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Shark Week Retweet Contest

The Taddict — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:00:36 +0000

Shark Week is back people!, and Jon Kruse over at Mediocore Clothing is putting on a cool contest. The rules are simple, all you have to do is retweet the contest and you’re entered to win a Shark Week t-shirt.

Also, for those of you do not want to take a chance on the contest, Jon is selling the shirt on Mediocore Clothing for 20 bones. This is a great deal and an awesome shirt, don’t miss out on this classic.

Convert CMYK to Pantone Video by VectorTuts

The Taddict — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:43:58 +0000

Have you ever had to go through the rigorous task of searching for a spot color to match your CMYK colors? If so here is a nice little two minute video on how to convert CMYK to Pantone© colors. This is a simple but detailed video tutorial for beginners in Adobe Illustrator CS4. It should benefit you the next time you need to send a design to your printer and are having a tough time making the color conversion.

Thanks to VectorTuts for the cool vid!

Jimiyo Takes Us to Church

The Taddict — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:21:55 +0000

If you haven’t heard of Jimiyo yet, then you must be new to the scene. The guy has been a t-shirt designing pioneer for quite some time now. He started out winning t-shirt design competitions on the regular and parlayed that into employment for TeeFury/Design By Humans as their art curator. In short, when Jimiyo speaks….we all listen.

He recently created a post at Emptees titled “How I Made $7500 in 3 Months With My Art” where he lays out the different approaches to getting paid for your work. It shows the different outlets for sales and serves as an overall gameplan for distribution of your designs. A must-read for all t-shirt designers…

Threadless Gift Certs on Discount

The Taddict — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:31:29 +0000

Andy at Hide Your Arms has come up with a novel idea to earn some spare dough. He is taking all of his Threadless street team points and converting those into gift certificates to sell for some cold hard digital cash. I see that I’m a little late to the party for when he announced this because he has already sold out. However, you can join the mailing list to be notified when he stocks back up. I’m gonna bet that won’t be too long….

Electric Z Gets the LuchagorEZ Treatment

The Taddict — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:56:38 +0000

Everyone likes a good luchador. Everyone LOVES a good luchagore. What is that you ask? It is when you gore up a Mexican wrestling champion. If you are still having a tough time imagining what that looks like….DerekDeal made one hell of an illustration for Electric Zombie to show you exactly what that looks like:

I would directly link to this shirt but the URL’s at Buy Electric Zombie are generic for everything in the store.

Vectortuts Gets Christian San Jose

The Taddict — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:48:48 +0000

Christian San Jose is one heck of a designer hailing from the Philippines. You have probably seen his work before on the various t-shirt design sites. His run during the DBH 10K contest was covered by Coty Gonzales because of his innovative campaign to spread the word of his design. If you remember, he won that bad boy with a design called Mecha Labaw. Here is the design as a reminder:

Recently Vectortuts interviewed Christian to see what makes him tick. Go check it out and see some more of his top notch work:

ShirtMockup Coming Soon

The Taddict — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:00:27 +0000

The T Addict regularly covers both the Black Axe and Go Media, two powerhouses in the t-shirt design industry. Well now those two super forces are joining to take over the t-shirt design world with ShirtMockup.com. We don’t know what it is yet but it is coming soon on March 17th. Stay tuned…for the domination is coming.

8-Bit Zombie Is Innovating

The Taddict — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:46:51 +0000

Let me just warn you up front. The reason the T Addict is writing about 8-Bit Zombie is because I was first blown away by the foam trucker hats they’ve created. But since that seems almost sacrilegious for the T Addict to write an exclusive post about hats…8-Bit Zombie does have one t-shirt that I can write about first.

The premise behind 8-Bit Zombie is the throwback reference to the original gaming systems with 8-bit graphics. The most recognizable of those systems being the original Nintendo Entertainment System. The shirt goes all out with a six color screen print on a black American Apparel shirt.

Now that we got that out of the way, let’s get back to the trucker hats that first caught my attention. The images on their storefront shows a printing location that I have never seen before. They are putting custom designs on the under side of the bill. And not only that, they’re just about covering the whole printable area. Check it out for yourself:

It’s pretty sick! The only question is, how are they doing that?

Abduzeedo Highlights Awesome Designs

The Taddict — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:13:32 +0000

Let me take a little time to spread some blog love by sending you t addicts to the awesome t-shirt design list that Abduzeedo just posted. The variety is good and the quality is high. There’s sumpin’ for everyone on this list:

To the designers that made the list, congrats! You deserve it. Make sure your clients see that and appreciate your work even more!

200 Nipples Needs Your Help

The Taddict — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:25:59 +0000

The T Addict loves it when a site genuinely asks its readers/customers for help on a redesign or suggestions for the direction of a business. 200 Nipples has done just that in a recent post on their blog asking for help on a complete overhaul of their site.

They’ve put together a quick customer survey that should take you less than 5 minutes to fill out. Help them out if you can and tell ‘em the T Addict sent ya’.