This was proven by our latest Design Battle in the Spreadshirt Forum. Within the group of finalists there were 82 votes for vampire designs and 54 for Viking designs. This would also explain the results of the 14 finalists – in order of their total votes:

The surprisingly simple winning design came from one of our Norwegian partner xconnectx, second place went to our deluxe designer romibello and third place was grabbed by Vorsicht-Tellerrand. Big thanks go out to all of those who participated in the battle and subsequently improved our Marketplace with some great new designs. We also broke some records with this Design Battle: 98 submissions from 36 designers! Keep your eyes peeled for the next battle!

I thought I would take a look over the shoulder of my colleagues on the German blog and this set of 15 designs caught my eye, just as they have caught yours. These are designs selected by our Design Service team, namely, those who manually approve every design that appears on the Marketplace for any ethical or legal concerns. They also keep their eyes open for designs they like and share them with us. The designs in this selection range from beautiful to monstrous, philosophical to silly, subtle to striking, random adjective to opposite random adjective – just the tip of the iceberg of the variety that is our Marketplace. Enjoy!

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:


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Modern pirate

Whilst browsing through the Spreadshirt Marketplace i came across the following rather interesting design idea (by bambu). As a “closet” puzzle fan i really like the idea of wearing a baffling message on my shirt, knowing only a few geeky like minded people will understand the message. It is also a nice way of promoting your shop (or design), by allowing your customers to interact with your shirts. See if you can guess any of the following locations…

continue reading ‘Spreadshirt Marketplace - Where in the world?’

I really like this design. For me it fits two settings

a) Actually being a Tourist

This says it loud and proud. I’m a tourist, oh yeah, I have no idea where I am, steal my Lonely Planet and I’ll going into shock and drop dead from fear of going somewhere not given 20 words snarly review. I’m going to take photos of anything other people are taking photos of. I’d wear this shirt with touristy pride, a smug grin on my face the next time I’m taking photos of things other people are taking photos of.

b) Not being a Tourist, in a place full of Tourists

Last week I was in a sort of Touristy no mans land. I was acting as a Tour guide, in Cambridge for a first time city visitor, in a city I hardly know, getting annoyed by all the Tourists, of which I was technically one. The perfect scenario to wear this and make the equally paradoxical

“I hate you annoying Tourists”

“I’m an annoying Tourist” statement

From the good people of Amorphia Apparel. Also available in the marketplace.

We’ll be showing more of the great marketplace submission we’re getting now. Browsing through there are some top designs by some familiar faces. I’m digging the ultra cute Little Lamb from 2smartmonkeys. Thanks to “blog this” function, here its is in all its glory

Little Lamb document.write (”);

On a shirt how about contrasting the cuteness of little fella, with a pro meat statement:

Thanks to everyone thats been submitting to the marketplace. We now have over 1000 designs. Some are proving really popular, here is a little overview of some of the top sellers so far (some partners have had over 150 sales so far!)

continue reading ‘Marketplace Update - Top Selling Designs’

Here is another post addressing the Marketplace. Its a follow up from the aptly title “Marketplace pt.1”. I’ll try and answer some of the questions that have been popping up here, in the forums and directly to service@spreadshirt.net

Including:

“I’m new here, whats the marketplace again?”

“Commission. Thats bitching, tell me more.”

“Whats the difference between a product and design?”

“If I submit a design where can it go?”

“I found a great design and I want to totally ruin it by adding a tacky pun. What customisation options do I have?”

continue reading ‘Introducing the Marketplace pt.2′

Heres a post introducing one new area of the future site, the Spreadshirt Marketplace. The idea behind this service is that all our customer demographics have a different reasons for using the site, and that we want to help you all connect more.

How does the marketplace help? Find out in the full post…

continue reading ‘Introducing the Marketplace pt.1′