Fantastic Blognanza!

Currently, the three of us Bonanziers are working on developing the designs for the next batch of Fantastic Bonanza shirts, which we’re planning to release at the beginning of the summer. We’ve come up with a ton of ideas; so many, in fact, that we’d never physically be able to print ‘em all. Thus, our task: to pare down the field of design ideas.*

Well, we figured that since you’re the ones who are buying the shirts, we should see what you all have to say! It only seems fair. So I’ve compiled a list of some of the ideas we’ve been bouncing around, but which we don’t exactly know what to do with:

• 1 Brainstorm: See, it’ll be a brain, but then there’ll be a storm! Y’know, with lightning bolts protruding from the brain and such. It might be cool to show the brain inside a skull (or just a more general outline of a human head) and have the storm going on in there.
• 2 Kitchen Warrior: An extremely realistic-looking Roman gladiator, wearing a kitchen apron and wielding a spatula. The kitchen-gear could look “painted-on”, in a different color than the gladiator, and perhaps looking less realistic and more cartoony, as though someone defaced a picture.
• 3 Cantor: Devourer of Song: Essentially, a monster eating some object that embodies the idea of Music, most likely either clefs or musical notes. A sort of nebulous concept, grown from a really good monster name and John’s desire to make a shirt of a monster eating something unconventional.
• 4 X Marks the Spot: An olde tyme pirate-style treasure map, complete with a wiggly dotted line leading to a big ol’ “X” on the map. Would people be interested in wearing a pirate map on a shirt, or is the pirate thing too played out?
• 5 Monster Mash: We see a gaggle of monsters — mummies, werewolves, ghosts, you know the drill — being fed via a conveyer belt into a hulking mashing machine! Though these terrible monsters enter, what is their ultimate fate? Why, they transform into rainbows and clouds! The pictorial embodiment of happiness! Happiness for all! Such is the purpose of the Monster Masher.
• 6 Superhero of the Future: What is better than a superhero? A cyborg superhero! With rocket powered roller skates! Weilding a trident. He may be wearing a top hat. We haven’t decided.
• 7 Conezor: The latest radioactive scourage to terrorize our humble metropolis: Conezor, gargantuan ice-cream horror of 31 dastardly flavors! Watch in helpless terror as Conezor, the fanged, towering ice-cream cone of death, menaces the bustling cityscape!

Which of those ideas are you interested in, if any? Do you like one of the ideas a lot and have a specific vision for how it could be executed? Or maybe you have your own amazing design that blows all our ideas out of the water? We’d really like to hear your feedback; with it, we’ll be more able to execute our number one goal: to make the most fantastic t-shirts possible!

*I should point out that we plan for these new shirts to be multi-color prints, unlike our current monochrome designs.