I’m off down south for the weekend, partly to be a tourist, and partly to go see one of the biggest bands in the UK, Muse (as well as My Chemical Romance), at the new Wembley. Yep, I’m going to walk onto the pitch at Wembley, I’m actually going to live out part of many kids dreams.

I’m away until late on Monday night and won’t have any internet or e-mail access, but I’ve write up a review that will be auto-posted (hopefully!) on Monday, so please check back to see that.

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Time to take a look at the ‘mega’ version of the previously reviewed calculator watch micro tee. PDC are sticking to their tried, tested & trusted style of retro consumerism, except this time its been planted onto a loud and proud colourway of orange print on a yellow-tinged cream tee.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I love their big prints, they dominate the tee and that’s the way it should be, especially when you’re using a one colour print such as this. A comment on the previous micro version of this tee said that “there’s more nerdlingery going on in this tee than just the Casio calculator watch… check out the time displayed.” I don’t really know the nerdiness of the time (forgive me!), but my very best googling did turn up a couple of lines from the bible, I wonder if that’s what Joe meant?

I’m almost getting bored of saying this by now, since I know it and you know it, but the quality of Public Domains tees and printing is absolutely top-notch. The cut is similar to American Apparel, except slightly shorter and a little bit more stretchy.

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I’m sure there’s a term for the art of giving a face to inanimate objects, and I should probably learn what that term is, because there are sooo many tees and hoodies out there in utilising whatever it is you would call that style. Usually, a tee that has some kind of political, social or environmental message isn’t that well designed, its often a case of substance over style, so its great to see that Allmightys used their design competition to get some well designed tees out there on the theme of ‘Mother Nature’, and they’re giving €1 to Friends of the Earth with the sale of every tee too.

Allmightys are pretty new to the increasingly crowded design competition scene, but I think they’re a pretty welcome arrival because they’ve actually got a decent roster of artists (I guess they set themselves apart by being quite picky about their artists) who are putting out some good looking designs, and if it looks good then I don’t think it would be fair to complain just because they’re another design competition style company.

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Designgive are a company that I just can’t help but love, they have quality designs, their clothes are cheap, and they still manage to give away a portion of each sale to charity, and the customer even gets to choose where that charitable contribution goes to!

I think they manage to keep their costs down by having a set amount of time in which a design can be pre-ordered, and when that period has ended they print up the orders and ship them out, meaning there’s little-to-no spare stock that they’ve wasted money on. This process also helps to keep designs limited edition, which I’m sure will appeal to a lot of people.

I picked this design because it has a cute/ridiculous style to it, and I really like the way that the colours work together.

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