As if I didn’t love them enough already, Allmightys have gone and created an exclusive account for fans of HYA. If you log in with the username of hya and password of teelove you will get 15% off whatever you order. How cool is that?

I’m sure that some of you might be a bit concerned about using the same login since you’ll be putting your credit card information on the site, but your details will not be kept on their server and will not be seen by anyone else using the special HYA login. I haven’t been told about any kind of a time limit on this deal, so I can only presume that it’ll be around for a while, but there’s plenty of great tees in their inventory at the moment, so why not grab a tee or two with the hya login sooner rather than later, or perhaps you could wait until their typetastic competition has run before making an order?

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Allmightys are rapidly turning into my favourite European design competition, they’ve got the quality, the community, the artists, and I just get a generally good feeling about them. Their latest themed competition was based around patterns. As you can probably tell from the gallery above, the winners were a pretty diverse bunch, branching off from what I’d consider a pattern by a few degrees, but still creating clever designs that are undeniably patterns. My pick ‘o the bunch is actually the Gold Prize winner of the contest, Slum, a great colourway and beautifully illustrated, bravo, darruda!

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This tee isn’t getting a traditional review because it wasn’t sent to me as a sample, it was sent as a thank you for a bit of non-clothing related help I gave them (who’d have thought my almost-encyclopedic knowledge of Amsterdam’s hotels would get me some tees?). But since quite a lot of you probably don’t have any real world experience with Allmightys I thought I’d take this opportunity to let you guys know what a quality product the AM team put out. If you’re thinking “who the hell are Allmightys?” then head over to their about page to get a refreshingly honest overview of the company. In a nutshell though, they’re a t-shirt design competition based in Europe that give part of each sale to charity.
I wore this t-shirt last night when I went to the pub quiz (4 points of winning, boo!) and didn’t really expect to get much reaction from it since its a fairly subdued colourway and you really need to look at it for a while to really appreciate the design. But, in a highly unusual move, not one, but two of my friends were transfixed by the design, just staring and staring at it, which actually gets slightly uncomfortable after a few seconds. One of them even wanted to buy it off me, despite it being on sale at Allmightys, her being a girl, and definitely not a size XL. So, I guess its fair to say that this design gets a positive reaction.
Allmightys pretty much delivers on every front. The print quality is great (and a design like this does give it a decent test), the tee is the industry standard of American Apparel, they’ve got great designers submitting to their competitions, and those designers get well compensated. I know this is a rather fawning review, but I’m really impressed with their whole setup and I glad that I can give them two thumbs up.If you fancy getting hold of a couple of Allmightys tees, they’re holding a mini-contest (running until 28th July) in which all you have to do is write a short comment about the future, as imagined from the past, and if they like it you might end up with an envelope making its way to you from Germany.

Costiness=€21 Tee Link

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Here’s another great theme for a design competition. Allmightys latest competition has the name “Future-Past-Perfect”, you may be wondering waht the devil that means. Well, how about letting Allmightys explain:

“…refers to a time that is in the future, relative to another point in the past, but is in the past relative to a point in its future.”

We would like you to think of the future as imagined in the past and how and what we expected to be has become somewhat different. Think future in relation to the past, think memories, challenges, imagination, expectation, disappointment and the future that lies ahead of us. What have we learnt and what should we expect?

Dates:
Competition announced: Monday 7th July 2008
Submission Deadline: Monday 25th August 2008, 23.00 GMT
Voting Ends: Friday 29th August 2008, 23.00 GMT

I’m sure I’m not the only person who thinks its fun to take a look at where people in the past thought we’d be by now. If you’re after some light inspiration for this theme, may I suggest you check out Daniel H. Wilson’s book Where’s My Jetpack? Which is a fun overview of all the technology that was promised to us in the 60s (jetpacks, food pills, moon bases, etc.) which never arrived. Or if you don’t feel like dropping the cash (the book is beautifully designed by the way, very shiny), you could always check out a cool blog I found called Paleo-Future that is all about this subject, and a fun read too. If that isn’t enough inspiration for you I don’t know what is, so go and let your imaginations run wild, because this theme seems like a lot of fun.

As is often the case with Allmightys competitions, €1 from the sale of each of the winning designs will be given to charity, in this case Greenpeace will be receiving the donations.

Read this info (minus my delightful commentary) again at the Allmightys blog, or check out the competition’s dedicated page.

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We all like something for nothing, and whilst I’m afraid Allmightys aren’t giving away free t-shirts (you can get free shipping on four or more tees though) they are giving away their artwork for free in the form of some thoroughly sublime wallpapers.I’m not entirely positive about this, but I think that all of their t-shirt designs are available as a high quality 2560×1600 pixel wallpaper (or most of them at the very least), and the latest series from the Mech Tech Competition are also available in iPhone friendly sizes.Check out the rest of wallpapers here.

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Allmightys are impressing me more and more these days, and its releases like these that are part of the reason behind that. One of the other reasons is that they seem to really be focused on giving their artists a great deal. I’m not saying that other design competitions are doing that, but I actually believe them when they say that:

…every time you order you are also supporting the artist. All allmightys designers recieve commissions from sales and not only that but some tees also include donations to charities! At Allmightys, everybody wins!

Check out this blog post to get all the deets on these latest releases.

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It’s still a lovely day here in the Lakes, so I’m still just copy and pasting news items:

Allmightys.com has launched a mini contest to win two free t-shirts from their store. Their new t-shirt design competition is themed “Pattern Battle” and they would like to hear from you what you think about patterns whether these be patterns in our lives or patterns we draw on paper. Whatever it is they want to know!

How to Enter

Simply write about why you think patterns are great or not in the form of a comment to this post. Please write at least one sentence, thats all you have to do! The contest begins now and one winner will be chosen by Allmightys Team and announced Monday, May 19th of 2008.

Contest Prizes

Two free t-shirts of your choice from their store!

Schedule

Contest Begins: Monday, May 5th of 2008
Contest Ends: Monday, May 19th of 2008

I don’t really visit Allmightys enough, they’ve got some well-known artists contributing designs and producing tees that equal or better most other design competitions, yet they don’t seem to get much coverage in the blog world. Just so we’re clear, your comments for the contest aren’t to be left on HYA, they are to be left on an Allmightys blog post, which can be found here.

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