innerTee is about to undergo some cool changes. They are expanding their use of ‘karma points‘ (which users can currently earn and use for discounts on purchases) to t-shirts themselves. Here’s how it works:
- Mix an awesome tee design using user-submitted art elements.
- People vote on your mix (see the picture below for a preview).
- Your mix earns ‘mix karma’ depending on how favorably people rate it.
- The top 6 mixes are displayed on the front page, and the creators of those mixes get some karma points for themselves!
- If your mix gets enough karma points, awesome comments, and enough purchases, it gets inducted into the ‘innerCircle’, gets some special graphics, gets printed with a gold tag, and you get a free tee pack!
A preview of what the mix karma system will look like on the shop page (click thumbnail for full-size).
Look for the new mix karma voting system to be up and running by the middle end of this next week!
Link: [innerTee]
Back in January I posted about NerdyShirts, specifically about their Let It Bii design, but also about how I liked a bunch of their other designs, and about the excellent customer service I experienced with them. Well, soon after, I was pleasantly surprised to find an email from Will, one of the owners of the site, sitting in my inbox. He had just written to say thanks for the “very nice article” I had written, and as a token of that thanks, he was willing to send a free shirt!
Needless to say (but yes, I’m saying it anyway, so deal with it) I was both floored and flattered by the offer. I replied with a short gush of thanks, and that if he wouldn’t mind, I’d really love to see the Nostalgia tee in person.
Then, a few weeks later, I recieved a wonderful surprise in my mailbox!
My chest, happily wearing my brand-new free tee.
The print is really nice, on American Apparel, and has a soft hand. The use of two shades of grey is somewhat subtle but adds a nice touch. And of course, the nostalgia is second to none. How can I look at this shirt and not remember my childhood days, filled with hours of playing Super Mario Bros. 3 on the bed in my room, and listening to my cassette tape of The Proclaimers in the back seat of my family’s blue Chevy Celebrity, and doing homework assignments that required the use of crayons and cardboard paper? And the legos, too. Oh, the legos.
Continue reading ‘NerdyShirts Revisited’
Wow, I can’t believe I’ve neglected to blog about this for so long. T Junction is a blog started by Adam Fletcher, of HipHipUK fame, with the goal of creating a centralized database of all things t-shirt-price-reducing (i.e., coupons, sales, discounts, codes, promotions, etc.). With regular contributions from HipHipUK, Hide Your Arms, Fantastic Blognanza, ‘The’ Jason Fu, and more (I know I’ve seen at least one post from Tshirt Island), most online t-shirt sales should be covered. Most, however, is not good enough!
This is where you come in: every time T Junction features a sale/coupon code/whatever contributed by you (all you have to do is email it to hiphipuk(removethisxxxxxx) @ googlemail.com, and it will get taken care of), you get entered into a monthly Swag Bag drawing (the content on that page is a teensy bit out of date - don’t worry). Yes, you heard right - the Swag Bag, which will contain all sorts of nifty stuff, like Threadless coupons, t-shirts, and other t-shirt-related goods. So, what are you waiting for? Head on over to T Junction, grab yourself some sweet discounted tees (there are lots!), and contribute some info that isn’t up there yet!
This coupon code, ‘lucky15′, applies on orders over $35 and is applicable until March 18th and can be used on all of their t-shirts, not just the green ones.
Link: [2K by Gingham]
Enclothe sourced their distressed tees for Eternal Embrace from Alternative Apparel, who manufacture a range of “destroyed” and “burnedout” tees. You can read a bunch about the inspiration, design, and printing process that went into this tee over at the Enclothe blog; it’s a good read!
Pre-distressed t-shirts, like the ones you can find at Abercrombie & Fitch (don’t worry, I don’t shop there), seem to be all the rage these days. I’m guessing it started out with faux-distressed printing before it moved to pre-distressed garments. I was never really big on this concept. I like wearing t-shirts until they get natural wear from normal washing (it’s not that I’m going for this look; it just happens because I wear t-shirts a lot). The “my clothes look like crap, even though they’re really expensive” look never made too much sense to me. (I’m guessing it’s akin to the “I only buy things second-hand/vintage, even though I have plenty of money” look. I think they’re both basically iterations of the “I’m rich enough that I can dress however I want” look. It goes along with upper middle class people speaking with less prestigeful forms than lower middle class people… but enough sociolinguistics!) That distressed apparel has been becoming increasingly available for non-exorbitant prices kind of throws a wrench in those gears, but it’s not so problematic once you consider how much people emulate the wealthy. I would not be surprised by a shift from tattered jeans to something else as the dominant style of dress for the upper-middleclass in response.
Continue reading ‘Distressed T-Shirts’
Ever wondered how to create a fantastic t-shirt design? Well, the folks at Spreadshirt claim to know how, and they want to share their knowledge with you during another of their webinars! On this Thursday, March 15th at 2 pm EST, Spreadshirt will be hosting a 40 Minutes That Take the Mystery Out of Great Shirt Design webinar on print techniques, vector graphics, and more! You know the Eleusinian Mysteries? Well, this is kind of like that, except with t-shirts.
Link: [sign up for this webinar]
Expensiveness: free!
P.S. If you have a band, you might be more interested in this webinar about band merch, which takes place tomorrow!
Even more so than previous seasons, Option-G’s Spring/Summer 2007 line focuses on nature and technology.
Butterfly NEW at Option-G
Including Butterfly (above), there are three designs of objects-filled-with-objects. I like these because the main object is clear from any distance, but only very up-close can you tell what these images are really about. Reset/Test and Ecological Footprint are probably my favorites of these three.
Reset/Test NEW at Option-G
Ecological Footprint NEW at Option-G
Deer Island is a cool nature-themed juxtaposition/collage of earth, water, flora, and fauna.
Deer Island NEW at Option-G
Even though A Maze “Ing” isn’t nature-themed, it’s a neat visual pun!
A Maze “Ing” NEW at Option-G
These are only a few of Option-G’s new offerings, so be sure to check out the rest of them! They’re pretty soft prints (judging from the one I got from them two seasons back) and are printed on American Apparel stock. They also have the same designs available for women.
Expensivenss: $25
Link: [apparel at Option-G]
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