We would like to welcome Nuno Lopes aka nunosk8 to the list of Allmightys Designers. Nuno and his latest entry "Don´t Break My Beat" was chosen as a Special Selection and is currently in the process of being printed and should be in the store within a month.

In the meantime while you wait, why not check out his just added profile on Allmightys as well as his profiles on Behance and DeviantArt.

Great to have you onboard Nuno!

The ‘Out and About’ competition ended on Friday night and first of all we want to thank you all for submitting such great designs! It was fun doing the joint competition with Popdeck.com, and we hope you enjoyed the challenge of designing a shirt and a deck in combination.
We feel that you the designers made a great effort in coming up with designs that work on both media! Great work, everyone and thanks!!

Without further ado, here is the winner of ‘Out and About’!!
The design will be printed on a shirt by us and on a deck by Popdeck:

Gold Prize: Paranoid Park by RoyalGlamsters

Congratulations!!!

Furthermore, the following tees will be printed at Allmighys:

Prize Winners (Printed)
1. Paranoid Park by RoyalGlamsters (Com: 2.00 EUR per shirt sold + free Board + $200 from PopDeck)
2. Coffeeeee! by sepra4life (Com: 1.50 EUR per shirt sold)
3. The City Letraset by ALIADOTONY (Com: 1.00 EUR per shirt sold)

Special Selection (Printed)
(Commission: 1.00 EUR per shirt sold)
1. Wild Set Three by knikola
2. Don’t Break My Beat by nunosk8

Special Mention (Not Printed)
(order by score)
1. Marketplace by trinco
2. GOeagle by GODESIGN
3. MyDress by mumolabs
4. Battle by Kushti

To read more about the competition and the winners, see out past competitions page.

The submission time for "Out and About" competition has just ended and there are only few hours left to score designs on Allmightys.

Thank you all for submitting these wonderful designs!  We've received a great response and it's exciting to see so different takes there are on the theme. It will be interesting to see how you like the designs once we go through all the votes.  Not an easy task but never the less an interesting one as we will be seeing what you liked and what you dissed. We will also speak to our friends at Popdeck.com to see how the  designs rated on their site and together decide what is the best design that works both on a board and tee.

So, if you haven't voted yet, now is the time!
SCORE DESIGNS ALLMIGHTYS!

On Monday, we will be announcing the winners and chosen designs for this competition. Please bear with us, a lot to go through. The results will include:
1. Gold Prize (Free Deck + $200 + Free Tee + Allmightys' €2.00 per sold Tee commission)
2. Silver Prize (Free Tee + Allmightys' €1.50 per sold Tee commission)
3. Bronze Prize (Free Tee + Allmightys' €1.00 per sold Tee commission)
+
Special Selections (Free Tee + Allmightys' €1.00 per sold Tee commission)

So, until Monday, keep those comments coming and have a great weekend!

Is this the result of us dropping sketchpads and resorting to keyboard and mouse as the only way of capturing ideas? Someone seems to have gone a little too far :)

Graffiti Keyboard

via gizmodo/make flickr pool

We have made few tweaks to the site in the last few days which some of you may have noticed. Among the changes is the way the Member Pages are listed. Now you can see members by the latest registration date rather than alphabetically. Another quite major addition is in the shop checkout. You will now notice a postage option for registered postage. Since the beginning of allmightys we always tried to make tv postage as cheap as possible. Recently we've had few problems with some of our packages so now we have trackable postage as an option which is set as a default. Its a little more expensive but way worth it if you are ordering 2 or more tees. Of course if you order 4 or more tees this comes included.
There have also been few other tweaks not worth mentioning that are generally to do with backend management and general system optimisation.

Deadline for submissions and voting is approaching fast. There is now only 2 or so days left to submit and vote so make sure that you cast your votes in time. Votes have been coming in on both Popdeck and Allmightys and it will be interesting to see what happens at the end. Don't forget to get all your friends to vote too but please ask them to objective and score other designs too so we can a good overall picture of what you liked most.

So, until Friday, keep submitting, voting and of course keep shopping!!! :)

Just a quick note to let you know that Allmightys has it's own page on Facebook. So, if you are a fan of Facebook or just addicted to it and spend too much time spying on your friends' friends then make sure you join up and say hello. Its a small but growing community of facebook tee addicts!

Join Up! Allmightys on Facebook

As we have been keeping up our blog of all things well designed and colourful for over a year now, we thought it's time to show you the reality behind the concept of blogging. Working 24/7 to feed our readers with the latest gadgets, features, technological bits and art & design, it looks pretty much like the scene behind the white door in this little fun movie ;)

watch it here for a humorous start into the week...

The weekly badge review's theme of the week: Food, bon appetit! Monday - Sushi

There are now only few days left to submit your designs for our current "Out and About" competition. The response has been good and, as always, its great to see such diverse response to the theme. Yes, its true, we have gone a little easier on what's related to theme but we love the mix of designs you have submitted. This competition, as you know, is being done in association with Popdeck.com so make sure you submit your designs to both sites to qualify for gold prize. Also don't forget to vote on both sites because we will be looking at both scores for the gold prize. Only one design will be printed on a skateboard deck and it will be exciting to see which design you have liked most. You can get all the templates here and here.

If you haven't voted yet, the submissions are waiting for your votes so sure you visit the voting galleries and tell us how much you like them.

As always, if there are any new features you would like to see on the site or have some suggestions for our future competition themes ..then please let us know. You can use our online form or send an email to us directly at more[at]allmightys.com.Have a great weekend all!!

This week's Friday Animation is brought to you by Yonil, who has taken part in many competitions and has won several prizes. He's the designer of cool shirts such as 'You're Hired, Good Sir', 'The King is Dead' and 'Knightwear' as well as the Allmightys Anniversary Special 'Pencil Man'.

The animation is beautifully drawn and gives a wonderful short cut version of the world's history.
Thanks, Yonil :)

watch it here...

How often do you update your desktop wallpaper? My personal rhythm varies, sometimes once a week, at other times I leave a wallpaper for much longer.
Here's Desktoptopia, a site that automatically updates your wallpaper from an image bank. There is a huge number of cool and corny wallpapers available and you can even upload yours to add to the numbers.

check it out here...

How great is this?!! Apparently in Japan you can find these Pantone T-Shirt Dispensers. Pick a colour, pop a few coins and off you go. Great idea!

Pantone T-Shirt Dispenser

A joint venture between Uniqlo and Pantone.

via PopCultureTees

As far as it comes to new ideas for the outside, how is this for something in the future? Strips of thermosensitive road varnish are painted on to the street and change colour when the temperature reaches freezing or other dangerous conditions.
Could be useful to pedestrians and motorists alike and is tested in France for durability and usability as we speak, but who knows if this ever reaches serial production.

read more here...

The weekly badge review. The features from Monday April 7 to Saturday April 11 plus the spotlighted Sunday´s button badge: Overall it was a really colourful week and this Sunday we have asentimental look at Valencia based artist malota: Unfortunately her buttons are no longer available neither on her own website nor at her Prickie shop, but enter the website to take a look at her beautiful work.
http://femtasia.nl/

Please meet Anne Juliette, one of our earliest members. A collection of wonderful drawings, clothes and toys.

Anne's work has been published in a number of world magazines and her toys are said to be "really strong with a nice chunky yet graceful design" vinylpulse.com

annejulietteakaaj.free.fr

Also, check out these wonderful vinyl testshots @ toysrevil.blogspot.com

This week's Friday Animation features Ivan Maximov's 'Slow Bistro'.This film is a very sophisticated cartoon with a nice musical score. The illustrations remind me of Tomi Ungerer a lot, the French illustrator. A bunch of strange characters go to a bistro to dine out and Ivan Maximov cleverly interpreted all the characteristical features of such a get together in this film.

watch it here...

We have just added 6 amazing tees from our recent "I Am Thinking.." competition! They are all printed on our usual American Apparel tees and they not just look great but they feel fantastic too. 1 EUR from each sale goes to Cancer Research UK.

They Are:
The Architect by a.mar.illo
We Need Help by Joe Gonzalez
Underwater Birds by a.mar.illo
I'm Thinking Big... by Sepra4life
Movies by Nikola Kostic
Jana by vergilije

Get the while they're hot!

We have just updated Yonil's profile with some most recent work that is definitely worth checking out. If you are not familiar with Yonil's aka Jonathan Lax's work then check out his website and his newly created flickr profile that includes most recent work.

Yonil is one of our oldest members and a five time winner with Trash Roots, The Birds and Beez, You are HIRED, good sir, Knightwear, The King Is Dead and most recent Allmightys anniversary special: The Pencil Man.

You can also see all of Yonil's submission by visiting his Members Page.

Take a look at Joshua Budich's website which he devoted to his collection of Star Wars figures. His collection, which consists of over 600 figures and took 8 years to collect, started at very early childhood. I think most of us have collected the famous plastic figures at one time or the other, but Joshua certainly deserved the praise of going all the way. On his website there is also a link to his portfolio, which is interesting to look at.

take a look at his collection here...

The weekly badge review: All the features from Monday March 31 to Saturday April 05 plus the spotlighted Sunday´s button badges by Antoine and Manuel from Paris. A sad week for all Prickie artists and addicts: They´ve closed the shop (again?!) :( but at least they´ll keep it in gallery mode :/ 

We've had few questions recently from our members about the commissions system and how all that works. We thought it would be a great post to address some of those issues including a few words about the relationship we have with our designers...after all, without them there would be no Allmightys. So here we go...

1. When your design wins/is selected we send you a welcome email to the team. We also request their info for their own designer pages including images of their work and some text about themselves. Our customers love reading about the designers and these pages are crucial for customers to understand where the ideas come from.

2. We then discuss any details there are about their design and if there any special requirements/issues to do with the design. In some cases we make slight adjustments to the design (if necessary) ourselves but if we feel the change is major we always consult with our designers.

3. The design is then printed and as soon as it is in the store we notify our designers.

4. When the sales start coming in, of course, all sales are recorded and stored in our system. At the same time, we monitor all visits to the tee product pages as well as designer profiles. The designer profiles and tees are promoted on the front page.

5. We scan the web for postings/writings about the tees. We also promote them on t-shirt blogs, clothing sites and many other social networks including myspace, behance, humblevoice and others. If we find some interesting articles about designer's tee we make sure we send them an email and a link.

6. Every quarter (one has just passed) we send our designers something we call "Designer Reports" where we lay out how many tees have been sold, how many views they've had - to their profiles as well as their tees and of course how much money they have earned this quarter. We also offer to make payments to the designers via PayPal for all figures below €50.00 or bank transfers to any account in the world.

7. We involve our designers into Allmightys developments as much as possible. This includes site feature development, designing competition banners, anniversary tees, etc..

We hope this gives you an overall idea of how Allmightys Team works with their designers. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to drop us a line. We love answering your questions however silly they can sometimes be..here is one:

“Can I submit a design after the deadline?”

hehe

So wait no more and submit your wonderful designs. We want you on our Team!!

If you would like to read more about Allmightys Designers then visit our Designer pages..some incredible work there.

Image by Yonil, see his profile here.

In this weeks Friday animation we bring you a short stop-motion animation called The Colour Keeper. It's the sad story of a guy who's hands are too big for him to become an artist. A little melodramatic perhaps, but nicely animated and a fitting soundtrack. I love the noises the little balls of colour make :)

watch it here...

Mathieu Hubert aka 1/2mite® one of Allmightys designers has just updated his site with some really nice new goodies. If you haven't seen Mathieu's site, this is the time to check it out. Identity design, layout, illustration, objects and wonderful photography:

mathieuhubert.com

Mathieu is the Special Selection winner from our Big City Life competition with his wonderful MyMap design.

Yesterday was April fools day, and I wonder how many of you were actually fooled :)
Here is a funny collection of yesterdays fools on the net. It's a fun browse- some of these are hilarious. My personal favourite is the BBC documentary on penguins that can fly. Or the new Google function that allows you to search for something one day in advance...

Have fun reading more here...

This is quite amazing and finally about time!! Allmightys has been waiting soooo long for this now that the Serif fonts are/have been so popular!

FontFont have announced that they are to release Helvetica Serif,following the discovery of drawing of that typeface by Max Miedinger. The sketches which were discovered by Miedinger’s granddaughter have been redrawn to create the digital version shown above. read more

via tuaw.com