by Andy on August 11, 2008
I was pretty much only posting this t-shirt because it gives me an opportunity to point out
my massive new TV (52 glorious inches!), but then I actually gave it a decent look, and I realised that its actually rather cleverer (how can a word about something being smart make you sound so stupid when you say it?) than I first gave it credit for. The minimalist frontage with a standby ‘light’ and a jack for headphones, is strongly contrasted with the busy goings on at the back, although I was expecting the text on the back to reveal some kind of joke, some of the sockets being labeled with more human attributes than ‘video output’, for example, but I guess Olly wanted to take this down a more serious route. Well, as serious as you can get when you’re wearing a tee that tries to make you look like an AV amp.
That said, I wouldn’t actually wear this. I appreciate the concept, and its executed very well, but I think it would make me look like I worked for a home theatre company if I wore it.
Costiness=$20 Tee Link
by Andy on August 11, 2008
Why is it that Germans are so good at designing abstract tees? Extraweg, from the small German town of
Wittichenau have quite a few tees that are pretty odd, but they’re also pretty awesome, I can imagine them going with pretty much everything in my wardrobe. They like having a play about with their logo by the looks of things, incorporating ‘extraweg’ into a few of the designs, but they do it in a subtle way that doesn’t turn you into a billboard.
Extraweg
by Andy on August 11, 2008
I’ve never really been all that into polo shirts with prints on them, but I think that this new polo line from Madrid-based label
Tolky Monkys might turn me around on this piece of collared casual wear.
As usual, the designs are character based, and I’m really impressed with all of them, the tees are just for the girls and includes some really cute designs, the polos are for guys and girls.
Check out the girls tees, check out the polos.
by Andy on August 11, 2008
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a small clothing company selling their own range of socks before, so I just had to mention it.
Costiness=£5 Socks Link
by Andy on August 11, 2008
I don’t know if you guys can quite make it out because the picture has been scaled-down a bit to fit it in the column, but this is a really clever tee. Obviously you can tell that it says “everything is fine”, but can you tell that those words are made up of lots of things that should scare us and will most likely bring about your untimely death (such as stuck zippers, avalanches, and runaway elephants)?
In case you’re unaware, Wondermark is a popular webcomic written by David Maliki ! (he writes his name with an exclamation point after it) that uses illustrations from 19th century books and is pretty dang funny. This particular tee was loosely inspired by this comic.
Costiness=$18 Tee link (on preorder, shipping around August 20th)
