I found DNA Sylelab today & thought it was a pretty cool concept. Because it's still in beta, you can try it out and order shirts now for 15% off.
The basic idea is that they have artists with work uploaded on the site. You can choose the art you like, choose the shirt you want, size and rotate the art how you want it on your shirt, and then buy your shirt. For now, they have a select number of artists and later on it looks like visitors will get to vote on artists. When a visitor buys a shirt, the artist gets paid a commission.
It's a unique concept that's combining some familiar elements:
1. Giving artist an outlet for selling their work (like Cafepress, Printfection and other similar print on demand sites)
2. Giving choice to the customer to choose the shirt and art they want, without having to create the art (similar to Click-Shirt)
3. Creating a social network in a "club-like" atmosphere of selected artists as well as passionate customers who show off their shirts in a gallery (much like Threadless)
4. And using print-on-demand technology on dark colored shirts (again, like Cafepress and Printfection).
The site looks nice and so does the art. I think they have a lot of potential and I may submit some designs and see what happens. The interface is pretty cool and easy to use, too.
Who is behind DNA Stylelab? I found a little more at MySpace.
I look forward to watching DNA Stylelab work it's way out of beta, grow and change. Be sure to visit DNAStylelab and try it out for yourself!
