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T-shirt War

This is an amazing way to market products.  Check out this video where 2 guys tell you a story using T-shirts as their medium.  Great stop motion work on this.

RIPT Apparel announces new sponsor: DirtyLaundry.TV

I just wanted to let you all know of a great new project we just teamed up with called Dirtylaundry.tv. It is a website that features interviews with some of the hottest indie and underground bands you probably haven’t heard of just yet.
Most of the se interviews are done in an old laundry mat, [...]

Top Ten T-shirts of 2009 from RIPT Apparel

2009 has been an amazing year here at RIPT. We printed over 200 designs from some amazing artists. We sold thousands of shirts to thousands of people all over the world. We hired some great curators to help us keep the quality artwork coming in the door.
We have [...]

Happy Holidays from Greg Abbott

RIPT shares a holiday greeting they have received from one of their artists, Greg Abbott.

RIPT Apparel T-shirt recap #1

RIPT Apparel T-shirt recap 001 from RIPT Apparel on Vimeo.  RIPT Apparel presents their first self-critique on some of their recent tees.  A big thanks goes out to all of our artists! Thank you for printing with RIPT!  See today’s cool new graphic t-shirt by visiting: http://www.riptapparel.com

Time Lapse T-Shirt Design by Kasey Fleming

woot submission time lapse from kasey fleming on Vimeo.
time lapes of photoshop work.

Interview with the creative minds behind “YAWN”

Q: Who is “YAWN” and where did that name come from?
YAWN means YEAH AWESOME WOW NICE! We both really like to draw type but never really knew what to write except for song lyrics of songs that had been haunting us. So we usually wrote something like “YEAH” or “WOW” – this kind [...]

RIPT Apparel adds curators to their artwork acquisition process

Some fresh faces have joined the RIPT Apparel staff. We proudly announce our first four curators added to the staff to help us find the best underground t-shirt artists around.

RIPT Apparel announces sponsorship of The Coming Weak

RIPT Apparel has announced their first band sponsorship of Rhode Island’s The Coming Weak. Expect to see a unique one-of-a-kind tee for them appearing soon at RIPTapparel.com!

Hey Ladies! It’s all about you this week at RIPT!

We are proud to announce something pretty special this week here at RIPT.  Starting today, we will now be offering sizes for men AND women!
Pretty awesome right?  Well that’s not all!
On top of that, we are featuring 5 designs from female designers this week!
Our women designers include:

Lora Ellingson
Amy Kollar Anderson
Leigh Ann Farrior
Mary Weaver
Tasha Chapman

Here [...]

Come hang out with RIPT this weekend in Chicago!

This weekend is a busy one for us at RIPT. Tomorrow (Friday, Jult 31st) we will be hanging out at 2, count em 2 different parties!
Tonight, we are attending Chicago’s own Atomic Sketch Event held at the Evil Olive. There will be tons of live drawing going on so come out and support this great [...]

Watch our interview with IAMTHETREND

Last Thursday night we had the opportunity to sit down with the guys from IAMTHETREND (Your guide for all things Independent) to talk about what RIPT is all about. Adam, Beau and Steve (the magic behind the camera) came over to Paul’s place and we all shared some pizza and beers.
Then we made our [...]

Just added 2XL and 3XL sizes

Just to let everyone know that didn’t get the newsletter, we are now offering 2XL and 3XL sizes for only $2.00 more.

Hanging out at the June 09 Atomic Sketch Event

RIPT Apparel checks out Chicago’s Atomic Sketch Event and found much more than they were expecting!

RIPT Apparel now accepts Paypal!

We are happy to announce we are now accepting Paypal! When you enter the shopping cart, you’ll see an option for it now :)
Hope that makes things easier for some of you! Rock on!

We are officially one month old!

Granted, this post is a few days late but I wanted to share some wonderful stats with you all and genuinely just thank everyone for all the support and love you’ve been giving us so far.
In our first month:

RIPT’s site has seen over 34,000 visits (half unique)!
The site has had over 86,000 pageviews
Over 450 [...]

RIPT fans send in pictures

So more and more RIPT fans have been sending in pictures of themselves sporting their RIPT shirts!
We have been posting them all on our Facebook group and adding them all to our Flickr Group. So if you have a picture of yourself or someone you know wearing a RIPT tee, send it to us either [...]

Daytee

Our new friends at OMGTees.com emailed us a little while back about a site they were going to start where all of the daily tee companies would be featured and voted on. Daytee is the name of this project and it just went live this week.
Over at their blog, they even made a little [...]

RIPT Apparel announces “ROBOT WEEK”

RIPT Apparel transformers their site in celebration of ROBOT WEEK starting Monday June 22 through Friday June 25th. Join in the fun and have some robo-beers!

RIPT Apparel contest winners announced!

Free shirt giveaway
All this week, we have been running a contest as many of you know. Anyone who has signed up for the community during our inaugural week, was automatically entered to win a free shirt.
We had an amazing response this week from everyone in the online world, and had 350+ people join the [...]