Tom, Indigo-2’s new lead web developer, has noticed, thanks to the 37signals blog, that you can have fun with the CNN headline t-shirt maker thingy we posted about yesterday!
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Starting to get the point of twitter - some good stuff from those I’m following:
CNN Headlines printed on t-shirts on-demand [via tCritic/twitter: karllong]
London bike shop Velorution have Bagaboo messenger bags (photos on Flickr) - designed by messengers, very tough, great colours, in stock from £100 [via Velorution/twitter: _velorution]
Also, via traditional email this time, Howies are offering free t-shirts to customers who spend over £100 at their Carnaby St, London store. Sounds like a cunning way of dumping dead stock - I like it 
P.S. Not sure what Twitter is? Common Craft have a great ‘paper’ tutorial for twitter.
P.P.S. Follow us at http://twitter.com/indigo
To carry on the vintage t-shirt theme (see last post about 1976 t-shirt from ISO50) I came across a controversial site the other day called “Stuff White People Like” (SWPL). It has been getting an extraordinary amount of media coverage in the US and it seems the reaction it has generated has been pretty heated considering race is still a massive social hot-potato in a country that had school segregation only 54 years ago. Anyway, it seems this guy has got a book deal out of his blog (see NY Times: Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal).
Trying to steer to the political aspect of the site (if that is possible), number 86 on the list is t-shirts, and in particular vintage tees. I quote:
The most prized t-shirt category is vintage. As shown earlier, white people need authenticity like they need oxygen and to have an original vintage t-shirt from the 1970s or 1980s is a very powerful social status symbol. The ideal shirt will have a funny logo, a year attached to it, and will be as thin as rice paper. In the event that two white people have shirts that meet this criteria, the superior ranking is given to the person who paid the least for the shirt.
It is certainly worth checking this site out just to see whether all the media hype is fuss over nothing and whether this guy is actually amusing or just a writer getting amazing PR by being purposefully controversial?
Vintage t-shirts are still fasionable and as usual Scott Hansen’s newsletter sparked my curiousity, his designs for both t-shirts and posters are so distinctive. This 1976 tee is available in 3 retro designs, printed on the American Apparel Heather Grey Tri-blend; just $23.
The first five thousand people to use the coupon code ‘spring08‘ during the Threadless Spring Cleaning sale will receive $5 off their order on top of the already discounted sale price.
After telling you about the LSE t-shirt competition, we have found another one, this time to promote Firefox 3, the new browser from Mozilla, the makers of the open source rival browser to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Top prize wins:
- Worldwide recognition for designing the official Firefox 3 T-Shirt featured in the Mozilla Store.
- A free Firefox 3 T-Shirt to show off your winning design.
- $250 gift voucher to Amazon.com.
Not the most enticing prize perhaps but to be fair the recognition could be worth a lot?
For all you typography fans out there, Collapse Design have some font inspired t-shirts for sale on their website (£15 inc postage, Paypal). Interesting product shots too as it looks like the model is taking a picture of himself with his right hand? Perhaps worth charging another pound for the tees and paying for a photographer or actually finding a friend to take the picture. Saying that, if you wear a font t-shirt…(you can guess what I might be about to say).
[via Communiteeuk]
The web team over at Indigo-2 have been giving the Indigo Clothing site a bit of a Spring clean recently. The catalogue design was four years old and whilst it worked and looked nice, I decided it was time that everything was given a facelift. Not all the changes are in place yet, this is a rolling update, but once it is all done I hope you’ll agree that it was a worthwhile improvement! These are the main key changes:
Wider: The site was originally designed for 800 x 600 screen resolutions but with the larger monitor now a common feature across the land we have increased the page width to 979px which works nicely with the larger 1024 x 768 resolution. What this means for you is less page scrolling because we can get more information on each page ‘above-the-fold‘.
Colour Palette: Our colour palette has always been a simple mix of purple, green, grey and white but we have had a close look at all elements on the page and come up with a mix that is fresher and cleaner than before, with more green for emphasis, such as the cool new ‘view’ buttons on the homepage (see above).
Product Catalogue: Now 2008 is here, there are plenty of new products, prices, colours and images available in the promotional clothing market. Everyday we are updating and adding to the catalogue so by the end of the month we’ll have no broken images or other cobwebs.
Quote Calculator: Each product page has always had a screen printing and embroidery quote calculator. These have previously been on separate pages from the product details page but now, using the magic of server-side scripting and AJAX (not a bathroom cleaning product but stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), these will be displayed in full interactive glory on the right of each product. This new feature will be launched next week.
Spring Offers: To celebrate the fact that the days are getting longer and the outside is getting warmer, we have got some great Spring offers to celebrate - check out the homepage for more details.
Alpha Mummy, a blog on Times Online, has a good post entitled, 25 most offensive children’s T-shirts with links to the product pages. The comments are as interesting as the post itself - it seems there is a bit of controversy over whether kids should be seen in these tees, which sport slogans such, “I’m gonna be hot,” through to “iPood.”
Indigo Clothing offer a range of children’s t-shirts which can be customised with slogans.
Travelling back from our ‘work outing’ in Nottingham this Sunday without my usual trashy girls mags, I was forced to read Stephan’s ‘boys’ publications, Men’s Health and Front. Amongst other facts for the lads, I came across this picture of Matt Helders, of Arctic Monkeys, wearing a t-shirt about CMYK colours!
A similar shirt is available to purchase from a great site called www.ebtm.com, standing for Everything but the Music, priced at £20.00.
