New T-Shirts are upcoming. Enclosed a little insight, what you can expect in our shop during the next 14 days. 2 New Artists powering 2 new designs in 2 different color combinations. This time launched as a special edition, in cooperation with… (i have to hold this back for a few more days - stay tuned). Enough said, check out our latest pieces of cotton goodness:
PS: By the way, in our german blog there are some interesting articles about the different steps of our recent t-shirt production. For those of you, who might be interested in the long way of a t-shirt evolution read more here, here, here or here (presumed you understand german or have at least a decent translation tool )
I try to catch up with the english version of our blog, but right now I really don’t know where to find the time for it. I hope the frequency gets better soon.
The weather finally gets better and better. It’s time to put your frisbee in the trunk and prepare yourself for the upcoming summertime!
To celbrate the official Start of Spring (21. March 2007) all Tees in our Online-Shop are down to only 15 EUR (from 23 EUR). Special prices are valid until 07. April.
And by the way… In April we will launch 2 brandnew tees. In our german blog you’ll find further informations. Sorry, at the moment we’re just to bussy to keep our blog up to date in 2 languages….
If you are looking for some really cool T-Shirt Books, you might be interesting in checking out Helen Walters “100% Cotton”, “200% Cotton” und “300% Cotton”. Loaded with tons of awsome T-Shirt graphics from international designers and labels, plus some really useful background information about the t-shirt itself.
Enclosed some abstract out of the 200% Cotton Book:
“The T-Shirt has been used as a medium for provocative, entertaining or nonsensical graphics and messages since the 1960s. This book celebrates designers who continue to use it as a vehicle for their art. 200% Cotton feautures work by a disparate group of independent and uncompromising designers, and presents and inspiring snapshot of the current state of global creativity.”
No doubt, a very interesting reading and must have for all T-Shirt Enthusiasts!
Wow… this job was on our todo list for quite a while now. Last week I finally found some time to setup our own fashion Bandits myspace profile. In the case some of you guys own a myspace account, you know what to do
A few words, why we decided to be on myspace from now on. Off course it’s just another great marketing opportunity - watch out: there are over 150.000.000 folks hanging around at myspace, no doubt, the worlds biggest social network. Thus, there might be some interesting people, worth to know and network! Potential customers, designers, artists, other T-Shirt Projects… A wide range of interesting contacts.
Screenshot fashion Bandits myspace profile
Yes, our profile page… I know, it’s not super exciting right now, but I guess it’s not the worst thing to keep it simple and basic at first. We gonna add some nice beats, videos etc. more from time to time. Certainly, the big myspace monster eats your time! There is so much functionality and so many user profiles to discover. Be patient, you will see our Buddylist growing and growing.
I can already say, that it was worth to set up our profile! “Borat” the man himself is already our buddy! LOL. I am still waiting for the confirmation of the “Suicide Girls” (yummie). But hey, I am an optimistic guy and pretty confident, this hot chicks wanna hook up with us - for sure!
An post at T-Shirtforum recently gained my attention. There was a discussion going on about a project called tqualizer. Where a simple t-shirt becomes interactive clubwear. Whats that supposed to mean?
They integrated an mini equalizer, using a technique called “Electroluminescence”! On the projects about page, there is the following information:
“The TQ, or T-Qualizer is an amazing little item, produced by a company called FlashTech. The basic principle of this unique technology is that when music is playing, the TQ will pick up the beat of the song and react exactly like the graphic equalizer on your stereo.“
Check it out yourself. Enclosed you find a video demonstration the whole thing:
Awesome Idea and again it show that there is tons of potential in a simple piece of cotton.
With 2 days 3 days delay back to the topic. In the first part of our series “Your own T-Shirt Project” we talked about, that having designed some good looking tees is often not enough. When starting a new T-Shirt label, from the very beginning it might be important to have a closer look on the following keynotes:
How to reach customers and how to define the target group.
How to market the T-Shirts.
Strategies of market the website, which has very often an important role, especially for small independent labels.
Find retailers and know how to deal with them.
Planing the production process (Where to buy/ produce/ print your tees).
Today we hava a look on the importance to show one’s colours. Don’t hide your project, or like “brand eins” in it’s article “die Zufallsfischer” is saying:
Note: translated version - the original text is in german:
“It is essential to leave the attic with your product. Introducing it to other people, take their feedback serious and eventually consider to change the product once again. Go to places which are popular among your customers. Get in touch with producers. Network with like-minded people. Show presence as much as possible and laying out baits, which eventually attracts more and more people.” …
Moreover, be self-confident. Professor Fueglistaller continues:
“… and get started with all of that, even you are just 90% happy with your product“.
In my opinion some really valuable points are provided here. Any comments on that?
When I started fashion Bandits around spring 2006, I didnt’t had any clue how much T-Shirt Projects are already out there. Ok - I knew it’s pretty crowded already… But to be honest, I didnt expect that in fact the number of cool fashion labels is almost endless plus all the new fresh Ideas and concepts which are launching day by day.
But hey, no reason to get nervous. A) competition is good for business and B) if you believe in your own idea and keep on working hard and passionated there is no reason why your project should not succeed. But watch out! A few cute looking T-Shirts are not enough. There are some important points to consider: Read the complete article »
La Fraise, a french T-Shirt Content Contest Website (similar to Threadless), was taken over in July 2006 by Spreadshirt. After the deal Spreadshirt announced the internationalisation of La Fraise. Now - 6 month later, the Exciting Commerce Blog (german) and HipHipUK (english) posted, that La Fraise expanded it’s operation to several european countries: Read the complete article »
It’s done: We have launched our new weblog and it’s time now to write the first post. You can find some information about myself (=the author) and the purpose of this blog, on the “about the blog” page.
Allowedly, I am not a totally newbie, also I’ ve never written a blog posting by myself, I am an frequent reader since quite a while now - preparing myself for my own coming out
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