After seeing rather a lot of sub-par t-shirt videos being posted to YouTube (and therefore my new baby, TeeBurst), I felt that I needed to raise my spirits by finding some videos that were actually worth a few minutes of your time.

1. Justice - D.A.N.C.E: I thought I’d kick off the list with one of my favourite French DJ duos of the moment, Justice, and their amazing music video for D.A.N.C.E which features loads of clever CGI’d tees. I’m amazed that no one has ever released these designs as I’m sure they’d be popular with more than just fans of Justice.
2. The Most T-shirts Ever Worn At Once: There are two videos on YouTube claiming to hold the record for most t-shirts ever worn, one posted by an American radio station, and this one posted by the Guinness Book of World Records… I know who I’m going with (that and the 155 tees to 244 tees discrepancy).
3. How To Fold A T-Shirt: I think this video is proof that I am so manly, I actually need to watch a video to teach me how to fold a shirt! In reality I actually watched it several times before nailing the technique completely, and it has turned into a great space saver for my ever-growing collection of t-shirts.
4. How to Screenprint T-Shirts by Make Magazine: There are lots of tutorials out there showing you how to make your own t-shirts, but Make’s video (with some help from Etsy) is a bit more professional than most out there.
5. How To Stencil Your Own T-Shirts: If you want to design your own tees but aren’t ready to take the leap into screenprinting, the Threadbanger crew have you well covered with this great instructional video about how to stencil your own t-shirts.
6. The human flipbook: Already HYA featured, but still worth another viewing. How this is promotion for a sandwich shop I don’t know, but it is cool!
Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo.
7. Connected Ventures Lip Dub: I’m stretching a bit with this one, but I couldn’t really have a list of videos without putting in a lip dub, could I? Here, the Connected Ventures crew (the people behind BustedTees and Defunker & some other non-tee related sites) lip dub to HarveyDanger’s “Flagpole Sitta,” and trust me, it’s awesome, and kinda makes me wish that I worked in a cool office.
8. Spreadshirt’s Hands Per Piece: A very, very cool video from the Spreadshirt team showing just how many people are involved with the production of a tee from Spreadshirt. Its reassuring to see how much effort goes into the creation of one of their garments, considering when people usually think of POD services they imagine them to be a rather soulless process.
9. T-Shirt Folding Machine: If #3 was too much effort for you then this t-shirt folding machine might be for you (providing you aren’t too lazy to make one). This is a pretty cool promo by All-Tribes too.
10. Origami T-Shirt: Here’s a video showing you how to make an origami t-shirt out of a £5 note. May I suggest that you try this with a regular piece of paper first?Do you know of any other cool t-shirt related videos? Post ‘em if you got ‘em.

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Tags » DIY • folding • Justice • list • Lists • printing • record • storage • t-shirt • video • youtube

Everyone seems to have been going ga-ga over Loyal Army recently, and with fair reason, they’ve got a really cute and fresh outlook on the tee world, but they do seem to change things up for their range of hoodies. Instead of traditional prints they go with all-overs with small repeated prints broken up with a dash of colour every so often. Personally, I would have like to have seen some of their women’s tees make the straight transition to a hoodie since they’ve got some great designs that are just begging for some sleeves and a hood, but all-overs are still hot at the moment so I can see why they’ve made the choices they have, and in fairness as all-overs go they’ve got some pretty interesting designs available.

Funnily enough, I think that ‘Asterisk’ is actually their least interesting hoodie in terms of pattern, but also one of their most wearable. I guess I’m not really in the mood for grabbing people’s attention with my hoodie choices so far this week, eh gang?

Costiness=$40 Link

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Tags » allover • asterisk • grey • hoodie • loyal army • Mens

Hands up if you knew what Cogito Ergo Sum meant before you read the lower corner of the t-shirt design? You? Well, we all knew that you’d get it!

To those of you still quietly sitting with un-raised hands, ‘cogito ergo sum’ is the latin for that popular phrase “I think, therefore I am.”

Cool design here from 410BC, not exactly amazing, but very nicely done all the same, I really like the way that the text and one of the brains are half-on, half-off the yellow dot, it adds some depth to the design.

Costiness=$28 Links: Mens/Womens

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Tags » 410BC • brain • latin • t-shirt • white

Am I the only one who hates it when people giving awards at ceremonies walk up to the podium and say “Webster’s dictionary defines a hero as…” and you groan because its just such incredibly lame script writing?

This tee, on the other hand, isn’t lame at all (except for the little WeSC logo underneath the definition, we all know that an indie producer would have kept things pure). I like the idea of a word definition on a t-shirt, and the style in which WeSC have done this one is an excellent example of what I’d have in mind when imagining it.

Costiness=$26 Link (amazingly, you can get up to 20% off your order by using the rep code AS7594, and in the process you’ll be supporting HYA)

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Tags » black • conspiracy • definition • t-shirt • text • WeSC