Salt Rock have recently opened up a store on Hastings Street, Noosa.

If you have never heard of sleepy old Noosa-town (in the sunshine state of Queensland, in Australia), you may not be aware that Noosa is arguably the long-boarding capital of Australia.  It is a beautiful coastal surfing town on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast with a range of great beaches and surf spots, including world class point-breaks, sandy beach breaks, and a couple of more intense rocky surf breaks for the adventurous. Noosa also has plenty of cafes, and a luxurious yet laid-back appeal that I haven’t come across anywhere else in the world!   Can you tell I love the place?

Salt Rock fits the Noosa image perfectly, offering high quality tshirts in comfortable and classic styles, earthy colours and prints - but with that edge of Noosa class and luxury.  

Get yourself to Noosa, and get yourself clad in some Salt Rock threads.  Heck, it’s a good excuse to go and visit one of the best coastal towns around! 

By the way, if you’re keen on holidaying or a surf trip in Noosa, you might want to check out Shackn

I’m a surfer myself, and it’s a really great concept - a site that not only describes surf breaks, but also recommends affordable accommodation right beside the best surf breaks around Australia. Nice!

The French influence of the label’s name, is due to the founder’s (Quentin T) upbringing in France.

Monsieur T has a few tasty new releases out to coincide with the holiday season.

The prowler shirt, featuring a giant tiger, is definitely the pick of the bunch. Featuring a large hand drawn tiger spanning the entire front panel of the tee, it comes in yellow and blue.

Another full-bleed design in Monsieur T’s latest range is this is this photographic tee, designed as a  collaboration with world famous skateboard photographer Jon Humphries. The photo was actually plucked from Jon’s road trips with the skaters.

There’s a plenty more new tees on offer in the Monsieur Online Store. If you are keen on purchasing a few of these tasty treats to fill your stocking, there’s no better time to buy either - there’s free shipping for the rest of the year!

I came across this luminescent tee on while merging across the digital lanes of funky new tech blog Bread Milk Digital. Although Super Mario is far from ‘new tech’, what’s not to like about this retro 80’s gaming inspired tshirt design.

Super Obama World!

I’ve never been a huge fan of political tees, but with my roots firmly planted in the eighties it’s nearly impossible to appreciate the inspiration gleaned from everyone’s favorite bouncing little Italian Mario who could shoot fireballs just by head-butting a few bricks.

It goes to show how a simple design, and a little bit of help from Spreadshirt, can get your ideas into the marketplace without much effort at all.

Now all I have to do is work out how to cross Sonic the Hedgehog with Hilary Clinton and I’ll be able to create the sequel.

Read the full article at Milk Bread Digital

Ever thought about creating a custom tshirt as a gift?

Over the past few years I’ve created quite a few one-off tshirts as gifts for close friends and family. Custom tshirts are always well received, because they are gifts with personality, thought, and sometimes maybe even the labour of love.

Depending on your budget and the amount of effort you’re willing to put in, there’s plenty of methods of producing your tees.

Have you ever tried screen printing at home - it’s heaps of fun! Just hit up your local art shop for a basic screen-printing kit, grab a few blank tees from your local store and bob’s your uncle.

Um, perhaps you will look as cool as this guy with your custom Chrissy tee…

Iron-on ‘patch hacking’ (where you find old school retro iron-on patches and ‘remix’ them into new designs) is another method of creating custom tees with less mess.

For the graphic designers amongst us, who are proficient with the use of graphics applications such as those contained within the Adobe Creative Suite (incidentally, if you haven’t upgraded to Adobe CS4 yet you should think about it, Adobe is offering a limited offer at the moment where you can Save up to $200 on eligible upgrades to CS4), print on demand tshirt sites are a hassle free way of producing your custom tees.

My favorite online store for print-on-demand is Spreadshirt as they offer American Apparel blank tshirts, good print quality, reasonable prices, and have set up local bases in a variety of countries to minimize delivery expenses and production time. Cafepress is another option - I view them as the cheaper alternative, slightly lower on quality but it comes down to the old adage that ‘you get what you pay for’.

If any readers have printed, or intend on printing tshirts as Christmas presents I’d love to hear from you - just post a comment using the Comments link below this article.

So if you’re stuck for Christmas ideas on a budget, then maybe a custom tshirt for a loved (or not so loved one) is the answer.

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**UPDATE** Spreadshirt currently has free delivery for the next 6 days (you have until the end of this week to place your order). If you’re as interested in shopping malls as I am, then sitting in your comfy chair designing your Chrissy gifts online is sounding even more promising!

It would be in your best interests (because I know some very very large men who dress in black and carry chains and baseball bats) to subscribe to tshirtalert.com’s mailing list now.

Not only will you keep your knee-caps intact, but you will also be the first to hear about exclusive discounts for tshirtalert readers, the latest tee news, and limited edition tshirt releases.

…and um….*hiccup*….the free beer just ran out. Sorry.

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