A new independent clothing company, Above Unknown opens it’s doors next month. Only 3 tee’s available on launch date but more already more in the works. bosh!

Andy: The shirts look pretty good, but what are people meant to do with this submission, mark it on their calendar to check back next month? T-shirt brands, I know it’s easy to get excited before your brand is launched, and it’s important to get your name out there, but I would recommend not submitting your brand to places like HYA until you actually have somethng on sale, or it will be on sale within the next few days, because in an age when there are thousands of places to buy shirts right now, very few people will remember to check back later.

This post was submitted by claudio caggianiello.

TeeFury have a Hunger Games shirt today.

Shirt.Woot have a delightful flower shirt.

I’m sure I’ve seen this design before but it’s nice to see it at RIPT.

One for the Scrabble fans at Qwertee today.

It may be all about Hunger Games today but Shirt Punch haven’t forgotten about Doctor Who.

Fringe gets the Ramones treatment at OtherTees.

This 24tee font shirt made me smile.

‘Free you mind’ is up at DBH.

This fantastic cat shirt at Made in the Now references a cat that fell 19 floors and landed safely.

Fibertopic have a shirt for World Water Day that I think refers to Psycho.

One of my favourite t-shirts of all time is back up at Tilteed.

If you like bagels & weed this is the place for you.

Get 15% off your order at laFraise with the coupon code PROMOPRINTEMPS2012 befre March 25th.

Big sale going on at Wrongwroks, and if you spend $150 or more you can qualify for free shipping with the coupon code 150freeship.

Ribcage Customs have a teaser image for their upcoming line, there’s potential in there I’d say.

100 tees for $300, are Threadbird mad?

I’ve previously worked with Awesome Merchandise to get some T-Shirts printed. I jumped straight in feet first into the deep end and tried to pursue my dream of selling T-Shirts. I’ve approached this the wrong way and only now just checked out a sample pack from them. For £7 I received a whole slew of sample goodies.

1 x T-Shirt
25mm Badges (regular, neon and metallic)
38mm Badge
58mm Badge
25mm Magnet
58mm Magnet
Bottle-Opener Keyring
Pocket Mirror
Stickers (regular and vinyl samples)
Plectrum
Flyer
Postcard
Business Card
Poster

On to the review. I’m currently wearing the T-Shirt and the material certainly feels good against my skin. It’s a Gildan’s heavy weight shirt, I’ve previously purchased soft shirts from Awesome Merchandise and while it certainly is heavier it’s not a dramatic difference but perhaps in the forthcoming summer a lighter weight shirt may be more applicable. The design of the shirt is interesting featuring 3 cats having a party. As we all know cats + internet = winning formula. The shirt certainly isn’t going to win any awards and turn heads but it might be a bit too much to expect a stellar design for a sample shirt. This isn’t a shirt style I’d usually wear but it’s certainly a design that would cheer up any gloomy day.

As for the printing quality of the shirt I can’t fault it. It’s excellent value for money and from previous experience with the company their t-shirts wash and iron well and don’t warp at all in the wash.

My one niggle with the shirt is that they don’t appear to offer sample shirts of different colours. I’m not a fan of white shirts and it’d be a nice option to be able to ask for a different coloured sample.

If you’re a budding t-shirt designer and want to see what your designs would look like when printed I’d recommend Awesome Merchandise for their quality and value, they frequently offer deals for shirts and not only bulk print but do one-off runs. Even if you don’t want to print T-Shirts and just fancy a random design from them, you can’t go wrong with £7 for a shirt and a whole bunch of goodies.

Kid Robot‘s new apparel collection will be dropping on March 29th for Spring. Featuring a variety of different designs on both men and women’s shirts. There is certainly something here that will take your fancy. My personal favourite of the collection has to be the rabbit’s head with the knife through it. It’s vibrant colours and punk influences appeal to my taste. I hope they will be offering a range of different shirt colours because the blue just doesn’t do it for me. Check out Kid Robot’s website to see some of their other fantastic designs.

Mike over at Crazy Go Lucky got in touch to let me know that he just put a couple of shirts up for pre-order, and if you take the plunge early (up until March 14th) then you’ll be rewarded with a 10% discount and get the shirt for $18. They’re expected to ship in mid to late April, which probably feels like longer than it is since I keep thinking it’s still February.

SATURDAY MOURNING, a new line which spins a dark twist on retro images from the 1930s,40s, and 50s, is now available for pre-order! Use discount code “pre-order” when checking out to receive 15% off your total purchase. Offer good until December 31, 2011.

Andy: Cool looking tees, thanks for the submission!

This post was submitted by Skip Arnold.

Very nice Walking Dead t-shirt at TeeFury today. Anyone else watching this show?

I’m surprised that Qwertee have this shirt on sale since it’s part of 604Republic‘s permanent catalogue.

I really like this shirt from Tilteed.

I don’t know if I’ve ever featured a t-shirt with Lego on it. When I was a kid I had a sweatshirt that you could actually attach Lego figures to, how cool is that? Stupidhurts.us

Shirt.Woot call this shirt ‘The Moped Diaries’ suggesting that it has something to do with Che Guevara, but I’m not really picking that up from the design so I’m just taking this to be a lovely penguin based design.

Very nice Avengers x Mario mashup at RIPT today.

Another rage face design at 24tee.

Oldie-but-goodie from Loviu today, not a particularly original concept but the execution saves it from mediocrity.

This shirt at Catch of the Day Tee is called ‘Lex’ so I can only presume that it’s based on Superman, though I’m not seeing it without some more explanation.

I like this shirt from DBH, but at the same time it seems a bit like two stock images stock on top of each other.

Pikachu x Star Wars, how had I not thought of this before! Shirt Punch

Since it says “Gotta catch ‘em all!” I’m going to presume that this deal of the day at BustedTees is a Pokemon shirt too, $13 instead of $20.

Since none of the daily sites have done 80sTees are going to have to give us our fix of a Doctor Who t-shirt.

FrogFacedSouply have got an epic sale on, with tees as low as £8 for the next few days.

Teeandtoast are holding a competition to name their new teacake character.

You can get $10 off your order at PLNDR with the coupon code PILLAGE10 until November 27th. Surely that’s not the only offer the PLNDR are going to be running in the biggest deal week of the year?

In My Short Sleeve have laid out their pans for covering Black Friday (individual posts), I’ll be explaining my plans in a few hours.

Alberg & Austin are offering 20% off everything in their store for the rest of the month with the coupon code NOV11.

Ray has finally shown a few previews of his reinvention of Lowdtown, really looking forward to what he comes up with next.

Kissmetrics have a few pointers on making web analytics work for you.

Drop Dead have a really cool video showing their process of ‘concept to creation’.

If you’re struggling with social media I’d recommend checking out this post by Business2Communtiy “120 Tweetable Tips on How to Achieve Social Media Success.“

Some guy made a 7ft tall Gundam model out of paper, this has nothing to do with t-shirts, it’s just awesome.

KIKS TYO have released a couple of t-shirts with Aya Kiguchi wearing sneakers on them, please note that I don’t recommend Googling her name at work. You can get 15% off any order that includes a ‘Sneaker & Girls’ t-shirt with the coupon code HOLIDAY until November 28th.

I’m not too into the latest shirt from A Better Tomorrow.

Suck! Clothing sent over an e-mail with a few previews of their next collection which will be available at their stockists some time this month, and then available online in December. Every picture they included was of a hoodie, there are going to be tees in the collection too, but it makes a lot of sense that they’d be pushing hoodies at this time of year, in fact the more I think about it the more surprising it is that people don’t do full releases that include no tees at this time of year when it’s getting chilly outside.

I’m not too enthused by the actual image, but I certainly do like the colour palette that has been used. Currently on pre-order so you can expect the price to go up later in the month when it starts shipping.

Costiness=£14 Order it at Time to Panic!

Recently I’ve seen a few companies turning to Kickstarter (the popular crowdfunding site) to try and fund their collections. If you think about it there’s a lot of good reasons to go the Kickstarter route, it’s essentially pre-ordering with a lot less of the risk for either party. You can judge how popular your line will be and be on a sound financial footing from release, and people who are interested in the shirts can put their name down for an item and only get charged for it if they’re actually going to get made.

Whilst it is great in theory, in the past Kickstarter has been proved to not be a fantastic place for t-shirt companies to get funding. I think it’s because the popular ideas on Kickstarter tend to be innovative, when it’s hard to persuade a random person that a t-shirt design of any kind or style could be innovative. Due to this, I think that Vaughn de Heart have got a bit of an uphill struggle to reach their target of $7,000 pledged, even though the promise of having your name screenprinted into the tees (where the neck label would usually be) is pretty interesting.

Vaughn de Heart Kickstarter Page
Read why RoyLyn chose to take the Kickstarter route