Over the past few months I’ve been fortunate enough for the opportunity to have some lengthy discussions about the t-shirt industry and get to know one of today’s top and one of my favorite designers. Chow Hon Lam (aka Flying Mouse) is revered in the t-shirt design world and you’ve no doubt seen his awesome work all over the internet. Read more
Tee Invaders is a community for t-shirt lovers and the home of cute little alien characters wearing tees! Oh…and it is also an ongoing t-shirt contest.
Along with accepting daily submissions, they also offer a limited edition t-shirt for $10 each week that they curate from some very awesome artist in the community.
How it works!
Weekly Invasion
Each week they feature a new design. If you have a design you would like to feature for Weekly Invasion, please contact the art curator and well known designer Wotto directly. Do not submit.
On-Going Contest
Submit your designs to be in the running for $350. The amount of winners will vary per month. The artist also earns Invader Bucks.
Invader Bucks
Invader Bucks is the commission artist earns on their designs. $1 per shirt. Artist will be able to keep track of their commission in their profiles.
Golden Ticket
Each month they feature a prize they will be giving away. You can only win this prize if you find the “Golden Ticket” in your package. They will be randomly placing these each month in one order/package.
Visit Tee Invaders
Girl in Your Shirt introduces a daily tech startup while wearing the company swag shirt.
Originated by show host Jenaé Plymale, Girl in Your Shirt began as a small project to earn some extra cash and find a fun way to market web startups by wearing swag t-shirts and spreading buzz with online social media tools for pay. However, the small project instantly turned into Internet phenomena, literally overnight. It was soon both heralded and disputed among countless web blogs, podcasts and major editorial publications world-wide. Today Girl in Your Shirt appeals greatly to web entrepeneurs and much of the startup crowd for introductions on new startups and is seen as a creative marketing tool for startup companies to be placed into the limelight.
Here is a recent episode:
For a couple of hundred dollars it can be a good way to get out the word for your brand or startup. Visit girl.inyourshirt.tv for details.
Sharp Shirter was founded in 2004. It’s founder, Dan Lachman would spend many an afternoon submitting ideas to t-shirt sites in hopes of getting them to send him a tee or two for his efforts. Dan was oblivious to this fact that his ideas needed to be better. Rather than hunker down and admit defeat, Dan decided that he could do it himself. There was just one problem: He couldn’t draw so used Craigslist to hook up with his first designer.
Being an aspiring film major and a Discovery Channel lover, Dan began to hone his tee imagination. Dan turned his attention to animals and fantasy. He found some additional designers to work with and launched sharpshirter.com in 2006, and it’s been a snowballing ever since. What initially started as a couple of choices for men’s tees has now become a range of choices for men’s and women’s tees, dresses, hoodies, laptop skins and ipod skins.
Visit Sharp Shirter today.
ShirtFight is a weekly themed t-shirt design contest where YOU pick who wins!
The current contest is the epic battle of GOOD vs EVIL! Who will come out on top? The only rule this week is that the design must contain an aspect of good *and* evil in it. The winner gets $500
Submit your designs, vote on your favorites, hang out, win cash & prizes and buy shirts. Visit ShirtFight
Many of you may remember the terribly awesome art show last year titled “Back in Black” where you could pick out a design from your favorite artist and have the shirt printed right then and there all awesome-like. Well, it’s back (in black) again, and it’s way more awesome this time!
Back in Black 2 features Godmachine, Jimiyo, Hydro74, Pale Horse, Mumford, Brian Morris, 123 Klan, and like a million other insanely talented folks. It is seriously nuts this time.
The site just went up recently at
backinblackapparel.com
See what you missed last year
If you aren’t able to make it out to the show, you can still order a shirt or twelve at the site starting today!
If you’re in or going to be near Melbourne, Australia this Saturday you’ll want to be at The T-World Issue 5 Launch Par-Tee. There will be toms of giveaways and plenty of entertainment. You can check out all the details here
If your in the industry or love the culture of t-shirts you need to see T-Word Magazine. It is a publication ompletely focused on T-shirt culture and every facet within. Created by and produced for T-shirts enthusiasts. It might seem a little pricey but I have a couple past issues and it is really worth the money. You can get details on obtaining the current issue here
With the huge rise in popularity of microblogging it’s only a matter of time until niche communities begin to pop up. While sites like twitter grow to be giants, the growth itself becomes overkill for many of its users. This scenario then develops the need for smaller more defined communities which brings us to the new t-shirt community teeburb.com. Teeburb has set out to connect designers, brands, bloggers, printers and anyone else who loves or is involved with t-shirts.
While there are the standard features of a microblogging platform like twitter, teeburb offers some cool additions that are just what a t-shirt community member wants. Fully integrated with twitter, you can have the first 110 characters of your posts on teeburb.com show up in your twitter updates along with a link back to the original post. You’re able to add pictures directly in your posts as well as videos. You are not limited to just 140 chactors but have the space of 250 to get your message across. You can easily add your twitter, flickr and picasa links to your profile along with your web site and description. The easy to follow replies to messages lets you keep up with a conversation.
While teeburb is not going to or even planning on stealing away twitter users, it looks like it can quickly become something very useful and necessary to the t-shirt community. To join visit www.teeburb.com
Teextile is another one of those design communities were people submit their tshirt designs to be voted on by the community, and then printed and sold if picked as a winner. They print a new series of 5 shirts every week, and then move on to another series. each design has its sale date one day a week where its up for only $12, then its sold for 15 bucks the rest of the week.
They have some great designs and I love the clean and simple layout. A lesson in web 2.0 for the t-shirt industry.
A t-shirt search engine is a good idea and Please Dress Me has a nice web 2.0 feel and is simple and concise. It is neat way to shop, especially if you are not involved in the industry and can search out sites all day long. You can search the site by keyword, tag, price, shirt color or through randomly served up designs. There’s also a little fun area called How They Dress which profiles what shirts some web innovators like. They also giveaway some free shirts if that interests you.
