Even though ‘The Chaser’s War on Everything’ is an Australian show and has a lot of Aussie-centric content, I still really like it, although for some reason I often find myself wanting to see the “Hey you, person I just freaked out, you’re on TV!” bits of their skits that are the premise of so many candid camera TV shows that I don’t enjoy (I found myself watching India’s #1 candid camera show today… terrible!). I also think its interesting that the cast, who do some pretty shameful stuff, can still have more credibility than most of the people that they’re lampooning.

One of the guys on the show (Craig Reaucassel) has a bit of a habit of wearing some pretty cool tees, and like a man with cotton-based OCD I found myself compelled to find them. Luckily, both of the ones I recognised turned up at Defunker, possibly the most sober of the CollegeHumor frathouse of sites (or Connected Ventures if you want to ruin my fun analogy). If anyone could tip me off to the original creators of the tees then I’d appreciate it since I don’t think these are in-house designs.

Mow’em Down (the top picture): $26 Link

Broke (lower picture): $20 Link

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Olli Rudi stries again, that man is unstoppable!

I’m a fan of his designs, but this tee feels like it’s missing something. I guess that the angel/devil on shoulders concept will never truly to executed perfectly since you can’t get the characters to stand up in a way that feels right in your mind, so you always have to compromise at some point. But to be fair, this is probably as good as you’re going to get.

Costiness=$20.95 ($40.95 for a hoodie) Link (get 10% off your order with the coupon code NoiseBotLovesMe)

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With a name like ‘The Love Movement’, I figured they must be a bunch of hippies, so immediately I was wary of them (damned hippies…), but then I took a look at what they were all about and was into their cause, even if they go around the mountain a bit to tell you what it is:

with love as the backbone and social awareness as the neckbone, art and design take over as the weapon of choice dropping bits and pieces of objects in the community that beautifies and educates, and idea truly worth emulating

Whenever I watch protest marches on TV I’m always a little bit annoyed that there’s no one in the crowd wearing clothing that gets the message across whilst actually looking good, I know that’s hardly the point of a march, but that’s just the kind of guy I am. With that in mind, it’s really good to see that The Love Movement have teamed up with Ropeadope to create a great looking range of tees that promote their causes.

Check out the range at Ropeadope.

(You guys know that the hippy thing is a joke, right?)

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This isn’t really just a tee. To the casual observer, yes, it is a tee, but to me its so much more. I’m usually quite detached from the t-shirt creation process, but with this design I know pretty much everything that I could possibly know about it, I feel like I truly understand what went into this design, and because of that I like it a lot more. Fantastic Bonanza have written a series of blog posts titled ‘The Birth of a T-Shirt‘, a seven part series taking this tee from a thought in their heads to a tee in their store. Its very interesting to hear about the process of how this design came to be, reading about the nuts and bolts as opposed to the lofty aims and mission statements that I usually read.

The colourway is what grabs me first with this design, I have no idea how so many strong colours can be so well balanced, in my head the palette makes no sense, and yet, it just feels right. Fantastical images like this might not necessarily be everyone’s bag, y’know, I can accept that there are people out there who might not actually be interested in buying a t-shirt with some kind of radioactive mutant octopus tree on it. Yeah, it sounds crazy doesn’t it?

Let’s talk quality. I know that the FB boys had quite a bit of trouble getting their printers to match up to their needs, but I’m glad to see that those problems appear to be long gone. The colours are bright and vibrant, which really lends to the nature of the design, and I really like the way that the items in the ground aren’t actually printed (you can see it better in the close-ups), I call this ‘negative printing’, which probably isn’t a real term, but I do think it’s a good way of adding an extra bit of texture to the design. Continental Clothing are the suppliers of the stock tee, a brand that I’m seeing used more and more and offer an impressive level of feel and quality.

This tee is just one of four new designs from FB that represent a new direction compared to their previous releases, be sure to check them out as well.

Costiness=$24 Link

(get 15% off your order with the coupin code HYA)

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