With all the busyness leading to the holiday season, we almost forgot the site became 1 year old! We made the site public at the end of November 2007. A lot of things have happened since: our 70 designs are double what we started with, we have a blog we like and we introduced the 20% “T-shirt of the Week” discount.

Happy birthday little site! We hope you grow to be a lovely big one!

Aris & Kathryn

The travel industry has never seen this kind of discount. No, we are not discounting tickets. Why buy a train ticket when you can have your very own steam locomotive for 20% off the regular price? Get on board and choo-choo-choose this.

Feeling like a cargo train trying to get presents for everyone this holiday season? We know what you mean. Introducing the Steam Locomotive to help you power through that shopping maybe not faster, but more loudly, with more style and with more bells and whistles. Think of it as a little reminder to let out some steam every once in a while.

Available now in the ALBINO on-line shop.

Our collection just got a whole lot more dangerous with the addition of Kathryn’s new design “Sharks“. These three guys seem to be circling our shirts and they have an enormous appetite for colour. Any colour markers we put near them they devoured in a frenzy! Thankfully, when Kathryn designed them, she also devised a colection of colour schemes to help with their peculiar diet.

Available now in the ALBINO on-line shop.

Snap-snap! Big pinchers, strong armour. If the lobster joinned the Navy he would have been promoted to armoured submarine in an instant. Insted he chooses to linger on the seabed picking fights with other lobsters. He can sit on your chest and let you colour him in while he fends off anyone who tries to pick a fight with you! This week only you can get him for 20% less protection money than normal.

Lost At E Minor showcases the work of some very interesting artists. It is filled with inspirational pop-culture illustrations, photographs, music, design, products and more. We have been subscribers to their e-mail newsletter for a long time now and you can imagine our excitement when our very own Fly T-shirt showed up amongst their posts with some very good words attached! Kathryn shared this fact with me in a very excited manner at midday Australian time but we live in Greece which made it four o’clock in the morning!

Here’s a quote from them: “These t-shirts by Greek company Albino are colourinable, so kids can add their own little splashes of colour and then cruise the streets with their own artwork emblazoned proudly across their chests.” Some content in the following link might be rated M15+ for mature audiences so make sure you are over 15 before clicking: Read more at Lost At E Minor…

Lost At E Minor is one online publication I do not mind missing some sleep over. Thanks guys!

There are some design blogs we love to read everyday and swissmiss is one of our most favourite. She has her own design studio in NYC and she likes to cover design in a very diverse way. According to Home Rejuvination, her blog is one of the 10 most influential design blogs of 2008.

Well, she just wrote a post about our ALBINO shirts and put us in her kids’ gift guide, yeay! From all our publicity shots, she decided on the master of colour himself: the Chameleon. Nice choice.

Thank you swissmiss!

He is one of our publicity stars appearing in our press photos and our frontpage animation. He always wanted to be your friend anyway but now the priviledge will cost you 20% less than normal. Yes, the Basset Hound is our new T-shirt of the week. Woof woof!

The two T-shirts unboxed and their markers before colouring in.

The owl butterfly partially coloured in. Notice the instruction booklet to the side. You can see the completed practice sheets. Also notice how little she has to hold down the shirt thanks to our unique fabric stabilizing method.

And our sinister frog is looking positively green!

The girls did a great job colouring-in the shirts. We hope their little cousins will like them.

Thanks Colette! Fantastic pictures, great post!

Apart from her great blog, Sew Tessuti, Colette and her husband Greg also own Tessuti fabrics. Tessuti sells designer fabrics collected from all over the world … and beautiful they are. They have several stores in Sydney but if you can’t get to one then visit their online shop.

Exciting stuff people! Style magazine from Australia has briefly mentioned our product in their “Baby style” section. We really love this because this magazine goes out to women and mothers in country NSW. From the horse’s mouth:

“Indulge your child’s inner fashion designer with these super cute Albino colourinable t-shirts. A rewarding and creative project, the t-shirts come in a variety of designs and you can purchase different coloured markers to create the ultimate fashion statement! www.myalbino .com”

Thanks Jacqui!

From http://www.stylemagazine.net.au: style is the essential lifestyle guide for women in country NSW – a bimonthly glossy magazine focusing on people and events, beauty and fashion, homes and gardens, food and wine, as well as travel and leisure.

All the way from Down-Under, also known as Australia, these two sisters sent us photos of themselves wearing their finished ALBINO T-shirts. Alexandra coloured-in the very very tall Giraffe and Anastasia did the Beaked Coralfish which she also signed with her name. Very cleanly done, great job girls!

Before

After

The little shirts in the front page animation were starting to get a little tired from scrolling across the screen day after day. We thought they deserved a break. Their replacements do not just scroll, they are very talkative and will try to explain to you what ALBINO T-shirts are. Five different animals introduce the product: the Chameleon, the Clowfish, the Octopus, the Basset hound and the Fly.

We even made the captions stay up just a little longer so our younger visitors can read them too!

Hello again!

We recently moved myalbino.com to a new web hosting company. For some days during the migration the site was completely down but we now fixed that … mostly that is. As I am writing this, our cart page is not available due to a technical issue. This means you can browse through our entire collection, see all the information available and read our blog but you cannot purchase what you add to your cart. We have someone looking at it though.

The upside of the migration is that now our site loads quite a bit faster and that overall it feels snappier. We hoped that would happen so we are very happy about that.

The cart should again be fully functional within 24 hours. We will post any updates here.

Regards,
Aris

It also goes by the name of “blowfish”, “balloonfish” and “globefish”. We prefer to think of it as the aquatic brother of the Porcupine. Anyway you want to call it, it is now priced at 20% off, all week, this week.

Dimitra colouring-in her ladybug. She is laying down the lighter colours first to avoid smudging.

Wow! Dimitra looks great in her ALBINO ladybug!

Elena has chosen a lovely palette of pinks and brown for her kitten. I wonder, will it look good?

Great eye for colour Elena! Bravo! It looks terrific.

What would you say to 20% off the regular price?

Starting today, we will be nominating one design as the “T-Shirt of the Week” each week. The design will be 20% off the RRP. It will be easy to spot in the shop or in your cart because it will be featuring the golden star.

We thought this would be a nice way to try out ALBINO.

Our first “T-Shirt of the Week” is the Chameleon.