PTnK stands for “Peace, Tolerance, ‘n Kindness”, which I must admit put me off this brand a little bit, the name’s a bit flowery for me, but I guess that when you’re a company trying to put a positive message out there then it needs to be in your name too. I really admire people that make a t-shirt line based on what they really believe in rather than what they think will sell well, because in my experience tees with a message can often be a tough sell. Although that’s usually because the message is put ahead of the design, but I think that PTnK have achieved a happy medium in that they’ve got some really cool designs, often in a vintage style, and the message isn’t rammed down your throat.

If you’re wondering what this message is that I’m yammering on about, PTnK is a women’s only t-shirt line that is trying to get away from designs that cheapen women, such as t-shirts that say “Daddy’s Little Slut” (I can’t believe that t-shirt actually exists, and on a lot of sites too).

PTnK

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Bristol-based Lhome have released a new design, and its a bit of a departure from what they’ve done in the past. Its good to see Kieran attempting new things with his designs, especially when the designs come out looking good! The oversized print works really well, and I think that keeping it as a one-colour print was a good idea too, if he’d coloured it in like a traditional playing card then it might have started to get a bit messy.

Costiness=£22 Tee Link

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Tags » Bristol • cards • king • lhome • oversize • poker • T-shirts • UK

Local Celebrity, who I like to think are a cut above the rest of the ‘funny’ crowd, have got a sale on at the moment. All you have to do is use the coupon code hotforteacher when you’re checking out whichever tees you’ve thrown into your virtual basket, and you’ll receive a 20% discount. They’re calling it a back to school sale, but I think that most of their 80s references will fly over the heads of most high schoolers.

Local Celebrity

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Tags » 20% • 80s • Coupon Codes • Local Celebrity • retro • sale • T-shirts

I liked the Olympics opening ceremony (colours! fireworks! dancing!), but there was one thing that really annoyed me. When they were making the speeches someone said something along the lines of “we’ve met all the aims and goals that the IOC gave us in hosting these games,” and I sat up in my chair a little bit since I’m pretty sure one of the conditions of them hosting the games was that they eased up on treating their own people like crap, yet they’ll just sweep that under the rug (and everyone else in the world will let them) and pretend that everything’s fine for a couple of weeks. With that little rant in mind, I’m really glad that Shirtspotting put together a post of tees that I wouldn’t dare wear in Beijing, so fair play to the woman above!

Read the post here.

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Tags » beijing • blogs • human rights • olympics • protests • Shirtspotting • T-shirts

I got an e-mail a couple of days ago (from someone that isn’t Gary Gao) which just contained the URL to this t-shirt, I didn’t actually click through because I was just checking my e-mails on my iPhone and we don’t have 3G (or even Edge) around here so I just moved on to the next e-mail, when I revisited the link today I realised it was fate. The link led through to a t-shirt design by Gary Gao, and I’m actually wearing the Gary Gao’s Ghost Camera’s hoodie right now, so I felt pretty compelled to post this tee. I’m not just posting it because of that moment of serendipity, he’s a great designer and really knows what goes into a good tee.

Costiness=$15 Tee Link (I can’t actually find this linked anywhere else on the Karmasoup site, so I don’t know how the tipster found it)

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Tags » American Apparel • apple • computers • gary gao • geek • ghosts • grey • karmasoup • mac • macintosh • T-shirts

I was pretty much only posting this t-shirt because it gives me an opportunity to point out my massive new TV (52 glorious inches!), but then I actually gave it a decent look, and I realised that its actually rather cleverer (how can a word about something being smart make you sound so stupid when you say it?) than I first gave it credit for. The minimalist frontage with a standby ‘light’ and a jack for headphones, is strongly contrasted with the busy goings on at the back, although I was expecting the text on the back to reveal some kind of joke, some of the sockets being labeled with more human attributes than ‘video output’, for example, but I guess Olly wanted to take this down a more serious route. Well, as serious as you can get when you’re wearing a tee that tries to make you look like an AV amp.

That said, I wouldn’t actually wear this. I appreciate the concept, and its executed very well, but I think it would make me look like I worked for a home theatre company if I wore it.

Costiness=$20 Tee Link

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Tags » black • clever • olly moss • T-shirts • television • Threadless

Why is it that Germans are so good at designing abstract tees? Extraweg, from the small German town of Wittichenau have quite a few tees that are pretty odd, but they’re also pretty awesome, I can imagine them going with pretty much everything in my wardrobe. They like having a play about with their logo by the looks of things, incorporating ‘extraweg’ into a few of the designs, but they do it in a subtle way that doesn’t turn you into a billboard.

Extraweg

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I’ve never really been all that into polo shirts with prints on them, but I think that this new polo line from Madrid-based label Tolky Monkys might turn me around on this piece of collared casual wear.

As usual, the designs are character based, and I’m really impressed with all of them, the tees are just for the girls and includes some really cute designs, the polos are for guys and girls.

Check out the girls tees, check out the polos.

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I don’t know if you guys can quite make it out because the picture has been scaled-down a bit to fit it in the column, but this is a really clever tee. Obviously you can tell that it says “everything is fine”, but can you tell that those words are made up of lots of things that should scare us and will most likely bring about your untimely death (such as stuck zippers, avalanches, and runaway elephants)?

In case you’re unaware, Wondermark is a popular webcomic written by David Maliki ! (he writes his name with an exclamation point after it) that uses illustrations from 19th century books and is pretty dang funny. This particular tee was loosely inspired by this comic.

Costiness=$18 Tee link (on preorder, shipping around August 20th)

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Tags » comic • funny • T-shirts • text • topatoco • webcomic • wondermark

When you hear the name Miss Do-Gooder and its someone actually describing themselves, you know that person is pretty willing to firmly plant their tongue in their cheek whilst they’re trying to save the world. Miss Do-Gooder, also known as Susan Wildes, started her t-shirt line because she wants to help bring an end to problems that injustices in the world, and she’ll be doing that by giving away part of the profits from the tees she sells. The first issue to be addressed? Animal cruelty. The way that people treat animals seems to have been big news recently, whether its thinking that its fun to watch and bet on animals fighting with each other, finding out how where the meat in your burgers comes from, or trying to give the chickens that end up on our supermarket shelves a better deal (like not having to walk around in their own crap), hopefully this tee can help do some good.

I really like Susan’s idea of making a superhero cartoon character based upon the alter ego that she’s created for herself, and for the character to be so cute makes it a lot easier to like, unlike the time I turned myself into a superhero and just got drunk. The image reminds me of illustrations from Roald Dahl books, which is definitely a good thing in my eyes, and that look of self-satisfaction on the face is totally priceless (actual price $25). Just having an outline print for the blue body and filling in all the other spaces is quite a cool design choice too.

This tee is printed on a 50/50 American Apparel tee. I don’t think I’ve received anything else from the 50/50 range in the past, but I’m sure I own a tee from AA that is a cotton/polyester blend, possibly from some kind of sports/athletic range, that I assume is fairly similar to this in terms of fabric that has lasted really well, keeping its shape and not losing any colour, so I’m pretty sure whichever of my lady friends is the recipient of this tee will be getting a shirt that lasts a long time. The print quality feels pretty decent as well, so a good product all in all. A quick warning to my non-US compatriots, Miss Do-Gooder isn’t quite ready yet for international orders (which makes me receiving one all the more special, I guess), so you’ll have to wait a while to buy a tee, but I’m sure you’d be able to give money to a local charity to help prevent cruelty to animals, or perhaps provide care for animals that have been mistreated in the past.

Costiness=$50 Tee Link

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Tags » animal cruelty • blue • Charity • review • Reviews • T-shirts • Womens