What’s that? Might it be Mr. and Ms. Spring knocking at the door? That and t-shirt customers looking to shorten some sleeves in their spring wardrobe with a shirt or two. To put a little more spring in their click, we’ve got a great discount for all partner shops. Designers also have a reason to get excited about a little Design Contest we thought up.

Discount in Partner Shops

The handy “HELLOSUN” voucher code will be valid from 22 March to 7 April in all partner shops. Customers will get a 10% discount with a minimum order value of £20! Shop Partners should definitely let their customers know about this one. Customers can get some inspiration from the featured Spreadshirt shops. Happy buying and selling!

Spring Design Contest

We didn’t want to leave our Marketplace designers out of the springtime fun! Thus, our Winterade Design Contest!

Challenge: create a new vector design which is versatile and would bring a smile to our customers’ faces. Add the design to the Marketplace between 22 March and 7 April and tag it with “WINTERADE“. We will select the 5 best designs and give them top placement in different areas of our website. The winners will be selected and notified in April. So, spend this spring weekend finding some inspiration and design away!

Now that the weather finally does what we’ve all been waiting so eagerly for, we can take a closer look at the more important things, like the fashionable side of life. Since I’ve already told you about the fashionable trends for spring, I would like to talk about a very important part of everyone’s everyday outfit: bags! And the question will be answered: how much bag is a tote bag?
continue reading ‘Tote Bags - The Most Practical ‘IT’ Bag Around’

Today is the greenest day of the year! Millions gather to watch parades, clink glasses (Slainte!) and celebrate in honor of the good ole St. Patrick. Green is, of course the color of choice. Green beer and green rivers don’t impress me too much. But, green t-shirts are what I am interested in!

Send us photos of you in your St. Patrick’s Day shirts. The best photo will win a FREE t-shirt. Let’s see your outfit - you have until Friday, March 19th to submit your photo! Send them to stories@spreadshirt.net.

I’ll start off the inspiration with a photo just taken of me on our hammock. Unbeknownst to me, Spock had somehow slipped into the photo. Makes for a good laugh. Now it’s your turn.


Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

I am very happy to introduce our new products to you! Now that we’ve already added products that are breezy, earthy and have a splash of colour, I’d like to announce even more great additions to our product range. US Blanks is one of our new vendors, which is very young and fashionable label from the US:

• Men’s Long Sleeve Hoodie Tee which is available in heather oatmeal and heather grey. The fabric is very light and the style is pretty casual - a great combination for warmer days.
• Women’s Cardigan - which will be activated once we get every colour in stock (= soon!). This good will be offered in the colours heather red, heather chocolate and heather grey in a slim fit style.

continue reading ‘New Apparel at Spreadshirt - Spring should come NOW!!’

I wanted to share some links with you that I have stumbled upon in the last days. They deal with T-Shirt Design Competitions, Bandshirts and Failshirts - hopefully just the right mix to kickstart a successful week:

- Typoshirt Compendium: The guys at Magma Brand Design are collecting Typoshirts for their upcoming book. They are looking for real fotos of T-Shirts. However, you’ll need to hurry a bit - the deadline is already March 19th (this friday). I guess it’s for you if you already have something you just need to take a foto of and hit the submit button. What I like: you’ll get a free copy of the book if you are listed.

- Boss Orange Design Contest: Hugo Boss have entered Facebook and discovered the T-Shirt as a design canvas. They launch their new line Boss Orange with a T-Shirt Design Competition on facebook. A quick glance at the gallery shows a broad variety of colourful designs. Maybe you have something that fits to the style? The winner takes away 1,500 EUR and is invited to come to the Boss Headquarters to Metzingen.
continue reading ‘A handful of links for T-Shirt Designers’

Today marks the 100th celebration of International Women’s Day. It has grown from its socialist party roots to inspire women across the world and celebrate their past, present and future achievements.

You might find some who give the women in their lives flowers, chocolates or a small gift, which to me seems like a warm-up for mother’s day (more on that later). I am a bad man for not doing so? What is really behind International Women’s Day? Wikipedia helps you get started. Its roots lie in the fight for equality and voting rights for women. If you take a closer look at the news from around the world, this fight is far from over. Perhaps that is why this day is getting much more traction and coverage in countries which have largely ignored it in the past.

I would certainly point you to Nicholas Kristof’s article in the New York Times, where he provides three steps to advancing the world’s women and asks you to add to his ideas.

Inspiration is a big part of this day. I’d like to dust off an interview with our CEO Jana Eggers from two years ago as we marked that year’s Women’s Day. Jana often has words of inspiration on her shirts (you can see some here in her What is Jana Wearing series) - I wonder what she is wearing today?

Put your own words of inspiration on a shirt to celebrate International Women’s Day. Mother’s Day is also right around the corner, too (hint, hint)! We’ve set up a little voucher code for you for £5 off the Women’s Classic T-Shirt. Use the code WOMENSDAY2010 to create your own inspiring tee - offer valid until tomorrow, 9 March, at 11:59 pm.

Yes, you read correctly, I want you to make your shirt sparkle, glitter and shine. Have you ever thought about how stylish your shirt would be, if your individual designs got even more attention from others because of its shine, sparkle or glimmer? I think that would be totally awesome! If we assume that some products in this category are made with sequins, strass stones or skulls, don’t you agree that it would be easy to do something similar to these? You can wear your own individual and unique sparkle style, by creating it yourself! That’s exactly what our special flex foils are there for! continue reading ‘Bling Bling Shirts: All that Glitters Isn’t Gold - It’s also Fashion’

Our Designs Service team goes through thousands of designs a week, making sure that your submissions meet our design requirements. They’re checking your lines down to the millimetre, counting your anchor points and colours, and since they’re human, they also take note of designs they like.

Above are a few designs which for one reason or another landed in their like pile. The cat got the most votes in a our internal Spreadshirt poll - which one is your favourite?

P.S. We are also searching for the best shirts EVER. Check out the submissions so far, and post yours in the Spreadshirt forum.

What are customers looking for? What do they need? Despite the healthy amount of 65,000 designs in our T-Shirt Designer, the need becomes clear when you look at how many searches leave the customer with no results. Let’s take a look at the designs found in the T-Shirt Designer and how people are searching on Spreadshirt.

One of the problems that you find when searching is the limited diversity for some search results. A search for bird comes up with 707 designs – I imagine a customer will never get to the 707th design. Ravens, crows, owls and eagles come up with less hits, making your chances of being found that much better. Dodos come in with just two hits (hint, hint). And if you are an ornithologist or simply a fan of wagtails, you are going to come up empty handed.

Searched for, but not found

I am not saying that you should all go out there and design random birds, but you should always keep the Long Tail in mind. You should also be aware of how you tag for this Long Tail. Let’s be honest, very few people are able to distinguish between a design for a buzzard or a falcon. Just make sure that the design is relevant to the search and keywords. Here is an updated list of searches that had no results on Spreadshirt in 2010: continue reading ‘Tips for T-Shirt Designers – Quench Customers’ Search Thirst’

You can now find all current coupons, vouchers and promotions on our brand-new Spreadshirt Coupon page.

Have you ever ordered something, only to later come across a coupon somewhere in the far reaches of the Internet which would have come in handy minutes before? Not sure if the voucher code you found on the thousands of coupon pages is still valid? Does that coupon site look a little shady?

Well, we would like to save you a little time wading through Google – simply check out the current Spreadshirt Coupon and Voucher Codes to find discounts and their codes before you place your next order.

You might also find our Spreadshirt SALE page to be visit-worthy. As Anne has explained, we are making room for some of our spring apparel additions. Maybe you will come across a great find at a nice price! Enjoy the savings!