Its not exactly often I read or write about GAP, but I thought that there were some cool designs in the range, so here it is. According to HighSnobriety:

Gap worked in close partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art and Art Production Fund to create the collection with the 13 artists, who are all previous Whitney Biennial participants. The Whitney Biennial is a special exhibition held every two years at the Whitney Museum of American Art that features the most important contemporary art in the United States. Gap is a proud sponsor of the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

Is it just me or does that read like part of a press release? I hadn’t actually heard of any of the artists (I’m no art buff), but that doesn’t stop them from being a damn fine line of t-shirts. They’re available from select GAP stores (so the ones in big cities then?), online at GAP.com, a few art museums in the US, and Colette in Paris for between $28 and $32.

‘GAP Artist Edition T-Shirts - Jeff Koons/Barbara Kruger/Chuck Close & More’ by HighSnobriety [via Newshow @ Notcot]

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I’m a bit of a fan of clothing and technology being brought together in some kinda crazy meeting of fashion and science (fashience? scishion?), and when it can actually have a practical application that’s even better. The t-shirt above, which LiveScience charitably describe as ‘pretty cool-looking’, can monitor a persons vital signs, which would probably be pretty good for people in hospitals, those being rehabilitated at home, and athletes. One version of the t-shirt collects data on an SD card for later analysis, and another version can be synced up with a smartphone or PDA. I think it would be really cool if the shirt had GPS, and then you’d be able to monitor how your body reacted at different points during the day, I know that’s probably information overload for a lot of people, but it could be a pretty interesting project.

T-Shirt Monitors Heart Rate @ LiveScience [via TeeBurst]

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Check out Glass Boutique’s blog for some of the better entries to their design competition, I’m pretty impressed by the quality level. I’m guessing that they aren’t getting the same level of interest and publicity as the big guns like Threadless and DBH, this could be a good opportunity for people who are new to the t-shirt design scene to get some experience in the design competition world.

Glass Boutique blog

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I was really excited to hear that Concrete Hermit were going to continue releasing a t-shirt to go with their exhibitions when I found out that eBoy was coming to town.I’m in the middle of cooking dinner so here’s an excerpt of the press release to give you the details:

To coincide with the launch of eBoy’s current exhibition Concrete Hermit have produced a special limited edition of 100 T-shirts. Hand screen-printed in London these t-shirts show a detail from eBoy’s colour rich panoramic cityscape of Los Angeles. A series of prints and other products including a unique pure wool blanket have also been produced to mark the occasion and will be available exclusively from Concrete Hermit. The exhibition runs from 9th May - 30th June. Concrete Hermit Gallery, 5a Club Row, London, E1 6JX. Open 10am – 6pm Tuesday-Sunday.

Costiness=£25 Link

CH also have a pretty wide range of eBoy’s city prints for £12, and a very limited edition (just 10 available) blanket for £180.

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Its times like this that I really wish that I knew how to design t-shirts, because I’d really, really, like to see Rage Against the Machine, but they seem to sell out everywhere that they play. But luckily for Brit designers, Teetonic have teamed up with T in the Park to give you an opportunity that money can’t buy!*

All you have to do is design a tee for the music festival, which I presume is pretty simple**, and if your design is chosen then you’ll win 2 weekend camping tickets for the very sold out festival (the lineup for which includes The Verve, The Chemical Brothers, Rage Against the Machine, REM, The Prodigy, Aphex Twin, Justice, Ian Brown, Primal Scream, MGMT, Hot Chip), a two man tent, two sleeping bags, two roll mats, five of the competition winning tees, and £100 in Teetonic vouchers.Considering this tee will probably be bought by thousands of festival-goers, I think that the prize package is actually a little light, but I guess that if you’re a t-shirt designer then being able to say that you designed an official tee for one of the UKs biggest music festivals would be pretty good for your portfolio, but some cash to cover your expenses at the festival probably wouldn’t have gone amiss. The competition is open for submissions until May 30th.

Teetonic: T in the Park t-shirt design competition

*Well, it can, if you’re willing to pay through the nose for a ticket on eBay.

** Kidding, kidding.

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I know that there a few people who read HYA that want to start their own t-shirt lines (I’m one of them… eventually friends, eventually), so when I found this list on Emptees of website and MySpace designers that would probably be of help to those of you that know how to design a badass t-shirt, but don’t know the first thing when it comes to designing a website.

Big fat list of web designers at Emptees

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Johnny Cupcakes LA shoppe SNEAK PEEK 1 from Johnny Cupcakes on Vimeo.
I called it! I totally called it!

My last Johnny Cupcakes post was titled “Johnny Cupcakes is turning into Willie Wonka”, and take a guess what he said in the latest mailout?

I almost feel like the Willy Wonka of t-shirts. I enjoy making people feel like kids again.

Yep, I’m feeling pretty good right now, why? Because I totally called it! If you haven’t noticed, I’m a really bad winner (hell, you don’t want to see me lose), so when I get something right its usually best to just walk away for about five minutes until I’ve stopped gloating.

Anyway, JC has dropped a video (feed reader… readers may need to click through to watch the embedded vid) that explains all the goings on at the new store, it doesn’t give us much more information, but its good to have a video to help me visualise the shop. When this place opens if there aren’t any good pictures on Flickr or the JC site I might have to get my guy in LA to cover it.

Johnny Cupcakes

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Have any of you guys seen those tees which have naked celebs on them with a slogan placed to hide all the naughty bits?I know they’re hardly a new concept (the project started in 2006), but I spotted a good roundup and explanation of the project on a blog called “If It’s Hip, It’s Here” and thought that it was pretty interesting. I think the tees are about $35 each, which is probably too much for many, but apparently all proceeds go to the NYU Cancer Institute, so you’re kinda making a $35 donation to a charity and getting a free tee out of it.

The Naked Truth About Marc Jacobs’ Skin Cancer Awareness Campaign: Who Posed Nude, Where Can You Buy The Shirts & Who Benefits [via Notcot]

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Ahhh, there’s no better way to start your day than with a supermodel wearing a t-shirt with a smiley face on it. I’d bet that if I were draped all over her then I’d probably have a smiley face too.

If you want one then google is your friend, my friend.

Photo Credit: The Superficial [link slightly NSFW]

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I think that this t-shirt makes a pretty good example for why CNNs idea to put news headlines onto t-shirts is a bit stupid. I didn’t write about it a few weeks ago when it went live because I couldn’t really understand why a person would buy a tee that had a news headline on it (unless, perhaps, it was a historical one like ‘Dewey defeats Truman‘) and this tee that I found on Digg is a pretty good example of that. I guess its funny, but only because it points out how silly this headline t-shirt idea is, although I must give props to Spreadshirt for getting such a big name client to use their API.

Costiness=$19.99 Link [via Digg]

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