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December 2010

Comment on this blog post and win a t-shirt from Design By Humans!

by Andy on December 31, 2010

in Competitions

design by humans competition

Ladies, with a face like that can you believe I’m NOT single?

Here’s a quick competition to bring us through the new year that coincides with Design By Humans massive $12 sale (because it makes it cheaper for me to send the winner a tee!). I’ll will send 1 t-shirt of the winners choosing from the DBH catalogue, and all you have to do is leave a comment on this blog post telling me what your New Year’s Resolution is, and if you don’t have one make it up, because I’ll be picking the winner at random anyway.

I will be accepting entries up until midnight on Wednesday January 5th (GMT), and this competition is open to anyone, anywhere in the world (as long as Design By Humans will ship a shirt to you). Multiple comments do NOT equal multiple entries into this competition, and please make sure you leave a comment with a valid e-mail address otherwise I cannot notify you in the event you are a winner. Winners must reply within 48 hours of notification telling me their address and what shirt they would like, otherwise I will pick a new winner.

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HYA is the best t-shirt blog of 2010, yay!

by Andy on December 30, 2010

in Admin,Competitions

the cravats

You may remember me mentioning the voting for the Everyguyed Network’s ‘Cravat’ awards for several blogging categories, of which HYA was nominated for best t-shirt blog of 2010. Well, I won, with 42% of the vote in the category. It’s awfully nice to win something, though I must admit that the award does ring a bit hollow considering that there were some notable absentees from the list of nominees. Thank you very much to the 123 people that voted for Hide Your Arms, it’s very nice of you, it feels good to have my work recognised, especially when it’s by anonymous people, not just those who write e-mails saying they love my blog… and can I write something about their brand!

Personally, I don’t feel that HYA has been as good as it could be this year, it started out well with the redesign but since then I don’t feel I’ve been able to meet up with my own expectations of how the site should be growing. I feel that this is because of needing to spend time on my other job, which has a tendency to take precedent over HYA. Perhaps I’ve also been a bit too focused on my other websites (some of which are live, some of which are only alive in my head at the moment) when I should have been working hard on the site that I’ve spent almost 5 years building, instead of spreading myself out over ideas that I feel have a lot of potential but maybe just don’t have the time for at the moment.

I didn’t really want this post to turn into a retrospective of the year and how I’ve just been too damn busy, but the coming of a new year tends to make you think about the past, and also about the future, in which I hope to actually deliver on promises more often than I have this year. 2011 will mark HYAs 5th year of existence, which does make it rather old in internet years, but hopefully I’ll be able to inject some youthful vigour and deliver our best year so far.

As ever, thanks for reading, thanks for subscribing, thanks for buying tees, and thanks for sending in all the news tips.

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Sales Roundup: Threadless, DBH, Seventh.Ink & More!

by Andy on December 29, 2010

in Coupon Codes,Lists,Sales

Strictly speaking HYA is still on holiday, but there’s only so much Kinect that you can play before your arms are so sore you can barely hold them above your head. As you’d expect, there are some post Christmas sales going on around the internet at the moment and I thought I’d point you in their direction. Naturally, if I’ve missed something (I’ve been writing this whilst I wait for Half Life 2 to download, thanks Steam sale!), feel free to add your own sale in the comments for this post.

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They’re calling it a clearance, but to be honest there aren’t a huge amount of tees in this Threadless sale, I think we’ve probably been treated too well over the year though with all the massive 10th anniversary sales. Still, it’s worth checking just in case there’s a shirt on sale that you’d been coveting for a while.

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Now this is a proper sale from Design By Humans, everything in store is $12 until January 9th, get on it! (If you like them cheaper than $12, I’ll be having a DBH competition soon)

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Seventh.Ink are having a massive 50% off sale for one day only (New Year’s Day) to thanks fans for liking them on Facebook. They recently held a challenge on Facebook, that if they got 3,000 people to like their page then they would hold a big sale, they got 3,000 and are sticking to their word. I’m not sure if the HYA coupon code (that you can find just underneath this post) will work on top of this sale, but it’s got to be worth trying.

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Coty has done the thing I’m too lazy to do and put together a great roundup of T-shirt top 10s of the year, with some damn fine choices and a pretty good overview of the year in the world of t-shirts.

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There’s 30% off at Miles to Go from now until New Years with the coupon code miles, which will take most of the tees down to $16 and lower.

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Coupon code YEAREND will see a 20% discount applied to your order at CX.CITY from now until the day will all the ones in it.

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My man Bobby over at Monstar dropped me a note to say that they’ve got 25% off their slip on shoes that are kinda like Toms and handmade in Argentina. They’re usually $30, but if you use the coupon code BRINGIT2011 you’ll pick them up for $22.50 a pair. The coupon is live until January 7th, and hopefully by then they’ll have added a few new items to the store as it is looking a bit bare with just one item in it.

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Mad Cats Running Wild at LTD Tee this week!

by LTD Tee on December 28, 2010

in News,T-shirts

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LTD Tee returns this week with a new offering from Lunar, a Croatian graffiti artist. Lunar has painted, exhibited and publishing his works around the globe including Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Hanoi, Lisbon, London, New York, Paris, Saigon and Tokyo. His clients inclujde Playboy, Forbes, Nissan and Coca-Cola. Don’t forget to use code “LTDTee” to get 10% off your order!

Andy: Nothing like a submission to distract me from stuffing my face, playing Kinect, and trying to work out how to use my awesome new camera!

This post was submitted by LTD Tee.

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Follow HYA on Twitter and win a t-shirt from itself.

by Andy on December 20, 2010

in Competitions,T-shirts

itself. competition

Last week’s competition with Threadless went well, with more than 200 tweets mentioning the giveaway, so the clever folks over at itself. thought that it would be good to keep the festive cheer rolling at HYA by offering another prize to be given away to HYA’s Twitter followers, of which there are now more than 2000!

itself. are being really generous and will give two winners a t-shirt of their choosing from their catalogue of designs. There’s some really classy designs in their store, and I can vouch for the quality because they’ve sent me a tee quite recently that left me pretty impressed. All you have to do to enter the competition is follow @hideyourarms on Twitter (winners will be notified by DM, so you have to be following me to win), and tweet the following message:

Win a t-shirt from @hereitself! Follow @hideyourarms and RT to enter the competition! http://bit.ly/gXsXpB #hyaitself

Terms & Conditions:

  • Each time to tweet the above message you will receive one entry into the giveaway, but please do not spam your followers, we all know how annoying that is, I suggest that you don’t tweet the message more than once a day.
  • The competition is open from now until Friday December 26th at 23:59 (GMT), tweets after that time and date will not be counted.
  • The winner MUST be following @hideyourarms, I will be notifying the winner by DM, and if you aren’t following I can’t message you.
  • Following notification by DM, the winner has 3 days to reply, otherwise a new winner will be selected and the initial winner will have forfeited their prize.
  • The competition is open to anyone, anywhere in the world that itself. will ship a package to, and that’s quite a lot of places!
  • I will randomly pick a winner from all the tweets using the random.org service. Each entry/tweet will be assigned a number, and I will randomly generate a number to find the winner.
  • Each winner can choose one t-shirt from the itself. catalogue, no cash alternative will be provided.
  • I know I said last week “if you don’t tweet then wait for next week”, but I promise next week I’ll do a competition that doesn’t involve Twitter.

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    The 12, errr 6 Days of Christmas at New Standard Clothing

    18.12.2010
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    I just realised that I was meant to post about this deal last Monday, but fear not because you haven’t really missed out on anything as far as I’m aware. For 12 days New Standard Clothing having been adding a new tee for $15 (with free shipping) by some well known artists from the t-shirt [...]

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    Sesame Street Fighter, these designs could have been so good

    18.12.2010
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    I got an e-mail from a guy named Matt about this design (and others mashing up Sesame Street & Street Fighter on RedBubble) and I was really excited as I clicked through, only to be somewhat disappointed with what I found. That isn’t to say these this design and others are bad, but the name [...]

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    Coupon code for 20% off at KrudMart

    18.12.2010
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    krudmart have an awful lot of nice stuff in their store, and I assume that you would find it quite a lot nicer with 20% off, so I’m going to give you that. The coupon code (I think they’re called promo codes in their checkout) HideYourArms will give you 20% off your order from now [...]

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    Hello Kitty x Johnny Cupcakes = Collectors Dream

    18.12.2010
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    People get addicted to buying EVERYTHING that Hello Kitty produce, and a slightly smaller amount of people will do practically anything to get their hands on the latest Johnny Cupcakes merchandise, so it’s hardly surprising that if you combine the two you end up with some t-shirts that look kinda cool (they aren’t amazing, but [...]

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    Moustache Cookie Cutters? The madness must end!

    18.12.2010
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    I think this whole moustache trend might have gone too far, seeing as now you can bake cookie in the shape of a mustaches which will inevitably be used as photo-props for those lacking in a ‘manbar’, and as annoying crumbs amongst the bristly hairs for those that have invested the time in looking like [...]

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    10% off at Veer from now until the end of the year (when you spend $100)

    17.12.2010

    When it comes to typography apparel, few people do it better than Veer, but I suppose that’s probably got something to do with them selling fonts as well as putting them on tees. Type is their business, and clearly they know it well. From now until the end of the year, you can receive 10% [...]

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    Kiniking: Fresh, new, free shipping today only!

    17.12.2010
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    Yes, I know that posting about a free shipping offer about 6 hours before it expires is a bit silly, but I only found out about it a few hours ago, and more than just letting you know about the free shipping I wanted to introduce you guys to Kiniking, who are a new-ish brand [...]

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    Karmaloop are giving away 2 $5000 gift certificates, today!

    17.12.2010
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    This is pretty huge, I know I don’t mention Karmaloop as much as back in the day (though I probably should, good clothes at good prices, and good service in my experience), this was too big of a competition not to mention, even if I am catching it a bit late. There’s actually several competitions [...]

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    8 new tees and a 30% off sale at Gold Coin

    17.12.2010
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    Gold Coin certainly aren’t shy when it comes to their shirt designs, are they? There’s some really strong designs in this line-up, and to tempt you even more, if you use the coupon code XMAS at the checkout. That coupon will be live until the end of the day, which incidentally is the last point [...]

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    25% off hoodies and tees at KosherHam

    17.12.2010
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    My knowledge of Judaism is pretty low, but why would KosherHam be having a Chrismas sale?* Still, never look a gift horse in the mouth, there’s 25% off all their tees and hoodies (knocking tees from $20 to $15) without the need for a coupon code, and I have no idea when the sale will [...]

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    The Rat Pack by RubyRed

    16.12.2010
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    You know what brings out the rats in Las Vegas? Walking down the strip with someone that isn’t your girlfriend. Swarms of drunk guys with luminous drinks slung around their necks converge on you… and then, and I assume this happens to everyone, a midget arrives in a limo to try and convince you to [...]

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    Coupon code for 18% off at OMUNKY

    16.12.2010
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    18% is rather a strange number for a discount, but I’m sure OMUNKY have their reasons, and with their newer designs being $22 you’re looking at a nice saving on their organic cotton tees (some older shirts are as low as $10 too).

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    20% off sale at Lady Umbrella, and free gifts with every purchase!

    16.12.2010
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    That infographic pretty much says it all, save 20% and get free stuff with your order at LadyUmbrella (the Irish and kinda Spanish store that sells lovely ladies t-shirts) by using the code GIFT20.

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    Black Christmas Gift Set by Elena Gallen [Submitted]

    16.12.2010

    BLACK CHRISTMAS GIFT SET by ELENA GALLEN. The most-shocking style t-shirt of her Sacred Geometry collection and a limited edition sweatshirt to wear oversized. A perfect dark christmas gift for yourself or a loved one. Limited Edition Fractal Cross black sweatshirt with screenprint. Sweatshirt made out of cotton. Ribbed collar with elastan and embroided tag. [...]

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    Ugly Christmas T-shirts from Vardagen

    16.12.2010
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    I’ve never really been into the Christmas sweater ‘thing’, my girlfriend has one, but she suits it, and it’s not meant to ugly, it’s just kind-of alpine, whereas I think I’d just look dumb wearing a sweater with a couple of dancing reindeer stitched into the pattern…. however, an ironic t-shirt? Sign me up! The [...]

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