How to Order

How to Order - Updated 01 January 2008

You can't! At the moment no-one appears to want to sell my designs and make themselves loads of lovely wonga. This is sad as I'm sure there are still loads of you out there who want to be wearing the best in O'Really apparel. Why not email ThinkGeek, or the Register, or Jinx or any one of the really good suppliers of this kind of thing to the masses and tell them you're interested in giving them money! Go on, it'll be a laugh.

A Small Potted History

As of 02/11/2000 you could order the first three designs Copyleft.net agreed go with. And on 23/02/2001 the second set went on sale too! On 20/05/2002 The Register started doing a few too. They intended to add one or two more every so often, I imagine. They never got as far as selling all twelve designs unfortunately, which was a shame. Still, that does mean whoever next wants to still gets to sell some no-one ever has before.

Initially Copyleft and I decided which designs to put to print first. They wanted to do them three at a time because there was going to be quite a take-up on them. Luckily, before they could get around to asking me to send them proofs I managed to find the correct fonts for the images. That's right, the pedantic people among you can now see Gill Sans MT and ITC Garamond in place of Arial and plain old Garamond. The newer designs're quite good, too.

Having them done by a more professional group than me and my local T-shirt printing place takes time because they're being screen printed, which should up the quality and wear time by a factor of five or so.

The only hurdle I've fallen at in offering these designs as T-shirts was the one placed (pretty fairly) by Simon Travaglia and his team of lawyers regarding wonga, moolah, greenbacks. Money. I can't blame the man, he's invented a character/ideal which is well known among a fair proportion of the Clued on-line population. If anyone's going to make money from it, it should be him.

You see, one of the conditions on me being allowed to use the name "BOFH" freely on BOFHcam.org was that this site should not at any time be use for commercial purposes. I.e. sell anything. Now, this is where things get a little hazy with the most recent deveopment. I asked Copyleft.net if they'd like to sell my T-shirt designs for me, and they seemed to be fairly appreciative of the opportunity to do so. I haven't worked out anything yet with regards copyright, royalties or ownership in the long term, but as Copyleft.net and I have come to a mutually satisfactory arrangement I'd like to go with it.

Does this still mean bofhcam.org is being commercial? I don't think so. I'm doing this as a favour to interested people who like what I'm doing and want to give me an ego trip by wearing something I've designed. I live comfortably, I want for nothing except more DVDs and Recovery, I can afford to do this for free if I need to. It's still be fairly cool. I do the designs, someone else makes the money. How noble of me.

Well, Simon has said "No." on the BOFH T-shirt so that one didn't get to be printed by Copyleft, but Copyleft have gone bust and now The Register are doing a fairly good trade in my designs including that one.

Now, things will run something like this: the links on here now work so that the order thingies point to Copyleft and The Register's pages and then you can go from there. As far as I can tell the T-shirts would be cheaper from them than for what I could do. So this works out better all round. Someone stop me if I'm missing something here.