by DeeHYA on May 26, 2012
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.
by Chris_S on May 25, 2012
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)
by DeeHYA on May 22, 2012
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!
by Chris_S on May 21, 2012
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
Denada (designs by Andreas Krapf, obviously one of my favorites) is now offering their new Lumberjack design on tees, tanks, and batwing style tops – great stuff!
Keep up with Denada: Facebook, Shop
by DeeHYA on May 14, 2012
So YAY! Threadless sale! So many tees I want to part with my pennies for too! It’s starting to brighten up outside surely this is the ideal time to acquire yourself some brand spanking new tees! Going to ramble about New/Back today first and then a few of my all time fave tees!
New Today and Captain Jack founder at Threadless just put on FB ‘New Favourite Tee?’ so I am guessing that he is a fan of it. Aptly named W.T.F? by Blair Sayer features a super creepy looking feline covered in plasters.
Back today, and a tee which I have a bit of a soft spot for Doctor-Hoo by Mallory Dyer shows different versions of Doctor Who but as owls. Very simple idea but Threadless fans seem to love Owls!
Here are some of my fave tees that I would acquire for myself in the sale! I adore The Beach by Lim Heng Swee. It is basically what it sounds like, a very L.S. Lowry sort of feel. The effect of the sea on the lower half of the tee is simply perfection, I can’t think of a better way of seeing in the summer!
I adore food with a face, this is no secret, I have blogged it so many times! Toast by Vo Maria shows some super cute slices of bread sunbathing. Another super summery tee. This one makes me smile and I think it works so well in tank, as pictured at the top of this blog.
I really love the whimsical nature of the following tee, the design looks like an illustration from a children’s book. Water Balloons by Alex X. Zhang and Melanie Herring. All the colours and everything are beautiful. Only available for gals but I don’t think it’s a particularly masculine Threadless resident.
Lastly for this sale blog, Sock Monkey Just Wants A Friend by Ronan Lynam has a sock monkey as King Kong. I really like the muted colours and the expression on the monkey’s face! Hope y’all have fun Threadless sale shopping! $9.99 tees grab them while you can!
