Here’s another tee that would have looked mighty fine in the food tee list. Still, at least a post on its own stops it getting lost in the crowd. Red and black are always comfortable bedfellows and this design makes no headway in proving that hypothesis wrong. The simple design style is pretty sweet too, it gives it a bit of a retro feel… well, that might have something to do with the tee colour, but it all comes together in one enjoyable package.
ShirtFight aren’t doing contests anymore (the design competition world is too crowded anyway), so this design is the last winner of their contests, but I would imagine that as they’ve built up a good community that we shouldn’t worry about the quality of tees they’ll be releasing in the future.
I don’t know if any epileptics read Hide Your Arms, but please be warned that there is a small amount of strobing in the video above.
Amon Clothing are a new label from Germany, and if you look at the designs in the gallery or watch the video above, you’ll probably think, “yep, they have the look of a German label.” It’s quite strange how you can sometimes just look at a shirt company and be able to tell where they came from based on their designs, but I think that German companies especially have a distinctive tee style that helps differentiate them from the crowd. In this instance, unusual typographic treatments with strange imagery.
Aside from having cool looking shirts (which are about €28 each), the tees are made of organic cotton and printed using sustainable energy. I’ve still not made a decision about if there are real benefits to organic cotton, but sustainable energy sources are obviously a good thing.
T-shirts have a lifespan, they don’t last forever, they stretch, they fade, they get stained, and sometimes the tees stay the same but the owner changes size, or just changes their taste. This got me thinking, “what do you do with a tee when you don’t want to wear it anymore? (and you don’t want to give them to charity for whatever reason)” I’ve got more than 200 t-shirts in my wardrobe (and out of it, and draped on chairs, and stacked in cupboards, and hanging on racks), and they don’t all fit me now, so I thought I’d hunt around and find out what they devil I could do with all those superflous tees. As it turns out, other people have this problem too, and there are loads of tutorials out there with interesting ideas for how to recycle your t-shirts into something ‘new’.
My server has been crushed under the weight of traffic from my list posts in the past, and one way to try and alleviate the strain is to split an article into pages. This first page of 50 tutorials, projects, and videos doesn’t have any unifying theme to it, it’s just a random collection, some of which are pretty unusual ideas. The rest of the pages have been sorted into groups as they are often different takes on the same idea. Page two has 6 tutorials for turning your old tees into a rug or quilt, and 7 ideas for turning t-shirts into bags, often with the idea of using them as shoping bags, which I’m sure would get you a lot of approving looks at Trader Joe’s. The third page is for those of you that want to refresh and recondition your tees so that they’re still a t-shirt(ish), but with a bit of a customized twist to make you stand out from the crowd. Page four sees your tees becoming skirts and dresses, and I was pretty impressed with a lot of the finished articles on that page. The last page has links to books about reconditioning and recycling your t-shirts, so kind of like this list, except in book form. If I’ve missed something from the list, or you’ve had an idea but can’t find it anywhere online, feel free to share that in your comments. If you have enjoyed this list I would very much appreciate it if you could promote this article in some way, be it via tweet, stumble, delicious bookmark, digg, blog post, or envelopes stuffed with cash being posted to me.
31. This instructable isn’t about cutting your tees, but storing them, and whilst I don’t think it would be a good solution for my 200+ tee collection, it might be good for keeping a few of your favourites good-as-new.
On the second page of this article you will find 6 ways to turn your excess tees into a rug or quilt, and 7 tutorials explaining how to turn your tees into bags.
Springleap, South Africa’s premiere (only?) design competition, has teamed up with P.A.S.T (People Against Suits & Ties) to crowdsource a t-shirt for Casual Day which is held on September 5th in SA. That’s right, they want everyone to stop wearing their work uniforms, and everyone wear the same thing… which feels like a bit [...]
Perhaps if they’d crowdsourced the design of this tee someone would have noticed that they only have a single quotation mark for the quote, or perhaps that omission was on purpose.
Damn, I had a really snarky one-liner right there about this tee, and now I’ve over thought it and removed any element of ‘oh, [...]
I fear that I may be twitterising my titles, as there’s basically not much more information that I need to give you to understand this story… though I guess that is what a title in meant to do!
I’m a fan of the Big Bang Theory (both of them), and the way that Sheldon and Leonard [...]
You know what seems like an awful lot of effort? Pretending to go to the moon. In fact, to me, the only conspiracy theory is conspiracies exist saying that man never walked on the moon (or at least the first moon landing was faked). How does this idea still continue to this day when every [...]
Wandering around the St. Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday I noticed that whilst drinking t-shirts aren’t necessarily a genre that particularly excite me, people are always going to wear them, so they might as well be a lot better designed than the crap that was getting beer spilled down them on Market St. and the [...]
I know that some of you guys design t-shirts, and whilst I do have to go through some kind of creative process with writing blog posts and sometimes thinking stuff up at the internship, and sometimes I can’t think of anything interesting to write (you’ve probably noticed), and I’d be willing to bet that its [...]
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