Sometimes life ain’t soft, round and black & white – as it should be. A panda on your t-shirt might help. Today’s design shop window shows you our best panda designs, and some of them are a tad more serious than expected.
Can you resist the fluffy-nosed creature?
Yummy cupcakes are more popular than ever: sweet, lush and über-cute. This is why it comes as no surprise that they feature on many a t-shirt. You can find a host of funny and witty cupcake designs in our T-Shirt Shop, and you can see our favourites in the current shop window:
Is there a tasty little morsel for you?
The days when the college jacket was only worn by American college students are gone – today it’s a modern classic. This jacket has long entered the hall of fame of cult clothing. The trendy clothes item is comfortable and can be combined with many things: joggers, skirts, chinos, jeans and even leggings – anything looks cool when combined with this trendy icon. But WHAT are we telling you…? Regardless of how youre going to wear it, we have added it to our product line and i’s ready to order. The jacket is available for women in sizes S – XL and in the colour combinations Black/white, red/white, blue/white and purple/white. Men have a choice of the same colours, only that instead of purple/white they can also choose navy/white. Available sizes for men are M – XXL. The cotton jacket stands out with its stylish constrasting stripes, press buttons and classic hem band on its cuffs.
Personalise this jacket with your own ideas to create your unique and individual item. This jacket is ideally suited to be adorned with initials, slogans, logos and figures. You can print on this jacket using print methods such as flex, flock, and special flex printing.
And then there’s an extra treat for you. In calendar week 21 we are going to launch our Eastpak rucksack line. This means that you will be available to order the classic Eastpak backpacks “Padded Pak’r“ and “Provider“ in black or midnight with us. Also check out the shoulder bag “Delegate” in black or heather grey. We are already getting excited!
Whether it’s job applicants or business clients, customers or the postman – everyone getting to Spreadshirt’s HQ will have to get past Sylvia first. She explains visitors how the t-shirt designer works, wishes everyone a good morning and lends an ear or offers advise when needed. Most importantly without her the candy jar would always be empty. But it keeps brimming with goodies, so her contribution to the energy level of all of our staff is not to be underestimated. But let us start with the beginning: Sylvia is our Facility and Office Manager, and we would like to take this opportunity to send out a big thank you to her. This is why we say THANK YOU, dear Sylvia!
Next to reception, Sylvia’s area of responsibility comprises of administering the car pool and transport fleet, planning of meetings and further organisational support. What is organisational support? Well, she is our contact person for matters such as missing table lamps, broken radiators and dwindling milk supplies. On last year’s T-Shirt Day she was even assigned the task of making arrangements for the sun to shine on the day. Next to providing a sunny disposition, Sylvia always has spare heels and needle and thread for torn hems on the ready. But she is a humble character all the same, because she calls what makes the work much easier a matter of course.
‘A woman who is able to stand her ground is bound to do this in an organised and diplomatic way,’ she says while admitting that she is probably not one of those women. ’There are women who do not find as favourable circumstances to go to work and look after their children. These are what I call strong women.” Spreadshirt make an effort to help reconcile job with family. And Sylvia has both of her feet firmly on the ground, a fact demonstrated when asked on her performance: ‘If I didn’t do what I do, someone else would do it just as well. You know, the wheels don’t stop turning whenever I’m off on a holiday.’
‘But it is important in my job to keep a keen eye out for several things that happen parallel at the same time. If I were to only look into the air-conditioning that broke down on the second floor, a lot of other things would be neglected.’ And since multi-tasking capabilities tend to be more of a female stronghold, Sylvia feels compelled to comment ‘Men can only ever see to one thing at a time.’
At home she is happy to have her husband’s support. ’He takes care of the classics such as emptying the dishwasher, taking the rubbish out or putting up furniture. These type of things I don’t really like at all.’ And boys stuff such as playing Lego with her sun is something that she says she would have to give to his dad. In such situations she takes a well-deserved break from everything and gathers fresh energy for the next day.
And we are sure that there are heaps of women like Sylvia out there, girls like pearls who organise lots of things and face everyday life with quick-witted commentary and optimism. And we usually only find out how important they are once we start missing them.
April showers bring logo flowers! A new heart is brought into bloom, and we realized that there were quite a few things that needed some dusting off.
It all started in our headquarters. We collected quite a bit of stuff over the years here and the white walls really needed a bit of color. So, we’ve cleaned out some junk, moved furniture around and splashed a bit of color on the walls. You can see what a difference it makes – our headquarters have been cleaned up and the walls are as colorful as our t-shirts. But I don’t want to waste your time reading about painting and redecorating. There are more important things we’ve been working on. The newly designed logo has given a new and modern shape to the heart, and the slightly different green is as fresh as the spring and our new products. While remaining true to our heart, we have reanimated typeface to breathe new life into our logo.
And whilst we were at it, we reviewed our whole corporate design. Particularly Doreen – one of our great graphic designers – set her hand to the task. Her creative and artistic touch will adorn many of our illustrations and graphic designs in future. But what’s behind all these changes? After ten years of Spreadshirt and five years with our Lovetab logo, the time was just ripe for a fresh breeze. We do not only want to keep our ears on the tracks of time, but also have an eye on quality and creativity. Our new products reflect this idea. And the new logo is only the first of many things that will change at Spreadshirt in the months to come. These changes will also affect remodelling of our homepage as well as the user area for our partners and designers.
