Spent a week working like a busy bee, it’s going to take me a while to get used to the early starts so bear with me.  However they have a sale on at Threadless so you can grab 25% off your order by using the code : MAY25 (only on items that end in $.00)

I am just going to quickly blog the New Today and Back Todays from the back end of this week and then have a nosey round the kids tees for my tiddlywinks!

New Today for Wednesday Big Trouble in Little Japan by William Chua is a King Kong / Nintendo mash up which has been design in an old fashioned oriental style. Not something I would purchase myself but I understand the appeal of this tee.

The following tee is one I have blogged many a time, it seems to get reprinted on a very regular basis. I Got Another Whale by Chow Hon Lam is a tee which is literal but fantastic! I love the expression on the cat’s face.

Love the concept for Thursday’s newbie tee! Self Portrait by Nacho Diaz shows a heart painting a painting of himself exactly the way we do. Think this works well on the silver but may of also looked cute in pink in girly fit.

This following tee is one that is reprinted regularly. Off the Reservoir by Jonah Block pays homage to the cult movie classic Reservoir Dogs. The colours are fab in this tee and I love Mr Orange!

Last of the newbie tees this week, by far the best of the bunch and absolutely 100% on my WANT list is Fairytale Transfusion by John Tibbott, if this doesn’t sell out dead quick and be requested reprint super soon I will be surprised. I’ve blogged the most detailed image so you can read the design.

Lastly the final ‘Back Today’ of the week, Fail by Budi Satria Kwan shows a poor moo cow who hasn’t quite managed to jump of the moon, this design wins serious cuteness points for sure.

Invader Zim meets Star Wars at TeeFury today.

An unusual take on the Mario story from Shirt.Woot.

Adventure time meets Supernatural at RIPT.

DBH are in the deep blue sea.

Qwertee need a little help waking up in the morning.

Shirt Punch have a neat Doctor Who meets Futurama design.

The Yetee continue the week’s theme of charity gaming shirts (which Leah is covering in more depth) with this glow in the dark number.

OtherTees, that is most definitely not the greatest t-shirt in the world.

Stupidhurts.us are rebranding themselves at the Global Thread Collective.

TeeRaiders are really reaching with this Horton x Doctor Who design.

Made in the Now report on Mars having ‘the building blocks of life’.

6dollarshirts class it up with a Carl Sagan t-shirt.

WeLoveFine.com have a category for Back To The Future t-shirts now.

I try and ignore the fact that there’s been a remake of The Karate Kid, simply because it ruins the previous, original, excellent film from the 1980s. Because of the Jackie Chan remake there are a lot of Karate Kid-based shirts out there, but this one from Last Exit to Nowhere (who we haven’t mentioned in a little while here at HYA) is an excellent understated nod to the original – with a great, minimalistic design. It could theoretically be just a regular karate competition t-shirt, but the devoted and dedicated (read: those older than 12-years old) will enjoy the reference.

Costliness: £18 (Buy it here)

It’s kind of amazing really that back when they released Duck Hunt you could actually point a controller at the TV screen and that would actually control the game with a pretty decent amount of accuracy. It seems fairly advanced technology (though I now know it’s fairly simple) considering the t-shirts design is a spot-on recreation of the quality of graphics that you could expect from the NES. T-shirt available from Super7 now for $30.

I suppose there must be pin-ups in the Star Wars galaxy too.

A fairly geeky design at Shirt.Woot today.

Transformers goes 8-bit at RIPT today.

I rather like this lightning bolt at DBH.

Fallout provides the inspiration over at Qwertee.

Shirt Punch do love Star Wars (just like every other daily tee site).

Rorschach is up at TeeMinus24. Isn’t this shirt a bit flawed by the whole point of his mask being that it changed based around quite a lot?

Made in the Now highlight an interview Neil Armstrong conducted with the Certified Practicing Accountant of Australia. I know, the guy hardly ever gives interviews and then he gives one to some accountants!

Tee Busters have a shirt for all the Hobbit fans out there.

Of course 6dollarshirts have a design imagining Iron Man’s canine companion.

Brand new range of limited tshirts from Karoly Kiralyfalvi.

Andy: I got pretty excited when I saw this post title in the queue because I’ve always liked Extraverage’s shirts, and I was not disappointed when I checked out the goods.

This post was submitted by Karoly Kiralyfalvi.

Sadly technology prevented me from blogging the sale as I would of liked to, however I am not back to normalish now. Just thought I’d briefly blog New Today / Back  Today and some of my favourite Made By tees!

New today yesterday is Halfling and Wizard by Cool Johnny is a Calvin and Hobbes and Lord of the Rings mash up. I don’t like anything about this tee personally but obviously it’s been voted high enough to get printed.

I love when a tee I own gets reprinted, TARDamask by Rosemary Travale is probably one of the best, if not THE best Doctor Who tee that has ever been printed on Threadless. The colour and design is fabulous. Here is a pic of me rocking the tee taken by Sam Corban.

You want a whale and a telephone combined! You got it Call Me, Ishmael by Jason St. Peter has done this awesome surreal design black on this gorgeous ‘Lake’ coloured tee! Kinda looks more petrol blue from where I am sitting.

Back today of today is The Guest by Ralph Pykee Lambaco is a cool monotone tee which has uber amounts of cute factor. I love this tee and there aren’t many black and white ones I rate because I have a rainbow soul!

The two designers being showcased this week are Phil Jones and Julia Sonmi Heglund. I am just going to blog my two favourites today and will hopefully slip some in later on in the week.

Of Phil Jones’ designs my personal favourite is probably WAKE, it’s a crazy explosion on the brain and the eyes.  I like nautical tees in general and this all over print is fabby!

I have NO idea how I haven’t seen this design by Julia Sonmi Heglund, The Venn of PB&J. It has jams, it has food with a face. it has everything a gal (or guy) could possibly need on a tee!

Ugmonk is having a 5 day sale starting today (ends May 26th) – 20% Off Storewide! Just use the code: SPRING20 at checkout!

Happy shopping!

Robots are cool. I think that much we can all agree on, right? I mean, there’s been a fixation on robots for about the past 70 years, with sci-fi films and utopian visions of the future imagining that we’d all be living in space pods, served by robots wearing French maid outfits with pneumatic silver boobs. For some reason, robots just capture the imagination. They seem to connect with us as an image of our potential: eventually we will be able to master creating humanity (of sorts) and will render it in metal.

Which is why I like these two shirts by Design By Humans quite so much. They popped up in my inbox as part of a regular email from the site, and I was drawn to them immediately. You’ve got two separate designs here, I think. Halftone Robot by Old30Bastard is very much a hipster Transformer. It takes up the whole tee, and its shapes are angular and true to life. I particularly like that the robot’s head looks like its a repurposed boombox. At $15, you’d be criminal not to get this.

Then there’s the slightly more expensive ($20) Violin Bot. It’s cute, it’s quirky and it’s the sort of thing you’d see in Futurama. In fact, I’m not entirely sure a similar idea wasn’t in an episode of Futurama when Bender starts a band, playing himself like a washboard. BUt if anything that makes me want this thing more. It’s a beautiful design and it’s sure to bring a smile to people’s faces.

Costiness: $15/$20

I’ve enjoyed the first series of Justified so much that I think that Mag’s Apple Pie has to be my pick of the week at Tshirt Laundry (I know, I’m behind on every popular TV show out there).