The race is over: Jonas made his way on our T-Shirtday site and won the sample-shirt. Have a look at the T-Shirtday site and get involved - we have three more Sample Shirts to give away. So if you want to be a t-shirtday testimonial, send us your foto and shirt story to

stories AT spreadshirt . net

If we publish your story, you’ll receive a free sample shirt from us.

Until next monday, you can also participate in the T-Shirtday Competition over at laFraise: we are looking for the official T-Shirtday design to replace the “I (heart)” design as topseller in our marketplace.

From the “Move Master Michael” 

It is just unbelievable. Back in January we stood in front of a heap of rubble and dirty ground and now this: Presses, shelves, T-Shirts, people. No more delay, no eventualities, no maybes. Last weekend our production department moved into the new building. Goodbye Taucha, Welcome Plagwitz!

Naturally such a tour de force leaves its marks. Despite teamwork and nightshifts at the weekend we couldn’t prevent that one or the other T-Shirt arrived with a day delay. Please forgive us, we promise not to move again in the next five years or so. Also our new home is prepared for some growth so you will find us at Gießerstraße 27 for the next years to come.
What else is going on? Well, first of all we will have to optimize workflows in the new surroundings. Everyone in production is now working together in the big hall and that saves us a lot of time. Time we will use to produce T-Shirts even faster and get them delivered to you with even more reliability. The rest of the Spreadshirt crew, e.g. Marketing and Service, will move in early August.
And by the way: If you want to come looking for us at night then, follow the green light…. More on this one in the next blog post.

David Dimitrov is Spreadshirt’s Chief Controller. Find out what that is, why it is even more confusing to work at a long established company like Daimler than at Spreadhirt (yes, this is a gibe) - and why David is actually going to Plovdiv once a year..

Continue reading ‘Meet A Spreader - David Dimitrov’

We haven’t been making too much noise about it. Yet! Because behind the scenes Greg, well-known from a range of projects is conducting the official official site for the yet to come first international T-Shirtday. On June 21th, the first day of summer, we want to celebrate the T-Shirt - together with you!

That’s why we need your story: What’s your favourite T-Shirt and why do you like it? Send us your foto wearing your favourite shirt, and a short text until Monday evening 6PM to stories AT spreadshirt . net

And this is what you can win:

Continue reading ‘Win a free Sample Shirt!’

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.

Short question in advance:

1950 – One in every 30 children died*

2005 – One in 500 every children died*

Do you know why?

*Source: UNICEF

Continue reading ‘Measuring your feedback- Findings from the NPS Conference in London’

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.

© Utopia

A post by Anne Henneken, editor for Utopia, a German platform for “strategic consumption”. She´s also a columnist for jetzt.de which is a part of the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” network.

D: Nice shirt!
U: Thanks. Can you hand me over the juice, please?
D: Here you go.
U: Thanks… ahh, sh**. Who makes up these stupid openings? That will never come out again…

In all of us, there´s a latent juice-on-the-pants-tilter, red-wine-spiller and coffee-fiddler. Creating stains is something everybody can do easily, fast and in almost every situation. People like Jackson Pollock even make art from it - but usually the spiller causes only anger and sometimes even insurance cases.

What are stains? Cleaning pros divide stains based on the elements which cause them. For example fat (Nutella, butter, shoe creme), proteins (blood, milk, garlic gravy) or pigments (juice). The hardest to remove stain are those which are made from a combination of these elements. A cacao-stain, therefore is a stain for semi-pros as it contains protein alongside dark color pigments and fat.

You can find a whole arsenal of stain removers in any given drug store. However, from an eco perspective, these aren´t very “clean”, as they often contain aggressive chemicals for bleaching and dissolving. These not only attack the fabrics but also pollute the environment. At the same time, there´s a fabric- and eco-friendly instrument to remove almost every stain out there. And it doesn´t hurt to know some of them:

Continue reading ‘Move and go away! Ways to get rid of stains the gentle way’