T-shirts and Tanks

Snow days were fun as a kid, but long weekends as an adult are hard to beat. The recent long weekend meant we had some extra time to prepare for this week’s edition of our five favorite promotional products, which includes a 'Toy Story 4' build-your-own-Forky kit, a killer notebook and some other great items...

Did you catch the Oatly commercial during the Super Bowl where the company’s CEO sang a jingle about how it’s “like milk, but made for humans,” while playing a keyboard in the middle of a field? Did you hate it? Did you hate it enough to wear a T-shirt telling everybody how much you hated it? Oatly won’t be offended. In fact, it was kind of banking on that happening...

For all the people who only watch the Super Bowl for the commercials, Samuel Adams went all out commemorating its "your cousin from Boston" Wicked Hazy IPA Super Bowl ad with an entire merchandise line that includes a DVD of the original 30-second commercial and a lot more...

It hasn’t stopped snowing in Philadelphia for about three days. In between snowing and salting our sidewalks, we’ve been cozying up inside and checking out some fun promotional products for this week’s edition of the Fav 5. Take a few minutes for a “mental snow break” and give them a look...

Budweiser announced that, for the first time in nearly 40 years, it won’t be airing any commercials during the Super Bowl. It will, however, team up with beloved apparel brand Starter for some Big Game-themed apparel. The brands will release an apparel capsule that celebrates the “Bud Bowl” ads, which first aired in 1989. The line will include T-shirts, sweatshirts and hats...

An apparel company is using ancient Egyptian technology to keep shirts smelling fresh for longer. That ancient Egyptian secret? Cinnamon. Koup, a company founded by Brian Chuang, will debut a T-shirt made from recycled bottles and infused with cinnamon extract at CES 2021 in Taiwan...

Everyone just assumes that, because we do this for a living, these intros are easy to write. Sure, we make it look easy because we’re super cool, but it’s not as easy as you might think. Now, when it comes to spotting good promos, that's always easy. And you’re in luck, because we have a nice batch here for you this week...

The Cleveland Browns have made the playoffs. Crazy, right? Since this hasn’t happened since 2002, some celebrations were in order. GV Art + Design, an apparel company based in Cleveland, surprised the team (as much as the team surprised us) with T-shirts in a box labeled “do not open until Sunday 4 p.m.,” when it was safe to say they were officially playoff-bound...

In December, Printify, the on-demand custom merchandise platform, was selling “Free Kyle” merchandise created by the family of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with shooting and killing two people and injuring one during the August protests in Kenosha, Wis. Last week, Printify issued a statement that it will no longer sell the merchandise, claiming that it violates company policy...

Everyone loves a bundle. Pairings aren’t just limited to wine and cheese, either. There are plenty of things that pair well with apparel. If you ask a lot of modern artists, albums work well with merchandise, but that’s part of a scheme to boost album sales. If you ask Standard Issue what goes well with…