DNA StyleLab now in Beta: Make shirts with other artists' art

I found DNA Sylelab today & thought it was a pretty cool concept. Because it's still in beta, you can try it out and order shirts now for 15% off.

The basic idea is that they have artists with work uploaded on the site. You can choose the art you like, choose the shirt you want, size and rotate the art how you want it on your shirt, and then buy your shirt. For now, they have a select number of artists and later on it looks like visitors will get to vote on artists. When a visitor buys a shirt, the artist gets paid a commission.

It's a unique concept that's combining some familiar elements:

1. Giving artist an outlet for selling their work (like Cafepress, Printfection and other similar print on demand sites)

2. Giving choice to the customer to choose the shirt and art they want, without having to create the art (similar to Click-Shirt)

3. Creating a social network in a "club-like" atmosphere of selected artists as well as passionate customers who show off their shirts in a gallery (much like Threadless)

4. And using print-on-demand technology on dark colored shirts (again, like Cafepress and Printfection).

The site looks nice and so does the art. I think they have a lot of potential and I may submit some designs and see what happens. The interface is pretty cool and easy to use, too.

Who is behind DNA Stylelab? I found a little more at MySpace.

I look forward to watching DNA Stylelab work it's way out of beta, grow and change. Be sure to visit DNAStylelab and try it out for yourself!

Forms made easy...finally!

Once upon a time I used to have my email address posted on my websites. For a while it worked just fine.

Then, of course, I started getting spam. Ack!

Then I started looking all over the internet and asking people how I could make a contact form for my Cafepress store and blog and anything else I do online.

Someone suggested a service that I tried to sign up for. I got lost in the part where I had to put info into a database.

Then I learned how hard it was to make forms. I never did get it and didn't have the patience to learn. I'd rather pay someone else at this point I was so frustrated.

Then one day when David Miles was working on my new store design we got talking about forms. I said I really wanted one & begged him to make me one.

To my delight, he suggested Wufoo. A site that makes making your own forms easy, fast, and (believe it or not) fun!

No really, it's fun! Even for me. So David told me about it and I made some forms. Just like that. They have a free service for a basic form and other paid packages if you want more forms or image uploading capability. You can design your form, then get a simple chunk of HTML to paste wherever you like, including your Cafepress store.

And as if they weren't cool enough, they sent me a holiday card thanking me for my business. Awww. They are by far one of the most useful, well-designed, easy, and affordable web services I've ever used.

And so, I lived happily ever after.

One, two, three cheers for Wufoo!

Oh, and if you want to see some of my shiny new forms in action, here ya go:

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Japanese T-shirt Folding

OK, I know this has been floating around the internet for a little while now, but it's just so crazy, I had to post it. I wonder if this is how they do it at Cafepress?