is YMCA in Finnish. This video has brought laughter and joy to the Spreadshirt service team, so I thought we should share…
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Archive for August, 2007
Just wanted to post a little reminder about our BIG BIG BIG back to school promotion that is going on now.
Feel free to share this with your customers, friends and t-shirt lovers
· Writable/erasable flex printing – Blackboard meets baseball cap with this new printing technique, which allows customers to scribble a message directly on their garments and then easily wipe clean based on their changing moods.
· Greek font – Delta Gamma, Phi Gamma Delta, or don’t give a Delta? Make it a rush or Fall to remember with personalized apparel for your sorority, fraternity, or Gamma Delta Iota declaration.
· Limited-edition, European tees – Maybe Europe wasn’t in your Summer plans, but Europe can be in your closet! Spreadshirt’s laFraise is Europe’s largest tee design competition. Grab a winning design and be the only kid in school with an exquisite and exclusive laFraise shirt – only 100 of each design sold in all of North America!
· New designs in our School & Careers category – Our design team put their noggins to work and came up with fun designs to take you back to school in style, or just humor you while throw spit balls.
· New women’s & men’s products and colors – Moms have another reason to celebrate the start of school… new v-neck and long-sleeved shirts that can be customized with your favorite design or back-to-school saying. And Dads get more color options in our most popular tees – ash, gold, light blue and more!
· Reduced pricing for on critical school gear – Don’t hold back, express yourself shoulder to toe with $2 off popular book-toting bags – cinch sacks, messenger bags, and tote bags – and $5 off customizable sneakers.
· Free standard shipping – Who doesn’t love a student discount? Especially when you don’t need to be a student to get it! Spreadshirt is offering free shipping on all purchases over $20 from August 15 to September 15, using code: SCHOOL07.
Bacn? Yes, Bacn. If you are an internet junkie, like we are, then you may have heard of this new term bacn.
BACN = Email you want - But not right now.
Bacn has made its way around the internet and back - check it out even BoingBoing has a post on the popularity of bacn. The term bacn was coined at PodCamp Pittsburgh earlier this month and Spreadshirt’s own graphic designer extrodinare Jesse was part of the team who devised this brilliant term.
And of course you can order a bacn t-shirt from the bacn Spreadshirt shop.
Official Bacn website: www.bacn2.com
I am loving this design. The kids are heading back to school and I feel like the summer has gone by way too fast. I was just checking out the new designs in the Spreadshirt Marketplace and found these aviator sunglasses. This design is awesome. Jesse created this vector graphics to go with some of the 80’s themed designs we have been adding to the graphics collection. How would you use these on a t-shirt?
I wanted to highlight a blog post that someone else wrote about their Spreadshirt order because it shows off a couple of things about Spreadshirt.
Jonathan wanted a t-shirt to support the Out Campaign, but the official t-shirts from the campaign weren’t for him…
So I went to spreadshirt.com and made up a shirt to suit my tastes. I drew my inspiration from a plain, gray shirt that I’ve had for years that simply said “geek.” on the front. I also liked the idea of the empty set being a symbol for godlessness. Mix in one handy atheist quote with a slightly mathematical flair, and voilà! I had a t-shirt.
This story shows off some cool things about Spreadshirt:
- you can get the shirt that has the message you want displayed the way you want it
- simple text can make a great looking t-shirt
- you can use Spreadshirt to recreate your favorite t-shirts that may be getting worn out
I like that Jonathan used the word voila!
Check out this great article about Spreadshirt CEO Jana Eggers in Boston’s Weekly Dig.
Jana Eggers joins me at a café, sporting a bright green T-shirt with “Ihr seid spitze” screen-printed across the chest. The Boston-based Global CEO of Spreadshirt-a Germany-based company whose website enables anyone to order one-off custom apparel like the very shirt she’s sporting-recently gave an acceptance speech in German (note: English is her first language) regarding her promotion from North American CEO. She’s fond of the phrase “you rock,” and “ihr seid spitze” is the rough German translation-literally, “you’re sharp.” However, an unintentional mispronunciation took a JFK-reminiscent toll during the speech: “I ended with [the phrase], and what they thought I said was ‘You’re a pizza’!” The shirt commemorates the humorous faux pas.
Despite her self-proclamation as a “big geek,” Eggers is one of the most friendly and sociable geeks around. “I’m from Arkansas, so there are truck drivers-I love to talk to them,” she says, explaining her extroversion. It’s not something you’d necessarily associate with an expert in computational chemistry and supercomputing. Eggers’s history includes a stint at Los Alamos National Laboratory, doing research on how to put electrons through plastic and polymers, as well as logistics at Princeton Transportation Consulting Group. Before her current gig, she managed Quickbase at Intuit, and founded and ran their corporate innovation lab. But she soon got seduced by Spreadshirt: “I really fell for them.” It doesn’t hurt that she also notes good-naturedly, “I like Germans and Germany; I think they’re fascinating and fun!”
And, I have to admit, designing your own wearable on Spreadshirt is wicked addictive. I played around with the web interface for a couple of hours until I obsessively perfected my fuzzy-lettered, green-dinosaured hoodie. Eggers claims it takes 13 labor-intensive minutes to produce each inarguably non-mass-manufactured custom design: “We hand-make them; the process is truly one-off.” The special flex printing technique resists fading and cracking, and everything-from the fabrics (including organic cotton with bamboo options underway) to every flat, fuzzy, shiny font-is tested vigorously for superior wear. And I wouldn’t doubt Eggers, a triathlete who not only knows how to break a sweat, but also is making serious moves in the league of creative technology.
T-critic has a post about all of the awesome t-shirts seen at the Lollapolooza concert this summer. I loved the round up of t-shirts from SXSW so I am thrilled to see this round up (of 189 t-shirts from Lollapolooza).
2 things that we think are great about these t-shirts…
1. Mostly text t-shirts. Here at Spreadshirt we spend a lot of time studying t-shirts - some of the best are the ones that come through prodcution are the ones with just text. Text shirts are easy to create because they don’t require any graphics. We have been adding more fonts to the designer - so there are even more text styles to choose from.
2. Get Local. Many of these t-shirts reference cities, states or regions. We have been seeing more and more local themed t-shirts in t-shirt land. Maybe you want to add some local shirts to your shop!
…to the Spreadshirt blog! One year ago, yesterday we launched the blog! My my my, what a year it has been. Hundreds of posts, comments, funny videos and great t-shirt ideas. Thanks for reading along with us. I even found a picture of a birthday cake with a blog on it to celebrate.
Blog Birthday Cake Picture from askpang
Here are 3 of my favorite posts from the past year:
One way to get some traffic to your shop is to have one of the many t-shirt blogs write a review of your shirts. Joe, from Fantastic Blognanza has a blog post with some great tips on how to get the t-shirt bloggers to review your shirt:
How To: Get Your Cool T-Shirts Reviewed by a T-Shirt Blog
There are already a bunch of comments that agree. We would love to write about your shirts here on the Spreadshirt blog. Share your shirt stories with us. Just email me lpa@spreadshirt.com.
Continuing our series on learning German it is time for another German word. We started by learning that Danke is German for Thank You. So I figured we better back up to hello, in German - Guten Tag.
