Chimpogo is a community-driven, competition-based tee shirt brand coming out straight from London, UK (although it's actually founded by a couple of New Zealanders). Chimpogo runs an ongoing T-shirt design contest with open call for submissions. These designs are then selected from the most popular designs as scored by the community.
If a design is selected for print by Chimpogo the designer receives a payment £500 in cash. All designs are printed in guy's versions (American Apparel's Fine Jersey) and women's (AA Sheer Jersey) and retail at 21£ (approximately 32 US$ or 23 Euros).
Not a new business model indeed, but I'm not sure if British have one -- if true, that would be a serious problem. I remember UK-based ongoing tee competition called Split the Atom, but the url doesn't work -- let me know if you can access the website. Across the Europe, there are similar community-based brands like LaFraise, Mr Poulet and Look Zippy (France), TeeTonic (Scotland) and A Better Tomorrow and Allmightys(Germany)
These are some already-printed T-shirts as voted by Chimpogo community. Sorry, but I would totally disagree if you call these tees ugly.
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Sorry for the geography lesson being Scottish means it is also British making TeeTonic another British site with the Threadless model. There are also Bang Bang T-Shirts and Fair and Bare T-Shirts.
http://www.bangbangt-shirts.com/
http://www.fairandbare.com/
d'uh, my poor geography knowledge!
Anyway, I consider Bang Bang T-Shirts and Fair and Bare still relatively new with small number of submissions to be voted.
TeeTonic, too, has been very slow updating the website with new designs and competition winners.
British (Scottish included) need a fresh blood for Threadless model!
I agree. I'm not all that impressed by Chimpogo either. Hopefully one (or all) be able to attract better designers and more customers to support them.
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