Shirtspotting, the mostly German-language t-shirt blog, has turned one year old, and instead of doing what most of us bloggers do and write up a quick post saying “hey, I’ve been writing this for a year, wow, and people actually read it, cool, thanks” and then move on, Markus is hosting a ‘tee party’. He’s rounded up 15 companies who are each going to give away one or more tees to commenters on his blog.

All you have to do to be eligible is go to this page on Shirtspotting and leave a comment saying happy birthday or something similar, einfache!

(there’s no end date listed for this, so you’d probably be best off leaving a comment…. now)

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I bet you thought you’d never see the cotton filter again!

Shirt.Woot: As spotted by Jay, Shirt.Woot is now shipping to 45 countries beyond the US & Canadian borders, and are doing so for the low price of $5 too.

FFee Clothing: In other shipping related matters, FFee clothing are offering free shipping on all orders (even international ones) until the end of May.

T-Shirt Magazine: This site claims to be the only magazine about T-shirts whether online and off, which is… wrong (and Tcritic’s new look is farily magazine-like too), but lets not hold that against them, since there is some decent content on the site.

LaFraise: They can now print up to 12 colours on a shirt rather than the 8 that they had before, which is an increase of 50%… hurrah! To celebrate, they’re making up a test design (only 250 to be produced) called ‘Let’s Get Ready To Rainbow’, which I think is a pretty splendid phrase.

Threadless: If you’ve ever wanted to know, these are the people that do the screenprinting for Threadless (the art prints, not the tees). Also, here’s another magazine article fawning over Threadless and their business model, there’s pretty much nothing new in the article, but it does provide a decent overview.

Pete Wentz: Apparently he likes Local Celebrity clothing so much that he asked to take some after wearing it for a Fall Out Boy video shoot. Presumably he’s trying to save some cash for when Ashlee pops that baby out.

Creative Directory 101: A directory of sites for creative people, obviously, this will be helpful for people trying to get themselves set up in the tee biz (especially if you’re in the UK). [Disclosure: I'm still working on a HYA Directory that would crush compete with this site]

Pikiware: Mashable described this site as being the “Wordpress of Online Tshirts”, and since I love Wordpress and t-shirts I figured it was worth a peep, especially since the last time I found out about a t-shirt store from Mashable it was Design By Humans. From what I can tell, pikiware is basically a storefront system for people that print their own products, so that you can make your own Cafepress or Spreadshirt kind of business, though I have been known to make mistakes in the past, so I could easily be wrong. I don’t really see this being of huge interest to “HYA kinda people”, but since it does represent something kinda new in the tee world then I thought it was worth a mention.

Instructables: Here’s an instructable about photo-emulsion screenprinting, which I assume would be helpful for those of you that would like to print your own tees but don’t know how.

HipHipUK Discusses Crowdsourcing: This post seems to have become rather business-y, and this is the most business-y of the lot. Adam wrote an article a few weeks ago called “Which risks and problems will companies, that run Crowdsourcing business models, face in the future? Amongst other things” that I think should probably be a must read for any of you out there that are running a design competition or thinking about running a design competition.

Photojojo: They’ve got an article all about shooting pictures for use on eBay, but a lot of the techniques can also be applied to taking products shots for your tees and hoodies. There’s also a video on the same subject at Etsy if you don’t feel like reading.

Dadawan: They’re selling cool cushions now!

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I was on teeburst a couple of days ago and noticed a Digg story about free t-shirts. Well, we all know how I get ‘free’ t-shirts (how free are they when I spend about 2 hours writing about each one and taking photos?), but I’d like to be able to help you guys get free t-shirts too, so I gave it a quick look.

I can’t make any guarantees on whether the links are still good or if the tee you receive will be of good quality, but hey, free is free, and you get what you pay for.

The Free T-shirt List by Spending Less 101 [via Digg]

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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.

Allmightys

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I love how Johnny Cupcakes seems to have an attitude that magic can happen, and he makes it happen. Its an attitude that I like, and would like to emulate, but unfortunately I don’t own a successful t-shirt business, so my ideas remain stuck in my ideas book (I really do have one).The above picture is a good example of that. Johnny Cupcakes is opening a store on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles and he’s got the guys who make engineering projects for Disney to create some custom made contraptions that will help to make the shop extra special . That green thing that JC is stood next to is just a tiny corner of a massive 10 foot tall vintage oven that will be in the shop (more pics in the thumbs), presumably non-functioning. I can’t imagine how cool that the shop is going to look in mid-June when it opens, so I’ll be keeping an eye on JCs blog for more photos.

Just so that this post wasn’t a total tease, this weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) you can get free shipping at johnnycupcakes.com by using the coupon code UPS step four of the checkout process. Please note this only applies to US Ground shipping, sorry my international friends.

Johnny Cupcakes

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I don’t really know what else I should write after a title like that. How about: spend $100 plus at Johnny Cupcakes and you’ll get a free wreath scarf (value $35.99!).

The tee above is newly released too, available in black on white and white on black (both colourways in guy and gal sizes). I’m going to stick my neck out and say that those colourways were chosen because of the black and white Boston cookies?

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If you buy a tee at EIO Clothing from now until January 31st, you will get a second tee, of your choice, absolutely free!

A great deal from a company with some great tees, and plenty of celebrity admirers, most recently including Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe.

I’m actually having a bit of trouble getting their shop to work at the moment, I’m not sure if this is because they’re getting hammered by the promo or if there’s something else wrong, but take a look around because it might just be a fault at my end. *The tees are appearing for me now, not sure what was wrong.*

EIO Clothing

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