Usually I’m not all that excited by the designs that are on Shirt.Woot, they’re always technically well produced and they have good artists, but the style doesn’t always appeal to me, and the style doesn’t seem to vary all that much, although I don’t check in with Shirt.Woot everyday so I could easily be wrong about that. It might also be the case that I’m not in line with the average wooter as well, since I think this tee is brilliant, yet it hasn’t sold out yet. Usually good shirts on Woot sell out pretty quickly.

I really like this shirt, but I think I’d like it even more if there was one little change. The coloured part is meant to be the characters finding colours as if they’d struck oil right? Wouldn’t it be cool if there were drops of colour landing on the characters and landscape slowly turning them into their coloured versions? Maybe that would be really hard to print, I dunno, but that was where my mind went when I saw this design.

Costiness=$15 (Shirt.Woot tees go up $5 after their first day) Tee Link Rumplo Link

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I know that its unfair to compare a newbie like Tee Fury with the Shirt.Woot behemoth, but when you see a tee site that sells one design a day you can’t help but think “hey, that sounds a lot like Shirt.Woot except their tees are a dollar cheaper.” Shirt.Woot sells their tees for $10, Tee Fury sell theirs for $9…. but Shirt.Woot’s price includes shipping (+$5 for overnight shipping or international) whereas Tee Fury pop $2 on for shipping. But hey, its just a dollar extra so I probably shouldn’t have wasted time explaining it.

I like the way that because Tee Fury only sell one tee at a time that they can keep the site really simple and keep the artwork/artist on the front page, with the tee at the top and comments on the design straight underneath them. They aren’t hiding away what people think of the tee, its right there on the front of the site, which takes serious amounts of belief in your artists and your designs. It’s hard to tell whether their designs are consistently good since they don’t have an archive of previous designs, but I do like the one featured today (which is actually yesterday, since I wrote this post yesterday). Looking around the Tee Fury forums they seem to have a few recognisable (Tom Burns, Rikki B, Jimiyo) names from the tee world that are already getting involved, which bodes well for the future.

One reason why those artists might be fans is because Tee Fury won’t ‘own’ your design if your tee is sold through them. As I understand it, the design is just ‘rented’ to Tee Fury and they sell it for the day, then the artist owns it again and can do whatever they want with it.

Tee Fury

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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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