Our CEO Jana Eggers recently met up with designer Daniel Casarella from Barking Irons in his New York studio. He revealed what designers should keep in mind when creating a good t-shirt design. He essentially points to three things which are important for a successful design:

1. Balance – how and where the parts of the design are placed on the shirt
2. Typography – the choice of font and its proper use to effectively communicate your message
3. Research – a good design should always be able to tell a story and stories are much easier to tell when you really know about the history behind it.

P.S. The Barking Irons apparel in our Exclusive Collection is still in stock and Summer is certain to bring along some great new additions.

Loic Le Meur is an entrepreneur and blogger based in San Francisco.  His newest startup is Seesmic - which is bringing video to online communication.

Here is an interview with Spreadshirt CEO Jana Eggers, yes she is wearing a Spreadshirt shirt,  about customization.

I was watching The Early Show on CBS this morning and this was their viral video of the day. I love this video and I blogged about it here last April. I am sharing this video with you today because it is awesome and to remind you that Spreadshirt now offers the American Apparel Track Jacket for you to customize. It is not the exact same one as in the video, ours doesn’t have the white trim. But the track jacket is here (in white, black, red and navy) and it is awesome. I like to think of it as the more formal version of the hoodie.

And here is the amazing viral video of the day. One blog describes this as “the Matrix of Dance Offs”

Jesse did a great job capturing the frustration, I mean fun, of holiday decoration with this t-shirt design.

Order this t-shirt here or visit the Marketplace to create your own item with this design.

Here is a little video clip of holiday decorating to brighten your day…

While browsing the marketplace I came across this amazingly awesome holiday design…


You can order this shirt or create your own shirt with this design here in the Spreadshirt Marketplace.
The partner Down with Detroit has some other great designs in the marketplace.

A Christmas Story is arguably one of the best holiday movies of all time. To put you in the holiday spirit here is the bunny suit clip…

Adam shows off some of the anti holiday designs over on the Spreadshirt UK Blog and reminds us of this most amazing holiday. I am thinking we need some festivus t-shirts.

I just got an email from The Sky Drops, they are band that is performing in Pittsburgh in few weeks and would like me to maybe write about them on one of my Pittsburgh blogs.   So I was checking out their website, which is really well done - great photography and colors.  I then click the link for  “store” - since I work for Spreadshirt I now check out everyones t-shirts and online shops.  They have some great pictures of t-shirts  that are nicely displayed in the green grass.   But, when I click to order them they only have small and medium available in like 2 colors.

The shirts are a great text design and Spreadshirt rocks the text shirts.   While I know that Spreadshirt can’t help with the selling and shipping of things like CDs, we could definitely help with the apparel merchandising.  By setting up a free shop with us at Spreadshirt.  They could offer all of the colors in all of the sizes we offer and more.  I sent Rob and Monika an email and they were kind enough to let me write this blog post.  I do love the shirts, the colors and the excellent product shots.  I hope they will try out a Spreadshirt shop.

I also hope that you will check out The Sky Drops while they are on tour for the next few weeks.

here is the video for their song Hang On

We finally have the video on YouTube. Check out this story all about Spreadshirt.

To get you in to the Halloween spirit here is a great YouTube video about Zombies from the guys at CommonCraft. I love their RSS in plain english video so I was excited to see this one.

This video goes very well with the zombie design in the Spreadshirt Marketplace. What is your favorite zombie t-shirt?

The Spreadshirt UK blog posted this video and called it really great.  I would describe this video as awesome.

 You remember those old flipbooks from when you were a kid? Hundreds of panels painstakingly created so that when flipped then you got literally seconds of enjoyment! Well, this is the t-shirt version (apparently it used 150 shirts) by Erberts&Gerberts a chain of sandwich shops, and its brilliant:

Here is the video of the making of the video.  They used 150 t-shirts to make the video.

Via www.spreadblog.co.uk Via Notcot.org