{"id":230,"date":"2009-02-11T02:41:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T06:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2014-01-25T17:56:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T21:56:06","slug":"generating-t-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/11\/generating-t-shirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Generating T-Shirts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago I had an interesting idea for my <a href=\"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/software\/taag\/\">Text Ascii Art Generator (TAAG)<\/a> program. Though due to being busy with work and buying a house, I haven&#8217;t had time to try it out. However, the idea is applicable to almost any web service, so I thought I&#8217;d share it with you all in case someone out there was looking for a nifty way to make some extra money off of a web app or blog without posting a bunch of ads up. I&#8217;m aware that too much commercialism can kill a website, however, I think this idea is kind of clever.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hypothetical T-Shirt\" src=\"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/images\/tshirt_textart.png\" alt=\"Hypothetical T-Shirt\" width=\"200\" height=\"220\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hypothetical T-Shirt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The idea originally struck me when I was brainstorming improvement ideas for TAAG. I thought that it might be cool if the user could put their output on a t-shirt. It&#8217;d make for a really neat way for someone to show their techiness\/geekiness. After deciding I liked the idea, I then wondered if the t-shirt companies had already thought about 3rd party applications creating dynamic designs for them. After some quick googling, I discovered they had.<\/p>\n<p>Both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/api\">Zazzle<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadshirt.com\/us\/US\/T-Shirt\/Spreadshirt-1342\/\">SpreadShirt<\/a> allow you to dynamically submit designs for t-shirts which you can then sell. CNN even uses SpreadShirt to sell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/tshirt\/#headlines\/allshirts\/2009\/1\/1\">t-shirts of recent headlines<\/a>. And you&#8217;re not limited to just t-shirts, you can put your designs on all sorts of crazy products &#8211; mugs, purses, hats, buttons, mouse pads, shoes, postage stamps, posters &#8211; the list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not advocating turning your web apps or blogs into online stores, but if carefully used, this could compliment their output. An online photomosaic program that would let you buy a poster of your output might be kind of cool. And web comics that would let you buy t-shirts of your favorite comics would probably do pretty well, I had a whole bunch of Far Side t-shirts when I was in middle school.<\/p>\n<p>Though as I said at the start of this post, I haven&#8217;t done any of this myself yet. I talked briefly to the FIGlet creators and they were cool with the idea, however, since I didn&#8217;t create the fonts themselves I&#8217;d feel wrong selling products with other people&#8217;s artwork on them without their permission \/ giving them a cut, and since there are over 300 fonts, this creates a rather complicated situation. So I may not even implement this idea (I&#8217;m still thinking about it though), but I figured I&#8217;d share the general concept, since it appears it could apply nicely in certain situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago I had an interesting idea for my Text Ascii Art Generator (TAAG) program. Though due to being busy with work and buying a house, I haven&#8217;t had time to try it out. However, the idea is applicable to almost any web service, so I thought I&#8217;d share it with you all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/11\/generating-t-shirts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Generating T-Shirts?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}