September 21st is International Peace Day. Especially in regard of current developments, this seems to be a good occasion to spend some thoughts on politics. But besides worrying about old rivalries becoming new ones, there´s also a reason to celebrate - this year, the famous peace sign celebrates its 50th birthday.

That´s why Spreadshirt and laFraise join forces and launch a special shirt design competition around the topic of peace. The only requirement to take part is to incorporate the peace sign in the design. Not necessarely as the key visual, but it has to be in there somewhere.

The winner will get 1,500 EUR in cash and we´ll also give away some slots in the Spreadshirt end customer newsletter for those designers who not only submit their pieces to the European gallery of laFraise but to the Spreadshirt marketplace (please use “WorldPeaceDay08″ to tag submissions) as well.

Deadline for submissions  is September 12th. The winner will be announced on September 21st.

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The shirt rallye is on! Just as a reminder: if you manage to attract three new customers within the next two weeks you will receive one shirt coupon at 15 pounds. Possibly up to five coupons per person! Also, the best marketing ideas – how to promote and spread your shop - will be richly rewarded. But how? Among the prizes we would like your vote on there are a Wacom Board, Google Adwords credits, photo shooting for your shop and…

Continue reading ‘1 2 3 Rallye - additional prizes’

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Sustainability is our big theme in April: Earth Day, Bamboo and Eco-Cotton – Bambi will surely show up too. “Everything beautiful and good,” our production taoist philosophized, who might have just watched too much Star Wars. “You can push yourself as much as you want. As long as you behold the light and not the shadow, Ying and Yang won’t be in balance.”

That sounds unbelievably wise, impressed us greatly and let’s us simply imagine ripping through the forest at 130 km/h.
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Thank you to all who have taken part in the design competition for the Shirt That Stole Christmas. It’s been emotional. We have taken a vote in the Spreadshirt UK Office and from a handful of random punters, and have reached our decision. There were a lot of great designs, and all of them made us smile, so this was a toughie. Here’s how it panned out… Continue reading ‘An Anti-Christmas Miracle!’

A reminder to one and all that our Anti-Christmas Design Competition Extravaganza Expo-Fest-O-Rama 2007 ends this afternoon. We Spread Bloggers will take a vote and the winner will be announced on Monday and crowned the Mighty Designer of the Shirt that Stole Christmas. Which is your favourite so far?

In the meantime, the excellent anti-Festive cartoon from Bifsniff.com (above) is sure to keep you in the mood.

There must be something in the eggnog…The Anti-Christmas designs entries are now pouring in.  And as I had suspected, the Bah Humbug mentality crosses both language barriers and culinary divides.   The latest are under the cut for your viewing pleasure: Continue reading ‘Festivus for the Rest of Us: Anti-Xmas Design Contest Update’

Don’t forget the Anti-Christmas comp ends this Friday at 5pm. So far theres only one entry, which makes your odds of winning the £250 Spreadshirt shopping spree very high indeed. Very, very high indeed. So what are you waiting for…Christmas? Ouch, thats bad, unlike our first design:

Anti Christmas by bountyday

Christmas is around the corner and thus begins the great divide: between the Stooges - the enthusiasts who love everything about Holiday cheer, and the Scrooges - the ones who might like the core idea of Christmas, but can’t stand the six weeks of hype and hysteria leading up to it.

We’re all about equal representation here at Spreadshirt, so now we’re on a quest to find the quintessential anti-Christmas shirt design. Therefore I hereby launch as part of our equal rights, anti-Christmas campaign, a design competition for “Shirt that Stole Christmas”!! Continue reading ‘Anti-Holidays Design Competition’

I’m sure a lot of you read Mashable the social networking news site. Mashable is the world’s largest blog on social networking. and one of the top 100 blogs worldwide. Now we’re partnering with them to power a Mashable T-shirt Design Contest. You’ll know all about these from La Fraise and the OLP.

The main prize is an 8gb Iphone!! Read more about it here, or submit here

Erm, that should have been “winners are”…. as in the end the standard was so high we couldn’t pick just one.

Play with the forms by Lufograf and Lovetab by Kimlarsen shared the honours.

We just didn’t feel ready to seperate these two, they’re just so great and at this point equal. Rather than pick the wrong one and possibly regret the decision later we decided to declare them both the winner and upgrade second prize to match 1st.

Now our Graphics dept and winning designers Kimlarsen and Lufograf (if they wish) can work together with us to develop the two logos and then we’ll make a final, final decision which to pick in the coming month or more. This process will also be open and you can follow it here on the blog.

Laurents The Signal came 3rd and Japasas Spreadshirt TM received a special merit. We didn’t plan a 4th place but that design was too strong to leave empty handed.

Here are all the winners modeling their logos on Spreadshirts after the unveiling party we had this weekend in Leipzig.:

Here is what Jana said about the decision:

“I’m overwhelmed by the response this project has drawn from inside and outside our community. It is remarkable that we had four designs that each easily could have been our logo. After weeks of discussions, Kim Larsen’s and Niclas Bulard’s designs felt the best for us as a company. We couldn’t pick just one! ”

And here she is preparing to unveil the winners:

Read more about how we made this decision over at the OLP blog

Thanks to everybody who voted or commented during this project, we’re delighted with the quality of our finalists. We’re really excited to see how these two develop and the final form our new logo will take. The OLP has been a real pleasure to organize and we’re humbled by the creativity of everyone that took part