One thing we give with every shirt purchase from our online store is a free guitar pick! If you’ve been lucky enough to meet us in person, you probably got one attached to your business card as well. If you’d like to get a custom guitar pick shape to design your own guitar pick, free free to use our template:

Recently, the geniuses over at Storenvy relaunched their online storefront system with a totally revamped ruby on rails environment that can be completely customized from head to toe. We’re going to walk you through the steps we took to customize ours.

With so many different facets of information and steps needed before you can even print your shirts it’s easy to quit before you even get started. We’ve compiled a detailed how to on starting your own t-shirt company. Get at it, it’s good.

While browsing through Emptees a few days ago I came across a talk post about some new mockups. To my surprise, they were quite good–and free!

“Third World Timmy” runs through a few different techniques to get your designs on photo realistic t-shirt mock ups. It’s quick, easy, and it looks good enough to fool your mom.

A list of resources and tutorials for t-shirts, and t-shirt printing that I think would help anyone who’s designing their own shirts, or running their own t-shirt company.

Rather than do what most design blogs do in creating a list of resources, I’ve created a list of our best posts that some of our newer visitors may have missed. Here you’ll find our best SEO tips, Photoshop Tutorials, MySpace Themes, Wordpress Themes, and even some lists of tips for bands and startup t-shirt companies.

Seems like too many websites and brands start up from scratch, and get absolutely NO WHERE. Without the blitzkrieg of press releases and public relations broo-haha, it can be damn hard to get relevant traffic to your site, especially with no money. Here’s my comprehensive guide for getting traffic to your site when you have no fan base, no tribe, no cult following, no page rank, no domain age, no public relations, and most importantly, no money.

I don’t want to add to the already long list of great iPhone application round ups, so I’ve decided to add some applications that I use on a regular basis that seem to have snuck-in under the radar. Some of them are games, one keeps me from driving drunk, and another helps me post images to my photo blog. All the apps have at least one thing in common, they’re free.

The second collection of free photoshop brushes available for download. Brushes include some grunge brushes, borders, anti-torture brushes, and even the declaration of independence and anarchy logo.

Download this free Myspace Theme that resets your Myspace to look like a cool band style theme.

HTML emails have become a great way to solidify your brand with internal and external emails. Along with their popularity, there seems to be some common misconceptions about how they work, and how long they take to build.

With Assault in it’s infancy, we’ve decided that the time has come to execute the old punk rock motto, “Support your local scene.” We’re in the t-shirt business in Chicago, and there plenty of other local companies that are in one way or another associated with the apparel industry–here are some of our favorites.

Do you know why we sometimes find ourselves excitedly buying things we don’t really need? I came across this outline from a book by Dan Ariely called, “Predictably Irrational” that had some incredibly insightful information about people and why we at times seem to act completely irrational. It covers giving away things for free, putting high price points on products to create demand, and even the benefit of arousal!

If you’ve just started out with your first e-commerce store you know that getting people to your store to buy your product isn’t easy. Unlike most online marketing blogs, I’m here to tell you that creating a page on every social network out there may not be the best answer for you. Read the full list of tips if you want to see a few things that have worked for us.

We recently wrote a quick tips and resources blog post about getting your t-shirt site off the ground–with impeccable timing, Fuel For Design has released an e-book entitled, “How to Start a Clothing Line.” Get it while you still can!

You’ve identified your niche, registered your business, designed your shirts, and launched your online t-shirt store. Now what? These few tips should help save you a few headaches as well as give you a few ideas on how to market your product for free.

Fernando Rodriguez designs a shirt for Assault just before starting his own design agency, EyeKandy.

The Justice Rave Girls T-Shirt design is among one of the best designs we have done to date exclusively for the ladies. This design was created entirely in photoshop using custom photoshop brushes and shapes that I either created myself or found on the net. Download the custom Brush sets at the bottom of this post.

The Skull Propaganda T-Shirt was done using a combination of my normal photoshop techniques completely in Photoshop…