I’ve been contacted this week by both Yabbos and Shirtstain who are some of the first (I think GoApe had a couple as well) of stores to feature Threadless designs that didn’t win. The online t-shirt business has gone crazy in the past year and it was only a matter of time before Threadless’ submission rules changed to represent the newly competitive industry they operate in.

I’ve been thinking about what classes as a blog these days. That term has almost come to mean any site that displays content chronologically and isn’t run for a profit. Unfortunately its also become a pseudonenym for other things like sloppy journalism and information aggregation. The first of those two this site is definetely guilty of, its the second that this post is about.

Not wanting to open the debate about whether blogging is journalism or whether this site is a blog? I returned from Truck to see I’ve recieved my first “press release” into my mailbox. I think the fact that PR companies are now actively recognising the power that certain popular blogs have (how they found me I don’t know) is fantastic.

Even though I’ve only recieved one I’m already tired of the gumphy marketing bullshit language that they use. Surely it would be better to write the press release yourself and then just use PR agencies for contacts. This one actually put me off the company it was supposed to be promoting (dshirt.co.uk) by the time I’d reached the end, listen to some of these highlights. This might seem harsh and thats not the intention, its just to show that badly thought out PR might be worse than no PR. Different audiences might require different messages:

Hardboiled Inc. is multi-faceted. It is both middle man and designer; I can describe what they do but with my grasp of the English language I think it’s better to leave it to the guys from Hardboiled themselves:

There won’t be any further posts this weekend as I’m off to Oxford for Truck festival. Next week you can look forward to:

- A spreadshirt interview

- An innertee interview

- The usual store profiles

- Anything else that I can think of while I’m intoxicated in a field in oxfordshire

- photo’s of me intoxicated in a field in oxfordshire

I stumbled upon Stunt looking at new links on iloveyourt-shirt. The first thing I liked about the site was the dancing jacko animation, I guess I’m easily pleased. Luckily as a post about a dancing michael jackson is unlikely to break any records, they have some nice designs particularly “elegant” which I’m sure would go down a storm in many an office, especially in pink. I chatted with the labels founder JC about his future plans for the spanish based brand.