I have sad news to report friends, after a few good weeks writing about this seasons IT Crowd episodes, I’m afraid this week is a bit of a failure. After spending a while trying to work out where Roy’s tees came from (which is why this post is a few days late compared to usual), I’ve only managed to find one of the three tees.
The first tee worn by Roy in the episode (pic at the top of this post) had a bit of a Japanese feel to it, seeing as it has some Asian looking text on it and what looks like a series of characters beneath it. I don’t even know where I’d start looking for this tee, so I throw myself open to your suggestions.
The second is pretty easy, in theory, it’s a design with a slogan of some kind on it, usually I just have to Google that, and voila, I remain “that guy who find
The IT Crowd shirts.” Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to work out what the slogan says, I’m pretty sure that the final word being said by the character is ‘time’, but that isn’t much help without the rest of it. It has the look of a webcomic style t-shirt, so maybe someone out there might be aware of which webcomic it is, and then I’ll have some breadcrumbs to follow and hunt it down.
I’m glad that it was the last tee in the show that I managed to find, because then you’ll go away from this post thinking “sure, that sucked a bit, but at least he found one,” instead of, “dammit Andy, you’re such a loser, and you keep forgetting to link to things in blog posts!”
The Overlook Hotel, for those of you who arewondering why Roy would be promoting a hotel instead of his usual geek-chic, is the hotel in The Shining. The tee is available from Last Exit to Nowhere and costs £17.50.
Something else I noticed in the show was that Roy appears to be a fan of a blog called “
Why, That’s Delightful” which is of course (of course!) written by the show’s writer and creator Graham Linehan. Except, he was actually
looking at something else.
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I know that this tee was featured in my “
10 Great Tees from 10 Great Webcomics” post, but that was written well over a year ago, and HYA has more than double the amount of readers since then, so hopefully this tee will be fresh to a lot of you.
In case you hadn’t worked it out, the text on the tee says “Chinese is not my native language”… in Chinese, presumably. Or perhaps they’re throwing us the old switcheroo, and we think it’s funny because of the tee riffing on designers using Chinese and Japanese symbols because they look cool rather than being necessary, and the tee actually says something like ‘ham sandwich,’ which would actually be kinda funny too.
The tee is designed by Dorothy Gambrell, the lady behind the riotously funny webcomic, Cat and Girl.
Costiness=$19 Buy the tee at TopatoCo
Putting a toy robot onto a tee is hardly a new idea, but this tee from
rimo-to has taken it, and perhaps unintentionally put a really sinister looking robot onto this design. I think it’s something about the face, it doesn’t look pissed off, but you know it wants to do
something, right?
Costiness=£24.99 Buy the Mighty Robot at rimo-to
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I remember watching ghost World a few years back and thinking it was pretty cool, and that this ‘Scarlett Johansson’ woman was quirky and kinda cute, but nothing to special (oh, how times have changed). Some of you may remember that I featured a tee by
sbariniesto back in May, and if you did, well done, because there’s been freakin’ hundreds of posts since then, and I think I bookmarked this one at the same time. I really like the creative use of stencilling here, I often associate stencils with simple designs, but this is clearly anything but. I could do with some confirmation from the designers reading this post, would I be right in thinking that the Ghost World ‘text’ is ghosted onto this tee? Or is there another name for the technique being used?
The tee is presumably a one-off, but you could always try Flickr messaging sbariniesto to ask if you can buy one.
Photo credit: Ghost World by sbariniesto
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