From the monthly archives:

August 2007

Spoeke Boy @ Human empire

by Andy on August 31, 2007

spoeke boy web Spoeke Boy @ Human empire

I have no idea what ‘Spoeke’ means in German, but I do like that lovable little smiling ghost.

HE are still doing it old school (well, as old-school as you can be with a website), so you have to e-mail them your order.

Costiness=€49 URL (top right)

*Is there any chance it would just mean ‘spook’?*

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Usually I never write Americanised spellings of words because I believe that its a bastardisation of English, a language that’s a bit of a mongrel to begin with; but since Labor Day is an American thing anyway, I’m going to let it slide just this once.

Yeah, BI are rocking a decent sized sale for the next five days (up until Tuesday Sept. 4th) with quite a few items enjoying 50% off their original prices.

Brooklyn Industries Sale

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 That Girl That Thinks We Dont Have Enough Maps

I can’t bring myself to watch the video of the South Carolina entrant in Miss Teen USA saying something about maps, because it just doesn’t feel right that everyone is poking so much fun at her when presumably she was just a nervous. But still…

This tee is actually pretty well designed, I like the idea, although I have no clue whether Zazzle offer a quality product or not, and I’m sure that within a couple of weeks people will look at this tee and go, “what? oh yeah, her”

Costiness=$19.95 URL

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lacarrera Hasta La Muerte by La Carrera @ Karmaloop

Very interesting graphic, kind of reminds me of a Banksy-esque stencil, except without the obvious political commentary. Blurb!

‘If you’re not first, you might as well be dead! On the front left is La Carrera logo. On the back is a large printing of three cyclists, with the two lagging behind as skeletons. “Hasta La Muerte!” or in other words, “Until Death!”‘

Costiness=$64 URL

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 Starchild at SaltWaterMonkey

SaltWaterMonkey were a brand that I was hoping to mention before I went to Amsterdam, since they’re a Dutch label and I thought it would have been a convenient tie-in, but I guess it doesn’t matter when these brands get shown off as long as they get the attention they deserve eventually.

With a few of their designs, I would have the criticism that the prints are a bit on the small side compared to the tees, but this ‘Starchild’ tee doesn’t suffer from that problem. Using a single colour for the print works really well and sets the mood of the piece, and what a beautiful piece it is, I wouldn’t know whether to wear it or frame it if it were to find its way to HYA HQ (coughcough)!

Luckily for us, like everyone I met in Amsterdam, these guys do sprekt der engels (that could be some waaaay wrong Dutch), and have an English site to compliment their Dutch one.

Costiness=€25 Mens Womens

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mypethuman Threadless Sale: What did you get?

Well, I just put my order in, a ‘Communist Party‘ tee for my brother, and a ‘My Pet Humanhoodie for me. I don’t really know how well ‘My Pet Human’ will work as a hoodie (especially as the print is white on creme), but I do love the image, and I think its about time I got a Threadless hoodie, even though nothing about it is going to surprise me; the stock hoodie is American Apparel, and I’m already well aware of their print quality. The checkout process took a really long time, which is a bit annoying, but hey, I can hardly complain when my order was covered by street team points, thanks a lot guys!

I’ve also noticed that my order number is around 930,000 I wonder if they’re going to celebrate their millionth order is some way?

So, what did you pick up?

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Gone to Newcastle, back soon

August 29, 2007

And when I say back soon, I mean tomorrow. I’m driving my grandparents home (two and a half hours away, how nice am I?) and at the same time I’m going to be taking in the not so glamourous fixture of Newcastle vs Barnsley in the second round of the Carling Cup, still, football is [...]

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The Brick Breaker by LRG @ Karmaloop

August 28, 2007

I like the bricks in this design because they kind of remind me of Tetris, and even though its pretty simple I think that the colours work well. Whilst it isn’t exactly an OMG!1! amazing hoodie, it does have a certain understated quality, especially with the subtle accents like the yellow piping around the hood, [...]

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A is for Ox by Guerilla Pimp Well Made

August 28, 2007

If you get the point of this sweater before you read the blurb then congratulations to you, you are far smarter than I am. “Back in the day the letter A began as a pictogram illustrating the head and horns of an Ox. The Phoenicians wrote right to left writing the A sideways as it [...]

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Cotton Filter: 280807

August 28, 2007

Been a while since we’ve had one of these! Coin Studio – HK based label with some really interesting designs. Old Baby Doll – A streetwear label that is just for women, the pic above is from their range. Yes No Maybe – I think there should be a review of these guys coming up [...]

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‘Robot Attack’ by Legion of Doom @ Design By Humans

August 27, 2007

Now THAT is how you kick off a design competition! 1) Get lots of artists 2) Ask them to each draw a robot 3) Put them all together 4) Use metallic ink accents 5) Get more comments on your submission with the word ‘awesome’ in it than any other design 6) Win $5000. I think [...]

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Yup, $10 sale time

August 27, 2007

I guess the sale came a lot sooner than I expected, since the sale is now upon us. You know the deal, $10 tees (markdowns on other products), long waits for your tees to arrive, and everything selling out fast. So if you want it, get on it. Threadless

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Another Threadless Store Update + $10 sale coming soon

August 27, 2007

I really do write about this thing way more than it deserves, especially as I’ll probably never be a visitor/patron of the store. Still, the latest updates does include a few interesting tidbits: “There will only be 20 designs for sale in the store at any given moment. Each of the 20 designs gets its [...]

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Ten Bills? Not even close!

August 27, 2007

Presumably in a move to shift older stock, Ten Bills are offering some of their tees at the astoundingly low price of $5 a piece, which is so low that it actually tempts me to actually pay for a tee (me? paying? unbelievable!). they’ve also got in some cool logo shaped keychains that are packed [...]

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Review: ‘Goldberg on the High Sea’ by Kindred

August 25, 2007

This tee is good enough, for me, its, good enough, for you, its gooooood enough, for youuuuu… I had to do it, I just had to, and if you don’t know what I’m talking about, well, that’s fair enough, because this tee follows Kindred grand tradition of making tees based upon really oblique movie references [...]

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Bountee knock 50% off!

August 24, 2007

So, I got an e-mail from Bountee (who also rock a * in their name) yesterday that said something along the lines of “you might be interested in this” and then there was a link to their blog. Cool, I thought, they’ve started a blog, I like seeing an insiders perspective on running a t-shirt [...]

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A tee that’s worth $5000 is coming on Monday

August 24, 2007

Design By Humans kicked off their design competition in style with an opening prize of $5000. The winning tee from that particular competition is going to be announced on Monday (August 27th). Expect to see me post about it as soon as I see it. I know its not the biggest news ever, but this [...]

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Hoodie by 667 @ A Better Tomorrow

August 24, 2007

ABTs ‘Cheap Friday’ is a really cool promotion, every Thursday night I get an e-mail alerting me to what product from their inventory will be cheap on Friday, I guess they send out the e-mails on a Thursday because it means the recipient will find the price of the item to be… better tomorrow. Marketing [...]

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Sham Band by Oddica

August 23, 2007

Two, Oddica posts in a week? Yeah, but its hardly my fault since they release such great designs so consistently. Yeah, its a weird design, but, Oddica is the land of Odd, remember? Costiness=$40 URL

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Auto Engine Diagram by Slow Shirts

August 23, 2007

I really dig technical diagram tees like this, and I like the way that Slow Shirts have managed to make it look a lot more human than most technical drawings by using a hand drawn technique. I’m not going to claim that I understand the inner workings of a car engine, but I would presume [...]

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