I usually see ‘free shipping’ offers and just assume that they’re only going to apply to Americans, which annoys me, or at least its going to until I move there, at which point I’ll probably go on a bit of a spending spree since I won’t be hounded by high shipping prices. Ffee clothing however, are doing the right thing and offering free shipping to everyone, not just shoppers in the US. In their e-mail it says that the offer lasts until the 25th, but the picture says the 26th, its probably best to be safe and make your order by the 25th to avoid disappointment.

*We have clarification! The free shipping offer lasts until the 26th.

Ffee Clothing

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Americans might still hate the prices, but at least they won’t have to worry about shipping costs from British premium tee retailer Roktic this month. They stock some great brands such as CTRL, Wemoto and Le Sucre, and a few others that I haven’t got excited about on HYA before.

Roktic

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See those pictures up there? Those printing errors were not what Eric from Linty Fresh wanted to see when he received his latest batch of shirts from the printer. Instead of just chucking them into a closet to gather dust, he’s giving them away for free. Well, as free as you could hope for, you still have to pay shipping ($3 domestic, $7 international), but I don’t think any of you could expect him to pay for shipping when he’s just giving you a tee. I don’t know how long this offer is good for, so if you want one it might be a good idea to let him know sharpish.

Find out all about it at the Linty Fresh blog

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Violent Elegance released a couple of new designs called, appropriately enough, Skull and Pyramid, which I figure is because one of the tees has a skull on it (with Mickey ears? scandalous!) and the other two have a pyramid on them. I like the way that they keep it simple (hey, that’s from the title!) and minimalist, especially with the black-on-black and white-on-white colourways.

All Violent Elegance tees are €32, which is a fairly premium price, but that does include worldwide shipping.

Violent Elegance

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I know I’m being a big tease to the American portion of my audience when I post about LaFraise since they still don’t sell directly to you from their main site, but I have good news for you on that front. The official Spreadshirt US store that LaFraise are using to sell their tees in the US has been updated with some fresher designs, though none of them are brand-spanking new. I guess now you can stop drooling over the previously featured ‘Lost in the City’ (pictured), and actually buy it.LaFraise/Spreadshirt US store

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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 promise this’ll be the last copy/pasted post for a little while now that I’ve cleared some of the news items out of my inbox:

10% off any $50 or more purchase enter SPRING10 at checkout
15% off any $150 or more purchase enter SPRING15 at checkout
20% off any $250 or more purchase enter SPRING20 at checkout
This promotion is available until May 30, 3008

PLUS, free shipping from now until the end of the summer on all purchases of
$150 or more. Free Shipping will automatically be applied to the purchase at
checkout. Consumers need only to select the Free UPS Ground Shipping option.

To get to the full details of the promotions please go to
www.redlotusclothing.com/mm5/promotions.php

Red Lotus Clothing

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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 know that shipping costs are hardly the most exciting topic, but when you hear that something is going to be getting cheaper then I think it is worth noting.

I’ve never actually made an order at Design By Humans, so I have no real frame of reference to the shipping prices, but they’re damned cheap now. Their most recent mailout said that a single tee could be posted for as little as $5, which is a cut of about 60% on the previous cost. But when I added one tee to my basket and proceeded to the checkout, it said that postage to the UK was $4.14, which is obviously less than $5, and an excellent deal for those of us on this side of the Atlantic that love buying stuff from America but hate having to pay over the odds for it to actually get here.

They’ve also reprinted a load of tees as well, so if you were disappointed to miss out on a tee in the past take a look and see if its back in stock.

Design By Humans

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Big thanks to Pokeadot, who I presume is a HYA reader, for letting me know that Imaginary Foundation released some new designs from their presumably Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory-esque headquarters in Switzerland.

Beyond that news, they’ve also changed their shipping method to a flat rate of $7 in the US, and $20 for us international people. I know that I should have probably put one of their latest designs as the picture to go with this post, but I really liked the image they made to showcase the new shipping policy.

Imaginary Foundation

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