by Andy on November 7, 2012
Fibers.com have made a bit of a habit of creating infographics based upon geeky TV shows, and when someone suggested a few weeks back that they should do an IT Crowd infographic I thought it would be a winner, especially since guys like me had already done most of the legwork in terms of finding which shirts were available to be bought and where. It’s a real pity that there’s not going to be more episodes made (I think I read somewhere that a Christmas special was a possibility, but I’ve heard nothing about that for a while), but better to go out on a high than to drag things out until the show is past it’s sell-by date.
Roy’s T-Shirts from The IT Crowd
by Andy on October 5, 2012
It’s Craft Beer Week and all around the globe judges are pulling out their SRM beer color and density measuring devices. This inspired Fibers.com to create a Beer Color Guide t-shirt, this frees up your hands for double the tastes of delicious micro-brews while you determine the amount of light passing through the libation.
Andy: This post was submitted last week after I set off on my mini-vacation, so it’s not craft beer week anymore but it’s still a neat shirt.
This post was submitted by Melody Stone.
A beautiful original illustration of the tin man grasping for a heart.
Andy: Agreed, that really is a lovely design (that is available as a sweatshirt or hoodie as well as the traditional tee option).
This post was submitted by Melody Stone.
The winter seems to drag on with no end in sight, but way there’s a small glimmer of hope on the horizon! Wait, that’s just a stupid earth rodent peeking it’s ugly head out of the ground – or is it?
That burrowing creature is our hope for an early spring and our ticket out of this dreadful winter. Legend has it the groundhog will see or not see his shadow, the outcome of which will dictate how much winter we can expect. This t-shirt is a parody of the crime-fighting vigilante radio program from the 1930s and the noble weather predicting groundhog’s. I wanted to design a groundhog day t-shirt to celebrate this glorious holiday, but that I’d also wear. So here’s this vintage style groundhog’s shadow knows t-shirt.
Please use this coupon code: GHD12 to get $5 off your Fibers.com groundhog t-shirt.
Andy: Hey America, I’m curious is Groundhog Day really as bigger thing in the US as the media leads me to believe?
This post was submitted by Melody Stone.
Celebrate No Shave November with an awesome Novembeard t-shirt. Featured on Fibers.com, this original Novembeard shirt is perfect for explaining your beardy-self to co-workers or grocery store clerks.
Andy: Thanks for the submission!
This post was submitted by Melody Stone.
Hipster watching is the new American past time. Add some spice to your hipster sightings by making it competitive with this hand hipster bingo t-shirt.
Andy: Thanks for the submission!
This post was submitted by Melody Stone.
Print-on-demand service Fibers have put together a really good guide telling their t-shirt designers (though the advice applies to anyone) about the best practises that they can use when contacting t-shirt bloggers to get their designs written about by guys like me.
The main takeaways are very sensible; have a good promo picture, write clearly and plainly making things simple for the blogger, offer them an incentive like a coupon code or maybe a free t-shirt, and don’t expect them to respond immediately, or perhaps even at all.
I should have something comprehensive like this myself and I’ll think about putting something together because I think it would be very useful. Of course, it needs to be read for it to be useful and in my experience with the submissions I receive most people just do what they want anyway and don’t necessarily follow any of the instructions on a site (my number one request is that people address me by name and it often isn’t met, so I know people are just sending out a form e-mail, and if they don’t give me that shred of respect why should I bother with their pitch?), but hopefully this information will get through to a few people.
Guide to Submitting Designs to t-shirt blogs
