top 12 places to submit your tshirt ideas
So you have a Tshirt idea. Threadless rules, but there are a stack of other sites out there asking for your tshirt ideas. The rewards can vary enormously depending on where you send your design - anything from a sticker, to one off cash payments to a cut of all Tshirt sales.
So which site gives best value for you? You need to weight up a few factors:
- Traffic, if you get a cut of shirt sales you better hope the site has a lot of customers
- Reliability, do you trust the site, have other people received the cash?
- Kudos, you want to get a job doing this? Go for the big ticket sites!
So below are links to the submissions pages of 20 sites offering to print your shirt. Any experiences of submitting to these would be vastly useful - comment below. The list:
J!NX Shirts
J!nx are very geek focussed, a typical shirt featuring an RPG joke. They offer $100 for an idea, $400 for the artwork if they use it.
Threadless
Now offering $2000 worth of benefits ($1500 cash, the rest essentially in Tees). Competition is fierce on Threadless, but if you get a shirt printed you instantly become a shirt design legend among your peers.
Cafepress
You don’t so much submit your design to cafepress, as just publish it. You take a cut of everything sold. Cafepress has some sweet designs on it, but you do risk simply sinking into the clutter unless you put some effort into an affiliate style site to promo your shirt. Potentially higher rewards, but you have to do most of the promotional work yourself.
NerdyShirts
$200 for a shirt design, $50 for a slogan. They do promise a quick response though - “if you win, you’ll get an email on monday”. And if you want a portfolio piece, they take some nice promo pics!
Busted Tees
Busted have a simple policy “just send it to us at ideas@bustedtees.com and if we like it we’ll give you $150 and a shirt with your idea on it too!”. You can’t say fairer than that.
TShirt Hell
An edgy shirt site, TShirt hell may be a home for your more… out there ideas. $200 plus 10 shirts of your choice is on offer. Picking 10 shirts won’t be a problem, $200 is typical, and you get a different kind of cool point here!
Shocker Tees
If tshirt hell blushed when you showed them your idea, try shocker. They print anything! $150 for your idea. Cool points? Perhaps. Infamy? Guaranteed.
Stagehand Tees
Stagehand do a seemingly endless list of black shirts with simple lettering with some pretty funny stuff on them. Which is about right for a seller of apparel for stagehands, roadies and entertainment technicians. Not exactly the mightiest of prizes no cash, just the first tee off the presses but hey, it’s a free tee.
Thoseshirts.com
“where conservative humor, superior quality, and professional artistry come together.”. $200 for your idea, so if you have a great Clinton gag, or firearm pun, this may be the best place to try.
Split the atom
A slightly above average $250 is on offer here for your submission. Guidelines, templates etc… are all particularly good although I find the flash site a pain to use on my laptop. User voting a la threadless is also used on split the atom.
Off Your Back Shirts
OYB shirts offers a $100 voucher plus 2 of your shirts. Some pretty ‘worthy’ shirts on offer, so if you have a cutting comment on our tv obsessed lives in the form of a 16″x16″ square - you my have found it’s home.
Uneetee.com
This is a pretty unique site, operating a single lead design at any one time. It offers $2 per shirt sold with your design on it, so if it sells a few thousand you’ll be better off here than at Threadless. I like the JENIUS shirt.
Thats the list! If you know of, or are, another place to submit ideas comment below!
2 new tees - retro cool & office wars
Two picks from the fresh batch at Threadless today.
I love these stupid little cars - I have no idea why. I think it’s a bit like a coke bottle or a terracotta flower pot - it’s just the right shape and no improvement can be made.
Reprint time with office wars, a classic paper plane carrier shirt. Too military for summer tho? I’m undecided!

cool geek baby wrappers
For the geek baby in your life, this BabyStar Googagaga tee shirt of baby thing just plain rules.
Or if that’s a little bit too sci-fi nerd for you, this amazing WASD shirt (similar to the classic ThinkGeek
version) might just make your baby the coolest kid at the under 12 months LAN party.
They grow up so quickly these days! More stuff for cool kids at www.Squirtshirts.com
shirt sites : Brazillian threadless
I love google translation, they open up a world of sites to my non foreign language brain (anything more that “bonjour madamoisselle trois bier ceevooplay” and I’m lost) so this site from Brazil is open to us all.
Running a threadless like model, it has some interesting if strangely wierd designs.

Google translation to English link
omg no way
How could omgtees.com NOT review the omg no way disbelief shirt from Threadless? This reminds me of those wierd felt tip pen ‘fonts’ girls did at school by holding three pens in one hand and writing ‘I love my pony’ on their schoolbooks. Apart from that though, cool shirt, buy one!
shirt printer blogs #1: TeeShirtsRock.com
TeeshirtsRock.com runs a pretty interesting blog alongside their store site. Everything you would want from a good printer blog, previews, invitations for comment, and news about pricing etc…
They also point us at some pretty interesting YouTube content sometimes. All absolutely relevant of course.
tshirt advertising
Running a shirt site, you see a LOT of tshirt promotional material. A lot. Most of the photos are pretty dorky shots of the folded tees, photoshop jobs of a stock shirt and the design, or just a crop of the design pre-printing. Threadless have some of the more imaginitive pics, but they are often pretty random. This promo pic from snorg jumped out as being exactly the shot to promote the tee.
Wins my ‘tshirt ad of the month’ for april!
old school gamer : 2600
I loved the 2600. I love the wood panelling. I also love this shirt.
My brother actually owns about a dozen 2600s - he can’t walk past one in a games store without buying it.
I think it’s a condition, it’s like he sees them as pound puppies! When I eventually give up and buy a PS3, this is the shirt I’ll be wearing.
That or one of the Wii shirts from last week.
coffee heaven
I wouldn’t call myself a coffee whore as such, more a coffee disciple. So this crack smocking shirts shirt overstates my dependency a little.
This is more my level, I actually wear this one pretty often, a more subtle reference to the finest beverage
For the rest of your caffiene needs head over to ThinkGeek Caffeine home of everything from shirts to mints!
new tees: axe man cometh
Guitar hero playing should be taken seriously. Very seriously. No laughing, just playing. It’s a little like chess in that regard. You also have to dress well. To play properly you now have three options. The Slash look, the dinner suit, and now this tee:
new tees: war and peas
Why risk the street battle associated with a blatantly anti war shirt when you can wear this cute looking shirt and be a little more subtle.
Ultimate Wii Tii Shirts List
Let it Bii
Beatles based puns. I love ‘em. I want to go bowling with these guys! Poor old Paul, you always end up identifying him because he’s not the other three. He needed a comedy nose! 
Buy Let it Bee at Nerdy Shirts >>
Wii tarded
If your significant other is useless with the Wiimote, make them wear this. Even if it’s under another shirt!
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Buy Wii-tarded at T-shirt hell >>
Wiid
This just makes me smile.
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Buy Wiid at T-shirt hell >>
Wii Death
I love this, I want one for my teevee just in case it happens and I need to cover up a destroyed LCD panel.

Buy Wii Death here >>
Wii Vil
Another sinister spin on the wiimote. When I first picked one up I DID think it was the devil. I still do, but I accept it’s strange ways.

Buy Wii Vil here >>
Tii Shirt
Explode views are just cool man. Proves your absolute geek status!

Buy Tii Shirt here >> or watch it being printed here
Real men Wii standin up
A fake shirt from kottke, absolutely true, they do.

Buy real men Wii standin up >>
Stab Mii
Available for boys and girls, this shirt suggests that you were wandering around the games room unaware that the xbox 360 had been replaced by the Wii.

Buy stab Mii shirt here >>
Giik
Geek / Giik. I’m assuming a Giik is someone who tries to get his Wii to boot Ubuntu.

Buy Giik here >>
Evolution
Nintendo controllers are just cool, but something in me wishes we still had a crosspad and two buttons. Life was so simple back then. Who can argue with evolution shirts!

Buy evolution here >>
Mii on a Tii
Your own Mii on your own Tii. Just send your Mii to MrCloud to receive your Mii on a Tee. Amazing.

Buy your Mii on a Tii now >>
Nintendo family Trii
Okay so this isn’t a full on Wii shirt, but it has a Wii on it, and it has some pretty cool older Nintendo hardware too, so you don’t have to betray your old favourites. Old game systems hate it when you put them in the cupboard you know. They cry! Make them happy, get this shirt.

Buy Nintendo family Trii >>
I’m Bruce Wii
Bad joke, cute shirt.The irony won’t be lost on the truly nerdy as they know that this stance would get you beat pretty badly in the actual Wii boxing game, but style over function wins the day here.

Buy Bruce Wii now >>
Well that’s it. Love Wii!.
If you have a shirt you’d like to add to the list that we missed just send an email to hello@omgtees dot com with some info, or comment below.
comic: Asterix cap
Asterix is the finest of druid humour based comics.
I read all the comics until they fell apart, but never enjoyed the movies as much - I think it was the part where they ran around the office in Rome looking for form g-14. The animation also made his hat / wings look like they were pulsating as he rotated his head. That freaked me out.
Buy the shirt from Ice Cold Shirts. I also love their pimp golf shirt.
paperboy cutout
I love this shirt.
The best thing about Sundays when I was a nipper was the possibility that the sunday paper would have a cutout in the kids section. You don’t get enough cutouts these days. Make should do them!
reprint: bluey pinky rainy tshirt
A white tshirt from threadless with a very girly feel. I like the splashyness on the ground, I’m less sure about the hearts in the cloud. For some reason they look like they might be laughing at as. Big smug cloud hearts!
top notch tees - legolike briefcase joy
You just know the wee guys on this shirt enjoy their life. Pure joy. Not a cheap shirt at $53 but seriously joy enducing to all around you. Buy it now at karma loop. While you’re there check out this keyboard cyborg freaky colorful monster of a shirt.















