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).

I came across the Spreadshirt shop Fire Dan Hawkins from a link in a comments section. Dan Hawkins is the coach of the University of Colorado Buffalo in Boulder Colorado. I love seeing some of the t-shirts that football fans create and I wanted to point out this one because I think they have done some cool things with the text design on the back.

The front of the shirt says “Fire Dan Talkins” and the back says “You Can’t Spell exCUse with out CU” - I like the way they have incorporated the CU in to the text.

If you are looking for more info on CU football check out Denver Post Community Forum (one CU fan from Tulsa is ordering a t-shirt too). Other blogs about CU Football are The Ralphie Report and The CU Independent’s sport’s coverage.

Do you have a favorite football season t-shirt or game day outfit?

We are! Football is on the brain here in Western, PA today. First Steelers game is tonight and I have already seen 3 people at the bus stop wearing their Steelers jerseys. I just put my favorite t-shirt in the wash so it will be ready for game time. We are pleased to welcome these two new shop partners to the Spreadshirt family… both of these shops have some great logo designs and great slogan t-shirts too!

For the Terrell Owens fans - check out TO Tees

For the Chad Johnson fans - check out Ocho Cinco Gear

Jerkass Clothing Company offers a vast smorgasbord of hilarious to knee-slapping t-shirt designs geared towards anyone from the college-aged crowd to those who never really left college. The site is broken down into four categories: Too Cool for School, National Lampoon, Coast to Coast State Slogans and Vintage Tavern & Bar T-Shirts. That means you can get anything from a lederhosen-wearing, bier-stein holding Hans Solo shirt to fictitious and suggestive vintage bar shirts, while dissing your (least) favorite state along the way. Jerkass even has a page dedicated to Milwaukee-based shirts, based on the site’s Brew City-born creators and their takes on regional sports.

Jerkass does a great job mixing in current pop-culture themes you might have seen on SNL or in an 80s movie with witty, original designs. Their use of both Digital Direct and plot print designs highlights the advantages of our different printing techniques. The “Founder and Lead Dance Instructor”, Richard, introduces his story on his site, but I thought there were some questions left unanswered. Richard’s interview:
continue reading ‘Jerkass Clothing Interview – The Man Behind the Humor’

At first glance Zoo&Co The Drawing Lounge might come across as a shirt shop for young’uns with its vibrantly colorful designs reminiscent of Saturday morning cartoons. Perhaps it was that very fact that made the shirts “grow” on me, and there is much more to discover and enjoy upon closer look. What really impressed me was their ability to create complex, colorful and detailed designs even with the “limitation” of 3 flex/flock colors. Shadows, outlines and contours in one color, fillers in another and a third for accents are puzzled together seamlessly. For a relatively young shop, they have a great selection of animals, celebrity caricatures and creatures – all well integrated into a skillfully designed site. Zoo&Co in Interview:
continue reading ‘Colorful Critters, Creatures and Celebrities – Zoo&Co Interview’

Tara Hunt is the author of the book - The Whuffie Factor (I am reading it now and if you are interested in social media, social capital and how to use these tools - then this is the book for you). Tara is moving across the country in high style with a karaoke road trip - Whuffaoke or Bust! We have been following their trip because they have been sporting our gold embellished track jackets customized with Whuffaoke or Bust in gold metallic for their trip (check out their Spreadshirt shop here).

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Tara and company brought their karaoke RV to Pittsburgh this weekend for a stop at the Pittsburgh Technology Council which was organized by another super Spreadshirt shop partner, Amie from EBSQ Art - who brought anlong some EBSQ shirts for karaoke participants.  This is a serious karaoke vehicle - you can see the speakers mounted on the roof and song requests are made via text message.  It was a really nice event - and I know everyone had a lot of fun - even the security guard from the tech council offices joined in for some karaoke.  They have a few more stops on the Whuffaoke road trip - some of the crew from the Spreadshirt office in Boston will be stopping by when they roll into town on Wednesday.

You can follow their trip at Twitter.com/whuffaoke

I know this photo is a little dark but you can see the karaoke monitor in the side of the RV.

It’s been just about a year since Spreadshirt got together with CNN to provide headline shirts, allowing users to immortalize their favorite quirky, amusing and intriguing headlines. Reddit, “a source for what’s new and popular on the web,” has also taken up on the immortalizing headline shirt idea for its user created headlines.

What is reddit exactly? Reddit is a community driven website which lists user-submitted links to be commented and voted on by other reddit users. The reddit pages are constantly in motion from the voting and it is a great place to browse through a collection of fresh and interesting links.

Where do t-shirts fit in at reddit? Reddit’s user generated headlines are quite often witty slogans or sayings based on current events, pop culture or one of their hundreds of sub-community topics. Reddit headline shirts allow you to take this online content offline. You can strut your own headlines or wear one that tickled your funny bone.

Image by Teuobk via Flickr

Two of my favorites are:

• “If you watch Jaws backwards, it’s all about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach.”
• “Holy crap, I never realized I was peeling a banana wrong my entire life [Vid]“

Read more about the Reddit t-shirts on the Reddit blog - you can even submit your own headlines for t-shirts too!

One of my favorite parts about the Internet and working for Spreadshirt is discovering the unique websites that have been created on nearly every topic under the sun.  One of the newest Spreadshirt shop partners is MyLifeIsAverage aka MLIA.  MyLifeIsAverage is about sharing the averageness, mediocrity, normalcy, mundanity of every day life.  Anyone can submit average statements about life and the community can vote and comment on the statements.  Each MLIA can be ordered on a t-shirt and some of these are pretty average and pretty funny.

Here are a few that I think are pretty funny…

#85987

Today I found a penny on the floor I thought to myself “Find a penny, pick it up all the day you’ll have good luck.” I looked at it and decided not to, it was too dirty. MLIA.

#86029

Today, after someone said something funny on AIM, I replied “ROFL” even though I was still on my chair. MLIA.

And I am ordering this t-shirt because I did this today (I guess my life is average

#15569

Today, I opened the fridge. There was nothing I wanted to eat in there. After 15 minutes, I opened it again. There still wasn’t anything I wanted to eat in there. MLIA

• MyLifIsAverage.com
• MyLifeisAverage on Facebook
• MyLifeIsAverage on Twitter

The relatively-new-to-Spreadshirt partner Glarkware is no newbie to the t-shirt universe. His almost daily re-introduction of designs and addition of new gems are almost sure to induce a spout of laughter or spontaneous brow-raising. As the slogan “Storied Shirt Jobbery” forewarns, each of Glarkware’s shirts is coupled with witty, ironic, informative and entertaining stories. Dave, the man behind Glarkware and the numerous other Glark Industries pursuits, talks about his move to Spreadshirt, gives us a quick lesson on Canadian pronunciation and graces us with his good-humored nature. The interview with Dave from Glarkware: continue reading ‘Storied Shirts of Glark - Interview with Glarkware’

Tommy White is the brains behind the t-shirt shop Nekkid Tees and has been very helpful over the years sharing his knowledge on how to set up shop with Spreadshirt.

I wanted to point out two posts on his site TommyWhite.com that I think are helpful but he has lots of good information so you should take a look at the site.

• Making Money with Spreadshirt
• Spreadshirt Layout 101