Being slightly disgruntled by a recent visit to a sports store due to their selection of terrible graphics representing this year’s Super Bowl teams, I had to do a search for something better. The New England Patriots have terrible logos (vintage and present) and the New Jersey York Giants have the infamous NY which is clean enough on a plain t-shirt. What’s really sad is the NFL licensed selection of muddled graphics that may seem acceptable after downing a six pack in the first quarter, but really? Year and year out the the NFL has produced garbage.
To the rescue come 8BitApparel. They have a selection of pixelated NFL team graphics that may make you reminisce of sitting in your PJs and playing Atari Football. These are NFL inspired t-shirts that one can wear all season long without feeling like you stepped out of a trailer park.
Patriots t-shirt– Monetary Damage $27.00 USD
Giants t-shirt – Monetary Damage $27.00 USD
In the run up to Star War Episode 1 being released in 3D next month (an event I’m sure no one will complain about ridiculous amounts as if George Lucas literally robbed them of a childhood) Might Fine have teamed up with LucasFilm to release limited edition designs that will be available for one week and one week only. This week (until Sunday 15th) they have the above Joy Division inspired design created by Reece Ward, who is of course no stranger to HYA or Star Wars. You can pick up this design as a tee for men or women for $25, or as a hoodie for $49.
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Apparel 75 is the only site out there offering authentic new-vintage t-shirt designs. The designs are block printed from old newspaper printing plates, scanned and then screen printed by hand on to 100% cotton American Apparel t-shirts.
Andy: These guys have quite an unusual definition of the word ‘only’ (though to be fair I haven’t heard of other brands using old newspaper printing plates), but they do have some pretty cool designs and good looking tees.
This post was submitted by Frank Malec.
It’s no secret that I am a big fan of 8-bit t-shirts. I think that the low resolution of the artwork reminds you that the image was created on a computer, and that contrasts well with a t-shirt, which I still think of as being a garment that is fairly natural and created by hand, even though that isn’t really the case anymore.
Mighty Fine are been on a bit of a spree at the moment, their releases have been frequent and impressive and as you’ve probably gathered from the title of this post I feel that this latest release of retro 8 bit t-shirts. Wall-E & Eve are clearly featured on one of the tees, and you’ll find characters from Sesame Street, Monsters Inc., and The Muppets in some of the other designs.
So recently I was lucky enough to get a couple of tees from fabulously colourful website http://www.tshirtgrill.com/. I have to admit the selection of tees from this website is beyond extensive. If you are struggling with Christmas gifts this year you should go for a rummage around this website.
It took my a good while to go through all of their designs and choose which ones I liked the best, I ummed and ahhed, selected some, changed my mind, went back and forth loads of times, and it’s nice to have so many different tees to choose from that it disorientates you a bit!
In the end I decided to go for t-shirts that were nice and bright and reflected my bubbly nature! I firstly opted for this Barry Manilow Fan Club t-shirt, I think the bright blue with the white works really well with the retro feel and it also has a picture of Manilow before he went kinda creepy in the face.
I used to be a massive fan of Tarantino movies, and I do still enjoy the classics, so that and the fact the tee was bright orange made me choose Big Kahuna Burger tee. The image they have of the tee is way off colour wise, this t-shirt is bright orange, it’s American prison uniform orange, which looks better than it does on the site in my opinion.
It also shows tees that have been seen on certain celebrities, such as Morrissey, Damon Albarn, Dave Grohl, Nick Cave to name but a few. It would be cool to get a gift of a tee that is the same as one worn by an idol.
I have washed the Manilow one, and it washed really well, the print is pristine and the colour of the tee is as perfect as it was before I washed it. I would say the sizing is a tidge on the smaller size than I would of expected but this didn’t really bother me as I like my t-shirts tight so if you prefer your clothing less clingy I would buy a size up.
The quality of the t shirts is lovely it feels really nice against the skin and stretchy and comfortable everything a tee should be.
I would highly recommend ‘T Shirt Grill’ even if you just go and have quick window shop around the website it is a company that deserves some recognition for it’s excellent selection of designs.
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