Featured artist for the Week: Edward Ferrusquia

Of all Art Life Collective's t-shirt artists and designers, Edward Ferrusquia has been one of the consistently most popular. That's probably because he has worked out an agreement with My Way Entertainment to use their I'm the Juggernaut, Bitch spoof of the X-men cartoons. He has several shirts for My Way and ALC is home to the official My Way Entertainment page.

The amazing Mr. E has also been with the company from it's inception, and there is something to be said for loyalty -- actually, a lot can be said.
Props E. Keep 'em coming.

Featured artist for the Week: Social Zombie

Since we are busy redesigning and upgrading our custom t-shirt and artist design site, Art Life Collective, and we a pushing 1,000 pieces of art, we have decided to start featuring artists of the week -- people who have been active both in the Art Life Collective project and on our T-shirt Artist Forums.

First out of the gate -- there is just something darkly appealing about the humor here (I about bought the "crayons and paste taste good" shirt for my art teacher wife before I caught the "teacher touched me" scribbled in the background. Still might need to get that one, for me to wear at home) -- is Social Zombie.

me friends with simian iodine,grewaarr! he say this good place to be! make design buy design support artists... or me eat you up!

Ex military scientific experiment gone awry...#06266/00 Neoplastic nanothread DNA recode and development project. After several failed attempts to recode DNA structure and introduce the neoplastic and nanothread technology the subject had become somewhat irrational and non responsive to agreed upon testing. AFter 3 years of military hospital rehab subject #06266 has been deemed fit for introduction back into the public. Subject is required to take daily primordialesopleen spleen and DNA injections to balance small psychotic episodes brought on by man made lighting and processed foods. The military has found these small drawbacks to the subjects condition to be of little concern or threat to the public at large.

Most popular artist of the week, according to page views: Ryager2704

ALC custom shirt site redesign

We are in the process of redesigning the site for Art Life Collective, so, all our custom t-shirt designers and artists, please report any bugs you run across. We humbly beg your forgiveness for any inconvenience. We would fall on our swords, but there are only a handful of us here, so things would end pretty quickly.

Seriously, though, we have been paying attention to the survey we sent out and now have a million things we want to improve. A couple topping the list are a faster loading front page and making it more user friendly. We also are going to be addressing the transparency issue with the preview boxes that makes it hard to see dark vector designs in those spaces. This has not been a huge issue, since the images show up on the shirts, but it does make browsing the gallery a less than perfect experience.

We are really looking to improve things for both our contributing artists and other shirt designers and think everyone will be pleased with the changes.
Now, there are a few things artists need to do -- if they want to optimize their traffic and really get the full use of what ALC brings to the table -- is to make sure they are not only titling their designs, but filling in the shirt descriptions so our on-site search engine can find them. That's what people looking for specific artwork and shirts use to browse Art Life Collective ... or any site. It only takes a few seconds to do, soo DO IT, at least if you want your images searchable.

This is not just about directing buyers to your shirts, but people to your art. Most of our artists have distinctive styles, that, if their descriptions are accurate, should send people to their pages and work, which often links to other of their works of site and so on.

Also, remember, anyone having any problems or needs any help, please let us know, either to me, graham@artlifecollective.com, or info@artlifecollective.com or post the issue on our t-shirt forums for artists. What ever we can do to help, we will.

Again, the ALC team appreciates everyone who took the time to fill out the surveys and let us know what you want. We are going to implement a serious number of those changes over the next few weeks or so. Anyone who has additional suggestions, feel free to contact us at the above listings and give us a heads up.
Thanks