With T-Shirt Day just around the corner we thought we would put together an interesting list of facts and numbers we’ve discovered lurking amongst the world of Spreadshirt. We unearthed some surprising and at times perplexing figures.

With all of that in mind, our number crunching market researchers have an open invitation to you all to make requests for more stats if the ones below haven’t satisfied your craving. As you might guess we sometimes can’t get around the fact of not naming some figures. Unless you are a professional football player, you wouldn’t want your monthly wages published out in the open either.

Spreadshirt’s world in numbers:

- The average number of people who handle a Spreadshirt product before it lands in the customer’s mailbox: 16

- The average number of hours it took a Spreadshirt product from the time of order to shipment in 2008 (including weekends and holidays): 36 continue reading ‘T-Shirt Statistics from the World of Spreadshirt’

We accidentally discovered this little gem of a scene featuring on of our favorite stars, I am not talking celebrities, I am talking about the always handsome t-shirt. Enjoy!

PS - We would love to feature other movie t-shirts scenes - please send us your favorites.

It’s day three and we are close to the finals. Today we are taking care of a healthy living, and you know: sometimes, this is the hardest part. Right at the start we found ourselves in the kitchen not sipping oily hot coffee with fat milk as usual, but green tea without sugar and some strange greek mountain herbs.

Back to the office - and in a lucky moment, Tobi caught Eike right before she wanted to shut the windows - today these windows stay open, freezing in fresh air is preferred to choking in the computer heated office.

Over to lunch: Instead of a 5 class menu or some quick rolls at the corner bakery we chose to go for the Gandine, a nice little location not far away - but far enough for a little running tour. Here we picked some salads and even the dessert can be described as “semi-healthy”: icecream made of olive oil, parmesan cheese or carrots.

To pick up some energy in the early afternoon, we tried the organic gummy bears stars with real costa rica cola. Afterwards, Michel decided to do a little “smoker’s yoga” on the terrace. And yes, we have to admit that some of our team couldn’t resist to join the cake session, but what’s good for the mood can’t be bad for the body?

Let’s see with what the laFraisians come up with - and who will win the gold medal in the end. Actually this reminds me: we haven’t decided on the prizes or even how we pick the winner, but the last three days were really fun and insightful anyway, so stay tuned for the big winner’s ceremony next week.

Yesterday saw the close of Day 2 of the ecOlympics.

Saving energy is normally Michel´s self appointed task within our department. He´s the one switching all the screens from standby to off when leaving the office. Of course, he also did that all day yesterday as well.

On top of that, Ami was a particularly strong performer. He wore not a regular, but a watch that you can recharge through body-movements, left his mobile off the whole day and worked all day on a “power-saving Apple machine”. And if that wasn´t enough, he came into the office wearing bright sun-tee from laFraise. Big up!

The rest of the zoo got points for coming to work by bike and not using the elevator.

laFraise guys, it doesn´t look good for you ;-)!

Earth Day is behind us and the future is ahead. Since we don’t only want to take action close to Earth Day, but act in a more sustainable manner, we thought it would be nice to keep improving and training our ecological mindset. That’s why we challenged the guys over at laFraise to do a fun competition, we called it the “ecolympics”. It will last for three days and the teams are the Spreadshirt Bloggers vs. the laFraisians. Here are the disciplines:

Wednesday: Avoid Spam, umm, I mean waste
Thursday: Save Energy and Water
Friday: Healthy food and living (no macaroni Friday in the BIC cantina it seems)

Well, here is the first episode: Talking of waste. How can we avoid waste - which sounds pretty simple, since we just have to reuse stuff. For example water bottles, mugs, green tea bags, chewing gums (umm, wait on this). The second big part is to avoid paper and just not printing this email, separate plastic wrap material and bio-waste (a great sports here in Germany).

See how we did and check our gallery:

I think we are well prepared and a hot candidate for the gold medal in this discipline. We are very curious to see how the laFraise Team wants to beat the Tupperware towel recycled bottle champs!

To get extra points, we seeded a little “T-Shirt shape” outside HQ and inserted funny postcards and sunflowerseeds at every order yesterday.

Bikers seem to have a special relationship with t-Shirts. In this Spreadshirt story, Andy, a hotel manager tells us his story about how he traveled 2500 miles around 8 different countries of Europe. As you can see, his custom made shirt (which thankfully did get washed ) made the whole journey with him.

I remember some discussion about the American Apparel ads here a while back. I seem to remember although I might have just been being oversensitive, I was the only one against them. Theres a nice article in the Onion today about the liberation of 14 AA models.

“Acting on information gathered from billboards, alternative weeklies, and Internet banner ads, an FBI strike team liberated 14 dazed, sallow, and undernourished American Apparel models in a raid on the controversial organization’s downtown Los Angeles compound early Monday.”

Very funny read if you have the time

No-one doubts the quality of their shirts though
You’ll find it here

Theres also a nice AA parody as a site intro over at Headline Shirts

Arrgghhh it be Evil Jim Rackham (get your pirate name here)

Today, my sealoverrrrs be national talrrrrrk like a pirate dayee!

Time for a sweep, who has the best pirate shirt in their shop? If now, climb aboard the celebratory vessel and get involved.

Need inspiration? Check out flickrs photo pool. They be already redoing theyre logo:

Learn from the pros:

Arrr, whats your fa’ourite pirate shirt from the marketplace or beyond? Mine be this beauty from Camisteria(you can’t actually buy its, its sold out )

Or from the marketplace it be Modern Pirate by istheshit:


Spreadshirt
Modern pirate

A little note to inform you that our 4millionth design has just been uploaded! Awesome. A big honour for the design, so lucky it was something extra special. Find out what in the full post….

continue reading ‘4 millionth design uploaded’

Fair play to the guys and girls over at Busted Tees for doing this brilliant one-take lip dub…Just a normal day at the office. Who’s ready for the Spreadshirt version?!

Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo.