my high quality example shot: 

 

 

 

If you need someone to handle merch orders and shipments, I could do it. I have the time and I already do a lot of shipping orders. 

Edited January 13, 2023 by UltraMega

[pio]

4 hours ago, UltraMega said:

@ENTERPRISE I haven't read through this whole thread so sorry if someone already mentioned this, but there are services now that will sell merch for you. like T-Shirts that are only printed when ordered, so you don't have to worry about inventory or anything, just get a cut of the profits. 

 

When I worked at Digital Storm, they would take the cover off of corsair AIO coolers and replace them with DS ones. It would be super cool to have something like that for EHW if at all possible. 

 

 

Man those Bolt cases were truly a nightmare that never should have existed. Anyway, here is my high quality example shot: 

 

 

 

If you need someone to handle merch orders and shipments, I could do it. I have the time and I already do a lot of shipping orders. 

I absolutely love both of your ideas there TBH.  I'd love to see some EHW AIO's, keyboards, mice maybe......we could do all of that pretty easily I'd imagine.  The question is, would it sell / make money, be worth the investment for E?  Depending on mounting capabilities of the AIO, and keyboard and mouse options (if that was ever brought to), I'd possibly want all 3 at least one of each.

I do have a question though, not at you directly, but about that process in general with the merch.  Would going through a merch handler like that, for our small of a community be a little bit, I dunno too much?  For streamlining a full time merch gig, I could totally understand something like that.  But for the 5 or 6 people here that'd want some neat EHW stuff?  Let's just be safe and bump that up to idk, an order of 50 (of whatever).  That even seems overkill.  Wouldn't it be more cost effective to have the merch made as a one time run?  You'd have a wider variety of manufacturers to choose from and could order the exact number that is needed, no more.  Or maybe a few extra to give away as freebies in competitions or something, but still.

 

If the site ever got anywhere near even old OCN member levels, I could totally see a merch handler business like that being a useful tool to keep in mind for future merch runs though.

[UltraMega]

14 minutes ago, pioneerisloud said:

I absolutely love both of your ideas there TBH.  I'd love to see some EHW AIO's, keyboards, mice maybe......we could do all of that pretty easily I'd imagine.  The question is, would it sell / make money, be worth the investment for E?  Depending on mounting capabilities of the AIO, and keyboard and mouse options (if that was ever brought to), I'd possibly want all 3 at least one of each.

I do have a question though, not at you directly, but about that process in general with the merch.  Would going through a merch handler like that, for our small of a community be a little bit, I dunno too much?  For streamlining a full time merch gig, I could totally understand something like that.  But for the 5 or 6 people here that'd want some neat EHW stuff?  Let's just be safe and bump that up to idk, an order of 50 (of whatever).  That even seems overkill.  Wouldn't it be more cost effective to have the merch made as a one time run?  You'd have a wider variety of manufacturers to choose from and could order the exact number that is needed, no more.  Or maybe a few extra to give away as freebies in competitions or something, but still.

 

If the site ever got anywhere near even old OCN member levels, I could totally see a merch handler business like that being a useful tool to keep in mind for future merch runs though.

You could do it with a site like VistaPrints, it's pretty simple. You basically just upload an image/logo and it adds it to a bunch of templates for shirts, mugs, mousepads, whatever. 

[Fluxmaven]

9 hours ago, neurotix said:

Here's the retro shirt. I think it turned out quite well compared to the other one I posted.

 

I actually liked the grid better on the original... I decided to put on some future funk and combine both of your versions into a new take. Hopefully you don't mind. 

 

 

Edited January 13, 2023 by Fluxmaven

[neurotix]

No I don't mind Flux, and it turned out great. We'll go with that one for the Vaporwave shirt. I have a few more ideas, but what you came up with is more or less precisely what I was after. I wanted like a block diagram/EE chart of a GPU or something (like in my first version), and you nailed it.

 

Great minds think alike.

 

Regarding all the other ideas mentioned, I'm fine with them, but I was going to suggest to E to use my designs on the site redbubble which is the same thing basically- they do stickers, mugs, t-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies. The user can pick their color and their type of shirt. You just post the designs, they handle the rest and you receive some small amount of profit per-sale. I like redbubble a lot because I've ordered many gaming/anime t-shirts from them in the past and they last decently long, they also have nice color choices and their default t-shirt (I think they call it "cotton blend") is very soft and not rigid like a full cotton T.

 

That's my two cents.

Edited January 13, 2023 by neurotix

[neurotix]

Alright I came up with a folding shirt. For comparison, here is the old OCN folding@home shirt:

 

 

 

And here is what I came up with in around 45 minutes. I also searched for the font used but could not find it, so I went with another, similar one. If anyone can find me a different font I can remake this. The original file I have is on a transparent background, so if we use redbubble people could put this whole design on any color shirt they want (though I would avoid dark gray and dark red, as I used those for the colors instead of OCN's colors, obviously...)

 

 

Any suggestions welcome. Maybe we need to move the EX up, move the protein down, and make the 239902 bigger? I dunno.

Edited January 13, 2023 by neurotix

[neurotix]

Ok so I've made some adjustments to the folding shirt. All the text stuff is bigger, the protein is moved down and the EX logo is moved up. This one was very difficult for me and I wish I had found the correct font. But I hope it's good enough. Attached is a transparent png of this that could be put on redbubble and then people could choose their own color for the shirt.

 

 

 

Edited January 13, 2023 by neurotix

[neurotix]

Taking into account someone's advice, I got Bastiaan_NL to DM me some photos of heavily modded VGA. I also agreed with Fluxmaven about the grid, so I used the grid from what Flux posted. Here's the final version of my EHW Retro shirt (we can put up both mine and Flux's on redbubble or whatever site we end up using). Flux, as much as I like your version, it's all pink lol...

 

 

 

[neurotix]

Here's my last two contributions for the week. I thought we should do a logo with some simple, modern, clean flat icons of computer related stuff underneath the EHW logo. Again, they can be transparent so people can have them on whatever color shirt they choose. For this example, I have used white as a background.

 

There are two versions: one with the icons being dark red from the logo, another with the icons having the same color gradient as the logo. And I am done for the week as it's a long weekend here which I intend to spend with my wife. Hope you guys and @ENTERPRISE like these and everything else.

 

[Fluxmaven]

3 hours ago, neurotix said:

Taking into account someone's advice, I got Bastiaan_NL to DM me some photos of heavily modded VGA. I also agreed with Fluxmaven about the grid, so I used the grid from what Flux posted. Here's the final version of my EHW Retro shirt (we can put up both mine and Flux's on redbubble or whatever site we end up using). Flux, as much as I like your version, it's all pink lol...

 

 

 

I think this is your best version of this theme yet. Which pushing you along was ultimately my goal in remixing your work. That's not something I normally do, but I really respect that you are taking it upon yourself to generate not just one but multiple different merch options. I actually have a BFA in digital art and design, but I've just been in a rut after a lot of personal issues so I stepped away from art. I have been wanting to start doing more creative work though. I'll eventually get to making more of my own work but if you ever need someone to critique your work or bounce ideas off of, I'm always wiling to help. 

[neurotix]

22 minutes ago, Fluxmaven said:

I think this is your best version of this theme yet. Which pushing you along was ultimately my goal in remixing your work. That's not something I normally do, but I really respect that you are taking it upon yourself to generate not just one but multiple different merch options. I actually have a BFA in digital art and design, but I've just been in a rut after a lot of personal issues so I stepped away from art. I have been wanting to start doing more creative work though. I'll eventually get to making more of my own work but if you ever need someone to critique your work or bounce ideas off of, I'm always wiling to help. 

 

Thanks Flux. A BFA in digital art eh? I just have like 20 years self taught experience using Photoshop and GIMP. But I am also an artist in traditional mediums, I do watercolor, watercolor pen and colored pencil. I like to draw flowers from our garden in watercolor pen and watercolor, and its been quite a while since I did but I also draw manga/comic style characters in pen and colored pencil.

 

Sometimes I don't do art for months, generally leaning over a table puts me in bad low back pain, but sometimes I force myself to anyway. So I totally understand if you're taking a break due to other reasons.

 

I appreciate any critiques and I also still have a few more ideas on shirt designs. If possible, you should upload a higher resolution version of the one you did (it was pretty grainy and low res when I zoomed in on the grid in GIMP- artifacts around it)

 

Here's an example of a watercolor I did- Tiger Lilies

 

Edited January 14, 2023 by neurotix

[neurotix]

So I've made two round stickers and they could possibly also be coasters:

 

Edited January 14, 2023 by neurotix

[Fluxmaven]

I like photographing flowers but I'm terrible at painting lol. My degree was a mix of graphic design and video production. I'm actually pretty bad at most traditional art now that I think about it. 

 

Round stickers are a nice addition.

 

 

[ENTERPRISE]

Hello all, 

 

This is super exciting to see. I love the enthusiasm, the passion and the graphics presented by all of you, really inspired! Ultimately I am super happy for us to have any sort of merch with graphics I approve. @UltraMega Perhaps we can talk more about the solutions used whereby either yourself or an outside etailer handles all the orders on our behalf. 

 

I am aware that these sort of etailers exist whereby you throw graphics at them and they apply them to particular types of merch, then a consumer will order said merch through their etailer site and the etailer and originator (EHW) take a cut. I however admittedly have not sat down and really looked into it. Perhaps @UltraMegawe can take this to PM and discuss this some more ? 

 

Ideally I would like to locate an etailer that will provide for international needs. Any e-tailer we use, I would have to do a trial run of merch sent to me to verify its quality before sticking with them.

 

For starters we need to keep things simple at first. I feel that we should have three product's as a launch platform. Perhaps Stickers, T-Shirt, Mugs ? 

 

Looking forward to hearing more. 

 

Thanks,

E

[UltraMega]

1 hour ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Hello all, 

 

This is super exciting to see. I love the enthusiasm, the passion and the graphics presented by all of you, really inspired! Ultimately I am super happy for us to have any sort of merch with graphics I approve. @UltraMega Perhaps we can talk more about the solutions used whereby either yourself or an outside etailer handles all the orders on our behalf. 

 

I am aware that these sort of etailers exist whereby you throw graphics at them and they apply them to particular types of merch, then a consumer will order said merch through their etailer site and the etailer and originator (EHW) take a cut. I however admittedly have not sat down and really looked into it. Perhaps @UltraMegawe can take this to PM and discuss this some more ? 

 

Ideally I would like to locate an etailer that will provide for international needs. Any e-tailer we use, I would have to do a trial run of merch sent to me to verify its quality before sticking with them.

 

For starters we need to keep things simple at first. I feel that we should have three product's as a launch platform. Perhaps Stickers, T-Shirt, Mugs ? 

 

Looking forward to hearing more. 

 

Thanks,

E

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[neurotix]

I would suggest looking into redbubble if they are still around.

[UltraMega]

There might be a different thread to gather these all in one place later, but if you guys have any more ideas for EHW merch images you want to post, that would be helpful! .png files with clear backgrounds as needed is a plus. 

 

Some designs I've been playing around with:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[UltraMega]

Used a photo from Avocado's albums for this one: 

 

 

Made this one with an AI generated image I made a while back:

 

[UltraMega]

And for the ladies: 

[Avacado]

I want that mug.

[neurotix]

Personally I'd really just like to see all my t shirt designs, the hat design (black with gray for "pushing it to the limit") which could also be a sticker, and the round sticker/coaster designs be thrown up on redbubble.com

 

I spent all last week working on this stuff so I'd like to see all my designs used and its really quite easy to just make a redbubble account, upload transparent pngs of all the designs, and then add a merch link to the website top navbar pointing to it.

 

If this were done I would order one of each t shirt, a hat, and a sticker to put on my desk.

 

Its out of my hands though, I sent Enterprise all the raw files in a pm but with how busy he is he hasn't responded yet.

 

Don't mean to sound like a dick but I busted my ass like 6 hrs a day in GIMP all last week, I see no reason why we can only use one t shirt design, we can use all of mine and UltraMegas too.

 

I have three more shirt designs in mind that I will start on tomorrow, I think having so many options is a good thing but I do understand quality being important. I'm fairly certain that multiple members of the forums would get more than one thing. Something for everyone. And on redbubble, choice of t shirt style, sweatshirt, long sleeved thin shirt or even hoodies.

Edited January 16, 2023 by neurotix