Owl Movement have really carved out a niche for themselves, a niche that I like to think of as “great looking tees”, and series 6 is keeps that grand tradition going strong. The ‘Up Up Up’ design that I’ve picked out today is probably my favourite of the bunch, when I saw the thumbnail I thought it looked pretty good, but then I saw the size and placement on the shirt and it looked even better, letting the clouds go all the way up to the shoulders works really well.

(Oh, and its been raining on and off here for a few days now, summer if over, no matter what they hope)

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I guess that running a t-shirt design competition must be pretty infectious, because it almost feels like everyone’s doing it. Karmaloop have just thrown their hat into the ring, here’s the deets:

Grand Prize winner will receive $2,000 in cold hard cash and $1,000 in gift certificate for use at Karmaloop.com, 5 free t-shirts printed with their winning design, and the opportunity to have their credited design sold on Karmaloop.

5 Runners-up will receive $200 in cash and $300 in gift certificates for us at Karmaloop.com, 2 free t-shirts printed with their winning design and the opportunity to have their credited design sold on Karmaloop.

All winning designs will be printed and sold on Karmaloop!

Take a look at the current entrants and rate them here, and if you want a chance at getting your hands on the cash, check out this signup page.

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I like this tee, I’d be happy to wear it (happy feels like the wrong word when it comes to tees with skulls on them), but there’s something about looking at it that makes me feel as if Ghostly International aren’t doing their best to get the most out of the design, it just feels kind of boring, but like I said, it is a pretty cool design.

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I was working my way through my RSS feeds last night when there was a familiar face (well, mustache) on an unexpected source. The Karmaloop product feed. Jason Lee, who I don’t think most people would describe as ‘conventionally beautiful’, was modelling WeSC hoodies. I don’t think that they actually picked the best of the WeSC range, but if I get an opportunity to put Earl on my blog then I’ll grab it with both hands!

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Is WeSC really only 8 years old? They seem to have gotten huge in a pretty short space of time.
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I know no ones gonna believe that I found this on my own since a link to the same store turned up in the comments for yesterday’s webcomic tees post. But I promise I did, really, really!!!

Even though when I look at Alberto Gonzales I’m more reminded of a turtle/beaver hybrid than an elephant, an elephant is a natural choice for the design, and the design truly does tickle me something fierce, the style really hits the spot for conveying the comedic value for a man that just happens to remember nothing that could possibly be incriminating about his tenure as Attorney General.

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[I would like to think that if I'd actually tried hard to make a comic it wouldn't have looked as lame]

Y’know who’s pretty good at designing tees that are actually funny. Webcomic writers. It shouldn’t be surprising, and yet, here I am, a bit surprised. Crafting a tee that’s funny is a pretty tough business, there’s lots of ‘funny’ tees out there that simply don’t cut the mustard (what on earth does ‘cut the mustard’ even mean? Oh), so it makes perfect sense that sense that in my quest to find tees that both looked good and made me laugh I would hunt out people that draw and write things with the intention of making people laugh for a living. But I think that sells these writers short a bit too, since I’m also going to show you some designs that are plain old good, without the funny.

Since I don’t actually read all that many webcomics, I’ve used Cracked.com’s list of ‘The 8 Funniest Webcomics,’ and whilst I doubt that it’s all that conclusive and accurate of a list, they seemed pretty good to me, I’ve also picked some tees from my favourite webcomics. If you have any favourites that you think I’ve missed, feel free to leave a comment.

1. Penny Arcade - See, webcomic tees aren’t all about in-jokes! $17.99 Link

2. Dinosaur Comics - Who would’ve thought that a webcomic that uses about 5 different images for all of its’ stories wouldn’t have beautifully illustrated tees? $21 Link

3. Cat and Girl - Apparently this tee says “Chinese is not my native language,” but the description adds the caveat “more or less,” I might be paranoid, but I’d get that checked independently before wearing this… $19 Link

4. Overcompensating - One of my favourite items to read on a weekday (I started out with Jeffrey’s other comic, Wigu, but moved over to this), and one of my favourite tees from a webcomic. $18.99 Link

5. Achewood - I’ve only just started reading Achewood, so I have no idea what this tee means, and part of me knows that if I ever find out then I’ll no longer find it funny. $18 Link

6. White Ninja Comics - The internet clearly has some sort of obsession with ninja’s and I’m not going to stand in the way of that spilling over into the world of t-shirts. $18.50 Link

7. Diesel Sweeties - It’s so hard to choose from their range, they’ve got so many great designs, but I really like the idea of a tee that only shows a message when it’s night time (it’s just a white heart during the daytime). $18 Link

8. XKCD - I would like to shake the hand of a person that wore this to church. $14.99 Link

9. A Softer World - Zombies are far more likely to attack at night, since that’s scarier, so it’s a good thing this tee glows in the dark. $20 Link

10. The Perry Bible Fellowship - If you’re a guy, you’re far braver than me if you’re wearing a pink tee with a rainbow and a unicorn on it, or maybe I live in an intolerant rural area, who knows? $20 Link

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Wrongwroks have released their fall collection of tees, and in keeping with what seems to be a theme of theirs, all the designs are on white. There’s a couple of pieces that I think really stand out from the range.

Whilst I’m sure that it won’t be long before the lawyers coming knocking on their door, this tee is pretty freakin’ cool, and the tear idea is really well executed, sure, it doesn’t look as if there’s actually a tear in the material, but that’s probably half the point.

I guess I’m really into torn up looking designs today because the second tee I’ve picked follows a pretty similar idea, but this time does it in a fashion that I feel is kind of like when two posters get put on top of each other for advertising, and then one gets ripped for some reason. Wrongwroks have picked two great iconic pop culture images here and the tee works really well.

Both tees are priced at $35 and are available from the ‘Stuff’ section (they’re near the bottom of the thumbnails) of the Wrongwroks site.

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As if I needed further proof that I need to get out of the Lake District (I’m already pissed that I’m missing 100% Design down in London) I’ve found out about this cool looking ‘Fashion Shopping Event’ called Threadshow that’s going on in San Fransisco at the weekend. Lots of great brands are going to be there, so if you can make it then I would predict that it’ll be a lot of fun.

Here’s the link with all the details you need.

[thanks to Karl for making me jealous]

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I l-o-v-e the dedication to hand-drawn style in this tee, it looks like it came straight out of a school notebook. It’s also good to see Monstar dropping their skully logo into all their designs and keeping it all contextual, they’ve kind of got a Johnny Cupcakes thing going on in that respect.

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Here’s something curious, GorillaTank price everything up in pounds, yet my package came from The Netherlands, where you’d usually expect them to work in Euro’s, since that’s their currency and all. I guess that doesn’t really matter since my package turned up in a reasonable time and that’s the main issue that concerns people when they’re ordering clothing (and pretty much everything else) off the internet.

Peanut butter and jelly isn’t really a popular sandwich combo here in England, I actually brought the subject up in the pub tonight, and naturally, one of the people I was with immediately said that they ate them, which was a bit of a bitch-slap to my beliefs, but I guess it does mean that Gorilla Tank are targeting some niche markets in the UK! The design is really well done, all the elements are balanced out together, the little splatters that are off the bread add a certain something that suggests that they care as much about the design as the idea behind it. Another great touch is the way that they’ve not printed the edges and corners of the bread so that the brown of the tee and shows through to create the 3D look. If I was going to gripe about one thing though, it is quite hard to make out the faces of the savoury sumo characters, maybe a bit more contrast on the eyes, nose and lips? Although then they’d need to print an extra colour and that would probably be troublesome.

In quality terms, I’m impressed. They’re rockin’ a standard American Apparel tee. The print quality is impressive too, it feels like its gonna last.

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