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?

What is in for you? The winning design will be our first Facebook cover picture for one week. The first post on the new page will link to your shop or website and of course you’ll win a free t-shirt! Send in your design suggestions until the 9th of March. Post them to our Facebook wall, put them in the Spreadshirt Forum or send them via email to dos[at]spreadshirt.net. Find some material for your design in our Flicker Account. Please checkhere if you need some more info on the new timeline for pages.

Well then: Create your own! We are looking forward to receiving your suggestion until the 9th of March!

It’s the first week of 2012 and as most have us have done year after year it’s resolution time. While we all try so very hard to keep our annual resolution, unfortunately for many of us, the resolution ends up falling by the way side. For those of you still deciding on what your resolution should be… even though it’s 5th of January, those 5 days really don’t matter and we won’t tell, the Huffington Post offers up “easy” resolutions you can actually stick to. We’re hoping however that this year will be different by offering you a little incentive to stick to your resolution!

We’re giving away a FREE shirt to 3 lucky people that submit their own New Year’s Resolution on a shirt. Simply design and submit your shirt back to this post or via Facebook until January 20th. The Spreadshirt team will then select the Top 3.

Remember the craziest and or unique shirts tend to shine so get your creative juices flowing!

Between the 26th and the 31st of December we asked you to vote for the Design Of The Year on our Facebook page. All in all there were three competitions running. One for the US marketplace, one for UK and one for Germany. Those who clicked “I Like” on their favorite designs could also win a shirt with design of the year on it.
So here are the three winners:

In case you missed it, we had two fine surprises for you on International T-Shirt Day – free shipping all day and a fun t-shirt photo contest for all! From all of the participants, we are awarding 3 sets of 10 free shirts to three lucky t-shirt fans wearing their favorite shirts or tank tops.

We chose 8 finalists from the many submissions on the blog and on Facebook and asked for your help deciding on the winner. We agreed with many of your votes and Penelope, Willie and the Twins are the winners – Congrats! We’ll be in touch with you

The past few days we’ve presented the 14 submissions for Spreadshirt’s 1st ever API contest. Now we’re ready to name the winners! As you saw in Martin’s posts (Part 1 and Part 2), we broke the submissions down in to 5 different categories. The majority of the submissions fell into the category “bringing different types of content to clothing”. In the API contest’s description, we purposely decided against laying down clear category boundary lines – but this is still covered within our platform strategy. The fact that many of the submissions fell into this type of category has influenced how we approach our API and how future contests will be organized. But, more on that at a later date.

Intro out of the way, let’s get to the winners! After lots of meetings and hefty discussion, we decided to award the prizes as follows: continue reading ‘Winners of Spreadshirt’s 1st API Contest’

Earlier today we took a closer look at 8 of the 14 submissions for the 1st Spreadshirt API contest. Now we want to present the 6 remaining apps that dealt with the question: “how to do you best integrate the Spreadshirt API in existing websites?”

Topic 3: How do I integrate Spreadshirt content into existing websites?

The Spreadshirt API was used in this area to access article or design lists from Spreadshirt shops and present them, create new products and allow them to be added to the basket for purchase.

ShirtPress –Wordpress Plugin

URL: http://example.shirtpress-plugin.de/shop
Screenshots:

Description:

ShirtPress is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to show article lists from Spreadshirt shops directly in a Wordpress blog for purchase. ShirtPress creates its own basket that the customer can use to add articles and then purchase from there. Checkout then follows via the Spreadshirt checkout system.

Sheepstealers – Wordpress Plugin

URL: http://www.sheepstealers.ie/
Screenshots: continue reading ‘We Present Submissions for Spreadshirts 1st API Contest – Part 2′

We promised to take a close look at the submissions for Spreadshirt’s 1st API Contest. Today we present 8 of those submissions (grouped thematically). These apps all have their own answer to the question: how do I get content onto clothing in an easy and unconventional way?

Topic 1: How do I bring existing content from various sources to clothing?

In this area, the Spreadshirt API was used to access information about Spreadshirt clothing, upload photos, create products and add those to the shopping cart for purchase.

ShirtGraph – Pictures from Photo Network Clouds on Clothing

URL: http://shirtgraph.com/
Screenshots:

Shirtgraph takes photos shot with a smartphone using Instagram or Picplz that are saved in the cloud and simply adds them to clothing. ShirtGraph is a very nice mashup that brings customers’ photos to shirts using a number of different APIs. The wizard in ShirtGraph is really innovative, as it helps you choose the right images and layout so they appear correctly on the product. continue reading ‘Presenting Spreadshirt API Contest Submissions – Part 1′

Spreadshirt’s first API Contest came to an end on May 31st. Since the beginning of April, we’ve had some creative developers working with our API to create new apps. We were happy to see 14 submissions for the contest – each going for the prizes of €3,000, €2,000 and €1,000 for first, second and third place. But, before we reveal the winners, we want to introduce all of the submissions.

The projects center around the following topics, which incidentally fit very well with our API strategy (see our CEO Phil’s interview with Exciting Commerce):

• How do I bring existing content from various sources onto clothing, e.g. images from a smartphone, images from social networks, texts from an SMS?
• How do you create interactive content for clothing, e.g. QR codes, drawn images?
• How do I integrate content from Spreadshirt into websites, e.g. Wordpress or Facebook?
• How do I create my own shop front-end, e.g. custom layouts, more SEO optimization?
• How do I create generic shop software for other Spreadshirt shops, e.g. as a shop hoster or reseller?

Many were most likely inspired by the Simplomat examples on the Developer Blog, where we showed how easy it is to use HTML, a little Javascript and the Spreadshirt API to bring images and text on clothing. The Simplomat code was also available for developers to use in the contest.

We will take a closer look at the 14 submissions in two parts over the next two days. Stay tuned!

UPDATE-The winner is Ginger! Thanks to all that participated!

Father’s Day is around the corner. If you are still searching for the perfect gift, look no further! Win your dad a FREE t-shirt designed by you! We’re giving away a FREE T-shirt valued at up to $25.00 to the person that shares with us the best story of why their dad means so much to them or their best dad memory.

Here’s all we need:
1. Which product would you like to give your dad this Father’s Day? (provide the link)
2. Why your dad means so much to you or best memory you have of the two of you?
3. Your email address so that we can contact you back

Simply leave us a comment below or email us at stories@spreadshirt.net

We are accepting submissions through this Friday the 10th

Calling all developers! The time has come: as forewarned we are looking for innovative and creative apps developed with our REST API. And today we’re starting that quest with the first Spreadshirt API contest.

Basic Details

The contest starts today and runs until the end of the day on May 31st, 2011. First place gets €3,000, second place €2,000 and third €1,000 (that’s a lot more in dollar$!). You can pretty much create whatever kind of app you want – but we’ve provided you with a couple ideas on the Developer Blog API Contest page. You’ll find even more details there along with the T&Cs for your perusal.

Apps can be submitted either in the API forum, or if you want to keep your stuff private in an email to api-contest AT spreadshirt . net. If you have any questions, let us know in the comments below or directly in the forum.
continue reading ‘Spreadshirt API Contest Begins Today’