Some of the recent submissions for the Social Media special contest from laFraise and Spreadshirt have been great. So, we decided to move the submission deadline from today to Monday, June 1st.

As a little extra motivation for all designers, Spreadshirt CEO Jana Eggers spontaneously introduced a special CEO prize. She will award her favourite design which:

• helps people promote their social media identity
• in a fun and cool way
• with an eye-catching design

with an Amazon Kindle - which, for those who haven’t heard of it, is a brand new digital reading device that allows you to read electronic books, magazines, newspapers and blogs on the run.

The Kindle is currently only available in the States so that the winner will be among one of the few first Europeans to hold it in their hands. Keep those great designs coming and get them in by Monday!

If you look to the left you’ll see a screen shot of the official Spreadshirt shop for T-Shirt Day 2009. It looks great, but is still quite a bit empty. We have to change this. Fast.

Calling all Shop Partners and Marketplace Designers! Either tag your favourite shirt designs with “tshirtday09” or upload a new favourite design with the tag “tshirtday09”.

We’ll grab those designs a put them in the shop, and to top that we’ll be sending some of them out in newsletters and slapping them on banners. So, tag on!

P.S. This is just a friendly reminder that you still have time (until Thursday) to submit designs for the “Social Media” T-Shirt Design Contest with laFraise and Spreadshirt. You can find details about the contest here.

If you are looking for some inspiration, check out the video “Cosmopolitan Tribalism” which our blog-savvy Tobias found in Markus Reuter’s blog. Think zeitgeist, mainstream, trends and global youth. Video after the click. continue reading ‘T-Shirt Day 09 - We Need Your Favourite Designs’

It’s that time of year again – where the warm weather provides many reasons for celebration. 21 June is action-packed this year – not only is it both Father’s Day and the official start of summer, but also International T-Shirt Day. Just like last year we are teaming up with laFraise for a special competition where the winner can rake in a prize of €1,500. The theme of this year’s competition:

Take Social Media to the Streets!

Social Media isn’t exactly something you could normally put your hands on, but rather has become the corners of the net which some call their second home, like:

• Blogs
• Twitter
• Facebook (etc.)
• Flickr (etc.)

We are looking for the best t-shirt design which allows people to communicate their social media presence (nickname, name, URL, status update etc.) on a shirt. Create a design for laFraise and Spreadshirt which best and most concisely conveys social media and its importance for the individual.

Requirements for the design continue reading ‘laFraise and Spreadshirt Team up for T-Shirt Day Competition’

September 21st is International Peace Day. Especially in regard of current developments, this seems to be a good occasion to spend some thoughts on politics. But besides worrying about old rivalries becoming new ones, there´s also a reason to celebrate - this year, the famous peace sign celebrates its 50th birthday.

That´s why Spreadshirt and laFraise join forces and launch a special shirt design competition around the topic of peace. The only requirement to take part is to incorporate the peace sign in the design. Not necessarely as the key visual, but it has to be in there somewhere.

The winner will get 1,500 EUR in cash and we´ll also give away some slots in the Spreadshirt end customer newsletter for those designers who not only submit their pieces to the European gallery of laFraise but to the Spreadshirt marketplace (please use “WorldPeaceDay08″ to tag submissions) as well.

Deadline for submissions  is September 12th. The winner will be announced on September 21st.

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The shirt rallye is on! Just as a reminder: if you manage to attract three new customers within the next two weeks you will receive one shirt coupon at 15 pounds. Possibly up to five coupons per person! Also, the best marketing ideas – how to promote and spread your shop - will be richly rewarded. But how? Among the prizes we would like your vote on there are a Wacom Board, Google Adwords credits, photo shooting for your shop and…

continue reading ‘1 2 3 Rallye - additional prizes’

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Sustainability is our big theme in April: Earth Day, Bamboo and Eco-Cotton – Bambi will surely show up too. “Everything beautiful and good,” our production taoist philosophized, who might have just watched too much Star Wars. “You can push yourself as much as you want. As long as you behold the light and not the shadow, Ying and Yang won’t be in balance.”

That sounds unbelievably wise, impressed us greatly and let’s us simply imagine ripping through the forest at 130 km/h.
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Thank you to all who have taken part in the design competition for the Shirt That Stole Christmas. It’s been emotional. We have taken a vote in the Spreadshirt UK Office and from a handful of random punters, and have reached our decision. There were a lot of great designs, and all of them made us smile, so this was a toughie. Here’s how it panned out… continue reading ‘An Anti-Christmas Miracle!’

A reminder to one and all that our Anti-Christmas Design Competition Extravaganza Expo-Fest-O-Rama 2007 ends this afternoon. We Spread Bloggers will take a vote and the winner will be announced on Monday and crowned the Mighty Designer of the Shirt that Stole Christmas. Which is your favourite so far?

In the meantime, the excellent anti-Festive cartoon from Bifsniff.com (above) is sure to keep you in the mood.

There must be something in the eggnog…The Anti-Christmas designs entries are now pouring in.  And as I had suspected, the Bah Humbug mentality crosses both language barriers and culinary divides.   The latest are under the cut for your viewing pleasure: continue reading ‘Festivus for the Rest of Us: Anti-Xmas Design Contest Update’

Don’t forget the Anti-Christmas comp ends this Friday at 5pm. So far theres only one entry, which makes your odds of winning the £250 Spreadshirt shopping spree very high indeed. Very, very high indeed. So what are you waiting for…Christmas? Ouch, thats bad, unlike our first design:

Anti Christmas by bountyday