Threadless Releases Sketchy Book

By Betsy Mikel in Arts & Entertainment on Jun 25, 2010 7:00PM

Ever wonder what Threadless designs look like in their beginning stages? Well now, there’s an app a book for that. Yesterday, Threadless announced the release of a new book titled The Threadless Sketchbook. They're calling it "an amazing assortment of audacious artwork from the tremendous treasury of talent at Threadless." The book features original sketches that became t-shirts and includes more than 120 sketches from 66 artists. According to the Threadless flickr page, the concept for the book started when community member MurrayMullet (Phil Jones) posted a blog on the Threadless forum asking for sketches that went onto be printed into designs. So many sketches were submitted that the idea evolved into a hard copy book. The Threadless Sketchbook is now available for sale for $19.99 on Lulu. All proceeds go help bring Threadless community members to Bloggerraiser, the annual Threadless meet-up event.

If you're looking to snaz up your coffee table, this could be a good buy, especially because the book represents one of our favorite things about Threadless: based in Chicago, but driven by creativity of artists from all over the world.