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

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

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!
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, 3008PLUS, 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
01 May
Posted by Andy as Coupon Codes, News

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.
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.

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.