It’s day three of on-sale tees with four more to go (and possibly an extra if global Threadless fans can pull together). One new Select, one reprinted design, and four competition winners found their way to the stock charts this morning.

Sadly, I missed out on yesterday’s print Take Me To Tokyo. The handy feature which e-mails you when items in your cart are running low works wonders, yet unfortunately it does no good when you don’t happen to check your mail all afternoon.

Moral of the story: buy while you’ve got the chance! The sale will keep raging on, but the choicest tees are starting to go quick. By this time next week, the “reprint me?” links are going to be gettin’ a workout for sure.

It’s day two of the Threadless Summer Vacation Sale and that means even more new tees. If you read Ali’s last post, you already know that they’ll be posting new shirts and reprints daily.

I’m not rushing into buying anything quite yet… although I’m rather smitten with the hitchhiking Godzilla in Take Me To Tokyo. It’s about time for another pink tee. My Chinese Peaches shirt has been getting quite lonely being the only pink Threadless tee in my closet all this time.

Check out the rest and enjoy the summer savings!

Oh, Memorial Day… how I love thee for thine sno-cones (rainbow, please) and awesome sales. As Bree announced last week, the oft-rumored Summer Sale kicks off today, and the stock charts are already taking a hit (which makes me ask myself the all-important question: How many visits from the friendly UPS woman is too many? I think we’ve already forged a connection, so I’m sure she’ll be psyched to make frequent Threadless deliveries in the near future.)

The long and short of it: 6 tees a day (new & reprinted) for 7 days, ending June 3. The best part (well, other than cheap shirts)? The Wear in the World is Threadless? contest, which evokes old-fashioned road trip good times while giving us the chance to extend the sale for an extra day and win a classy cooler o’goodies! Find a locale that hasn’t yet been claimed, wear your tees, bring your friends/kids/grandma, and post your pics! If only the Grand Canyon wasn’t 6 long, hot hours away…

I’m keeping my fingers crossed for Phascolarctos Cinereus (as seen in the sale video) and a reprint of Mourning Girl. What do you want to see printed/reprinted?

As Shimala’s sunburn reads, a Threadless summer sale starts Monday! Rumor has it that there’s going to be new shirts aplenty.

Check out the clever video which leaked the news earlier today (as well as a behind the scenes “making of the sunburn”) via Threadless’ latest news post. Both videos are hilarious and worth a look.

Exciting, yes?

You’ll either love the abstract weirdness of this artist’s designs, or you won’t.

I happen to be rather fond of his work and this design in particular… weirdness and all. The illustration has a very dreamlike and appealing quality about it, even if it doesn’t make sense for a flying ghost ship to have hair.

Then again, I haven’t seen many ghost ships in my day. Perhaps hair is quite common and I’m just not savvy enough to know about it.

Verdict: 4 (View Submission)

Apparently, some people don’t realize that Threadless has a section specifically for slogans.

Normally I would be more lenient with my scoring, but this isn’t the first offense by this particular user. It’s only the latest in a string of submissions that rely on text and little (if any) designing whatsoever.

Either the Threadless screeners are becoming far less selective, or this user just keeps slipping under the radar. No matter the blame, the voters seem irritated.

Thus, I’m taking it upon myself to issue a friendly public service announcement: The Type Tee section is there for a reason folks, so utilize it. And if you can’t score high enough with your current slogans, then by all means don’t subject everyone else to voting on them as crappy text-based “designs”.

Verdict: 0 (View Submission)

This is just plain badass: Threadcakes got some tv loving:

We were featured on Fuse’s The Sauce show last week. Very cool, and well-deserved by the winners. PLUS: Prizes are arriving! All entrants should have by now received a whopping EIGHT STPs, which is totally badass and courtesy of Bob Nanna and the Threadless gang. Place prizes are also arriving and are apparently quite awesome indeed.

Thanks, everyone who participated, and especially to Threadless for rocking all the prizes in the end!

All the deets, courtesy vapidintuition

Good afternoon kiddos! It’s been a while since I’ve had the time to even visit Threadless (blasphemy, i know), but today I’m here to let you know about this weeks prints.

In Oceanic Fashion brings sharks to the runway on aptly selected Sea Foam tees for both guys and girls.

Spoilt brings us a host of movie spoilers beautifully matching the typefaces and themes of the movies, a two-colour print on black.

My Turn!, printed on Kelly green and available in long or short sleeves and in kid’s sizes, is a fun illustration reminding us how everyone loves pie. mmmm.

Sacrifice is an incredible illustration depicting the potential perils of selling your soul to the devil in exchange for becoming a rock god — or maybe he just happened to burst into flames while playing a set with an un-caged lion — either way, it’s very well pulled-off on Lemon/Banana.

I’m quite excited to see Rhinos Hunt In Packs in this week’s prints (reviewed 4$), on natural for the gents or creme for ladies and children.

I’m not entirely sure what the inspiration behind GE Salmon was, but the amount of detail is perfect — right down to the reflection. Available on Pacific Blue for the guys, Teal for the gals, and on a Light Blue hoodie.

Deer Organ is a cute, melancholy illustration in earth tones on black, also available in Kids sizes.

Reprinted this week are Robot Dance Contest and Nothing Rhymes With Orange.

Ah yes, typewriters and birds… design staples of the Threadless community. Somehow they never grow old, especially when they’re as nicely crafted as this one.

Of course the age old “Speech bubble? Or no speech bubble?” debate is raging in the comments. Personally, I don’t mind either way. I’m not sure why so many people have a problem with bubbles and text on a tee. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t… but in this particular case I think it actually enhances the design. The bubble was the first thing to catch my eye and draw me into the lovely imagery and concept.

Oh well, that’s my two cents. What’s yours?

Verdict: 4 (View Submission)

Continuing the theme of simultaneous busyness: Chris is cruising the Caribbean (which, while it does not make him busy necessarily, it does leave him incommunicado), Bree seems to be buried in life (I know the feeling… hugs!), and I’ve been struggling through the last couple weeks of school for me for a long, long time. Thankfully, Saturday I wore the silly robe, shook a few hands, and got my Master’s degree in (a boring subject you’ll laugh at:) Accounting. My newfound free time is pretty much the best thing ever. Just sayin’.

So maybe it’s just me, but I am particularly impressed with a couple of this week’s prints, a bunch of which are available on long sleeves (it’s 105 degrees here so I cannot imagine buying one, but most of you are not crazy enough to live in Arizona), kids tees, onesies, etc.  Here’s the rundown, complete with far too much linkage:

King Me Mask, the new Select from the artist who did Mission Listen and the uncomfortably friendly Ice Cream Mann, is surprisingly wearable in its neon way.  We Are All Pink offers up a little bit of intestinal fun on (thankfully) a color other than pink.  Sugar High, with the characters from almost every breakfast cereal I begged my parents for, is delightful (and the awe-struck look on Tony the Tiger’s face = Priceless), and  Oh No!’s street-art style is sure to find many a Threadless fan.

It was a big week for prints involving music and birds, 2/3 of the Threadless trifecta (#3 is food with faces, of course!)  I am in love with the sketchbook style of Serenade, and it’s now on my order list for when I get paid, which is never soon enough.  Sounds of the Sea, with its piano-toothed (piano-baleened?) whale is just plain adorable and perfect for the kids tees and onesies it also adorns.  Swooping, looping, and diving birds cover Holding Pattern, which works quite well on maroon.

Reprinted: The Outdoor Mix (more birds!) and Diabolical Hot Dog (food with face… and gun.) Check ‘em!

It’s sad, but true: we’ve all been simultaneously busy. The result is a lack of blogging and letting recent prints (and plenty of submissions) slip by unannounced.

My summer break came to a screeching halt when I decided to sign up for a summer class plus take a second job. That Biggie Was Right tee is looking bitterly correct.

I really need to work on prioritizing and managing my time before all craziness ensues. It turns out I procrastinate even on the things I enjoy (namely art). I’ve also let other distractions force blogging into taking a back seat. For that, I must apologize to our readers.

I could use a hug right now. And if not a hug, at least a little extra understanding for my sporadic/nonexistent posts lately.

It’s true! Check out Threadcakes.com for the cake-y details!

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I’m all for peace and trees, but this just looks like Whispy Woods on steroids. The text doesn’t help either. It ruins what would otherwise be a decent (albeit still incredibly frightening) tree illustration.

By no stretch of the imagination am I an expert of fonts, so when I do recognize them in a design I’m quite put off. Hand-drawn lettering (or at least homemade fonts) are the way to go when it comes to Threadless designs.

Verdict: 1 (View Submission)

IHOP’s got nothin’ on this literal house of pancakes. Insurance on an edible home would be insanely expensive, yet totally worth it.

Although the style is rigid, I somehow like that look for this design. It doesn’t need anything more or anything less… it’s simply delicious as is.

Verdict: 5 (View Submission)

In one word: cute.

In more words: Their wide-eyed expressions are perfect. I also love that sketchy style with varied line thicknesses.

Verdict: 4 (View Submission)