Retail Trends

This ongoing Design Challenge calls for you to create designs inspired by retail trends our third-party partners are currently exploring. Top designs from this challenge could potentially be pitched to our partners and later featured in your favorite stores and online catalogs. Keep in mind, retail trends are constantly evolving, so expect the themes of this challenge to change every three months or so. We’re currently looking for designs that capture the following themes (see below for design inspiration for each)… Doodles with Benefits: Awkward yet endearing (and humorous) doodled designs, sometimes with juxtaposed type. Think: our Doodlecore challenge expanded. Vintage Nostalgia: Be inspired by truck stop 'bootleg' shirt designs, invent fake concert tees, imagine fake 'local' businesses, maybe even riff on "three things and a moon" designs, and more. BOLD Typography: Bold here could be graphically bold type, or in terms of content. Think: crass, some good ol' fashioned swears, or otherwise irreverent . Unconventional Creatures: We all love the usual suspects when it comes to animals, but what other odd creatures can we bring to the spotlight? Maybe: frogs, chickens, goats, hippos, platypuses, and other weirdos.