Design by Humans are having a very interesting contest at the moment. For those who don’t know, Design by Humans is a fairly new but very cool ongoing t-shirt competition. But this contest is not for the t-shirt designers but for anybody. If you have good marketing skills you can do very well. Let’s put aside the fact that Design… Read more →
The first time I came across Crooked Monkey T-Shirts was on TV. Those of you who watch the comedy/drama Weeds may have spotted one of their shirts too. Actually after watching the show I quickly did a search and found their store so when they contacted me and wanted their shirts reviewed I was delighted. They have a great selection… Read more →
In a previous post I talked about a submission I made to Springleap, an on-going t-shirt competition based in South Africa. This is my first ever submission to a t-shirt competition so I am pretty delighted to be able to announce that I was one of the winners. The prizes are as follows: Their own tshirt PLUS 2 others randomly… Read more →
Local Celebrity is a pretty cool t-shirt site selling t-shirts with a retro flavor. They have a vry eighties vibe for the most part. From June 30th to July 6th they ar having a July 4th sale. Yeah. Confusing. But the discount is not. 20% off everything. Just use the code Hookmeup when checking out. Below is a small selection… Read more →
OK, so it’s not exactly a t-shirt and it is not a POD but for people into designing their own gear this is an awesome opportunity. Dr. Marten have a competition to design a boot. Probably showing my age here but when I was growing up Dr. Martens (Doc Martens) were not really cool. A few rockers I knew wore… Read more →
Even though I play video games occasionally I don’t think you could call me gamer. It’s probably only within the last year or so that learned what leet or l33t or 1337 meant. That said, I did know some of the 1337 speak, I just didn’t know that it had been classed as 1337 speak. Hey, I’m in my thirties…. Read more →
I feel I don’t usually have good news regarding Cafepress but today I do. Cafepress has made an improvement in an area where Zazzle is already far behind: sales reports. The availability and accessibility of this kind of data should not be underestimated. Sure, if your store is new and are only getting a few sales a week you can… Read more →
There was some recent news in Australia about a boy who was arrested for wearing an offensive t-shirt. I admit being very curious about what kind of t-shirt could be so offensive as to warrant an arrest. I’m not easily offended and am all for free speech so it was hard to imagine. Well, the t-shirt was pretty offensive especially… Read more →
On the same say Cafepress announce base price increases they also announce the winners from the Design Contest. I did think that the prize was unusually generous. Perhaps Cafepress have an amateur psychologist on their team advising on how to take the attention away from the base price increases. Oh, you tricked us all Cafepress. LOL. Anyway, the main purpose… Read more →
Glen Jones AKA Glennz is a New Zealand designer whose work was often seen over at Threadless. He has submitted a huge amount of designs and many of them have become Threadless bestsellers. I think I have featured a couple on this blog already. He recently decided to open his own t-shirt store where he sells a great selection of… Read more →
