Enlighten me, what’s this printing technique called? The reason why I like this hoodie is because of the way that the buildings in the cityscape aren’t printed, but for the life of me I simply cannot remember what the style is called, and I wouldn’t even know where to begin with keywords for it on google.

There’s also some interesting two tone printing on the inside of the hood (click through for a pic), I can’t decide if they’re anything more than just lines, but they do look like they might be tiny bits of text.

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Oddica: Happy 1st birthday to Oddica. I’m really glad that these guys have made it through their first year and are still impressing me as much as on day one.

Beautiful Decay: Sasha from B/D e-mailed me about their four latest designs (I must be moving up in the world if B/D are e-mailing me). Naturally, they’re all fantastic, but I think that ‘lung music‘ might be a particular favourite of mine.

Gen Art Pulse’s Free T-Shirt Tuesdays: Cool little project these guys have got going on, I’ll let them explain: “we interview an emerging indie t-shirt designer and give away one of their tees to a reader.” Awesome!

Ironic Corporation: Have some blurb: “We’re a small business based in Boulder, Colorado and our company is the culmination of years of blood, sweat, and tears. I’m a writer and photographer and we put a lot of effort into the writing and images on our site and I think they turned out pretty cool. We have some unique product ideas and my favorite is what we call the “Freedom of Speech Bubble”: Essentially, it’s a shirt with an head of Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Tom Cruise, or Paris Hilton with a blank speech bubble where the customer can write their own saying with iron-on letters or erasable markers. We also have a pretty cool contest associated with the Freedom of Speech Bubble concept where people send us their ideas for shirts andwe mail our 3 favorite submissions a free shirt every week.” I really dig the speech bubble idea, I don’t know how original it is, but I can imagine it being pretty popular.

Glass Boutique: They’ve got some great designs from brands I’ve never seen before, and whilst the price range might be a bit high-end for most Americans, their special section is pretty affordable.

Akomplice: If any of you happen to be in Los Angeles on May 22nd head on down to Akomplice’s release party for their latest line. I’d be there, but the HYA jet is out of gas…

The deets:
“Free 21+ Akomplice Summer Release Party
Special performance by Talib Kweli.
THIS TUESDAY May 22nd at Club Element
(1642 N. Las Palmas, Los Angeles, CA 90028 |
www.elementhollywood.com)

1. Large media presence: MTV, E!, 944, Vapors,
Entertainment Weekly, Urb, etc.
2. Purple carpet with step and repeat.
3. Talib Kweli performance + surprise guest.
4. Fashion show with sexy girls only wearing t-shirts and
sneakers.
5. Free give-aways.
6. DJ Vice.
7. On the spot custom sneakers.”

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