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Wakestock 2012 Tickets from Got the T-shirt

June 26, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

Win tickets to the 2012 Wakestock festival and get a chance to watch all the wakeboarding action happening around Cardigan Bay, by joining the new competition launched by Got the T-shirt, an online t-shirt retailer that specializes in custom t-shirt designs for hens, stags, festivals and birthdays. Participants just have to get creative and design their own festival t-shirt with an online design application on the Got the T-shirt website. Their entries are required to be shared on Twiiter, with @GotTheT_shirt mentioned. The winner will be picked from the top five entries.

Wakestock is Europe’s largest wakeboard music festival and this year’s line-up includes performances from Ed Sheeran, Calvin Harris, Rizzle Kicks and Dizzie Rascal, as well as action from world class wake boarders. It is a Welsh-based event founded in 2000 and since then had become a key date in the festival calendar.

 “Our winner will get two full weekend passes to the festival, which takes place from the 6th – 9th of July. It’s a fantastic prize and we’re looking forward to seeing what imaginative designs our followers can come up with,” Jeremy Bradburn, the Managing Director of Got the T-Shirt.

Visit their website, www.got-the-t-shirt.co.uk or follow them on Twitter, @GotTheT_Shirt, to enter their latest competition and to start designing. Submissions of entries to the Wakestock competition are now accepted until the 29th of June noon.

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I Wear Your Shirt

June 26, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

Selling ad space on your chest is a brilliant idea “to make some extra money without actually working”. This idea came to Jason Sadler, from Florida, in 2008 and established an advertising company that uses t-shirts to advertise businesses, I Wear Your Shirt. I Wear Your Shirt allows a company to buy a day in which Sadler wears a shirt with the company’s logo and advertise in an interactive way by taking pictures and videos about the company, and upload them to Ustream and Youtube, making him wear different shirts every day of the year.

Sadler decided to capitalize on t-shirts because people love to wear them, they’re easy to sell, and inexpensive. A unique pricing model is complied by this advertising company. Advertising on the first day of the year costs $1. The price increases everyday which makes advertising on the last day of the year costs $365.There is also a revised model, where a week is paid by the advertisers to give more individualized attention.

On their first six months, the whole year was sold out, bringing in $70,000 for the first year. This had caught the attention of the New York Times, Fast Company and other media outlets. Now, I Wear Your Shirt is composed of a team of five and earns $500,000 per year. Their clients include Arizona Tea, Starbucks, Pizza Hut, Nissan, and Lucky Brand. The company is continuously growing and will be shifting to a new direction soon.

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Registering with QR-code T-Shirts

June 26, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

Voters for 2012 presidential election can now register with the new QR-code T-shirt. This was devised by a non-profit organization, Rock the Vote, which aims to engage and build political power for young people. Participants wearing QR-code t-shirt will be scanned and then taken to the Rock the Vote website, by volunteers, to register. After registering, they can simply use their mobile device to vote. With the help of RedLaser, a QR-code scanning app, Rock the Vote, together with ProJam was able to develop the code.

This campaign is designed to invite younger audience. Based on the Census Bureau report in 2008 and 2010, 18-to-24-year-old demographics had the lowest voter turnout in the election-by-lot. The New Republic publications sites that young adults are more likely to vote until older because they have the tendency to delay their goals further. Even with these economic crisis, Rock the Vote hopes to gain 1.5 million new voters before November 6 this year.

PromoJam’s Amanda MacNaughton, who worked with Rock the Vote on this project said, “QR codes can do fun things like gamification. They also cut down on loss of conversion and increase convenience. QR codes haven’t moved mainstream with all demographics, but Generation Y knows what they are and they use them.”

The QR-code equipped Rock the Vote t-shirts are sold online and in Whole Foods stores nationwide. For those interested to volunteer can support the project by wearing the t-shirt and persuading people to sign up.

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Spidey Eyes T-shirt

June 26, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

Spider-Man is surely being loved by everyone. Why not get a shirt inspired by our friendly neighborhood? PrettyMuchIt, a youtube channel about the hottest upcoming movies, music, tech, and more has now started its own t-shirt company, Obscurity. The company offers t-shirts with great designs inspired by sci-fi movies, games, TV and many more. One of their latest designs is the Spidey Eyes red t-shirt. It is a minimalist t-shirt design and is perfect for fans of both the Sam Raimi-directed Spider-Man trilogy and Marc Webb’s upcoming reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man. The owner of this company, Eric Striffler, is the designer of these t-shirts.

There are two different colors for this design, silver and gold. Reviews about the movie explained why sometimes Spider-Man’s eyes are yellow and sometimes they’re not. It is said that the lenses Peter uses react to the day and night differently. That’s why they are different depending on the time of day so it’s cool this clothing company is offering both versions of the eyes.

These shirts are available at BeObscure.com and are sold for $16.95 each. The “Spidey Eyes” shirts will only be available until July so for those who would like to own one, make sure you purchase it by the end of the month! Other designs include Prometheus and previously reported, “Shawarma” shirts that are inspired by the movie “The Avengers”.

 

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Neon Colors for Antisparkle Summer line

June 20, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

It’s summer time and everybody knows that everything seems to be brighter during this season. It is also the best time of the year to wear bright colors. Antisparkle Apparel, a private company in Haven Florida established in 2010, came out with their Summer 2012 Collection, consisted of t-shirts in dazzling neon colors.

Neon colors have once again topped fashion trend just like in the 80’s when striking pop fashion started which is influenced by icons such as Madonna. Colors such as hot pink, yellow, orange and green were everywhere!

Neon colors t-shirts are very cool and are a perfect summer outfit with our sun-kissed skin underneath. They also add a playful characteristic to those who are wearing them. The shop-owner and designer, Monique Malcolm, is very hands-on in making these t-shirts. All products are created and printed in house, making them very unique and stylish. The designs are very cute and fresh. There are two different designs in the t-shirt. The first one, as named by Monique, is Nyota, a lovely alien character, and the other one is a cute star. Both are trademark designs of Antisparkle.

This Summer 2012 Collection also features some accessories like earrings, necklaces, rings and tote bags in amazing shades that matches the t-shirts. Summer will surely be more fun in this simple but stunning t-shirts. Less is definitely more.

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Free T-shirts from Conan O’Brien

June 20, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

For all the CONAN fans out there, Conan O’Brien will be giving away thousands of fan-designed t-shirts as he brings his Emmy-nominated late-night series to Chicago for a week on June 11-14.

 

These free t-shirts will be given away through vending machines that are located throughout Chicago and through a virtual vending machine at www.temcoco.com/freeshirts. Fans who want to grab one just have to enter secret code that is revealed on the previous night’s episode during the “CONAN Chicago Week”. It is a first-come, first-served basis from 8 a.m. till noon on June 12-15. 10 special vending machines that are wrapped in fan-created artwork will be placed at Wrigley Field, Navy Pier, Union Station and The Chicago Theater, in addition, on The Magnificent Mile and in The Loop.

 

Some of the impressive artworks of the show’s fans are featured in this limited-edition t-shirt giveaway by the Team Coco. There are eight different t-shirts given away that are designed by Chicago artist together with fans. Four of these are offered through the virtual vending machine online.

 

The Chicago-based t-shirt artists are Jason Cole, Aaron Wooten and Tom Torluemke, and the CONAN fan artists includes Patrick Giles from Montgomery, Alabama; Justin Orr  and Arash Rod from San Francisco, California; Kirsten Leigh from Burbank, California; and Colby Swanstone from Kansas City, Missouri.

 

 

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Fake Exploitation Movie T-shirts

June 20, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

Ultra Trash Clothing, a clothing label in Germany, brings back the influence of the American Grindhouse Films in the 60’s and 70’s as they share to the world their extraordinary t-shirt designs. This small clothing label was founded by two graphic designers Florian Baier and Stefan Huebsch in 2011. Inspired by the so-called “Grindhouse” which is an American term of theater that shows exploitation movies containing large amount of sex, violence and bizarre subject matter, Baier and Huebsch designed their shirts with “fake movie posters”.

Biker movies, slasher movies, road movies and erotic films from the 60’s an 70’s, are included in their extraordinary apparel line. Their main feature is the both-sided print of Ultra Trash Shirts, which was a great success. It is a combination of two shirts in one. The print inside is the fake movie poster itself and the print outside is Ultra Trash American Grindhouse flag logo.  In addition, a corresponding movie poster is included in the package.

The two designers came up with all the movie titles and prints, giving the posters a realistic appearance and as if the movies really exist. Their t-shirts are very classic and exceptional. The vintage-looking designs of the t-shirts also resemble to the Old Russian Constructivist movie posters, which are intended for the audience who are often illiterate, so they rely on catchy images, typography, and design more than just the meaning of words.

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Hollow Clothing, Rebranded

June 20, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

Hollow Clothing was established in the year 2009 in UK by three friends, Dan Bill, George Hopkins and Joel Allen. Their passion for surfing and the urban lifestyle had led them in creating their impressive t-shirts and video blogs. Hollow had release over 25 designs which are printed on both guys and girls tees, and sold to 19 countries since it began, delivering in every possible way.

As Hollow heads to their 3rd anniversary, a rebrand was done and they are launching more fresh designs and limited-edition t-shirts. Their latest t-shirts includes a red t-shirt with a Native American headdress with the word Sioux below it; a green t-shirt with the Hollow symbol; a gray t-shirt with the Hollow’s most popular design that says “satisfaction is the death of desire”; a dark blue t-shirt with an anchor with the company’s name; a white t-shirt with jumbled red letters with a blood spot at the center; and a maroon t-shirt with the company’s official logo. A unisex grey sweater with the company’s official logo is also available, as well as a gray beanie cap.

Incredibly limited edition items are pre-ordered with extras packed in the deal. These t-shirts are available at their websites at an absolutely amazing price. They are also being sold at Music Festivals in the UK. All t-shirts are all limited edition. Once they are sold out, they’re gone.

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Top T-shirts for Euro 2012

June 20, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

Going to Euro 2012 but can’t find the perfect t-shirt to go with? Your long search is over for here are some t-shirts that will be the best Euro 2012 outfit.

Copafootball.com designs like “France Capitaine” that is inspired by, Michel Platini who made a stunning performance in the 1984 European Championship and “England Lions” that represents Brodie, Baddiel and Skinner who sang in 1996 when England did well, are very simple and neat. Their shirt, “Remember ’88”, shows the iconic moment after the 1988 European Championships when Netherlands won, also looks excellent.

The grunge designs from Goalsoul.net, “Ray Houghton Stuttgart 88 ROI” and “Boban Cause and Affect”, shows historical moments when the Irish team in European Championship in 1988 driven by Ray Houghton and when Croatian and Serbian fans and the police had a ‘tear up’ during a match, and a player, Zvonomir Boban, kicked out a policeman, respectively. “Zoran x Zlatan Ibrahimovic” of Footballculture.com also shows a historical moment when Zlatan ran a ring around John Terry and nets.

The state-of-the-art T-shirts of Casualco.com are excellent such as, “England Heroes” that pays tribute to the best English players from the 60’s and “Bexy v Yeti”, a ‘The Firm’-inspired t-shirt. The movie was the original football themed movie. “Summer 2012” from wsc.co.uk and “AMF” of 80scasuals.co.uk also has very nice designs. With these shirts, you can enjoy the game and perfectly feel the spirit of Euro 2012.

 

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Weapons-grade knitting

June 14, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

If you’re a student of history, you’re well aware that governments are always looking for a new advantage when it comes to dealing with their enemies. Sometimes it’s a political advantage, and sometimes psychological, but more often, what they’re seeking is a technological edge over their rivals. More to the point, the US has long been involved in an economic war against China. China has been a formidable opponent in this arena with its seemingly endless supply of cheap labor. As such, American manufacturers have been having trouble competing against their third world counterparts.

The US is looking to change this. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has just awarded a $1.25 million contract to SoftWear Automation Inc. The goal is to develop a completely automatic cutting and sewing machine that will allow US manufacturers to create garments at costs LOWER than those in the Chinese and other third world markets.

The ultimate goal, of course, is to bring manufacturing back stateside. There’s no word on how far along SoftWear Automation is in developing the technology, but the goal is laudable. While this sort of development could ultimately bring a lot of business back to US shores, what it doesn’t address is job creation. Although these machines would bring manufacturing back to the US, a fully automated machine wouldn’t require a lot of workers to run it. But, knowing DARPA, they’re probably working on that, too.

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