Spreaders is the term we use to refer to people who work for Spreadshirt. Since today is International T-shirt day, we asked everyone to wear and share their favorite t-shirts.  Here are some Spreaders and their favorite t-shirts…

Row 1:
Robby - This was a gift but I love it because of the bright colors. It is also very comfortable and goes with anything.

Julie M. - It’s a comfortable shirt. I’m not crazy about Jim Beam but it will do.

Row 2:
Amy - I love my baby. Her name is Sage Marie. She is a Libra and is 11 ½ years old. Her favorite color is hot pink and just loves pretzels.

Tim - I have a collection of t-shirts. They are the most comfortable thing I have. Some represent times in my life or things that I like. This is a cool band.

Michael posted this on the Spreadshirt UK blog, I think that many of our US readers might find this interesting. Matthias is one of the founding fathers of Spreadshirt - he started as one of the first Shop Partners.

Matthias is one of the Spreadshirt founding fathers – he joined the little shirt venture in 2002 as seventh shop-partner, because he wanted shirts for his site ‘Dotcomtod’. Ever since, he has helped Spreadshirt grow and develop. Read his interview (German version here)

Continue reading ‘Meet Matthias’

It was a tasty holiday lunch break here at Spreadshirt today. Everyone brought in some tasty treats and there are still goodies to snack on for the afternoon.

As you can see - the food was so tasty that many of the plates were clean before I could even take a picture.

Our October promotion is about Supporting Your Cause (don’t forget $2 off all womens items in October.)  Here is a great shirt that Spreadshirt’s own Christine made that shows off her cause - The United Pegasus Foundation, which works to protect horses.

We do custom, and I like the sound of “extreme customization.” Extreme Customization is the tag line for the 2007 World Conference on Mass Customization & Personalization which is happening this week in Boston.Some extremely cool people from Spreadshirt will be there learning more about everything custom. Ami is has posted a few posts about Boston, the conference and the cool phone next to the toilet in their hotel room over on the Open Logo Project blog.

Here is a picture of Ami and Adam at MIT - Mass Customization is Fun!

Another great thing about working at Spreadshirt is that t-shirts are pretty much the standard uniform here in the Spreadshirt headquarters. It is fun to see what shirts each person picks out. And to help you come up with some ideas for t-shirts, we thought we would show you what the staff here at Spreadshirt put on their t-shirts.

Spreadshirt Summertime

Here is Deb, sporting the fantastic raspberry American Apparel t-shirt. The design is Summertime (click here to create a custom t-shirt with the Summertime design in the Spreadshirt marketplace). Deb choose this design because she wanted something appropriate for summer. She loved the raspberry color, but warns that the sizes run small, even after careful washing it was a bit tight in the shoulders.

is YMCA in Finnish.  This video has brought laughter and joy to the Spreadshirt service team, so I thought we should share…

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Bacn? Yes, Bacn. If you are an internet junkie, like we are, then you may have heard of this new term bacn.

BACN = Email you want - But not right now.

Bacn has made its way around the internet and back - check it out even BoingBoing has a post on the popularity of bacn. The term bacn was coined at PodCamp Pittsburgh earlier this month and Spreadshirt’s own graphic designer extrodinare Jesse was part of the team who devised this brilliant term.

And of course you can order a bacn t-shirt from the bacn Spreadshirt shop.

Official Bacn website: www.bacn2.com

Check out this great article about Spreadshirt CEO Jana Eggers in Boston’s Weekly Dig.

JANA EGGERS: Spreadshirt CEO, triathlete and big-time geek

Jana Eggers joins me at a café, sporting a bright green T-shirt with “Ihr seid spitze” screen-printed across the chest. The Boston-based Global CEO of Spreadshirt-a Germany-based company whose website enables anyone to order one-off custom apparel like the very shirt she’s sporting-recently gave an acceptance speech in German (note: English is her first language) regarding her promotion from North American CEO. She’s fond of the phrase “you rock,” and “ihr seid spitze” is the rough German translation-literally, “you’re sharp.” However, an unintentional mispronunciation took a JFK-reminiscent toll during the speech: “I ended with [the phrase], and what they thought I said was ‘You’re a pizza’!” The shirt commemorates the humorous faux pas.

Despite her self-proclamation as a “big geek,” Eggers is one of the most friendly and sociable geeks around. “I’m from Arkansas, so there are truck drivers-I love to talk to them,” she says, explaining her extroversion. It’s not something you’d necessarily associate with an expert in computational chemistry and supercomputing. Eggers’s history includes a stint at Los Alamos National Laboratory, doing research on how to put electrons through plastic and polymers, as well as logistics at Princeton Transportation Consulting Group. Before her current gig, she managed Quickbase at Intuit, and founded and ran their corporate innovation lab. But she soon got seduced by Spreadshirt: “I really fell for them.” It doesn’t hurt that she also notes good-naturedly, “I like Germans and Germany; I think they’re fascinating and fun!”

And, I have to admit, designing your own wearable on Spreadshirt is wicked addictive. I played around with the web interface for a couple of hours until I obsessively perfected my fuzzy-lettered, green-dinosaured hoodie. Eggers claims it takes 13 labor-intensive minutes to produce each inarguably non-mass-manufactured custom design: “We hand-make them; the process is truly one-off.” The special flex printing technique resists fading and cracking, and everything-from the fabrics (including organic cotton with bamboo options underway) to every flat, fuzzy, shiny font-is tested vigorously for superior wear. And I wouldn’t doubt Eggers, a triathlete who not only knows how to break a sweat, but also is making serious moves in the league of creative technology.

Last week the Adobe bus tour made a stop in Pittsburgh to show off their new scripting language AIR.  Even though it was a Friday night, we were there to check it out.

Here is a picture of Jesse and Leah enjoying the tasty snacks (I was thrilled to find some baby burghers since my usual baby burgher caught on fire last week)

The bus:

Here is a picture of Jesse being interviewed for a podcast:

Photo from kevinhoyt

More info about Adobe onAIR tour is available here: http://onair.adobe.com/

Lots more pictures of the tour in Pittsburgh are available here.