by Andy on September 13, 2007
I’ve noticed that there’s a lot of tee’s that are robot based on the internet, designers must like drawing robots, presumably people must like drawing tees with robots on. So for little reason other than being bored and having way too much time on my hands, I decided to compile a list of them.
Since this list is quite long, I’ve put it behind a break so that the front page of the blog maintains some kind of normalcy.
*Update* If you’re on the hunt for long lists of t-shirts, there is a newer list of 101 Robot t-shirts that I wrote in June 2009. If you’re not entirely robot obsessed please check out this huge collection of t-shirt lists (from lots of different sites, not just this one), or the lists category. Also, if you enjoyed this post, it would be very much appreciated it if you mentioned it on twitter, facebook, or another other form of social media like digg, stumbleupon or delicious.
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by Andy on September 13, 2007
Here’s a quick update on the latest releases 2one5, my favourite Philly based artist collective.. I think this news is an exclusively available from HYA*, so you literally did hear it here first.
They’ve launched their ‘peace’ collection with a couple of limited edition tees, including the one above this sentence. The peace collection can be found here.
They’ve also got some snowboards on pre-order. I was a bit of a failure last time I ventured onto the slopes (looked good though!), so I wouldn’t ever make real use of it, but I would love to have one mounted on my wall. Maybe the snowboard will be the latest meme for artists wanting something a bit bigger than a skateboard deck to paint on? You can find the snowboards here.
by Andy on September 13, 2007
Hold up, is this a tee company that’s actually had an original idea? I think it might just be!
The idea, I think, is that you buy a used t-shirt with has a bit of history attached to it. Basically, someone writes a story about their tee, if you like the tee and buy it, you receive the tee and it has a number attached you use to log into the site and record another story about that tee. If you become bored of the tee then you can donate it back to Re-shirt and the cycle will continue again. Personally, I think that buying used tees is a little bit odd unless they’re genuinely vintage tees, no matter what story is attached to the garment, and in that way I like Re-shirt more as a concept than as an actual service. But that said, I do like it, its surprising to see innovation within the t-shirt world, though I guess we can expecit this kind of thing in an age when we should all be more environmentally aware of the impact of products that we use. On their site they claim that every tee takes around 10,000 litres of water to create, I’ve heard varying figures including 2,000 litres (as seen on page 7 of this pdf link), but either way it takes a lot of water to create a tee, and often the chemicals involved are harmful to the planet.
I’m quite surprised that you don’t get some kind of credit for sending them a tee, it would probably encourage more brand loyalty whilst helping them to create a community around their t-shirts.
But most importantly, they do have some cool looking tees.
Re-shirt.net
by Andy on September 13, 2007
As I’m sure you know, there’s only six days until International Talk Like A Pirate Day (September 19th for those reading this in a very different timezone), so if you aren’t going to go the whole hog and dress up like Jack Sparrow, you can probably still have this sweatshirt at your door in time to get in on the pirate fun.
Costiness=$41 (possibly Canadian dollars) URL
