One of the easiest ways to make a really good looking shirt at Spreadshirt.com is to use text.  There are lots of things you can do with text and no design skills are needed.  One of the blogs I enjoy following on a daily basis is TeeCycle (see my other post on TeeCycle here).  I have even ordered some TeeCycled shirts for my sisters (One sister loves the Strand and the other is a Ski Nut).

Today’s TeeCycle shirt does a great job of using color and text and I think it is worth sharing. This shirt definity makes me want to get off of the couch and move.

Last week we announced the first ever Spreadshirt T-Summer Games, what can we say, we were excited by all of the competitions to watch this summer. I just wanted to remind everyone that the games have begun!

From now until August 25, 2008 upload your designs on the Marketplace or in your Confomat with the tag “Sport08”.

• Click here to see the blog post about T-summer games
• Click here for the official T-Summer Games Website - all of the rules and the prize are here

Eight is great. Today is the 8th day of the eight month of the year 2008. There is even a wikipedia page for August 8.

August 8 is also a day to sing Happy Birthday to :

• Dustin Hoffman ( I don’t know why he looks so serious in that picture).
• Larry Wilcox - he was on CHIPS.
• Kool Moe Dee

I thought some eight themed designs from the marketplace would be appropriate:How about an eight ball tote?

This design looks like the number 8

Problogger has a post today that asks “How Long Do You Take To Write A Blog Post? Which is a really good question. I left a comment on this stating that good posts take time - I like to make sure that I am fact checking my info and adding relevant links. So I was thinking about this in terms of t-shirts.

How long does it take for you to design a t-shirt?

What are the things you like to make sure your shirt has before you add the shirt to the shop? Do you spend time on the design, how do you pick the style, the color?

Please share your thoughts - I am really interested to see how you think about creating your shirt. You don’t have to be a Spreadshirt user to answer this question. All are welcome to share their thoughts.

Other blog posts that you might want to read

• Avoiding Common Design Mistakes

Image via Wikipedia

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.

I just found this scarf featured on the Craft blog.

Since we are big fan’s of *text t-shirts here at Spreadshirt, I thought this was worth sharing.  I really like  the way the letter look when they are smooshed together like they are in the scarf.  I think you could so some really great t-shirt designs with some text like that. Continue reading ‘Text for Your Neck’

I was browsing some of the awesome designs in the Spreadshirt marketplace and came across these two formal designs - I think these make really cool St. Patrick’s Day attire. Both of these designs are from the user Tattoooo, he has some other great St. Patrick’s Day designs in the marketplace.

St. Patrick’s Tie

I choose to put this in neon green on the green hoodie - I think it is really funny to see a tie on a hoodie.

Click here to create a shirt with this design.

St. Patrick’s Day Suite

I like the way the pink and green look together.

Click here to create a shirt with this design.

You probably already know that Spreadshirt offers flex and flock printing, but you may not know that we even have some rhinestone designs too.  Just in time for the greenest holiday of them all - we bring to you the Rhinestone Shamrock.  Now you can show your Irish pride in dazzling style.

Click Here to go to the rhinestone shamrock in the marketplace.

I think this looks snazzy on the side of the distressed hoodie.

Black with gold is one of my favorite color combinations.

The blog post about this t-shirt is getting some Diggs. I have noticed that campaign t-shirts have been getting lots of traffic from StumbleUpon. If you have campaign shirts in your shop you might want to submit them to StumbleUpon, Digg or some of the other social sites out there. We have been checking out a new social shopping site - Kaboodle - I am just learning to use it but it has a nice Firefox extension.

This shop partner took an existing graphic and improved it with custom text. You can find thousands of graphics to use in your shop in the marketplace. When you find a design you want to use to create products in your shop - just click the link on the left side that says “add to my shop.”

After seeing this on the news this morning I had to create this t-shirt. I know it is hard to see in the picture but the font is in red glitter.

Yes, The Harvard Lampoon has named Paris Hilton “Woman of the Year” during her acceptance speech Paris proclaimed “Harvard is Hot” - actually her speech is pretty funny.
I decided that this shirt need the matching underpants (for men and women) - everyone should have some glittery underpants.

Click here to order Harvard is Hot gear or click here to create your own hot items in the Spreadshirt designer.