David Black, co-founder of The Affair, about the "threadless aesthetic":

We’re actually quite jealous, as it’s all really nicely-drawn and well-finished, and a much easier way to make money. But it’s the sort of inoffensive, pointless artwork that mobile-phone companies put on their advertising during summertime, and it drives us a bit nuts.

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What we’re trying to do is something a bit more thoughtful than simply trying to appeal to anyone who grew up in the 80’s with a passing interest in computer games, hip-hop and bright colours.

From this Format Magazine interview with the founders of The Affair, a question arises that i think every designer should ask, once in a while: Do you want to win a smile with your graphics, or do you want to make people talk about ideas?

Digg-style community-driven pump or dump activity on sticker designs could be awesome (No -it would be!). However Shufflesome does not host such a selection process, but rather a case-by-case review between artist and producer. If i like a design, i produce it. If you like it, you can have it produced. Either way, we keep eating sweets. That's how evolution has shaped us.

As a maker of graphics, grab the template, add your graphics, and shuffle well. That is what i would like to invite you to do.

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Great idea. Cenk from Truckbag mentioned that it could be fun to write things on the iPod shuffle by hand, a sketch, a phone number, whatever. Read his comment at page-online.de. This reminded me of Post-it notes or gapinvoid.com. I´ll think about it and might offer plain, white stickers with nothing on it. Let me know, would it have to be the high quality vinyl still? Or would sticker paper suffice? I tend toward the latter because the idea would be to have a low-cost alternative, like the post-it notes.

Cenk von Truckbag bemerkte, dass handbemalte iPod shuffles mehr Raum für Kreativität bieten würden - sei es nur eine Notitz, Telefonnummer oder eine Skizze von irgendwas. Lese seinen Kommentar auf page-online.de nach. Dies erinnerte mich an Post-It notes oder an gapingvoid.com. Ich überlege weisse, leere Aufkleber anzubieten. Die Frage bleibt noch offen, ob es  auch hochwerigen Vinyl Aufkleber sein sollen, oder ob einfaches Aufkleberpapier (Adresslabel-Qualität) ok ist. Ich denke die letztere Alternative macht mehr Sinn, da die Kosten geringer sind und man öfters austauschen könnte (a la Post-it notes).

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