Do you remember Yackfou? They’re a bunch of Berliners who produce clothes that have a touch of awesome about them, and now you don’t just have to buy those clothes online, you can buy them in their shop (yes, a real shop, with windows and stuff).Well, not quite yet, the shop, located on the Boxhagener Platz, Friedrichshain, in the centre of Berlin, doesn’t actually open until July 5th, and when it does, Berliners, you’re gonna want to head down. On the opening day, everything in the shop is going to have 50% off, which certainly isn’t a price cut to be sniffed at (whatever that means). They’ll also be selling prototype and sample pieces in the shop, which is nice.
Things are starting to become a bit clearer thanks to a major overhaul on the T-shirt day website, it’s gone from a plain outline of a tee last week to the fully blown site that you can see in the screenshot. From the looks of things, Spreadshirt will be holding events in Berlin and Boston, giving away about 500 t-shirts both online and off, and they’re also holding a special competition in conjunction with laFraise. It’s shaping up to be more of an event than I rather cynically first expected, so I’ll keep you updated on developments.International T-Shirt Day
You might have noticed me slipping in a link to this site a couple of days ago, which was a little sneaky, I’ll admit, so I thought I’d better give it a proper mention.
TeeBurst is a site I’ve created (using this clever persons code) to deliver a constantly updated stream of t-shirt news and media. The news comes from Google News, Digg, Reddit & Technorati, whilst del.icio.us covers the social bookmarking angle, whenever someone tags something as t-shirt related on those sites, the headline of that story goes onto their TeeBurst feed. I’ve also included HYAs headlines on there since I’m a shameless self-promoter.
The media side of things keeps things looking fairly pretty, pictures of t-shirts from Flickr, and videos about t-shirts from YouTube. Interestingly, if you do a search on YouTube for ‘t-shirt‘, then most of the results (when sorted by date added) are about wet t-shirt competitions or not related to tees at all (could people please stop tagging vids with ‘t-shirt’ because someone in the video is wearing a tee?), but if you search for ‘t-shirts‘ then you find out that quite a lot of tee companies are using youtube to promote themselves.
I don’t expect TeeBurst to be a massive success, as it is just a PopUrls clone, but I’ve actually found it pretty useful over the past few days for getting new stories and keeping some of the websites I check out in one place, and hopefully you’ll find it useful too. Suggestions and comments are welcome obviously, I’d like to tweak a few things about it (colour scheme, a logo, maybe put some other tee blogs in the roster), so if you can think of anything just let me know.
I had to write the title twice for two reasons:
1. I’ve got a migraine so I’m going to skip the usual recommendation for the day, and give you a link so that your visit wasn’t a waste (my pain, your gain!).
2. The pain suffered by small independent designers all around thw world when big corporates rip-off their designs (though for legal reasons I should probably say that the designers are only very, very, very similar). Check out the Urban Counterfeiters blog for a load of examples of disappointing business practice, and it ain’t just Urban Outfitters being named and shamed.
*Just noticed that that blog hasn’t been updated since late March, so the author has probably given up, but it’s still an interesting read*
It’s been too long:
La Fraise + Spreadshirt: Interesting noises coming from HipHipUK (new UK based tee blog) that the popular French submission-competition tee company La Fraise has been bought out by Spreadshirt. I can’t find any corroboration on this at the moment, but it’s an interesting move on the part of Spreadshirt since they already have a design competition running in the form of Derbz.
Yabbos: May I predict that these guys will receive a level of Oddica-esque love from bloggers for the next month or so? They’ve got some good designs (sometimes in the Threadless style), and more importantly, they’ve got a name that you like to say, and will remember. I’m not too hot for their site design and layout though (aren’t they using the same font as That 70s Show?).
Chateauroux: As mentioned in this weeks gossiptastic mailout of Popbitch, so they don’t exactly need my promotion, but they do have some hot tees, even though they’re a bit pricey for my tastes.
Rokko: Limited to a maximum of 15 pieces per design, so exclusive that if you ever see someone else wearing one you’ll do a double-take so fast you may well break your neck.
More non-sleeved news for your perusing pleasure:
HYA: Since people keep telling me that they can’t reach the site (even though I can), I’ve splashed some cash (even though I’m semi-unemployed) on webhosting in the form of a very generous plan from Dreamhost, made even more affordable by a kick-ass coupon code provided by Teees. So you know what that means, downtime, yep, I’m going to fix the downtime issues by having more downtime… this will occur over the weekend when I’d rather be doing something else, but its gotta be done, and traffic is lower on a weekend so hopefully most people won’t even notice. With all the extra space expect some semi-exciting developments, and for me to stop relying on Flickr for photo-hosting.
Teetonic: Another non-stop design competition business model vying for the title of Britain’s Threadless challenger. Great website design, it drips web 2.0, oh, and the tees are pretty nice too. [via Addicteed]
Heartbreakshirts: I don’t particularly like linking to a non-English site, and one which is Spreadshirt (though I have 2 spreadshirt items which have lasted well), but I really like this idea. It’s two shirts, and they have opposing parts of a heart on them, and underneath the piece of the heart there is the braille symbol for love. It’s kinda cute, but is it the equivalent of twins dressing the same? Left side, right side. [ via designspotter]
Oddica: HYA’s latest affiliate and all round bunch of nice guys are changing their pricing structure, following the May Madness that accompanied their opening month. From now on a single tee is $20, pick up a couple for $30 and three or more runs at $14 per tee. It’s not as great as their opening prices, sure, but for American Apparel and super-soft water-based ink, you’re still getting a pretty good deal. *CLARITY* This isn’t going to be Oddica’s final price scale, this is them continuing their opening sale a while longer, it just isn’t as crazy as before. So if you like anything from this collection and haven’t got around to ordering yet, then do it quick to take advantage.
No recommendation tonight because I have my last ever university exam tomorrow afternoon and I need to study more, but I’d already written this weeks cotton filter, so I thought that’d do instead:
Steve Rosswick Clothing: The failed math geek in me really loves this tee, even though I don’t have a particular fondness for white tees, but those graph paper details are freakin’ sweet! (via A Piece of Shirt, good to see APS back in the tee game)
Tshirtlog.com: There’s a lot of tee blogs out there, but this one seems to post more than anyone else…. probably because it’s all copy/pasted (or cleverly RSS posted) from other tee blogs, with a little “all credit for this post goes to ‘x’” at the end of the post. It would seem that Preshrunk doesn’t like this practise (and nor do I, which was why I notified Jason about it) and changed one of the images in a post of his to reflect his feelings, which was of course duly posted on Tshirtlog. I know web 2.0 is about sharing, but bloggers spend a lot of time writing their content.
Split the Atom: They may well be very similar to Threadless in terms of business model, but imitation is the sincerest form of flattery (the above paragraph excluded) and STA have got some great shirt designs as well as a well designed site, and their prices are very reasonable for a British site (£15 each and it was £1.40 postage when I tested the checkout). (via T-shirt-alert and TeeJ ages ago)
Monsieur T: Free shipping on all orders in the US and Canada throughout June (including this lovely piece of self-promotion)
Owl Movement: New series of tee’s now available from OM, with a wide variety of styles, the tees run along three themes, ‘future perfect’, ‘your brand new love’ and ‘nostalgic notions’.
I started writing this a week ago, so some of it may well be old news:
Cat and Girl: He’s managed to take something quite surreal and turn it into something really sweet and cute, the facial expression of the bike-receiving-fish (yeah, now you’re gonna click that link!) is simply perfection.
Divine Clothing: Bill has done his final printing of the second season of shirts, so this is your last chance to pick up one up, I particularly like “those who live are those who love“, all tees $16.
Crowded Teeth: The sale started last week, but it deserves a mention because I’m sure you don’t spend all day looking at tee blogs, Michelle’s tee are down to $15 from $24, and the hoodies (including the one I recommended a while back) are down to $25 from $40.
Secret Handshake: Some cool tees here, via C12
No Star Clothing: Their new site is up, it’s just as clean and smooth as it used to be, and there’s a few cool new additions to the line up, expect me to be recommending this hoodie soon, and making tenuous claims that the birds are ‘blue tits’ just so I can make some weak jokes.
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