I love getting e-mail, it brightens up my day. If you want to e-mail me for any reason (for example: dropping me a tip, pitching your company, offering me a sample, some advice about getting into the tee industry, asking where to find something specific, or telling me about a mistake in a post) then you can do so by e-mailing me either at the address listed below, or through the comment form.

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I don’t want to be too militant about this, but I’d appreciate it if you followed some general guidelines when pitching me your products. There is also some great advice at these links about pitching products and getting yourself on sites related to design: ‘How To Get Your Shit Published Online‘ by Core 77 and ‘How To: Get Your Cool T-shirts reviewed by a T-shirt blog‘ by Fantastic Bonanza.

1. Please call me Andy, that’s my name (its written all over the site), e-mails addressed to the “Hide Your Arms editor” don’t endear me to you.

2. I don’t mind being sent your regular press release and blurb, I know you’re sending your details to a lot of websites and don’t have time to write something for every individual, but please put something personal at the start of your message, just to let me know that I’ve received an e-mail from a person and not a robot.

3. If I don’t reply for a few days, sorry, but I don’t always get the chance to reply to e-mails in a timely fashion. Sometimes e-mails get caught by the spam filter, and if your message gets knocked off the front page of my webmail client then it might take me a while until I get around to replying. Trust me though, I read every e-mail and if I like your stuff, it will get on the blog at some point, I’m just not a very organised person.

4. If you want to send me a sample for review, awesome! I’ll check out your site and if I think that we’ll both benefit from the review then I’ll tell you my size and address and we’ll take it from there.

5. Sending attachments is fine, as long as they aren’t too big (limit yourself to a couple of MB if possible).