What do Neo Rauch and spreadshirt Marketplace designers have in common? Correct, they both create artwork and offer them up for sale! Given, the commissions on the Marketplace don’t usually rake in $1 million of Brad Pitt’s money, but rather “only” £1.43 on average. But don’t give up on the Marketplace just yet: compared to Rauch’s work, these designs can be sold more than once, namely 23,131 times (the current record holder “I heart” design). That’s how the top 100 Marketplace designers are still able to earn an average of £540 per month. Take that Neo!

But how do you make it into the top 100 and become the next Damien Hirst of the spreadshirt Marketplace? continue reading ‘How do I become a successful Marketplace designer at Spreadshirt?’

As some of you might have read on laFraise’s blog, the winner of one of the largest online design competition prizes ever awarded was announced yesterday. As you can see from the 12 finalists, there was some tough competition to rake in the €15,000.

Can you take the suspense?

You’ll find the winner after the click (drum-roll please, trumpets blare):
continue reading ‘laFraise Unveils 15K Contest Winner’

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!

The complete selection of Amorphia Apparel’s designs is finally available for us t-shirt wearing Europeans. So what’s the big deal, you ask? Faster and cheaper shipping for fantastic shirts! Amorphia designer Jeremy Kalgreen has been making waves in the North American market for quite a while, continually expanding upon his at times ironic, enigmatic or witty approach to design. From its conception, the Amorphia family has now grown to four separate lines, each with their own niche-like target. There’s a little something out there for animal aficionados, (dis)believers in intelligent design, science buffs and pretty much anyone with a good sense of humour. Find the links to the shop with photos and design examples after the click. continue reading ‘Amorphia Apparel extends its reach - “Hey Europe, what’s up?”’

While some of you might have started learning German to understand our original Design Service video, we went and got a voice over for it. Michael from Design Service and Klaus from our Test Lab give us a glimpse at things behind the scenes. We show what happens from the point when your design is submitted to its plotting and weeding.

Michael first introduces us to the two most common reasons for the rejection of a vector graphic and how he checks to see if your designs meet our requirements for vector graphics. Then we head down to the Test Lab in production where Klaus plot designs with lines that are too thin and curves which are not closed just to see what happens! The results are eye-opening and they certainly convinced me that the strict vector design requirements are there for a very good reason.

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!