Thanks to Bochito for the creative inspiration!

Why? It’s a pretty short story. We have full-time jobs, and those shirts just started out as a little joke, we’ve been printing them just for fun. So why charge anyone for a hobby? There you go. So what does that mean? If you order a shirt, you buy the shirt directly from Spreadshirt, who prints and ships it to you. We cut out the middlemen. (That’s us.) It feels much better that way, too.

So now that we have no financial incentive to sell anything, it’s ok to pimp some of our own shirts, right? There’s something we’d like to point out to you, and that’s the two separate shops that you can get your shirts from.

If you’re based in Europe, you can order in our European shop. (At this point it’s in German, but you should be able to switch the interface to your local language.) Most shirts here are €19.90. You can change the colors and all in the shop.

If you’re U.S.-based, no problem either. Our U.S. shop offers most shirts for $15.90. You can change the colors and all in the shop.

Also, we’d like to stress once more that we don’t mind in the least if you clone this shirt and adapt it, as long as you don’t sell it for profit afterwards. (That’s why we license all our stuff under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license.) Go remix!

It’d be pretty cool if you sent us a photo of what your new version looks like! Same goes, by the way, for all other photos of you wearing those shirts of ours. We get psyched about seeing them in the wild.

Enjoy!

Image: “You Win 1 Internets” by goopymart available under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 License.

All the printing and handling is done through Spreadshirt.

To cut down on your shipping costs, we set up two shops: One for Europe (based in Germany) and one for the U.S..

We tried to keep the prices as simple as possible, so in the European shop most products are €24,89 (optimized for shipping prices), in the U.S. we set it down to $19.90 for the time being. (Or until that odd economic downturn passes.)

You’ll notice that there’s slightly different types of shirts. We tried to offer everything on American Apparel (AA) shirts. We love their shirts and their production policies are pretty neat. Where no AA shirts available we picked what we figured came closest in terms of look & feel. If in doubt, check the product descriptions in the shop itself.

If there’s anything you’d like to ask or let us know, please get in touch. (So far, the easiest way is to email me at peter [at] thewavingcat.com.) Also, feel free to clone away.

We’re looking forward to hearing back from you. Also, if you have one of those shirts or something similar you’d like to share, please do leave a comment or drop us a line. Thanks!

Luca Sartoni snapped this picture (some rights reserved) of me wearing my IWFTI shirt while I was attending Tim O’Reilly’s blogger roundtable at Web 2.0 Expo Berlin with Sebastian Grünwald.

Karin Høgh was kind enough to snap this photo of me wearing my IWFTI shirt at Web 2.0 Expo Berlin.

We were thrilled to see this photo taken at Communia Conference. Image by Juan Carlos De Martin, (jdcm on Flickr), released under Creative Commons (by 2.0)