http://www.threadless.com/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:50:39 -0500 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:42:12 -0600 sightings@threadless.com and include a photo and your username! We choose a few to highlight here and we give you STREET TEAM POINTS!

Here goes something!



It's the oldie but goodie Blandband Deluxe, showing up on RuPaul's show Drag Race! Apparently, this contestant is named Sahara Davenport. And that's pretty darn cool. Neil may not have a better name but he will be getting points for this spot, as opposed to Sahara.

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Ryan found this spot of Put The Needle On The Record on the show Kenny Vs. Spenny. Behind the scenes!

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Now, we love our Motion City Soundtrack here, but we can't be expected to spot every sighting! Thanks to folks like Mel, we don't hafta! Extra Pulp!

FEATURED TEES:

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If you hadn't noticed, 2 of Thursday's new tees also are available as hoodies! Almighty's is a dashing zip-up and Monkey Business is an ominously awesome pullover!

At least here in Chicago, Spring is rolling in... slowly, and these threads are kinda perfect for those in-between heavy-coat-and-buck-naked times.

ENJOY. ENJOY. ENJOY.]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:00:26 -0600
Should you find yourself near city center in Amsterdam on Sunday, April 18th be sure to stop by Bazar Amsterdam.

A handful of über talented artists, including Threadless's own Rachel Gottesman, will be there for snacks, drinks and friendly conversation. If you're extra nice to Rachel, she might even buy you a drink!

We hope to see you there! RSVP HERE:
http://threadlessmeetupamsterdam.eventbrite.com]]> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:11:14 -0600

The Bestee Awards honor your favorite creative minds within the Threadless community. And man, these folks are talented in the most diverse and awesome ways! We're just gonna get into it!

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*People's Choice: $20,000 prize, plus a free trip to the annual Threadless meetup:
Emmy Cicierega (alias: EmmyCic) for "It's Toile About You." We surprised Emmy with her amazing win via video chat and captured this lil' video.

*Designer of the Year: $10,000 prize, plus a free trip to the annual Threadless meetup. This is awarded to the designer with the most printed tees.:
Lim Heng Swee (alias: Ilovedoodle) Dude had 13 tee shirts printed in 2009!

*Unprinted Designer of the Year: $1,000 prize. In addition to the prize and getting one of their designs printed, he'll get the standard Threadless award of $2,500 value):
Zack Davenport (alias: MrDavenport) gets his superb "Lock Ness" printed.

*Blogger of the Year: $1,000 prize, plus the honor of choosing an unprinted designer to get printed and a free trip to the annual Threadless Meetup:
Jessica Yu (alias: Jess4002), totally bad*ss blogger, picked Ryder Doty's (alias: Ryder Revolution) "A Flying Dog in Outer Space" to be printed.

*Newcomer of the Year: $1,000 prize:
Awesome n00b Ben Chen (alias: BenChen). We're printing his "Midnight Forest."

*Kids! Design of the Year: $1,000 prize:
Kristen Howdeshell's (alias: KristenKC) "Dandy Lions." Awww, we love it.

*Slogan of the Year: $1,000 prize:
Josh Miller's (alias: PuppetMeat) "If Your Pants Are on Fire, Being a Liar Becomes Less Important." Hilarious and also, quite true.

*Collaboration of the Year: $1,000 prize:
Brian Cook (alias: Chengui) and Piper Kirkby's "Self Portrait." We love that half of this collab features a young Threadless prodigy.

*Scorer of the Year: $1,000 prize (a new category that rewards the Threadless community member with the biggest correlation between high scores and prints):
Dan Maltzman (alias: Maltzmania). Dan, you have the magic scoring touch!

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Honorary Bestee Awards

Spam Fighter of the Year
bcrider

Weekly Shirt Spoilers
Original Spoiler - ozmodiar
Current Spoiler - soloyo

Over 100,000 submissions scored
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-adam antium
-Leslee
-radiostaticstar
-Ronin60

Threadcakes and Threadknits creator -disillusioned

Community Treats
ofthecoast for BLOGGERRAISER!

sleepyfeet for SECRET SANTA 2009

Jellyes for The Complete Guide for Starting Adobe Designing

valorandvellum for Photoshop Coloring Tutorial

FRICKINAWESOME for The Official Slogan Club

Manos for FLASH TEMPLATE

NiNTH_WHEEL for Tee Template








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C'mon in, the weather is always awesome!

www.threadless.com/jobs

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:59:17 -0600 Full Throttle Select tee through one of his favorite mediums - a comic. And now he's being even extra awesome and sharing the end product with you all!



But we'll let him tell the story:

"I made the shirt design first and it's an illustration with roots in comic book art. Specifically, silver age cosmic comics. Pioneered by masters like Jack Kirby and John Buscema, I love the period and the drama and emotion and energy it invokes.

In all my illustrations, there are hints that a greater story is playing out. I like to tell stories with art, so with my Select I decided to take it a step further and give Threadless a little more of the story. I wanted to give a little window into who the character on the shirt was.

The short comic is paced and limited, it's in a foreign alien language because words are not necessary to understand it. A completely alien world and situation but the drama that plays out is universal. This is what (Jack) Kirby taught me, I once read that he would draw and pen entire issues without a script - then (Stan) Lee would follow up and write words to fit the scenes. The words would be redundant.

The story is of an alien fighter, going about his daily routine. Interacting and working like we all do. The reader is given little bits of the alien's life, the whole scenario begins to develop when the alarm sets off sending the whole dramatic sequence into action. I do have the rest of the play in my head and maybe I will draw it out, but I just wanted to leave it at the scene of the alien defenders heading into battle with an unbelievable foe... I felt like we pretty much have enough information about the shirt's character at that point. He is a defender, a father and husband, a good man who puts his life on the line for his planet along with his fellows... his pals."


So, to get your hands on his comic, check out the readable pdf.
And if you wanna make the physical version, then print this file first. Next, flip the pages you printed back into the paper feeder
and print this file. Staple along the spine, fold, and you've got Joe's "Full Throttle" comic book! Awesome stuff, dude.


See the rest of Joe's awesome stuff at www.antiquatedpress.com.

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Congratulations to Emmy Cicierega, whose awesome "all over" design It's Toile About You has taken the December Bestee of the Month award: $2500, Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, a feature on adobe.com, AND this awesome medal!!!

Plus it's now eligible for 2009's massive $20,000 Bestee Of The Year award to be presented next month... You can vote on this NOW!

We'll be voting for January's Bestee Of The Month next week!]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:21:06 -0600

Creekwood Middle School in Kingwood, Texas is awesome. Why? They’re holding a fundraiser for the Haiti relief effort and will be including the “Many Hands Make the Load Lighter” tee as part of their fundraiser! Hooray!

They’ve purchased a whooping 750 tees, which means they’re donating a full $7,500 to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development Fund. So awesome! Here’s the story, as told to us by the very rad 7th grade Texas History teacher Amanda Frederick:

“Our superintendent challenged the entire school district to raise at least one dollar per student in the district (about 35,000). Each school came up with their own idea on how to raise the money and help out the Red Cross.

I receive Threadless emails and as soon as I saw the “Many Hands” tee, I knew it would be a great way to help out. We got all the approval needed and ordered the shirts. We will sell the shirts at our three lunches as well as to parents and the community. In the end, we will have donated at least 7,500 dollars to the American Red Cross and even more awareness will be raised for the issues in Haiti… Our school is very involved in service learning and this is just one way we're able to help others and learn about what's going on in the world.”

If you live anywhere near Kingwood, TX (we’re looking at you, Houston!), be sure to stop by the school and pick up your tee for Haiti. And if you'd like to help or do something similar in your community, just shoot an email to community@threadless.com!
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We'll announce the winners for all of the other Bestee of the Year categories on March 8. In addition to our annual awards, we've a new category: Scorer of the Year. This category rewards the Threadless community member with highest correlation between scores and prints (so maybe we should call it Psychic of the Year?).

Here's the awesome and overwhelming category and prize breakdown:

o People's Choice: $20K prize (holy moley!) plus a free trip to the annual Threadless meetup
o Designer of the Year: $10K prize, plus a free trip to the annual Threadless meetup
o Unprinted Designer of the Year: $1K prize (in addition to getting one of their designs printed, they'll get the standard Threadless award of $2500 value)
o Blogger of the Year: $1K prize, plus the honor of choosing an unprinted designer to get printed, and a free trip to the annual Threadless meetup
o Newcomer of the Year: $1K prize
o Kids Design of the Year: $1K prize
o Slogan of the Year: $1K prize (this doesn't include Twitter Tees)
o Collaboration of the Year: $1K prize
o Scorer of the Year: $1K prize
o Plus, a bunch of honorary Bestee Awards to be announced
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