Queen Elizabeth II will be celebrating 60 years of reign this summer. As with most traditional royal events, there will be plenty of excitement among souvenir sellers and collectors. We are also looking to get some great designs on our platform and into our marketing campaigns so you and others can create their own souvenir. This huge event is a perfect backdrop for a design battle.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for Pro and Contra monarchy designs – a hot topic often surrounding royal events. There are no limits to your creativity (aside from copyright and personality rights/laws). And to get you started, we’ve gathered some links that should get some inspiration juices flowing:

• The official logo, which may be used but not altered at all
• The official Brittish monarchy website
• A shop with some examples
• A democratic alternative
• Anti-royalty blog

The rules:

continue reading ‘Design Battle: British Monarchy Diamond Jubilee’

No. We won’t be selling those at Spreadshirt any time soon. But we had a blast creating our April Fool’s story and taking those pictures. Just imagine the other people in the park that day. And obviously quite some of you clicked the link. Got you! Haha! But while preparing our joke we actually found someone in Germany who produces shirts for couples. In case you really can’t continue your life happily without these shirts you can find them here: http://www.familienshirt.com/. But we actually do have a little something for those of you who are newsletter subscribers. You have the opportunity to test our brand new volume discount until the 8th of April. Save money now with volume discounts from 5 products on. What? You didn’t get the newsletter? Well then hurry up, open Maria’s newsletter now, bring it back from trash, take us off your spam list or subscribe to our newsletter already. You won’t regret it.

Did you try to buy them? Would you want us to add them to our product rage? Please leave a comment and let us know!

We’ve added a brand new addition to our product range: Multi-Personality Shirts. The more, the merrier! This very big and all embracing t-shirt has space for multiple people (and their personalities). A fun way to celebrate stag nights or showing support for your football team. Just think of wearing it with your mates when traveling to the Euros! It also makes a great gift idea for couples or the whole family! Check out all of the possibilities:

Jump on the new trend and design your own Multi-Personality Shirts now!

Last week we ran Spreadshirt Springweek on Facebook and had a great exclusive offer each day for our fans. We let our first spring walks, the first Spreadshirt BBQ lunch and the weather inspire our deals. We really enjoyed the Spreadshirt Springweek but we are wondering how you feel about it. We are curios about your feedback. First we have two videos for you to watch again. We had 12kg for our first BBQ of the year, which meant 12% discount for you all. And some of the Spreaders came together for a “Spreadshirt Egg Blow Out” to see who can do the most eggs in 3 Minutes. The codes or not valid anymore, but the videos are still fun to watch. continue reading ‘Facebook Springweek is over. Again, again!’

Popcorn Prints is a relatively new shop on the Spreadshirt platform filled with custom shirts and clothing inspired by furry little friends. Starting with guinea pigs and hamsters, Louise plans to cover all household pets. These kind of niche shops can become successful, especially when it’s run by an enthusiast. We wanted to hear about her experiences using Spreadshirt and here are the answers we got!

What inspired or motivated you to open a shop and how long have you run the shop?

As a self-confessed guinea pig lover, I was looking around for a t-shirt for myself featuring guinea pigs and struggled to find one that I really liked. As it was just before Christmas 2011, I was also looking for a way to earn some extra money and when I landed on Spreadshirt’s site, it seemed a perfect way to solve two problems in one! The more I thought about it, the more I realised there was also scope to promote important messages and help to raise money for guinea pig charities.

How did you learn about Spreadshirt?

Once I hit on the idea of designing my own t-shirts, I read many reviews regarding the main t-shirt printing companies. Spreadshirt consistently appeared to outperform its competition on quality and reliability.

continue reading ‘Popcorn Prints – Clothing Inspired by Furry Little Friends’

Tomorrow (20^th of March) is the beginning of spring. And as we have  already announced here, we’ll have surprises ready for our Facebook fans each day beginning tomorrow through the 26^th of March.
There will be all sorts of great promotions waiting for you on our Facebook page, depending on temperature, sun and other signs that spring is finally here. We will provide you with a different voucher every day. So get ready by preparing your perfect spring outfit now and save on your order with the matching voucher. continue reading ‘Spring is here! – Exclusive Deals for our Facebook Fans’

Spring’s just about here and you’re starting to see more and more people outside doing sporty things. Some want to fit back in their bikini. Others simply love being fit. Whatever the reason, we want to suit them up in custom sports products. Now we can! Check out these new custom sport products:

• Men’s Sports Tank Top in white, black, navy and red
• Men’s Sports Shorts in very nice contrasting colours white/grey and black/grey
• Women’s Strapless Sports Top in great colours white/grey, black/grey, navy/grey and red/grey)
• Women’s Sport Shorts in the same colours like the male version white/grey, black/grey

continue reading ‘New Sports Products added to Spreadshirt!’

On the 20th of March Spring is finally here! And as Spring makes us happy, we thought we would make you happy as well. We’ll have surprises ready for you each day from the 20^th through the 26^th of March.

Each day we will release a new surprise on our Facebook page. Unfortunately that is all the information we can give you right now. The whole thing is really top secret. But let us tell you this: The higher the spring fever, the bigger the surprises! The perfect time to give us a “like” on Facebook and become a fan. Check our page daily from March 20th until the 26th to see what surprises we have prepared for you.

The Timeline for Facebook Pages is here and we are seeking your advice! While preparing the design for our new page we just could not decide what would make a great first cover photo. Then we once again realised we had an awesome community of creative people and design pros to help us out. Why not ask them? So here is the question: Could you help us out? continue reading ‘Design Contest – The First Spreadshirt Facebook Cover Picture’

Now, what is it that makes your shop and products so unique?

We’ve been aware of Spreadshirt for years now, and we knew that most shops offer quite interesting designs – but we wanted to come up with something special. We wanted to create t-shirts that did not only put the person wearing it in the limelight, but become the centre of communication altogether. In other words, we were looking for ways that got people involved with the design on a t-shirt. Then came the day when we took part in a workshop on a new technology called “augmented reality”. This extended form of reality makes non-existing objects look real as they appear in the environment of real objects. The question was: could be put it on a t-shirt? By printing 3D objects on a t-shirt, we were able to shift the communicational focus to the design itself, and the person wearing it became part of the scenery. This stimulates interaction between people commenting on the design and the guy in the t-shirt, who appears in a different form of reality. A lot of people take pictures with their smartphones or camera of people wearing our t-shirt designs, because they see something else in the design than the owner of the t-shirt. It would be interesting to put both parties in a room in front of a computer at a later point in time and ask them to comment on what they see – I’m sure you’d get completely different interpretations!

If you email your pics or put them on Facebook – e.g. as your new profile picture – you can receive those different reactions first hand. It’s definitely very interesting, and we’ve only ever got positive feedback. You should check it out yourself!

Since when have you been running your shop?

The AugmenTeeShirt shop has only been around since December 2011, but it has been met with great interest already, which is obviously fantastic.

continue reading ‘AugmenTeeShirt – Augmented Reality on T-Shirts – Interview’