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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!
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.
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!
Tweetees Twitter Contest By CafePress
CafePress is now running an ongoing contest via Twitter. It’s called Tweetees, and is the latest in a new trend of businesses having a much larger presence on social networks.
Buy A Shirt Plant A Tree
Zazzle is celebrating Earth Day by offering to plant a tree for every shirt purchased. It can be any shirt throughout their entire site, so if there has been one that you’ve been looking at, now is the time to buy. They are teaming up with AmericanForests by donating a dollar for every shirt purchased, which directly relates to one tree planted.
35 Percent Off At Brand Of The Free
Brand of the Free is having a 35% off sale right now. They are doing this to celebrate their participation in the Go Green American Expo and, of course, Earth Day. All you need to do is put the coupon code GOGREEN35 in when you checkout.
World’s Funniest T-Shirt
Spreadshirt is currently running a contest in conjunction with Aviary. If you haven’t heard of them before, Aviary is a suite of online applications that focus on image editing and manipulation. They have just recently released Raven, their vector editor, which is probably one of the main reasons they are teaming up with Spreadshirt on this contest. Their applications are great (and free!), and they have a ton more in the works.
Threadless Loves Green
Threadless is gearing up for Earth Day by running a design challenge with an eco-centric theme. The name of the challenge is Threadless Loves Green, and it’s just what you would expect. Submissions should have a “green” theme, which can be interpreted however the designer wishes. To top it all off, the winning design will be printed on American Apparel Organic Tees!
Threadless Spring Cleaning Sale
Threadless is running a spring cleaning sale that lasts until Monday, March 23rd.
TV Show Titles Re-Interpreted
I find the theme of Woot Shirt’s 86th Derby, TV Show Titles Re-Interpreted, particularly interesting. Designers are tasked with taking the titles of television shows and reinterpreting, misinterpreting, and remixing them into a shirt design. Expect loads of hilarious shirts to come out of this.
