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I think I name-check Newcastle way too much on this blog considering I don’t live there and only go there about 4 times a years to see family and football, but this
hoodie is yet another clever twist on the classic ‘I [heart] NY design that we see being played with so often that there could easily be an ‘I [heart]‘ blog.
For those of you that are unaware, the bridge on the design is rather-famous Tyne Bridge, which is a bit of an icon in the area, although over the past few years a lot of new landmarks have been erected, such as the Millenium Bridge, Sage Centre, and of course, the Angel of the North (not technically in Newcastle, but associated with the region).
Costiness=£40 Hoodie Link
It’s weird how I just stop writing about companies for months or years at a time even when I’m really big fans of theirs and still wear their clothing on a regular basis, I guess there’s just so many companies out there that its hard for me to keep tabs on everyone that I like.
Bean Dip, who were last mentioned on HYA in December 2007, have released a couple of new tees that very much differ in style. The first is their take on the iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali stood over Sonny Liston. In my second year at university we had that exact same image as a poster in the living room, and I’m sure a lot of other guys would have too, so I can imagine this being a pretty popular t-shirt. The second design is a bit of a departure for BD, they’ve taken a page from a comic book (or should I call them graphic novels now?) and put it onto a tee, which I think is a pretty cool idea, and it works really well as just a line drawing, rather than colouring everything in which might have made it look a little cheesy. Both are available in a vairety of colourways.
Although, BD, what’s the deal with the retro logo?
Bean Dip Clothing’s Latest Releases
![4363 1 Finding Technicolor by David Creighton Pester for Shirt.Woot [Rumplo Rocks]](http://media.hideyourarms.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/4363-1.jpg "4363-1")
Usually I’m not all that excited by the designs that are on
Shirt.Woot, they’re always technically well produced and they have good artists, but the style doesn’t always appeal to me, and the style doesn’t seem to vary all that much, although I don’t check in with Shirt.Woot everyday so I could easily be wrong about that. It might also be the case that I’m not in line with the average wooter as well, since I think this tee is brilliant, yet it hasn’t sold out yet. Usually good shirts on Woot sell out pretty quickly.
I really like this shirt, but I think I’d like it even more if there was one little change. The coloured part is meant to be the characters finding colours as if they’d struck oil right? Wouldn’t it be cool if there were drops of colour landing on the characters and landscape slowly turning them into their coloured versions? Maybe that would be really hard to print, I dunno, but that was where my mind went when I saw this design.
Costiness=$15 (Shirt.Woot tees go up $5 after their first day) Tee Link Rumplo Link
I know that its unfair to compare a newbie like
Tee Fury with the
Shirt.Woot behemoth, but when you see a tee site that sells one design a day you can’t help but think “hey, that sounds a lot like Shirt.Woot except their tees are a dollar cheaper.” Shirt.Woot sells their tees for $10, Tee Fury sell theirs for $9…. but Shirt.Woot’s price includes shipping (+$5 for overnight shipping or international) whereas Tee Fury pop $2 on for shipping. But hey, its just a dollar extra so I probably shouldn’t have wasted time explaining it.
I like the way that because Tee Fury only sell one tee at a time that they can keep the site really simple and keep the artwork/artist on the front page, with the tee at the top and comments on the design straight underneath them. They aren’t hiding away what people think of the tee, its right there on the front of the site, which takes serious amounts of belief in your artists and your designs. It’s hard to tell whether their designs are consistently good since they don’t have an archive of previous designs, but I do like the one featured today (which is actually yesterday, since I wrote this post yesterday). Looking around the Tee Fury forums they seem to have a few recognisable (Tom Burns, Rikki B, Jimiyo) names from the tee world that are already getting involved, which bodes well for the future.
One reason why those artists might be fans is because Tee Fury won’t ‘own’ your design if your tee is sold through them. As I understand it, the design is just ‘rented’ to Tee Fury and they sell it for the day, then the artist owns it again and can do whatever they want with it.
Tee Fury
Remember the
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Popdeck competition I mentioned back in May? Well, the skate deck has been available for a while (I thought it was, but can’t find it in the
Popdeck shop at the moment), but its taken until now for the three t-shirt designs to become available.
Working from left to write in the picture, we have Afrobaby, Pop Corn, and Salaryman. Damn fine designs, each and every one.
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Wow, I’m really linking the posts well at the moment aren’t I? The last post mentioned tea, and this one is about a Finnish t-shirt boutique with a tea pun in its name, its almost as if I actually plan this stuff!
I know that most of you don’t live in Helsinki (Finland accounted for 0.5% of HYAs traffic last month), and I don’t think its an international tourist hot spot (I went once, it was lovely, I ate reindeer & went to the Olympic stadium), but I really like the look of this boutique in the Finnish capital, mostly because the list of brands they stock sounds a lot like the people I write about (Design By Humans, EIO Clothing, Chateau Roux, Threadless, plus many others). If I were to ever open up a t-shirt shop I think it would be almost exactly like My Cup Of T, so if you happen to be on Iso Roobertinkatu street pop in and check them out.
My Cup Of T
