Help us design a Deeply Flawed Raiders t-shirt!

Howdy DBOers!

Bigarm and I have been talking about having a t-shirt since our unique crew of raiders was first named, and we're finally asking for help.

The Deeply Flawed Raiders have been raiding for many months now, and it's always an adventure. We take an odd pride in our imperfections. Our raids are like Navajo rugs—if we ever got close to getting that flawless trophy, I’m sure one or several of us would have to suicide for fear of offending the RNG gods. To commemorate our inherent fallibility, we’d like to create a t-shirt, and we’d like your help.

Some guidelines

1. Submit a design in this thread before June 22th at 5 p.m.

2. We'd prefer you include the words “Deeply Flawed Raiders” in your design, but if you have a great design that somehow manages to communicate that without words, well, let's see it!

3. Collaborate! History has shown that this forum is full of artistic geniuses with a flair for design, and when we critique each other we get better. Make suggestions, offer feedback.

4. A simple design is probably best--it should look good on a t-shirt, so limit the colors. Bigarm and I will choose, and we might have a third TBD DBOer to cast a tie-breaking vote, if necessary.

Not a contest exactly

But there probably will be a parting gift for the person whose design is chosen. This may be physical and/or digital (and if the latter, you may not get it until September ;)).

I anticipate this being a lot of fun.

Be creative and have at it, guardians!

Kermit

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PvP AND PvE!

Our Truth rockets fire true....
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Vault of fail
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*do not use these (unless someone arts them up haha)*

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Vault of fail

*do not use these (unless someone arts them up haha)*

My first idea was a detailed silhouette of a team making those jumps, but one Hunter in the back missing the disappearing platform (any guesses who that could be?). It would look awesome... If I had any art skills... or a functional computer.

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Hey, that guardian falling upside down off the far right platform looks familiar!

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Where's the FoH Titan showing off and missing the platform by miles? :p

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I like the thinking here (with more polish ;)). Would prefer Deeply Flawed Raiders appear, since that's kind of the punchline.

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Well ya, just put that on the front or back I'm clearly not a concept artist LOL

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A few minor edits.

1. I'd change "RAID GROUP" to "RAIDERS".

2. I'd put the DBO logo on one sleeve.
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3. I'd put the Destiny logo on the other sleeve.

4. (Obvious) Change the name of the third raid.

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Just realized looking at it that someone may assume the X's to mean completion, when my mind was thinking big red X for failures. Maybe the X's could become the word FAIL in red or put an extra column of empty boxes reserved for what is supposed to be the pass column.

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What if we mocked up the interface (PS or Xbox) for achievements/trophies, show the placeholder for Flawless Raider, crossed out "Flawless" and overwrote with Deeply Flawed?

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Good idea... now how to implement that using my lack of art skills.

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We welcome ideas described by people without the time or resources to mock them up.

Here's one from me.

Retro script like you see here:

Along with a revive indicator, a "revive" ghost, or the silhouette of a fallen guardian. (All three might be too much, but you get the idea.)

Just a thought.

Kermit

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I would focus on your successes as much as your 'flawed' nature. Something silly and boneheaded on the front, but something triumphant on the back perhaps?

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Interesting take. By the way, our self-deprecation is all in good fun. I think we've also taken pride in some relatively smooth runs. One goal of the T-shirt is to elicit a good laugh from other Destiny players we may run into.

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And then we make silly mistakes or get over-confident and careless....

Those are the best. Laughing along with this raid crew is the best.

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I like what Cody is saying though. We've had some awesome(ly flawed) moments.

I quite like the idea of six Sunsingers self-resurrecting with the caption "Round 2", or something similar. Except only about 2 of us play Warlocks as their mains, so maybe not as a Deeply Flawed shirt but a general one.

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Heh. That's great!

Can't decide if I want to flip the front and back, though.

I'm thinking that "Deeply Flawed Raiders" is the punch line, and "Return to orbit" is what comedians call the tag.

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Change the 'Y' to a triangle, and you've got my support!

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My second design incorporates this... You'll see soon enough. ;)

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Hello, everyone! So, here's the (very) rough version I began work on back in February, when Kermit first started throwing around the idea of a group t-shirt. It's actually quite similar to Revenant's 'Vault of Fail' concept; the silhouettes of six Guardians would be running, jumping, and (of course) falling across the letters of 'Deeply Flawed Raiders' text (following the red arrow), which were set in a font that's supposed to be reminiscent of Vex architecture. I'd imagined the Raid icon to be in the background or on the back of the shirt as well.

Let me know what you think! Now that I have a little more time on my hands, I could polish this thing up or help with another design if chosen.

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I really like the idea of incorporating the DFR name into the jumping puzzle. That puzzle really epitomises a lot of the DFR for me - hilarity, death, and eventual glorious triumph (Followed by more hilarity and death as someone Solar Winds me off the cliff). That, the Lanterns and the Initial conflux phases in the Templar's Well are some of my favourite DFR moments.

Selfish wish: I'd love to see a showboating Fist of Havoc gone awry plummeting towards the bottom of the tee.

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Simple, but more than just the words.

Great job, Bones.

If you want to apply your talents to anything of the other ideas here, that would be great. A few have been mocked up and can use refinement, and some others have been only described.

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you should put 6 death orbs at the bottom of the shirt like in the bottom of the vault

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Destroyoboy sent me some ideas via e-mail, and since we'd like this to be a collaborative effort by the community, I'm posting them here.

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These crack me up--especially the first one.

He also said this: "I also had an idea to portray the DFR as our favorite characters like a comic book cover."

I'd also like to see something like that if someone with the ability to do something like that without too much effort.

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Yes please on the comic book cover idea.....that last shirt had me dying laughing

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The deadline was last Monday, but given that I launched this effort at absolutely the worst time in terms of Destiny news, I'm going to reboot this soon. Feel free to continue to share you ideas, though.

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My deeply flawed submission

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Wrong raid team, Mr. Flawless :p

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My deeply flawed submission

It should just be a bunch of death orbs....

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I like this idea a lot!

I know what I'm doing tonight!

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I love those runs we have that are so smooth.....

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Haha! Love it :)

Deeply Flawed Raiders t-shirt #1

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We can totally have two versions! :)

I kinda want to see the "wipe skull" on center back...

I kinda want to see the "wipe skull" on center back...

Rough Mock-up

I like this a lot

Fantastic!

I like this!!

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