From the monthly archives:

April 2011

year of tees

Do you remember A Year of Tees? It was Keith Walsh side-project (beyond running Turtlehead) that made a new t-shirt available for sale every day. It was meant to finish on December 31st 2010, but after receiving a number of requests Keith opened up the vault and made all the designs available for sale again, somewhat indefinitely (I’m sure it won’t be forever, but there’s no end cap this time around). He’s just increased the available offerings once again by making it possible to purchase every t-shirt design as a hoodie… and they say HYA doesn’t talk about hoodies anymore, pfft!

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jake nickelll the coolest dude on the planet

I like to give credit where it is due, and I’ve got to say that Tee Hunter is absolutely killing it at the moment, he’s finding a lot of good stuff and this interview with Jake Nickell of Threadless fame shows that he can produce his own quality content too. I’m really glad that Liam tried to tread some new ground with this interview, since anyone who has been in the tee game for more than 5 minutes knows the story behind Threadless, hell, they even released the Threadless book last year but the mainstream media (and my word I feel like Fox News when I type that) continues to treat their whole business model as some kind an oddity and ask the same questions over an over (which is the thing that often frustrates me about Johnny Cupcakes interviews).

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Enclothe have to be one of the most consistently excellent brands out there, and Derek has come up with the goods once again with this Spring release. I could waste my time explaining why the shirts are good, but instead I’m just going to tell you to do what the infographic says and ‘go check it out’.

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miles to go interview

Adam continues his impressive streak of quality articles with an interview with Miles To Go founder Greg Kerr. There’s a lot of good advice in there for budding t-shirt brand owners from someone who has been around the block a few times and has learned a lot about the industry.

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pacman t-shirt

This shirt is currently only available in XL and L, and it’s hardly surprising that it sold out, there’s a lot of charm in that “looks like a two-year-old drew it with their fingers” style!

Costiness=$36 Buy it at Altru Apparel [via Rumplo]

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SUTSU kick it up a notch, release massive Spring/Summer line

April 29, 2011
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As I looked through the images I was sent in the e-mail I just kept nodding and saying “yes, yes, yes” because this line from SUTSU is very impressive. It all looks good with the big, bold and usually simple graphics, and 95% of the pieces are printed on EarthPositive garments. If you’re unaware, EarthPositive [...]

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Akumu Ink have got some sweet new packaging

April 29, 2011
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My buddies over at Akumu Ink are industrious fellows, they’ve been busy recently, but so have I so I haven’t managed to cover everything they’ve been up to, but I really like this idea they’ve had for their packaging so I just had to share it. I’ll let Aldora (Mrs. Akumu Ink) explain: We’ve just [...]

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“Salt & Fat” by Neven Mrgan & Jim Ray at Buy Olympia

April 29, 2011
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I was drawn to this shirt because of it’s simplicity, it’s just a pleasingly straightforward image that says the two things that you need to make something tasty. I was completely unaware that Salt & Fat is also an excellent food blog that I’ve squandered a few minutes browsing just now when I know I [...]

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A Royal Wedding T-shirt that says what we’re all thinking

April 29, 2011
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If I’ve timed this right, this post will be going live during William and Kate’s wedding, which seems appropriate even though I doubt anyone that is actually interesting in the wedding will be scouring the net for tees right now. I don’t know if you can see the text at the bottom of this crest, [...]

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Dadawan release collection of 10 new tees

April 28, 2011
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Dadawan, now there’s a veteran of the indie tee business. Recently they dropped a new range of 10 one-colour black on white design, just about all of which are of a distinctly European style. I know that the term ‘European’ is almost pointless since it’s a large continent made up of many cultures, but I [...]

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Rethink’s Out With Old Sale

April 28, 2011

The circle of life in T-shirts means old must go and new must come in. No matter how awesome the designs! $5 and $10 tees. Enjoy! http://store.rethinkclothing.com/category/clearance [Andy: I checked with ReThink and can confirm that these very low prices will be sticking around until May 2nd, also known as this coming Monday.] This post [...]

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Angry Birds t-shirts at NerdyShirts

April 28, 2011
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Okay, remember a couple of days ago when I said I wasn’t an Angry Birds addict? This is how my morning routine went: “wake up, pick up iPhone, look at e-mail, look at Tweetdeck… try to blow up those weird pig things.” I give in, you win Angry Birds, you win. Thankfully they don’t win [...]

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“The Empire Strikes Out” at RIPT today, Ian Leino’s store forever

April 28, 2011
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I wonder how often a week goes by that I don’t mention a Star Wars t-shirt, we’re on two this week at least, I’m not even that big of a fan! Ian Leino has really stepped up a gear in terms of his releases recently, both on daily tee sites and in his own store, [...]

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The return of “I like to say things and eat stuff” at SEIBEI for this week only!

April 28, 2011
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Long time Seibei fans may well be aware that this is not a new design, or even an old design in a new colourway, which was kind of the point of the time-limited weekly releases that SEIBEI has been doing for a couple of months now, but there’s actually a pretty nice story behind this [...]

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“We’re going to the Winchester” t-shirt for Shaun of the Dead fans by GritFX & Saucewear

April 27, 2011
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Thinking about it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Shaun of the Dead all the way through… how could that have possibly happened? Costiness=$15 Buy it at Saucewear, read more about it at GritFX

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“Anger Management” Angry Birds t-shirt by Glennz

April 27, 2011
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I’m more than a little bit late to the Angry Birds party, having resisted that particular time-sink until a few weeks ago when I downloaded one of the free versions of the game (along with Words With Friends, on which I my username is hideyourarms if you fancy a game). It’s fun, but thankfully I [...]

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“Love in Idleness” by Concrete Rocket

April 27, 2011
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Concrete Rocket have one of the best names in the business, and the name of this tee is pretty cool too, but I find this design to be pretty generic compared to the rest of their offerings. There tends to be a theme of graffiti art running through their line, something which is really evident [...]

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The Sistine Spring Cleaning Sale

April 27, 2011
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Ignore what it says on that lovely infographic about this sale ending on April 25th, because Sistine have extended their sale (which takes their $36 t-shirts down to $25 a piece) to the end of this week, so now I don’t feel so bad about taking the weekend off and missing this sale the first [...]

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