So we tried to plan T-shirt Day around the first day of summer with the hope of sunny, blue skies - we had rain, we had wind but that didn’t stop us from celebrating the T-shirt!

We had a great turn out for International T-shirt Day last week at the Daily Catch in Boston, MA.  A big thank you to Max and Maria for rolling out the hot chocolate to keep everyone warm!

Check out the slide show below of these great photos from the party and check out some photos from t-shirt day celebrations around the world!

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Just a quick reminder that T-shirt Day is almost here!  We have some great events planned for Boston and Berlin and there a bunch of t-shirt day parties that are being planned acorss the globe.

• Boston
  • RSVP on Facebook
• Berlin
  • RSVP on Facebook
• Everywhere else - check out this google map of t-shirt parties across the globe

As many of you know we called out to the t-shirt world to organize their own t-shirt celebrations and register on the T-Shirt Day website. We promised to equip 10 of these parties with sets of 10 t-shirts – and we shall follow through with that promise. The winners hail from 6 different countries and, depending on where you might find yourself on June 21st, you could join in on one of these events or one of the many others registered on the T-Shirt Day site. Here they are, in no particular order: continue reading ‘Winning T-Shirt Parties - Where will you be on T-Shirt Day?’

International T-Shirt Day is just a lucky 13 days away. What are you doing on June 21st?

As many of you might have already heard, we are celebrating the T-Shirt Day together with laFraise by putting on an “Open Runway” in Boston where any t-shirt designer/lover/wearer can present their favorite tees to the world.

What you might have missed would be that you can also celebrate T-Shirt Day from the comfort of your own home. Rouse up your friends, family, neighbors and colleagues to honor your favorite tees with, say, a T-bone steak barbecue. Perhaps you could gather some of those shirts that you might not wear too often to give away to those who aren’t as well-off. Decorate your street with clotheslines filled with t-shirts. Maybe show off your t-style, regardless of the weather, with a short-sleeved jaunt through your town or city.

Celebrate T-Shirt Day in your own way by hosting an event and register the festivities on the website so others can perhaps join in.

Events have already been registered in the U.S., Norway, India, and Germany and we’re hoping that you’ll join in on the worldwide party.

P.S. We will be raffling off 10 sets of 10 free t-shirts to 10 different participants who host their own T-Shirt Day event. To qualify, all you have to do is have a Spreadshirt shop and register your party the T-Shirt Day site by June 14th. We will select the winners on June 15th, notify them by e-mail and announce the winning events here in the Spreadshirt blog.

The official start to summer is just a little less than a month away, well and warmly accompanied by the International T-Shirt Day.

We want to make sure that as many people catch wind of this celebration as possible and are able to plan their own festivities (some ideas which came to mind: Boston Tee Parties, Dry T-Shirt Contests, etc.). So that’s why we are starting off another Blog Safari with the theme “Favorite Shirt”. The idea would be to promote t-shirt designers you might know or expose up-and-coming t-shirt labels and get them some publicity which they might not normally get.

If you aren’t familiar with a Blog Safari, here’s how the whole thing works:

We are calling for all who love t-shirts and want to participate to publish a blog post next Monday (June 1st) with the headline: “My Favorite Shirt” which includes:

• A picture of you in your favorite shirt,
• A link to that shirt’s designer/shirt label/shop where you bought it (if the link is available).
• A reference that the International T-Shirt Day will be celebrated on June 21st 2009.

That means – grab your favorite tee out of the dirty laundry, take a pic with your webcam and if you are better at editing images than typing, go ahead and use the T-Shirt Day Banderole on your image.

It would be really great if you passed along the word so we can cover the widest selection of different shirt designs possible.

P.S. Above you can see me in one of my favorite Spreadshirts: one with a design from LA Lewis. If I had pictures of me in one of my many other favorites, I most likely would have linked to Amorphia Apparel, blend apparel, laFraise, Glarkware, Loukotka or The Tee Party. But, I hope that you guys are able to cover these and many more platforms and designers. Show us and your blog readers what great tees you’ve got!

Just a last minute reminder about Podcamp Pittsburgh which happens this weekend!  Spreadshirt has been attending Podcamp PGH since the beginning.  We have some friends that have become shop partners with great shirts that we met at previous podcamps - hello WearPittsburgh!

Podcamp is a free unconference that happens in cities all across the US (even Hawaii).

Check out some of these posts from past Podcamp Pittsburgh events 2006 and 2007.  I will be there on Saturday afternoon and might host a session about merchandising.  If you are in Western, PA - I hope to see you there!

I am a big big fan of PodCamp. My friend Dave first introduced me to PodCamp in 2006 for the first PodCamp Pittsburgh. Click here to see my previous post about PodCamp Pittsburgh 2006. I have met alot of great people through podcamp and we have met some great new shop partners through podcamp too.

I was extra excited to see that PodCamp Hawaii has set up a shop with Spreadshirt. One of my best friends has recently moved back to Honolulu and I am planning a return visit there soon. I wonder if I can make it there for PodCamp Hawaii which will be held in Honolulu October 24-25, 2008.

PodCamp Hawaii has a great website set up with lots of good info. If you are looking for more info about PodCamp or want to find a PodCamp in your city check out http://podcamp.pbwiki.com/

Here is a picture of me wearing one of my favorite Spreadshirt t-shirts (green flock rocks!)  in front of the Shrimp Shack in Hawaii.

continue reading ‘PodCamp Hawaii Sets Up Shop with Spreadshirt’

Here is the scoop- on June 20, 2008 - Spreadshirt is celebrating International T-shirt Day - as part of the celebration we are hosting an event in Boston, MA.

Friday June 20, 2008, 3-6pm
Spreadshirt Tent, Farmer’s Market at Copley Square
Boston, MA

Everyone is invited to attend (you can RSVP on Facebook or Upcoming.org)

To celebrate the occasion we are giving away 75 custom t-shirts every day until June 18. T-shirts will be available for pick up at the tent on June 20, 2008.

• Visit the special t-shirt day shop here.
  design your shirt
• proceed to check out, double check your order
• enter the coupon code T-DAY08BOSTON and click “Redeem”
• If you are one of the lucky 75 for that day your t-shirt will be free
• The free shirt won´t be shipped top your home - you have to pick it up in Boston at the Spreadshirt tent located at the Farmer’s Market in Copley Square (corner of St. James Ave. and Dartmouth St.) between 3PM and 6PM on June 20th.

The race is on to reduce plastic bag use across the US. Spreadshirt offers custom totes - so you can express your self on your reusable shopping bags. The reusable bags from some of the stories are very pretty but I like to bring my own so that they don’t get confused with other people’s totes and it is a great way to promote my blog. Our totes and all of the other products in the eco-friendly category are 15% off through April 22, 2008 - use coupon code EARTHDAY4- click here for all the details.

Plastic Bag Fashions

Whole Foods will stop giving out plastic bags on April 22, 2008. To celebrate the Whole Foods in Raleigh will hold a fashion show of clothing made out of plastic bags. More details here.

What came first the Chicken or the Bag

I saw this little guy at a great shop here in Pittsburgh, Fresh Heirlooms, that only sells items made from recycled items.

I have a friend who travel to Austin frequently for work and we were talking about the SXSW conference this weekend. So conferences have been on my mind. Then I got the Squidoo lens of the day email about the Macworld Expo which starts tomorrow in SanFrancisco (I really don’t get Squidoo that much - it is kind of like a preblog sort of platform - but I do find their lens of the day emails kind of interesting).

One of my favorite blog posts from last year is the round up of geek t-shirts from last years SXSW. So I was curious to see what kind of t-shirts are around for Macworld. Right on the front page of the Macworld Expo site are some t-shirts for purchase. I was kind of surprised to see this one…

The SXSW geek t-shirts are awesome (none are tie-dyed) so I had high hopes for the official Macworld gear. Here is my question is tie-dye geek? Does anyone wear tie-dye anymore?

Today was my first day of my bowling league (Is bowling geeky?) I had to use the rainbow colored ball, that looks like it was tie-dyed, because I am not strong enough to roll the heavier balls. I made a few jokes about wearing a Hypercolor t-shirts to bowling next week so I could match my rainbow ball. Do they even make Hypercolor shirts anymore?

I would think Hypercolor is a little more geek than tie-dye but honestly I don’t think I would wear either of them to a conference. Would you buy a tie-dye Macworld expo shirt? What are the coolest Mac t-shirts you have seen? Take a look at the Flickr group for Apple t-shirts or the group for Geek t-shirts for some ideas.