I must say, that tee up there is outstanding, it’s a work of art, probably because it literally is a t-shirt with a work of art printed on it. Any art aficionado’s out there able to tell me who the original artist was?
I don’t think that the rest of Retreat‘s line (some of which can be found in the gallery) quite reaches the standards set by the tee above (‘Save Us‘), but to be entirely frank I think I was probably expecting too much for that to be the case. The rest of the tees don’t suck, don’t get me wrong, they just aren’t jumping out at me as much as the one at the top.
Retreat
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When I first mentioned the
2008 Bestees I said I wasn’t going to provide any picks because I don’t follow
Threadless closely enough to make an informed decision, but now that they’re down to
20 finalists from the
331 designs released last year I feel as if I can have a stab at it. I don’t really know how I should be judging this, because the name of the award is ‘design of the year’, yet I feel as if really we should be picking the t-shirt of the year. For example, I think that
RED by Kneil Melicano is a fantastic image (as is
“The food Chain” by Olly Moss), but as a t-shirt it doesn’t particularly wow me, you know, I’d wear it, but I don’t think it would be a showpiece in my tee collection, so what are people meant to be voting for, the best image, or the best t-shirt as a whole?
For me, it should be the best t-shirt, which is why I eventually decided that “When Pandas Attack” by Jimiyo and AJ Dimarucot was my pick of the bunch. It’s probably indicative of how my tastes have slowly moved away from the stereotypical ‘Threadless style’ that I would pick a design that most people would probably feel was more suited to Design By Humans, but I must admit I was pretty tempted to pick Fail by Budi Satria Kwan because it’s so damn cute, or “Foam Monster in Emotional Reunion with Severed Limb” by Aled Lewis because it’s so damn funny.
So, any bets on Threadless reprinting all 20 finalists when they announce the Bestees?
Y’know, it almost seems as if there’s never any time to catch your breath between holiday
sales when you run a
tee blog, although I guess it’s probably a good thing that tee shops are willing to celebrate every insignificant (not that I’m bitter about being single, of course) holiday.
First of all we are running a 14% Valentine’s day sale from the Tuesday the 20th until Feb 11th in all three of my stores. Minimum order is $25 and coupon code is FEB19
Amorphia Apparel
In
Design By Humans‘ latest newsletter they excitedly let us all know about something they’ve been working on for a while, the (supposedly) perfect t-shirt. It’s fairly safe to assume that this announcement was delayed by a couple of weeks since
Rude Retro noticed they told us ‘everything [was] going to change on January 5th’ and that date came and went without any news, so I guess that the perfect tee still needed a bit of work before they launched it a couple of days ago.
The crazies here at DBH have spent the last several months working on a new tee that in our opinion is darned near perfect, The new DBH Perfect Tee’s super soft cotton-poly blend not only makes for some of the softest fabric you will ever wear, but it also holds up in the wash like nobody’s business. Wash and dry your DBH Perfect Tee again and again and it will continue to fit like the first day you tried it on. We’ve even added some new amazing custom colors that we are really excited about.
I didn’t really have a problem with the fit and quality of DBH’s tees before, so it will be interesting to see what the new tees are like when I put in an order to clear out my DBH dollars, hopefully one or two of the other tee bloggers will get some before me and post up a review of the new tees, and if they do I’ll be sure to link to their post and let you know if these are indeed the most perfect tee ever created, because it’s pretty darned hard to make a decision based upon a close-up, in fact, all we know right now is that they’ve managed to make a pretty looking hang tag.
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See that t-shirt up there, that
is not a t-shirt, that,
apparently (and I am skeptical) is a mock up. It was made up (I think) by Jeff Finley from
Go Media (you’re probably more aware of
their blog if you’re the kind of person that designs rather than hires designers), and I’d really like to see a tutorial about it because if this is a relatively simple process then I’d love to see it being used by more designers.
You’ve probably gotten bored of the amount I complain about poor mock ups and photoshoots of the tees and hoodies I feature, and partly I bitch because I want to have good looking images on my website, but I also mention it so frequently because on the internet we can only judge clothes by the way they look on the screen (though I’d like to think that my reviews help to give a more accurate impression of the companies that send me tees), and if your mock up doesn’t look good, you aren’t representing your own hard work well, and you aren’t giving t-shirt buyers a reason to buy your t-shirts, and I find that really frustrating.
Hoo, I feel better after that little rant, now get out there and fix your damn mock ups.
