This the latest t-shirt with President Obama’s image to add to the collection of a few hundred others that have come before. It proudly proclaims “Made in the USA”, referring to the recent controversy about his birth certificate and place of birth.

Since most t-shirts are now manufactured outside North America, we hope somebody on his staff . . . → Read More: Another creative t-shirt in the news.

Credit: Nolin BBDO, Canada

This is the fifth week of promoting minimalism as a source of design inspiration. This one was produced for SanDisk.

Why are we featuring these designs? Besides the fact that we think that they are brillaint in their simplicity, we hope that they will stimulate design ideas for the Canadian . . . → Read More: Contagious creativity… minimalism (part 5)

Credit: BBDO, Dusseldorf, Germany.

This is the fourth week of promoting minimalism as a source of design inspiration. Designed for MTV, this one struck us as particularly clever and creative.

Spark . . . → Read More: Contagious creativity… minimalism (part 4)

Credit: Jamshop, Adelaide, Australia.

This is the third week of promoting minimalism as a source of design inspiration.

This design is about as minimalist as one can get. It was prepared for the Adelaide Casino, Australia to promote their ladies’ . . . → Read More: Contagious creativity… minimalism (part 3).

Credit: Service Plan, Hamburgh/Munich, Germany.

This is the second week of promoting minimalism as a source of design inspiration. Much to our embarrassment, after last week’s posting, we were reminded that it was Leonardo da Vinci who is credited with saying, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” We should have known that.

This design, ‘Hitler . . . → Read More: Contagious creativity… minimalism (part 2).

Credit: Publicis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

This week we are promoting minimalism as a source of inspiration. The product is Coke light lemon. Somebody once said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” We don’t know for sure who said it, but it must be true because we have it printed on a fridge magnet from . . . → Read More: Contagious creativity… minimalism.

This is our weekly Friday feature for the industry’s artists and designers where we show you cool or crazy ideas that you might not have seen yet. Obviously we are not suggesting that they should be copied, but often one creative idea will lead to another.

Let’s think small this week. How about hoodies for iPods or . . . → Read More: Contagious creativity.

This is our weekly Friday feature for the industry’s artists and designers where we show cool or crazy ideas that you might not have seen yet. Obviously we are not suggesting that they should be copied, but often one creative idea will lead to another.

This week we have a ventian blind design.  The string is not a . . . → Read More: Contagious creativity.

Thanks to the Comic Relief Media Team in the UK for sending us the picture of Pixie Lott modelling the Vivienne Westwood designed t-shirt and for granting us permission to use it on our blog. And, get this, the picture was shot by Bryan Adams.

This is all about a huge charitable campaign in the UK, Red Nose Day. . . . → Read More: Contagious creativity with Pixie Lott.

This is our weekly Friday feature for the industry’s artists and designers where we show cool or crazy ideas that you might not have seen yet. Obviously we are not suggesting that they should be copied, but often one creative idea will lead to another.

This week we have a shirt that was designed for the Dutch . . . → Read More: Contagious creativity.

This is our weekly Friday feature for the industry’s artists and designers where we show cool or crazy designs that you might not have seen yet. Obviously we are not suggesting that they should be copied, but often one creative idea will lead to another.

We would like to give credit to the artist/designer/printer but all we have . . . → Read More: Contagious creativity.

Once in a while we come across t-shirts that are just too weird, bizarre or ridiculous to ignore. Okay, so perhaps they are not production-worthy, but at least they give us a laugh. They might even stimulate some creativity and lead to something unique that could turn out to be marketable. 

This one was designed by a software engineer for One Laptop Per Child, Chris Ball of . . . → Read More: Extreme t-shirts – an email nag…

We came across a web site with a great idea for using favourite old t-shirts to support a very worthwhile cause in New York City. We are so impressed with it that we want to share the concept with our Canadian printers in case it could spark a similar idea here. But even if it cannot be used for a socially . . . → Read More: Great t-shirt recycling idea…