(Damn you product pic with text on it which only makes sense on the actual product page!)

This post is about 3 days late because of the London trip but in the interests of trying to make it a regular feature I thought I’d post anyway, that and I always love getting a few streetteam points.

My choice this week is ‘Mr. Toxic Waste‘, and not only because it glows in the dark, which is such a cool idea with this subject matter, but because the design has a wonderful hand drawn quality that is so often lacking in Threadless releases. Although when they do put out tees in this style, I usually like them, so maybe its just a personal thing.

Hey, is it weird that in my weekly Threadless updates I don’t include thumbnails of all the tees, or does me only showing you my favourite give it more value?

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Usually I’m not a fan of splash pages, if I’m going to a site, I’ve already got a pretty good idea of whats going to be there, so I don’t really need a page with some blurb on it and a few pictures enticing me to click through. I just wanna see the goods!

But Antidote have taken another way which is pretty cute, and shows that they care about their customers. On their front page, the first thing most people will see, they have pictures of their customers of the week, which I think is a pretty cool move (although the page could possibly do with the touch of a seasoned web designer). I’ve actually used the ‘myspace angled’ picture of Melissa (the current customer of the week) for todays recommendation.

I don’t always know what to think of Antidote’s drug free/vegan/sXe stance, but I do like some of their designs, especially the ones that allow for open and ambiguous interpretation. That’s one of the main reasons why I like the simplicity of the ‘my actions change the world’, that and the text is in one of my favourite fonts (I think). Simple product, big meaning, attractive girl wearing it, what’s not to like?

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I’ve been called down to London for a little job with my parents’ company so I’m going to be away from the internet for almost 3 days (I actually tensed up just writing that!), which obviously means that there will be no posts furing that time. I’ll be back in the LD on Tuesday so expect normal service to reume on Wednesday. I know, its not exactly the longest time for there to be no posts, but I thought I’d better keep you in the loop.

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I looked in the fruit bowl this afternoon and noticed that we had an abundance of satsumas (well, they might have been mandarins, or perhaps just small oranges, but still, citrus nevertheless), so I ate one and was reminded of just how much I love them, then I got this hoodie linked in an e-mail. Fate.

Yeah, it is a branded/logo hoodie, but since I’ve never really heard of them as a brand before I really looked at it more for the design element rather than the “ooh, Satsuma just released a new line” element. Also, chocolate brown is rapidly becoming one of my favourite colours for a hoodie (it goes with almost all my jeans) and the contrast with the stark orange and white print is really arresting, which I quite like on such a big print. Oh, and the reversed type is pretty funky too.

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Deathhippie is the kind of brand where I really don’t know where I’m meant to start. Usually, I’ll get an e-mail from an up-and-coming artist or brand who make it feel like when you’re writing about them, you’re fighting for the little guy, but when I look at Deathhippie I get transported into a different world of fashion compared to my usual style. And you know what, I kind of like it.

Deathhippie has been seen on Elijah Wood, Tobey Maguire, Jared Leto and Billy Bob Thornton, they launched their line at Tao nightclub in Las Vegas, and they’ve been on numerous hotlists for the past year. And yet, the guy that runs Deathhippie got in touch with me, perhaps he over-estimated just how influential HYA is?

Anyway, I really like what Deathhippie are putting out there. Everything is hand-printed, so no two items are alike, their shirts have complex and rich patterns, with a vintage look so genuine you could easily think that every tee was 25 years old (y’know, in a good way), and I think some of their tees are even printed inside out, the stitching detail adds a certain something. Despite the fact that most of the tees have something going on all over them, they actually seem pretty subtle, there’s not too many in-your-face colour contrasts, although there isn’t very much that’s subtle about gold foil.

As you’d expect, when your clothing attracts the Hollywood A-list, the pricetag is slightly higher than usual. Although, I don’t really think that the price is that high, around $60 isn’t exactly crazy money when you’re dealing with a designer label, and there’s clearly a lot of care going into each garment, so whilst you are paying more than with most tees, you’re getting a pretty special item of clothing at the same time.

Visit Deathhippie.

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In a case very similar to that of Vintage Vantage yesterday, I thought I’d go back to Spraygraphic and see what they’d been up to since I last checked on them. They’ve still got some good designs, including todays recommendation, for which I give you the blurb:

The binary of peace and war is a constant in our society. Our design shows the combination of military images with symbols of peace. Which side of the gun the gun do you prefer?

And if I were a betting man I’d say that their stock hoodie is the california fleece by American Apparel, judging by the shape, cut and because they say pretty much everything but the name of their supplier when describing the softness of their hoodie.

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I first found out about Vintage Vantage a few years ago when I was first getting into buying t-shirts online, they seem to get things just right when going for ‘funny’ in tees. Usually I’m not really a fan of funny tees, largely because they’re only really funny once, your friends see it and you get a laugh, and then it’s just a normal shirt that no ones going to comment on again. But VV are slightly different, I feel as if they treat the jokes equal to the design, and they stick to their guns with their vintage feel.

What I wasn’t aware of was that they were now selling hoodies, hey, maybe they’ve been selling them for ages, but I was just going through my old bookmarks last night and checked up on VV again, and lo and behold, there they were. I’d have to admit that I don’t think their hoodie line-up is as strong their tees, but its pretty hard to design a hoodie that fits in with their vintage ethos than it is for a tee, so I can’t be too harsh.

The front hasn’t exactly got me going crazy, it’s pretty simple, and does look authentically vintage, but the single-colour print on the back is actually really cool. The comicbook-esque image obviously lends itself well to their overall style, so if you’re after a ‘funny’ hoodie thats far less in-your-face than most options, I think you might like this.

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How could I not love this? It’s another of those designs that just grabs me in some way thats hard to describe, which I understand makes me pretty weak as a writer, but sometimes there isn’t really one word to describe how I feel about an item of clothing. If there was then there would be a lot less words on this blog.

2one5 have kind of popped out of nowhere on me, a few weeks ago I had no clue they existed, and now they seem to be on every blog I peruse. It’s cool to see a collective of artists that have a real variety of styles and themes, something which is well reflected in their ever-expanding store. Their latest release is the ‘CMYK Designer Series’, which is an extremely limted run line, and all the items have been individually hand numbered, which is always nice to see. I like the ink splatters and choice of such a bold colourway on this hoodie, it kind of feels like they’ve thrown in some graffiti style, general chaos, and a bit of hip-hop-esque in-your-faceness to finish up with a well-rounded product.

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My mind was made up pretty quickly when I saw this weeks releases*. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a pretty strong crop, but there’s just something about My Playtree that really piques my interest. It’s a multi-functional tee, by which I mean you can where it pretty much anywhere and it suits the occasion, you could wear it shopping, at a bar, at a gig, hanging out with your friends, or at a restaurant (admittedly, not a very fancy restaurant), and it would just feel right somehow, kind of subtle, not screaming “look at my freakin’ awesome tee”. Also, I really think that the hollowed out tree is a great idea for a free-standing book case, expect to see it done on Instructables within the coming months (probably not by me though…).

Oh, and I love the linework too.

*A Bubbly Beginning is really cool too, though…

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Yeah, I mentioned this brand about an hour ago, but sometimes you’ve just got to take a deeper look. I know there’s a lot of people out there who pull out their wallets at the mere mention of a cephalopod, so I thought you’d love this.

The front is pretty plain, with just a little Toke tag on the right kangaroo pocket (it’s a zip-up) to separate it from your standard vanilla hoodie, well, that and what looks like quite a nice cut. The main action on this hoodie is going on around the back. The concept is superb, the one-colour print and style is kind of reminiscent of instructional manuals, and the concept is just executed flawlessly. It would be pretty interesting to see this as a t-shirt, I bet it would do pretty well.

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