All Progresswear Product on Sale for the Holidays

Long time no blog. We've just sent out a mailing to our peeps promoting our Holiday Sale. Every shirt on the site is just $12.99 until the end of the year. Take a look at the e-mail here.

typographyShop

typographyShop.com

We've just launched typographyShop, our latest imprinted wearables venture. For years I've wanted to design shirts for designers. We'd had these in the hopper for awhile when I ran it by Jeffrey Zeldman. He loved them and we had them up in a week. On our first day we were fortunate to have Jeffrey linking to us on twitter and facebook as well as zeldman.com. Josh Spears followed suit as did several other design bloggers. The design community seems to dig it, but we wanted to get it off Progresswear and away from the overtly political messages.

For now one must still purchase the shirts at Progresswear, but that will be changing within a day or two. Enjoy the pretty splash screen in the meantime.

Helvetica Neue Descending a T-shirt

We’ve just posted our first non politically themed shirt on Progresswear. It’s our first in a new line of shirts for designers, typophiles and the people who love them. We thought it was time to take a break from politics and express some other things that we’re passionate about. Like design and fine typography. Helvetica Neue descending a t-shirt, explained for the layman. In weights descending from Ultra Black 95 to Ultra Light 25, Max Miedinger's redesign of his own 1957 classic has never been so fashionable.

See the women’s shirt here and the men’s here. Printed on American Apparel superfine cotton. On sale at the special pre-release price until May 15th. Shirts will be shipping on or around May 5th. And just as Progresswear donates a portion of all sales on the political shirts to Progressive Causes, we will be donating a portion of the sale of our designer’s line to Design Education programs.

Available as a woman’s tee or tank or men’s tee. Comes in black for now. As if designers need another color. We’ve got more themes in this line on the drawing boards and will keep you posted when they’re released. We’re looking forward to publicizing this in the design community. It should be a lot easier to reach than the politically passionate, at least I know where to find them.

Jeffrey Zeldman and Josh Spear helped us out today with links that brought traffic from around the world. We've also just purchased typographyshop.com and will be moving the designer wear over there eventually to keep it separate from the political stuff.

Buy a LIERAQ shirt and help Veterans for Peace.

On March 18th the nation marked the 5th anniversary of the War in Iraq. Six days later the death toll reached 4,000. And America yawned.

In a solemn and vocal observation of this trio of tragedies we have partnered with Veterans for Peace, a leading voice for veterans in America, in offering $5.00 off our powerful LIERAQ shirt until April 30. We will be donating a portion of each sale to Veterans for Peace and the more shirts we ultimately sell, the higher the donation per shirt will be. See the men’s tee here and the women’s tee and tank here.

Veterans for Peace will be actively promoting the sale to their membership as well.

The LIERAQ message has been worn in the halls of congress, by mothers of fallen soldiers, toured the country with the Yellow Rose of Texas Peace Bus and toured the world on stage. Pick one up this month and help support the nation’s largest veteran’s antiwar group.

We’re also proud to announce that we will also be working with Veterans for Peace in a mobilization effort to bring widespread attention to the 5th anniversary on May 5th of Bush’s ironic “Mission Accomplished” speech. Stay tuned for more on that. Please pass this message along to the politically passionate in your circle.

Wishing you a wonderful Spring, best wishes and Peace.

Gift Certificates at last on Progresswear

It's been sometime since this blog has seen a post, so I'm happy to finally announce that Progresswear has gift certificates at last. And during this holiday season we're offering them with free shipping as well as discounting the women's shirts.

More to come. Wish us luck.

Al Gore for President. Again

I've just comce across this impassioned and thoughtful plea on the part of design legend Willian Drenttel for an Al Gore candidacy. And a damned fine simple logo to go with the effort. The draft Gore movement is buzzing today. The punidts are abuzz over it. Will Al run?

We should be so lucky. The Hillary/Obama horse race is getting very tired very quickly. The Republican field is downright horrifying. I think Al could do it. And should.

Summer Sale on New Shirts Extended

We're extending the sale on our 4 new shirts through August 15th. It's a pre-release sale, shirts will be shipped the second they arrive from the printer, on or about August 7th.

In addition to the Science shirts in the post below we have the long awaited “FundaMental” shirt and its companion, “The Christian Right is Neither.”

Men’s shirts are just $16.99 and women’s $18.99.