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

Omg SpreadShirt.NET are driving me crazy!!

First they ask me to make layers, then they want me to ‘interleave’ the shapes, now they want the former with a solid background.

SpreadShirt.net must have the most confusing submissions program for just about anything in the world!

Here’s what they’re saying now - I’ll point out that I did increase the borders to every shape in the design to 2.0mm (took me days!) Read more

SpreadShirt Blues…

Wow! I never realized how difficult it would be transferring my designs from DTG to Flock print. Basically it has meant slapping thick borders over all my work, I had read the advice, Read more