This past weekend I went to Berlin to take part in the International T-Shirt Day celebrations being hosted by Spreadshirt in the city. I realise exactly how crazy that sounds, but let’s be honest, if you have a good excuse to go to Berlin, you’re going to go to Berlin, right?

I’ll spare you the holiday snaps I took of the many, many, incredible architectural and historical sites (walk in any direction in Berlin and you’ll find something interesting, it’s a great city), and we’ll focus on what I was actually there to do, report on T-Shirt Day celebrations… and be a model on the Open Runway. Oh yes my friends, on June 21st I became the world’s least professional and most clueless model.

The event was held at the Kaiserstein bar and restaurant in the Kreuzberg area of Berlin, and there was a decent-sized turnout for the event, with lots of teeple meeting and mingling, I must admit that other than Spreadshirt & LaFraise (the event hosts) the only brand I recognised was Silberfischer, though the quality of tees being exhibited by the other brands was impressive. Speaking of teeple that you guys will recognise, I met Adam from Tee Junction, who had done a lot of good work promoting the lead up to t-shirt day by organising lots of competitions and getting lots of companies to have special one day coupons on T-Shirt Day. I also met Spreadshirt CEO Jana Eggers (and her husband Evan, who isn’t in the tee business, but was a great guy so he deserves a mention), who chastised me for having the audacity to wear a Design By Humans tee to the event, but I must say was very nice, how on earth she manages to be CEO and have the energy to participate in triathlons I have no idea, but then again I did consider the walk from the U-Bahn station to the event as my day’s exercise, so I’m probably not the best person to judge.

After some chatter it was time for the main event, the open runway. Despite all 60 spots for the runway being claimed on the T-Shirt Day website, there were actually 34 brands/groups represented, but with some brands showing off multiple tees with multiple models, the show was probably as long as it needed to be to ensure that people didn’t lose interest. With me going 8th people were still happy to clap, and there may have even been a small cheer when I took off my jacket and threw it over my shoulder as if we’d time-warped back to the 80s, but I would imagine that by brand 50 people would have been a bit bored even if the models were covered in fireworks. I can’t really remember that many of the brand names that were involved, so my apologies for the lack of detail to go with the captions of these photos.

These two totally worked the runway, they both started out wearing tees and stripped down to the vests, hot stuff!

You can't really see the tee, but this is one of my favourite photos from the day.

That's me! Click on the picture to see more pictures of the event taken by stylespion

You probably recognise this model from LaFraise... she's cute.

You probably recognise this guy from LaFraise shoots as well.

Jana, Evan, and Eike hit the runway together

I really like this picture, great tee too, if only I knew where it came from

Doesn't matter what you're wearing, you'll get a good reaction with a baby.

As you can probably see from a lot of the photos, there were a lot of photographers and some video/TV people at the end of the runway, which made me feel rather more like a model than just some guy walking on a carpet whilst people looked at him. In short, despite having no clue what I was doing, it was damn fun. I got the feeling that everyone else had a good time too, which is exactly how it should be at an event like this, you don’t need people pulling Blue Steel at the end of the runway, or models that believe smiling and currywurst are crimes, you just need people to have fun, and I think that Spreadshirt did a good job of making sure that happened.

After the runway there was further mingling and chat, and yes, some more beer (I do have a rockstar blogger image to maintain). There were also a couple of racks of LaFraise and Spreadshirt tees up for grabs. Adam and I decided that if you were giving away free t-shirts in England that the ensuing scrum for freebies would result in arguments, fights and probably some guys turning up with a van and just taking the whole rack, but apparently things happen differently in Germany, because people actually looked over the merchandise properly before taking it, and there were even some shirts left at the end of the event… perhaps the public hadn’t quite grasped the concept of ‘free’. I had a thoroughly excellent time at T-Shirt Day ‘09 in Berlin, so big thanks to the Spreadshirt and LaFraise teams for putting the whole event together and doing such a good job, specifically to Ami at Spreadshirt for helping to organise getting me there, and to Adam for saying “hey Andy, you should come to Berlin for T-Shirt Day.”

LOTS more photos in the gallery.
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Dan from Urban Industry dropped me a note to let me know about a very cool Japanese brand that they’ve just began selling (and may well be the exclusive UK distributor) called It’s Our Thing. The tees aren’t cheap at £33.50 a pop, but you have to consider why that is; one, IOT are clearly a premium brand, two, it must cost a lot to import tees from Japan, and three, everything costs more in Britain. So, yeah, they cost a bit more than the usual tee, but if you like them then you probably shouldn’t let a silly little thing like money get in the way. Here’s a bit of background:

It¹s Our Thing is the collaboration between the graphic designer PMKFA,
based in Tokyo, and Osaka¹s finest screen-printer Sweatshop Union. It¹s Our
Thing materialized in early 2006 after both PMKFA¹s Micke and Sweatshop
Union¹s Matthias for years had by themselves grown the will to create
something of their own. The first line came out in April 2006, and named
³The First Ten², followed by the ³Third Vision² line that was shown at a
couple of exhibitions in Tokyo and Barcelona and contributed to spread It¹s
Our Thing to more shops worldwide. The third line ³Etno² that you can see in
the shop right now is a leap forward for us and shows the visual progression
we aim at. From the cartoon-ish and photorealistic style of the ³Raybat²
sweater to the subtleness of the first female-only sweater, ³Etno², that
came to also name the whole line. Keep it locked for a lot more stuff to
come this year

It’s Our Thing at Urban Industry

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Dedicated Wrongwroks followers probably recognise the Kate Moss part of the design on this tee, but the difference between this tee and all the other things that have had that Kate Moss design slapped onto them is that this one has skulls on it! And different arms tags! And text on the back signifying that this is a collaboration with Nano Universe! And a V-Neck!

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Who doesn’t love a bit of Monsieur T.?

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With the release of what is almost certain to be the greatest movie of all time today in the UK and across the world over the next week, I thought it would be an excellent opportunity for me to hunt down some robot t-shirts, especially as the previous robot-themed lists have are two of Hide Your Arm’s most popular articles to date. I must admit that I was a total child for the first Transformers live-action movie, even though I realise that in many, many ways it is utterly terrible, but I still smiled throughout the whole thing because it was goddamn awesome. Robots, fighting, and Megan Fox, what more could I possibly want? I’m pretty sure that you could rob my house whilst that film is on TV and I’d only realise you were doing it once you unplugged the Blu-Ray player. I guess you could say I’m a little excited about Revenge of the Fallen being released, which is why I went a little robot crazy and compiled this huge robot tee loving list. Enjoy!

1. Robots in Disguise by getslapt - $15 - Available from getsplapt

2. Terratag x Hokkusai’s Great Wave - £19.99 - Available from Urban Retro

3. Paintbot by digisin - $19.49 - Available at MySoti

4. Robotic Tacos - $18 - Available from Foe Paws Apparel [previously featured here]

5. Robotrock (Gundam x The Clash ‘London Calling’ Album Cover) - $20 - Available from Chop Shop [previously featured here]

6. Robot SMASH - $16 - Available from Raygun Robyn

7. Mighty Robot - £24.99 - Available from Rimo-To [previously featured here]

8. How awesome would it be if the Dinobots were in one of the movies? - $20 - Available from 80s Tees

9. RoboShake - $17.95 - Available from Nerdy Shirts [men's small only, more options for the ladies]

10. Robots wish they could do the human - $15 - Available from Threadless

11. The Robot Blues - $20 - Available from Always Urban

12. Run R2! - $17.95 - Available from Split Reason

13. Robot Leg by Digisin - $19.49 - Available from MySoti

14. Krushbot - Available from Zero Boutique

15. Terror Bot T-Shirt - $19.99 - Available from Jinx!

16. Atomic Robot Smash - $28 - Available from Raygun Robyn

17. You Complete Me - $11 - Available from BustedTees

18. Mr. Roboto - £25 - Available from Drop Dead Clothing

19. Johnny 5 - $21.90 (CAD) - Copyright infringeingly available from Wordans

20. Ocu-Cop by Mediocre Design - $25 - Available at MySoti

21. The DaVinci Hax - $18.95 - Available from SplitReason.com

22. Mr. Roboto Goes Sightseeing - $18 - Not available from Threadless [sold out but too awesome to skip over]

23. Robo Power - $30 - Available from Epic Props

24. Torchbot 3000 - $17.95 - Available at Fuzzy Ink [robots and mustaches, what more could a hipster want?]

25. Helbotica (a robot made of Helvetica characters) - $20 - Available at Chop Shop Store

26. Terratag Hizashi White - £19.99 - Available at Urban Retro [previously featured here]

27. New World Order - $15 - Available at Threadless

28. Robot Decapitation - $19.99 - Available from Stabb

29. Robots in Disguise - $17.99 - Available from Jinx!

30. Toi Robot - $20 - Available from Toi

31. Flaming Robot Destroy - $28 - Available from Raygun Robyn

32. Dtoid Kamikaze - $15.95 - Available from Split Reason [Destructoid.com shirt]

33. Dead Robot by Mediocre Designs - $25 - Available at MySoti

34. Primordial Duel - $20 - Available at Design By Humans

35. Panda 2K - $15 - Available at Threadless [in women's sizes, at time of writing]

36. Robot Gorilla Suit - $19 - Available from Springleap

37. J-5 is Alive - Available from Slowshirts [actually, no, sorry, it's sold out]

38. Sunbot - $22 - Available from Enclothe

39. Duh Zombie - $19.95 - Available from Split Reason

40. Klaatu - $17.95 - Available from Jinx! [was Klaatu a robot or an alien? Or an alien robot? Or a robot alien?]

41. Skull Cahote - $12 - Available from Alphabet Arm

42. Prepare For Robots - $18 - Available from Robit Studios

43. Make Love Not War by Paul Burgess - $18 - Available from Threadless

44. Robots No Follow - $20 - Available from Chop Shop

45. Funkbotics (if you look hard enough you can see that it looks cool) - £25 - Available from Funkrush

46. AL Robot - $49 - Available from Tookata People

47. Roskel - $20 - Available from One Way North

48. Sleeping Robot - $20 - Available from Ha Ha Press

49. Humans are Dead - $17.99 - Available from Jinx!

50. The 209 (Robocop) - $22 - Available from Mini Cassette Tees

51. Horsebot - $19 - Available from Enclothe

52. Robot Chasing Horses - $15 - Available from Robot Shirts (who only have one robot-based design)

53. Recycle - £20 - Available from Funkrush

54. Shoot the Baddies by Olly Moss - $18 - Available from Threadless

55. Big Robot - €16.90 - Available from RDTS

56. Brobot - $19.49 - Available from MySoti

57. weRobot - $20 - Available from Chop Shop

58. Robot Attack - $19 - Available from Design by Humans

59. Glasgow Robot Riot - £15 - Available from My Robot Overlord

60. Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - $17.99 - Available from Jinx!6

61. Grandpa! - €22 - Available from Conkershop

62. Tofu Robot - $24 - Available from Spicy Brown

63. Obey Your Robot Overlords - £15 - Available from My Robot Overlord

64. Robot by digisin - $19.49 - Available from MySoti

65. R2 Manual by Reece Ward - £14.73 - Available from redbubble

66. I taut I taw a torm-trooper by Reece Ward - £14.73 - Available from redbubble

67. Modern Science by Travis Pitts - $20 - Available from Kindercore

68. Kid-Robot by Studio8Worx - $25 - Available from designbyhumans

69. Halftone-Robot by Old30Bastard - $20 - Available from designbyhumans

70. H1-N1 - $17 - Available from Loiter Ink

71. Deconstructo-Bot - $12 - Available from Suburban Hijinx

72. Bear vs Robot - $21 - Available from Bear Annihilator

73. Don’t Be A Robot - $10 - Available from Out Loud Clothing

74. Giants - $10 - Available from Scale the Summit

75. Robots Like Art Too - £15 - Available from Bang Bang T-Shirts

76. Wind-Up - £15.21 - Available from redbubble

77. R21DT - $18 - Available from Single Second

78. Cruelbot - $24.90 - Available from E.T’s Tees

79. Diamond Geezer - £20 - Available from Funkrush

80. The Robotanist - $19.99 - Available from Uneetee

81. Chaos came from the Ocean - $19 - Available (for women only at the moment) from designbyhumans

82. Robotz - $11.99 - Available from the Appreciation Post

83. Bedo Bot - $19.95 - Available from Bedo Shirts

84. Nouveau Mechanica - $21 - Available from Enclothe

85. Giant Squid Eating a Robot - £12 - Available from Lhome

86. Robots Are a Nerds Best Friend - $13 - Available from Crazy Go Lucky

87. Roboticus Carpalium - $12.48 - Available from thinker Clothing (featured on The Big Bang Theory… obviously)

88. Robots by luchaworkshop - $20 - Available in womens small or large from Etsy

89. Robot by happyfamily - $16 - Available from Etsy

90. Robots In Disguise by jamjamtees - $12.99 - Available from Etsy

91. Robot Attack by rainbowswirlz - $25 - Available from Etsy

92. Wise Robots by binarywinter - $24 - Available from Etsy

93. Robot Philosopher by ScreamPrinting - $19.95 - Available from Etsy

94. Robotech Valkyrie - $24 - Available from Etsy

95. Robot Brain by dylanS - $21 - Available from Etsy

96. That robot owl from that one movie…. [that's seriously what it's called] - $14 - Available from Etsy

97. Astroborg by spaghettikiss - $20 - Available from Etsy

98. Do the Robot - $9.99 - Available from 80sTees

99. Optimus Prime 84 - $24 - Available from 80sTees

100. Optimus Prime says ‘Stay In School’ - $20 - Available from 80sTees

101. What Would Optimus Prime Do? - $20 - Available from 80sTees

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I like it!

Costiness=$19 Available from Springleap

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In their words:

We’re having a 20% off sale for ALL of our t-shirts! At checkout just use the code “tshirtday” (without the quotation marks of course)! If you’ve been sitting around going “Gee, I sure do want to buy like a BUNCH of shirts from ShirtFight, and I want to celebrate International T-shirt Day somehow…but their shirts are *exactly* 20% too expensive for me”, well your troubles are over!

There’s no word there on when the coupon code will cease to work, but with T-Shirt Day coming up on Sunday I wouldn’t bet on it working next week.

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You know what, when I’m looking to buy a computer I wouldn’t start my research at a t-shirt blog; similarly, I don’t think you should go hunting for tees on a computing website. Still, despite some questionable choices, this list of 10 tee shops for geeks could be much, much worse.

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Tags » geeks • Lists • nerds • PC Mag • T-shirts

Gee, can you tell that this is a filler post since I almost never mention Palmer Cash because there’s a really big post coming up today?

To be fair to PC, the new tees are pretty cool and come from some solid brands, so maybe I should be mentioning them more.

A bunch of new designs for the month of June. Yes we have lots of new women’s designs in from Goodie Two Sleeves, and some great guy’s designs in from brands like The Ryde, Ames Bros. and Palmercash. Right now, you could pick out one of these shirts, be wearing it next week and most likely be one of only a handful of people in the world rocking that shirt on that very day. That’s a pretty exclusive club if you ask me.

Check ‘em out!

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With all due respect to Reece Ward, because I like his stuff, I don’t think that this tee should have been given quite as much love as it has received, because it’s a cool idea but it feels like it’s just plonked onto the shirt, which I guess is a limitation of what you can do with a POD supplier (redbubble in this case). However, the poster version would look good on the wall of any geek.

Costiness=$24.14 Buy the tee at RedBubble

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Tags » mac • PC • reece ward • T-shirts