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Last week we announced the first ever Spreadshirt T-Summer Games, what can we say, we were excited by all of the competitions to watch this summer. I just wanted to remind everyone that the games have begun!
From now until August 25, 2008 upload your designs on the Marketplace or in your Confomat with the tag “Sport08”.
Some compete in sports - we are inviting all of our shop partners to compete in the T-Summer Games 08.
Sports and summer are two very t-shirt hungry competitors. Our T-Summer Games 08 is their arena where the apparel world comes together to contend for recognition, respect and the ultimate prizes. There are three areas of competition open to all: Best Grabbed Design, Best Rated Design and Top Selling Design. Enter your summer and sports related designs to go up against the best of them and win big!
The competition runs from August 18th to August 25th.
I am going to start with the prizes because they are as good as gold! - Ipod touch 8GB, Samsung NV24HD Digital Camera, Wacom intuous3 A4 Tablet, Premium Shop Upgrades and some Zexis T-shirt Books.
Calendar of Events
The Events - we have 3 categories in the T-Summer Games
Rules - we have those too! Click here to visit the T-Summer Games 2008 page and get all the details!
Vote for your favorite Instructables for the first ever Instructables book. Spreadshirt has been a big fan of Instructables, ever since I first discovered the site over a year ago. In the past year they have continued to become an awesome how-to community, and they now have an Instructables t-shirt shop powered by Spreadshirt - with some mighty good looking shirts. They have a contest happening now - vote for your favorite instructables, the top 50 vote getters will be mentioned in the book. Click here to start voting. Check out this page for some of the other cool contests they have running - I think the Horny Toad Invent-a-Sport contest is going to be a good one.
Here are 3 of my favorite instructables that I just voted for:
One of the things we started talking about at Spreadshirt last year is passion because people often order t-shirts for things they are passionate about. At first I thought - I am not that passionate about anything that I would order a t-shirt - but over the past year I have discovered a few things that I am really passionate about. One of those things is Wordpress - the more I talk about blogging - I always recommend Wordpress as a blogging platform - mostly because Wordpress has made it very easy for me to share info about Pittsburgh and t-shirts.
Another thing that I have become very passionate about is This American Life. This American Life is a weekly radio program on NPR, each week they offer 60 minutes of stories about all sorts of interesting things. I started listening a little over a year ago and I have become a huge fan. Listening to This American Life has helped me to see the value of story telling and I have come to look at blogging as a way pf telling an ongoing story. My first blog, IheartPGH, is an ongoing story about Pittsburgh. This blog is an ongoing, sometime rambling, sometimes silly story about things happening at Spreadshirt.
I live about 45 minutes away from the Spreadshirt production facility - while I am not the biggest fan of driving - I secretly enjoy the trip because it gives me the opportunity to listen to an episode of This American Life. I even went to see the live season premier of the This American Life tv show. Both Wordpress and This American Life are things that I would like to have on a t-shirt (or tote bag - I am really big on tote bags). So I am super super excited about the This American Life t-shirt contest. I have had a few good t-shirt ideas in my head for some This American Life t-shirts. The winning design will be the thank you gift for the next pledge drive and the winner gets $1000. Check out the rules here - you can submit up to 3 designs. If your design isn’t the winning design - I would still like to see it because I will probably want to order at least 1 of every This American Life design I can get my hands on.
I ocassionally check out some of the social shopping sites where you can save your favorite products with your friends and the other users, write reviews and create wish lists. I think this could be a good way to share some of the products in your shop with others who may be interested.
One of the social shopping sites that I like is ThisNext. It is very easy to add your products - upload a pictures and link and add some tags. For the next 2 weeks when you add a product and tag it with “SpringDesign” you could win all sorts of cool spring prizes from ThisNext. More details here.
How to Enter
- 1 - Recommend your favorite products for spring.
- 2 - Tag your recommendations “SpringDesign”.
- 3 -Enter multiple times to increase your chance of winning.
So stop by ThisNext and share some of your best spring products with other social shoppers and you could win. Please leave a comment here or send me an email (lpa-at-spreadshirt.com) and I will feature some of your products from ThisNext here on the Spreadshirt blog too.
Those crazy kids at Instructables are at it again with a great contest - T-shirt Hacks. 
Transform your t-shirt into something cool and share the steps. Enter your t-shirt hack and you could win a prize. We are big fans of using t-shirts for all sorts of purposes (see some past blog posts here).
The requirements are pretty simple: modify a t-shirt in a creative way to give it a new look. You can use more than one shirt or add anything you like, but the result should still be wearable. Put the instructions and pictures in an Instructable in the T-Shirt Hacks speed challenge in the next couple weeks and you’re good to go!
You can submit your entires until April 6th, voting goes until April 10, 2007. So far there are only 32 entries - so there is a good chance of winning. Which one is your favorite?
