T-Summer Games Are Coming!

SpreadShirt are about to open the T-Summer Games 08 is their arena where the apparel world comes together to contend for recognition, respect and the ultimate prizes. There are three areas of competition open to all: Best Grabbed Design, Best Rated Design and Top Selling Design. Enter your summer and sports related designs to go up against the best of them and win big!

The competition runs from August 18th to August 25th.

If you’d like to get in on the act make sure you have a Spreadshirt account and have at least one sport’s related design up your sleeve. Take a look at the prizes if you’re still not convinced! All designs must be tagged with “Sport08”.

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Ice Cream, The Recession and The Rising Masses

I was busy building up my database of my t-shirts on the Buy Tees blog, (yes a little bit shameless self-promotion can go a long way), when I received an email mentioning a new Threadless Clone, amusingly named IcecreamTshirts.com. I’ll be reviewing as many lesser-known Threadless.com style t-shirt voter sites shortly, I’ve built quite a substantial list so far and am more than open to other suggestions. In the meantime, perhaps it was their cute and friendly site design, or their laid-back approach to selling t-shirts, or the fact that this is the first dual language t-shirt voter site I’ve come across, whatever the reason, I couldn’t resist designing and submitting my latest work in to their capable hands (I hope they’ve washed them first, I wouldn’t want my shirt to get all sticky!).

For the few t-shirts submitted there (a major draw for any designer competing at the likes of Read more

Social Conscience T-Shirt Competition @ DistrictCotton.com

Submit to Your Social Conscience - Submit Your Eco Tee!

I was immersed in a “PHP programming hell” of my own making, desperately trying to install a directory script for TshirtPrinter.org* , when a very welcome distraction arrived in my inbox from Brett Novick of DistrictCotton.com. Brett wanted me to bring everyone’s attention to the latest round of their Ethical T-Shirt Design Competition - The theme is “Big City”, and it will benefit a very worthy cause, the charity “Brooklyn’s Trees Not Trash.” You can vote for any of the designs here or if you’d like to submit a t-shirt (read the guidelines first buddy!), you can email them here. This May/June the contest will benefit Trees Not Trash in Bushwick (or East Williamsburg) - Submissions are accepted until June 20.

The Prize is $300 cash, plus a $100 gift certificate to DC, plus $250 every time they reprint the shirt. Read more

Reviews of the Camden T-Shirt Competition for XFM and H&M

OK, so this won’t be the most objective of reviews, I know, so don’t start piling in with the complaints. If you want us to review your t-shirt, then submit your design info today! If there’s one thing we all hate about the Net it has to be arriving at an empty blog, no one more than the webmaster who owns it (apart from perhaps search engine spiders). So to start the ball rolling I’m going to review a couple of my own t-shirts (starting with Camden Rocks!) - that can show an example of what to expect for the future. I will be breaking my own rules again by reviewing tee shirts that aren’t available for sale to the public, however, to avoid any accusations of blatant opportunism, I think it best to make that exception this one time!

Camden Rocks! (H&M / XFM promotional merchandise).

Unfortunately by the time I had heard about the recent t-shirt design competition at XFM.co.uk it seemed the competition was already over, I ranted in a few emails but to be honest I think a little nepotism is sprawling round the corridors of XFM Radio’s headquarters. I submitted my design 3 days before the deadline, and he designs there absolutely sucked, that’s not a personal opinion, it is plain and simple truth. Take a look at all the submissions here.

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