Obama: Live Long and Prosper
July 7, 2008
Live Long and Prosper With Obama! Yes yet again I am submitting another design to Threadless.com - it’s almost like a lottery to me, taking a punt, a gamble on my own talents. Threadless are asking for political t-shirts whilst the US political elections are running and so I thought I’d chip in. Besides I was inspired by the tees I featured at Thriving Ink and thought what the hell.
Brangelina T-Shirt Gate - Jolie T-shirt Terror.
July 7, 2008
It seems that the woman who has everything has found a new cause for her collection, the anti-free t-shirts movement seems to be aimed at a specific minority of jet setters and Hollywood hoi polloi with the sole motive of bringing attention to the possibility of poisonous terrorist t-shirts infecting her home. Read more
New T-Shirts On The Block - Politicians and Babies.
July 7, 2008
I’ve a rather diverse selection of tee news for you today, starting with a few Barack Obama t-shirts available at ThrivingInk.com. Before you ask, I would feature McCain tee shirts here if they were as funky as Thriving Ink’s, but I somehow doubt that Republicans would want to wear anything as out there as these (first two) beauties. I do lean towards Obama for obvious reasons, the world oil crisis which has worsened so much more since the initial attack on Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, and the travesty of the Iraq war as a whole, plus the fact that Obama looks awake! Read more
Face Book T-Shirt at Threadless.com
July 6, 2008
Face Book @ Threadless.com
My latest t-shirt submission! Yes I am a glutton or punishment, here’s a preview of my latest submission to Threadless.com -it’s called Face Book and I think the idea is pretty clear for once :/ Hopefully this one will get a little higher in the voting and won’t be pulled early!
If submission accepted you can vote for Face Book T-Shirt at Threadless.com Here!
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T-Shirt Featured at Zazzle.com Showcase!
July 5, 2008
Yes! I’ve actually managed to get a little recognition for one of my t-shirts woot! Here’s what they had to say about the design:-
‘Your product, American Pi, has been selected as one of Today’s Best on Zazzle! This means it will appear on the Zazzle homepage for the rest of today and it will also be added to the Todays Best Awards Showcase. Keep up the great work! Bask. Glow. The honor is yours to enjoy. -Zazzle’
The only problem is they seem to do that for just about anything out there, go and see what else they’ve awarded today (don’t laugh).
Ah well not bad for my first day on Zazzle and like they say, it’s the thought that counts, I suppose it makes up a little for my miserably low scoring for ‘Ballbearers’ at Threadless.com - don’t ask.
If you want to know more about Zazzle.com they’re featured in my latest ultimate list, this time I’m providing full reviews and stats on almost all the top t-shirt fulfilment sites, click here.
News on the t-shirt front.
July 1, 2008
Just a few pieces of news to pass your way. First of all I am building a queue of expectant t-shirt reviewees here (will review them all eventually - I promise!), that old Internet magic must be kicking in, I’ve never understood how you make a site popular, so I’ve stuck with providing as much original and worthwhile content as I can. I know there are a few reviewers out there who might not appreciate my approach, as the old school of t-shirt junkies seem to like the pic and link format, or rather they like to avoid whole concept of reviewing t-shirts altogether. Which to me seems ridiculous. Why treat t-shirts any differently than any other art form? People will read reams of detailed notes on which celebrity wore what and where. I found myself lost on a very girlie celebrity-obsessed blog the other day, I can’t even recall the name of it, I was trying to locate a useful article about t-shirts (which had been deleted by the looks of it) and found myself faced with a piece on Johnny Depp and his new clean cut look. Read more
Another Threadless Clone! (But this one has money!)
June 27, 2008
HereItself.com are starting with a bang! A top prize of $4000 if you win the competition. I’ve become a little jaded by all these Threadless clones, if you have a lot of friends who’ll sign up and vote then do it. If you’re just a t-shirt designer with great talent and only older miserable friends who don’t understand your passion for tees, and can’t afford the time to sign-up for a site to then click your design, then don’t.
As always we’re talking SEO skills here, not design skills. Of course to win outright your design has to be great, but the only way it’ll be chosen is if people know it’s there, hence the whole circle-jerking chicken and the egg conundrum begins. How do you get popular? Make great tees. How do you sell them? Be popular before you even designed them! I’m hoping if I repeat this problem I have with t-shirt voting systems some programming genius will work out a solution (Some Day :/) Read more