We’ve received t-shirts packaged in all kinds of funky ways, but we’ve yet to run across one of these. It’s a tag that is actually made of detergent. You throw it in the laundry the first time you wash the shirt. Pretty smart idea. It’s called the Melt Tag, the brain child of Korean designers Lim Jonghoon, Kim Sangbyum, Ahn Junseop, and Park Yuna – and it won something called the Red Dot Award. Functional and waste free. (via Consume Less)

Thanks to all the shirt connoisseurs and designers who have filled our Ning gallery with interesting stuff. We about to break the 400 tee mark, who want to do it? Head over to check out the gallery. Join and post up your favorites.

I always like hearing about online stores that manage to get big enough that they can set up traditional brick and mortar stores. Inspiration for the budding entrepreneurs toiling away online. Online clothing retailer Yackfou will be opening a retail store in Berlin on July 5th. The press release says they’re running a special on opening day – 50% off. I’m not clear whether that’s online ‘in-store’ or online as well, but seems like more than a good enough reason to check out there stuff.

A few good summer sales underway. One from Cotton Werks who’s featuring tees for just 8 bucks and the other from the ever popular Busted Tees. Cotton Werks is blowing out inventory, so the sale may last, but the Busted sales is a day only – TODAY. $13 for any tee.

Hey, word to any of our RSS readers. You probably found a butt load of drug and/or porn links filling your feed over the last couple weeks. Sorry about that. Seems the TSW headquarters suffered a security breach. Damn hackers. And big thanks to reader J. for the heads up.

Few picks for today you should give a look. From the top:

Dead Metal Clothing – The name itself tells the story pretty well. Wicked illustrations and no shortage of cranial containers.

Split Reason – Random tee from a batch of new stuff from Split Reason. Always something to address our inner geek.

Hans and Fras – Newly launched, these guys are printing all of their stock by hand.

Human Giant Threadless Contest – Collaborative contest tee designers should not pass up. Deadline is April 15th.

We’ve brought back our 125×125 ad units. If you’re a shop owner and would be interested in advertising on the site drop us a line at advertising @ tshirtwatch.com. We’re offering a second month at half price for the first four buyers.