“Dear friends of Allmightys,

during the past weeks we have made some great changes to the site. We have reworked the homepage and are still in full swing to make the whole page work better and smoother for you. We hope you like it so far!

We have also decided to rework our competition system.

Today we are launching our new competition system here at Allmightys, and here’s how it works:

We have one ongoing, open design competition!

From now on we are running an ongoing open competition because as much as we enjoyed our theme competitions and the excellent designs that were submitted over the past, we feel that many great designs deserved to be printed but didn’t match the theme in some way.
This was apparent to us especially in our ‘open competitions’ in which you submitted such a great variety of designs that it was almost impossible to print only a few. That’s why from now on we feature one huge ‘open competition’ and we want all your excellent ideas coming, regardless of a theme.

We’ve kicked the deadline!

From now on, you can submit all your amazing designs at any time. This competition is ongoing, which means there are no deadlines to meet and no switching off the voting. All your designs stay in the running and are available for voting and comments.
We feel that great designs which were submitted fairly late in a competition had little time to get the feedback they deserved.
That’s why we got rid of the deadlines as we feel it can only benefit the designs to stay in the running and collect votes and comments.

We print one design every month!

From now on, we begin with choosing one winning ‘Design of the month’ and print it, based as usual on the votes and comments: Do you like it? Do you want to see it printed?
The winning design will receive € 2.00 commission (as Gold Prize before) from every shirt sold for as long as we print and sell it.

Having said all this, we will still run the occasional themed competition, just because we had so much fun doing it and getting all the great response from you!! Whenever we (or YOU, so keep us posted) come up with a cool theme that would make a great t-shirt, we will run it parallel to the ongoing design competition, following the same rules as before.

The same counts for our charity involvement: as we previously had our competitions in connection with a charity, we will from now on launch specific charity competitions, probably with a theme connected to this charity. Keep your eyes peeled for these…

We hope you like the changes that we are implementing here at Allmightys!! Let us know if you do, and even more important let us know if you don’t! After all, this site is for YOU!!

Best,

Allmightys Team”

2 real nice shirts for presale over at Uneetee, $ 12 as always:)

Link: [Design by Humans]
Expensiveness: $25

Gilt Groupe offer a wide variety of goods, from clothing for men, women and children to a menagerie of jewelry, watches, bags, and other accouterment.

Styles range from elegant sartorial to preppy Ivy, fashion-forward street to classic refined.

Look for a wide assortment of brands and designers, from the well-known to the obscure. Recent selections include Steven Alan, Benjamin Bixby, Marc Jacobs, 7 for All Mankind, Hyden Yoo, John Varvatos, Diesel, and so many more.

Link: [Gilt Groupe]

Plus  3 new shirts, a re print and their first silk screened poster.

the oracle

Reasons Lala is really cool:
1. You can listen to all the music you already have in your library from any computer with an internet connection once you run the Music Mover.
2. You can listen to any song on Lala once for free (so you can listen to an entire album before you buy it).
3. You can buy a song to listen to online for only $0.10 (the first 50 are free!). And you can buy a DRM-free download of the song for $.89.
4. If you use iTunes, it can sync with iTunes to automatically update it when you download a song, and to upload any new music to Lala.

Super-nifty! I think it’s a good idea, at least. I know there have been moments when I’ve wished I could play music from my laptop but couldn’t, because I store it all on an external hard drive.

Link: [Lala]

Btw while you´re there, vote for your favourite designs in the current contest “It´s All About…”

Zombies are all the rage right now when it comes to t-shirt artwork. Many of the featured designs at Emptees are full of the guts and gore associated with the living dead.

It appears that the zombie theme is picking up steam in popularity and will be around for a while. Now if we could only get some good zombie design tutorials on the web, we could all start creating our own gruesome masterpieces.

About the Author
Blake Poutra works at You Design It, where peeps design t-shirts. He runs a t-shirt design blog and loves all things t-shirt related.

Santa in typical calligraphic Chop Shop style (by their designer Jay Hillier) - available at T-Shirt monthly, but only if have already been a subscriber in December 2007. Bummer.

Build-your-own-Santa with the Santa Kit, available at German Design-your-own-T-Shirt store Shirtcity, who have a whole lot of more Xmas designs on their Xmas page.

Fake santa suit tee- available and on sale at T-Shirts.com.

I wonder if Obamania comes to an end on Jan 20. However, here is a holiday variation on the famous election poster- Ho Ho Hope by Reece Ward, who also offers a hilarious Santa version of “Claws”. Check out his shop at Red Bubble, this guy has talent and brilliant ideas.

Finally, here’s one for the kids. Because what would Xmas be without children? Via Alex’ T-Shirt blog, sold by Nappy Head.

Already a merry christmas to everyone, I don’t know if we’ll read again this year.

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You have found the perfect Christmas cocktail dress and now the only thing missing to bring it all together, are accessories. There are plenty of ways to make that dress, and most importantly, you, stand out; all you have to do is choose the right elements.

First thing to consider is the style of your dress. If your dress has a lot going on, for instance, very bold patterns, or, sparkles, than it is best to keep accessories at a minimum. Perhaps try some very subtle but elegant diamond jewelry, earrings can add a twinkle and enhance that sparkly dress. If your dress has a Christmas theme or Christmas patterns, avoid going overboard with Christmas jewelry. It will bombard the eye and you will end up looking like a Christmas package no one wants to unwrap. Try choosing solid color jewelry that matches the dress.

If you have a simple dress, you can have a lot of fun accessorizing. Gloves, shrugs, clutches and heels are really trendy and fun ways to spice up your party dress. With black dresses, always go for the gold. A gold necklace with a bold pendant or piece of sapphire jewelry will look stellar.

Also, if your dress has an unusual neckline, or, if it goes too high, opt for an interesting cocktail ring. Wearing a necklace with a high neckline dress is out of the question, so avoid it all cost. Earrings are passable, so long as they aren’t dangly. But a beautiful glitzy ring is really the best addition to an extravagant dress.

Gloves and hair bows are really “in” this season. If you have a long dress, match it up with a pair of long gloves and a satin bow to tie your hair back and look totally sophisticated.

Another pretty idea to try out is a flower corsage. Choose dark, rich, exotic flowers are for winter.

The last and most important is finding the right shoes. Once again, you have to make sure to work the shoes accordingly with the dress. If the dress is plain, go wild with the shoes; if the dress is fierce, simple shoes are best. One mistake too many women make is not buying shoes that fit them, or that are too high and uncomfortable to walk in. Be reasonable when it comes to shoes. There is no reason for you to ruin a perfectly wonderful evening because you can’t dance after fifteen minutes. There are always options for gorgeous shoes, you just have to look. Alexander McQueen has come out with some remarkably sexy flats this season, so you can keep those feet on the dance floor, all night long.

¹ Or so I have been told. I may have been lied to.

as well as two new tees

Another brandnew site: ink-hound.com launched last night, let Andrew the guy behind ink-hound describe in his own words what it´s all about:

“Hello everyone!
We will offer only one fitted style hat and one shirt at a time for 2-3 days and then they will be gone. This allows us to return ALL rights back to the artists after the sale. Artists will get $2 per item sold with no limit!

We not only will be offering fitted hats and tees but we will have long sleeve shirts, organic tees, hoodies, and both fitted and traditional tees as apparel options. Tees will sell for $12 and hats will only cost $16. Feel free to contact me andrew@ink-hound.com if you have questions!”

Sounds familiar? Yes, a bit. Sounds good? Oh yeah!!!

This one should appeal to the bargain barons and the fashion pharaohs alike: introducing the invite-only Jack Threads. The concept should be familiar by now: one item, one day, one great price. If you want an invite, simply leave a comment below, making sure that you provide a valid email address in the appropriate field. The only thing we will use this email for is to send you an invitation to Jack Threads. But if that wasn’t enough to convince you, here are some more delicious details.

Every day at midnight, they list one new product that they discount at least 50% off the retail price. Recently, they’ve spotlighted a host of t-shirts from Beautiful/Decay and Mishka, several jackets from Dunderdon (a functional but quite stylish Swedish fashion brand), hoodies from all over, a couple pairs of sneakers, and even a duffel bag.

If you’d like an invitation to this new deal-a-day fashion site, don’t forget to leave a comment below and provide a valid email address in the appropriate field. We will use your email only to send you an invitation to Jack Threads.

Octaprintah! Design by Draco, sold @ LaFraise

(I own this btw)

CMYK tee by The Loots @ Karmaloop

Chance Of Rain by Jeff Sheldon @ scribtee

(I hope to own this soon btw)

Zapf Dingbats by Silberfischer (can you unveil the secret message?)

The Sound Of Color, by Fitz Hammond @ Threadless

CMYK? by Master Control @ Design By Humans

Smoking by Turn Nocturnal

This is actually a band shirt by the wicked Architecture In Helsinki, designed by Singer Cameron Bird, sold @ InSound

C M … guess what by yanmos @ Red Bubble

CMYK Ink Drop by Inku @ Bountee