Design By Humans got a new look recently and I think it’s an improvement on the old look, I haven’t had a proper poke around yet but on the face of it everything seems to make a lot more sense. Everything is laid out simply and you can get to where you want to be within one-click, and you know exactly what is going on with DBH from that one page, which is good for a company wanting to grow. I know the old site wasn’t exactly confusing, but this new version looks extremely fresh, and its clear that a lot of thought has gone into the layout. I like how they’ve made the t-shirt of the day the main focus when you load the front-page, with the older tees lined up below. It’s also cool how they tell you what special printing options there are on the tee in its blurb (like embroidery or the kind of ink used).

The page is finish off with three columns at the bottom. From left to right; there’s a pane that explains their design competition, a pane of top 5 selling tees (unsurprisingly Robot Attack! heads that list), and a top 5 of popular submissions. Whilst that last pane does show off the design talents of the DBH submission community, I do think that design competitions like this should be totally democratic, and putting 5 submissions on the front page seems to give them an advantage over others, I guess they’ve got to be good designs to get on there in the first place, but something seems a little off about it.

All in all, I give it a thumbs up.

Design By Humans [via Fantastic Blognanza]

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I knew it! I knew I’d be able to cram Halo 3 into my posts this week!

HYA’s copy of H3 is on pre-order so I guess it won’t be turning up tomorrow on the European release date, so we’ll have to wait a while before you all kick my ass on multiplayer, but thanks to Toby at Public Domain I can capitalise on the Halo mania and show you pictures of quite possibly the whitest teeth in Hollywood. Seriously, Zac Efron must spend more time in front of the mirror than… a mirror salesman, who buys his suits at the toilet store.

Anyway, Zac Efron was spotted at a Halo 3 launch event wearing a tee by Public Domain that still isn’t available on their site, but I thought it was worth a mention since I reviewed the tee a few months ago. Fans of PDC should keep their eyes out for their designs in the massively-hyped Chuck on NBC.

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Damn you IT Crowd! Hunting down tees was easy when he was only wearing one or two a week, but then they had to go and through me a curve ball (although, they are in the IT department, so the throw might not have reached) and make Roy wear 7 tees. One of them was totally covered by a track jacket so I’m not attempting to find it or even putting up a picture here, because that would just be silly.

1. A fairly appropriate design considering had just come back from a stag weekend and by the looks of it was fairly hungover. Available from J!NX from $14.95 URL

2. My prediction last week was spot on, and Insanely Great Tees popped up again with another Mac-referencing tee. $17 URL

3.Roy also appeared wearing a 2nd shirt from Bestario, a Spreadshirt shop of human animal hybrids. I can’t actually see the colourway on their site, but there is a grey version available. The Spreadblog has coverage of Bestario’s first outing on the premiere episode of this season. €25 URL

4. I’ve got no idea where this tee comes from, which is a pity because the camera design actually looks pretty cool. Leave a comment if you have any thoughts where it might be from, or even what kind of camera it might be since it looks fairly unusual in shape and maybe knowing the model would lead to the tee. No Star have a tee with a camera on it that looks nothing like the one above, but it’s a pretty nice design.

5. No idea where this one comes from either I’m afraid. It appears to be a dark blue or maybe black tee with a rounded orange television set on it, the kind with two antennae sticking out the top. Any ideas? Comment away.

6. This tee is all about the Aqua Teen Hunger Force promo campaign that got the wrong kind of reaction in Boston, a reaction of “OMG its bomb!” not, “oh look, a circuit board with some LEDs on it that look like a character from a cartoon show flipping the bird.” Disappointingly, I can’t find this exact shirt, I can find loads of other that have the same image, but none in that exact colourway and with just ‘Never Forget’ written underneath as most have the date instead, or the date above the image. So here’s a few different tee’s that are pretty similar to the one Roy’s wearing, feel free to add any you know in the comments: Threadpit, Raplica, Lucky Threadz.

There’s a surprisingly large amount of artwork on the walls of the IT Department at Renham Industries (its not all EFF material), and I noticed that one of the pieces was Bunnies Fall by Kozyndan, which is available as a poster for the very reasonable sum of $15, here.

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It’s been a while since I checked in with Faveur Clothing, and when I saw their latest newsletter in my Gmail I was pretty impressed with their new designs, and this ‘Gabriel’ hoodie is from their latest crop.

It’s a pity I can’t make out what any of the word coming out of the trumpet (trumpet, yeah?) are, because that looks like a pretty cool idea, and they seem to have done a good job in crossing over the zipper, which can be troublesome to some designs.

Costiness=$42 URL

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This vid is doing the rounds today, and I’m a big fan of stop motion video (here’s one of my own efforts) so I got a kick out of this. It’s a pretty odd way to promote a sandwich chain though.

Ebert & Gerbert’ Human Flipbook [via NotCot]

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CH two days in a row? I really am spoiling you!

Really nice one colour design, I love seeing green on white, it just feels like a really fresh combo, and JuJu Delivery (which is an odd name for an artists) has an almost effortless style to her graphics that really appeals to me.

Costiness=£20 URL

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Click through. Now. You need to see the detailed view of this tee for it to really make sense. The concept is what draws you in, but the execution is what would actually make you want to buy it. Oh, and I love that in their blurb for the artist (Marc Atlan) they name drop “Tom Ford, Oliver Stone, Andree Putman, Philippe Starck, Helmut Lang and James Perse” and then finish off the mini-bio by saying that Marc “doesn’t like name dropping.” I’m going to give Poketo the benefit of the doubt here and believe that they know what irony is.

Costiness=$28 URL (and for the ladies)

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Beautiful/Decay have redesigned their site, it looks good, although not really in the style that I would expect from them.

One cool little feature that they’ve introduced is the ‘public feed’, that’s the box on the left there, where you can post your own topics/links and they get displayed on the front page. That sounds like it might become like a bit of a mouthpiece for press releases, though I’d presume that B/D would keep a pretty close eye on it to ensure things don’t get too spammy.

Oh, and $20 for a US subscription, bargain! Although the $70 Worldwide option isn’t quite as appealing, but I guess that posting a magazine ain’t cheap.

If you would like to read about all the cool new stuff that they’ve done just click through to read the press release.

Beautiful Decay

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This design is probably a bit too busy for my liking, but I’ve got to admire them for the idea, and I really like the way that the outside and inside contrast on the hood. Actually, I just straight up like the inside pattern, although I couldn’t see myself wearing this on the reverse, although there’s no mention on the blurb about it being reversible so maybe that isn’t even an intention of Village Hill’s.

Costiness=$110 URL

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Okay, so it hasn’t had as much buzz as the Threadless opening, but I’m really happy that Concrete Hermit have managed to get past the myriad of obstacles that have stood in the way of them opening their store and are well on their way to having their first show there (which might already be happening, I need to check). So if you’re in London for design week or just feel like checking out a cool store, head on over and say hello, tell ‘em Andy from Hide Your Arms sent you, you’ll probably get bemused stares.

Here’s the address:
5a Club Row,
London,
E1 6JX
United Kingdom
And here’s a google map if you want some directions: Map.

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