Mashable started it last week and there have been blog posts all over the web about balloon boy t-shirts. I love that the post on  MTV’s Buzz Worthy’s Blog includes a video of Phil Collins “In the Air Tonight.”

Check out these two Ballloon Boy t-shirt designs from Spreadshirt shop partner DonRobot.com (who has a very cool looking Spreadshirt shop too).

This Monday, laFraise unvealed the 12 designs which made it into the second round of the €15,000 Contest. From the 4,000 submissions, 800 were approved for the contest – I imagine choosing 12 from the 800 was certainly not the easiest of tasks. This group of 12 were chosen based on their score, the amount of pre-orders, the community’s comments, the design’s overall quality and laFraise’s personal taste. And now these 12 are up for another round of votes.

The winner of the contest will become the proud recipient of one of the biggest prizes ever awarded in t-shirt design contest history. When I first wrote about this contest last month, the prize money was at $20,995 - but, thanks to an even weaker dollar it has increased by $200! Here is your chance to take part in this historical event and perhaps help your favorite design win big-time. Time’s a-ticking - voting ends on Monday!

These finalists and other selected submissions will also be on display in the West Berlin Gallery from September 11th to 27th – printed on canvas - a great tribute to the often overlooked artistic value found in t-shirt design. The winning design will appear on a 47×47 in., the 11 other finalists on 32×32 in. and 40 additional contest designs on 16×16 in. canvases.

P.S. The design above is my favorite of the 12 - but, I could also imagine wearing this one. What are your favorites?

I woke up this mornign with 2 big things to blog about and I was pretty sure I was going to need two blogs posts to cover the important news of both the Steelers Super Bowl Win and Ground Hog Day.  Lucky for me the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s editoral cartoon does a beutiful day of combining these important events with the number 6.

Back in 2007 I wrote a blog post about the lack of ground hog day t-shirts out there “Groundhog Day Challenge.”  While there still aren’t many groundhog day t-shirts out there, I am happy to report that I found one groundhog day t-shirt in the Spreadshirt marketplace, it is pretty cute too.

Spreadshirt  Melange chocolate ground squirrel Women’s Tees (Short sleeve)

So thank you to MissTPhotography for being the first ground hog t-shirt in the marketplace (I am keeping the Ground Hog Day Challenge going - so I hope to see some amazing groundhog t-shirts next February).

Looking for more Groundhog Day fun around the blogosphere? One blog that I like, Crap We Like, has some great pictures.  The Urban Outfitters Blog has a clip from the movie Groundhog Day and the Etsy Blog has some cute cute cute handmade groundhogs. 

Now, the other big news of the day - how about those Steelers!  It is all about the black and gold in Pittsburgh today.  I am looking forward to seeing some more great t-shirts about Sixburgh!

Black defense2 T-Shirts

I have been a quest to get things read in my Google reader - I follow alot of websites about t-shirts, the internets and all things Pittsburgh (of course I have been busy researching all things Super Bowl). I noticed this post on Mashable this morning but I didn’t think too much of it. It turns out that for about 20 minutes this morning Google listed every site on the internet and included the phrase “This site may harm your computer”.

The story has since been picked up by the Washington Post and the Official Google Blog has a post on it too there was a lot of chatter about it on twitter too - #googlemayharm. The problem has been corrected - the internets will not harm your computer! Mashable is reporting that the problem was caused by a human error.

I was just checking to see what people were saying about Spreadshirt on Twitter and found this tweet that had been retweeted a few times linking to a shirt and shop from a European Spreadshirt shop partner about the whole event. I love that there is a t-shirt about this already and I really like how they used the different colors for the fonts. The shirt is available in white and black and there is also a sweatshirt too. I am not sure if they plan to open a Spreadshirt shop for the US or not.

If you watched the final presidential debate on Wednesday night you know that Joe the plumber is the new star of campaign season (more about Joe here). Well Joe needs his own t-shirt too. Check out this shop for more Vote Joe t-shirts.

PlumberJoe.Spreadshirt.com

Spread The Vote: Leading up to the election we will be blogging about all things t-shirt and election related. Find more great election t-shirts for you favorite candidates at our Spread the Vote page.

Here is a great picture of some of the CNN headline t-shirts from the DNC convention in Denver.

CNN Shirts? Yep - the headling t-shirts that you can order from CNN.com are printed here at Spreadshirt. Click here to see an archive of t-shirt headlines. continue reading ‘CNN Shirts at The DNC’

I found this blog through a link on Hide Your Arms. Congrats to Hide Your Arms on their mention in the Guardian. One of the other blogs that this Guardian Article linked to is the Banned T-shirt Blog - Banshirts.com. (PLEASE NOTE - some of the t-shirts on Banshirts.com are graphic and contain nudity and language that is not family friendly - probably not a good site to check out if the kiddies are around). This is an entire blog about t-shirts that have been banned, since we like to follow t-shirts in the news I thought this would be worth a look.

As I have mentioned here frequently - t-shirts are a form of self expression - I think the idea of banning t-shirts supports the idea that people are using these shirts to express something. There are some really interesting articles posted on Banshirts.com.

• Transformers t-shirt banned at airport
• Iraqi Death Toll T-shirt Banned at Mall
• I Need a Man or a Date T-shirt Banned at Gym

I can maybe see why some of the schools would ban some of these t-shirts. Some of these other shirts don’t seem that offensive and I am surprised they created such a controversy.

With the Presidential campaigns in full swing the democratic and republican national conventions are just around the corner. There have been quite a few stories in the news about the protesters that are planning on attending each of the conventions. Protesting is a form of expression, we are big on self expression via t-shirt here at Spreadshirt. We want to know if you have any protest t-shirt designs in your shop?

Convention Details:
Democratic National Convention, Denver, CO - August 25-28, 2008
Republican National Convention, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN - September 1-4, 2008
Here are some blog posts and articles about anticipated protesters:

• Demonstrators prep for GOP convention
• Thousands of demonstrators expected at GOP convention
• Denver Police Brace for Convention

Today is all about Pittsburgh and hockey. Normally, I am following CNN for the presidential campaign news, which has been getting kind of boring in recent weeks - lots of talk and nothing really changes. But today is all about hockey. I am not usually a big sports fan but if you are going to sit down and watch some hockey, last night game was the game to watch. Detroit was ahead 3-2, they had the Stanley cup in the hallway and Pittsburgh scored in the last minute to tie the game and send it in to overtime. Pittsburgh and Detroit played 2 full 20 minute periods over overtime with out one goal. Pittsburgh finally scored in the 3rd overtime and the Stanley Cup series continues.

So I created a few new shirts for the hockey fans and added them to my shop. I would love some other ideas for text to celebrate the hockey season. This blogger has a nice post about being a hockey fan, which brings up an interesting question do you need a t-shirt to be a fan?

I went to a local bar to watch the game last night - one of the cool things about Pittsburgh sports fans if that on game day - everyone dresses up in team colors.  I noticed quite a few people in Penguin’s t-shirts last night.  During football season - almost every one in town is in some sort of black and gold on game day.

I didn’t get to see the first playoff game but thanks to my grandfather I was reminded that this play-off game was also t-shirt newsworthy. Even if you are not a sports fan, it is hard not to get wrapped up in sports fever here in Pittsburgh. I know I have mentioned that football is a big BIG big deal in Pittsburgh. Every Sunday is like a little city wide party when it is football season. Well it is hockey time in Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Penguins are in the playoffs - each hockey game is a chance to gather with friends (or strangers) and enjoy some city pride.

To boost the excitement of the home games the Penguins have called for a whiteout. The team handed out white t-shirts to all fans that attended the game last Friday. I must say it does create an amazing visual effect to have all of the fans in the same color.

(Photo: PittsburghHockeyNet.blogspot.com)

I was really curious to find out what is printed on those shirts but I couldn’t find a close picture of the t-shirts so I had to head to ebay. These shirts are already being sold as collectors items.

Not to be outdone, philly had all of their fans in orange.

This blogger commented that Penn State fans wore their own white t-shirts and Penguins fans are being handed t-shirts.

The white out was successful and the Pittsburgh Penguins are headed to the Stanley Cup playoffs.  Time to create some Stanley Cup T-shirts!