I am loving the new feature on Google Maps that lets your create your own map. I have just created this map about Local Fabric Shops and it has been fun to see what local fabric shops people have been suggesting. So I was thinking this would be a great way to display some of our Spreadshirt shops that are about a place. 

So here it is - the big bad map of Spreadshirt Shops. Of course I started with IheartPGH and I also added a St. Louis Shop - StLouieLouie.com  I need your help to fill up the rest of this map.  Does your Spreadshirt shop sell shirts that promote a place?

• cities
• towns
• establishments - restaurants, parks, museums
• bands

Anything associated with a place - we want to add your shop to the map. Please leave your shop and its location as a comment or send me an email. I will add new shops to the map. I hope we can fill this up with a country of city loving t-shirts.

Just wanted to show off another shop that is powered by Spreadshirt!

Ustream is the leading internet broadcasting platform. Ustream’s proprietary technology powers an easy-to-use, web-based interface, allowing anyone with a camera, computer and Internet connection to broadcast live to the world. Integrated with a host of interactive tools including chatrooms, co-host, and shout meter, Ustream’s platform delivers real-time, social experiences on the web. Since its beta launch in March 2007, Ustream has grown to 360,000 registered users broadcasting 8,000 - 10,000 live shows a day. Ustream.TV is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is privately held. For more information, please visit: www.ustream.tv.

Check out the Ustream.tv shop here!!!

We have a rainbow of new colors to show off in the product assortment area…

The Men’s hemp t-shirt is now available in Navy and Olive.

The Men’s American Apparel jersey t-shirt is now available in the refreshing shades of Aqua and Lime.

Don’t worry we also have some summer, lemonade-like, colors in the Female American Apparel jersey t-shirt - Pink and Lemon. Red and Navy are also new for the female American Apparel jersey t-shirt too.

Good Bye Camo -The manufacturer has discontinued the camo t-shirts.  We are looking into finding another supplier for these.

Temple is in charge of all things for Shops here at Spreadshirt. Each month she puts together her best ideas for the Temple’s Tip section of the newsletter (and I post them here on the blog).  This month has lots of great info so make sure you scroll down to the bottom!

Let’s talk about Digital Designs!

Many of you know we released a new digital print method, Digital Direct a couple months ago. Digital Direct is available on a limited number of products, but will soon replace both of the other printing methods. Note: When designing products with digital images, the Edit Design box below the product, will state the digital print method used. continue reading ‘Temple’s Tip for July: Digital Designs’

This 3/4 sleeve boat neck shirt is from American Apparel.  Spreadshirt is stocking this shirt in white, red, black and lovely lavender.

For those of you who like to surf Spreadshirt on Saturday morning we want to give you the heads up that we will be having some scheduled routine maintenance on the site. This will take place on Saturday, July 26th between 2:00-4:00am EDT . During this time, online services on our platform and all related shops won’t be operational for the following:· www.spreadshirt.net

· www.spreadshirt.com

· www.lafraise.com

A screen will inform customers to come back after the scheduled maintenance period, when we will be back up and fully operational as before.

We apologise for the short notice of this announcement and for any inconvenience this might cause you.

Your Spreadshirt Team

Election day is 103 days away - there is still lots of time for campaigning and for campaign t-shirts. We want to help you Spread The Vote T-shirt style. Please add your best election designs for candidates or just about voting to the Spreadshirt marketplace. Please start adding your best political designs to the marketplace and add the tag SpreadTheVote. We will be featuring the best of the election designs from now until election day.

Yes, THE John Tesh, mentions Spreadshirt on his blog. He has a nice post which includes links to people who used the internet to make money and become famous.

You Don’t Need Hollywood To Become Famous

Face it, we all want our fifteen minutes of fame . . . or perhaps thirty minutes or more. The traditional route to fame includes having an artistic talent, getting your 8 x 10 photos, finding an agent to represent you, going out on auditions and then maybe . . . getting discovered. continue reading ‘John Tesh mentions Spreadshirt on his blog’

One of the things we started talking about at Spreadshirt last year is passion because people often order t-shirts for things they are passionate about.  At first I thought - I am not that passionate about anything that I would order a t-shirt - but over the past year I have discovered a few things that I am really passionate about.  One of those things is Wordpress - the more I talk about blogging - I always recommend Wordpress as a blogging platform - mostly because Wordpress has made it very easy for me to share info about Pittsburgh and t-shirts.

Another thing that I have become very passionate about is This American Life.  This American Life is a weekly radio program on NPR, each week they offer 60 minutes of stories about all sorts of interesting things.  I started listening a little over a year ago and I have become a huge fan.  Listening to This American Life has helped me to see the value of story telling and I have come to look at blogging as a way pf telling an ongoing story.  My first blog, IheartPGH, is an ongoing story about Pittsburgh.  This blog is an ongoing, sometime rambling, sometimes silly story about things happening at Spreadshirt.

I live about 45 minutes away from the Spreadshirt production facility - while I am not the biggest fan of driving - I secretly enjoy the trip because it gives me the opportunity to listen to an episode of  This American Life.  I even went to see the live season premier of the This American Life tv show.  Both Wordpress and This American Life are things that I would like to have on a t-shirt (or tote bag - I am really big on tote bags).  So I am super super excited about the This American Life t-shirt contest.   I have had a few good t-shirt ideas in my head for some This American Life t-shirts.  The winning design will be the thank you gift for the next pledge drive and the winner gets $1000.  Check out the rules here - you can submit up to 3 designs.  If your design isn’t the winning design - I would still like to see it because I will probably want to order at least 1 of every This American Life design I can get my hands on.

Okan Arabacioglu is an illustrator from Baltimore, MD.  He has a great blog - Blog-Kan about his work where I learned about his shop - Shop-Kan.  I really like this t-shirt, this fancy wall paper pattern has become quite popular and I really like how it looks on the t-shirt.