Ryan Salsman
Rebirth Of laFraise
In addition to the recent news that laFraise is now shipping to North America, they have just recently announced that they have redesigned their site. Their old design was 5 years old, and their new one brings them right up to speed. Before it was kind of clumsy to figure out where to go on the site, and now it is very clear. Together these updates should be very beneficial for them, and I think we’ll start to see a lot of great designs coming out. Not that there isn’t already!
YouTube Shirts From Shirts Taste Good
Shirts Taste Good is a new t-shirt site I’ve found that makes their designs entirely based on viral videos. It’s kind of a shame that I didn’t think of this myself. The built in audience for all of those videos are an automatic source of buyers for their products, as long as you can reach them. The good thing is that Shirts Taste Good makes shirts that are high quality, hand made, and hilarious.
North American Shipping From laFraise
You read that right, laFraise is now providing shipping to the United States and Canada! What does this mean for you? Besides the obvious, you’ll probably be seeing some North American designers entering their contests. In turn this could mean that the quality of their shirts might rise as some fresh blood is injected into the system.
The Island Of Ten Rabbits
“The Island Of Ten Rabbits” is a new shirt design that’s available for voting at Threadless. It’s by Marcin Przybys, who happens to be a previous winner there. This design is a little different than many of his submissions but I think it’s especially great.
Font Shirts From DADADA
Helvetica, Myriad, Frutiger, and Futura. That might not mean anything to most people but to artists and designers they can mean a lot. If you haven’t figured it out already they are the names of some common fonts. It’s not the most original idea to put this kind of thing on a shirt, but the implementation is what matters. These shirts from DADADA studio have a crisp clean look that makes them really stand out.
Be Recognized At tFuse
tFuse is a t-shirt contest website that has been recently re-designed. It’s built around a lot of community features and community ratings factor heavily into the decision of whether a design is chosen. Once uploaded and approved your design will be available for voting for 10 days. At any time during this period the design can become a winner. If the tFuse team chooses your design you will win 4$ per design (up to $3000) and a free shirt featuring it!
Social Media Venn Diagram Shirt
Poor Twitter. According to Despair Inc it is the culmination of all the dirty pleasures the internet fosters. MySpace and Facebook get off a littler lighter, along with TweetStalk which is a service I hadn’t known about until I saw this shirt. The Social Media Venn Diagram shirt is a really clever idea.
Threadless Summer Heatwave Sale
Threadless is celebrating the “return of t-shirt weather” by having a week long summer sale. It’s aptly called the Threadless Summer Heatwave sale, and for this week only many of their shirts are available for only 5$ and 10$. Based on typical Threadless prices these deals are phenomenal. They also are planning on running contests throughout the week, so keep checking in with them if you like winning things!
Pixar Up Shirts At Disney InkShop
The new Pixar movie Up is coming out tomorrow. It just so happens that it’s my birthday, and in general I’m a big fan of their movies. It is about Carl Fredricksen making his house fly by attaching balloons to it. He then has several adventures with a small child that has accidentally hitched a ride. The boy’s name is Russel and he is featured in several of the designs that are available at the Disney InkShop.
Rest In Peace Apple
It’s amazing how much emotion an apple with a tear and a frown can evoke from someone. These two little apples have definitely lost someone very dear to them. It’s a shame they can’t see that the dead apple will have a happy time in the afterlife. I wonder if apples have religion.
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