I happened to stumble across this shirt last week while browsing online. Jugrnaut is a streetwear clothing brand and retail store out of Chicago, IL. While clicking to check out their t-shirts, this gem popped out at me and I couldn’t stop laughing. Ignoring the fact that I couldn’t figure out the black male cartoon character at first, UNTIL I googled Chip Tha Ripper . He is a music artist who has performed with such performers as Kid Cudi. Apparently a lot of his albums contain cartoon work of him and thus Jugrnaut collaborated with him (and allegedly has several times before) to bring you this t-shirt.
Why was I laughing? Well come on, if you were born in the 80′s then you definitely grew up watching The Jetson’s, Flintstones, Simpsons, etc, etc. I don’t know why it tickled me so much but seeing all these female cartoon characters together from my childhood on a t-shirt and after figuring out who Chip was; this design got 100 times funnier. Especially the fact that I don’t think Jane Jetson would fall for a gansta rapper smoking a doobie. I mean I can’t even imagine Chip Tha Ripper flying around Orbit City and sneaking into the SkyPad Apartments past Rosey. Personally I think he’s more Judy’s type.
Cost = $34.00 Buy it at Jugrnaut
by Andy on October 19, 2011
Chop Shop just keep finding new things to turn into silhouettes, don’t they?
This time around they’re giving us the hairstyles of 101 iconic women from past and present, and 31 rockers whose careers peaked in the 80s and you probably last saw on a reality show or VH1.
by Andy on October 27, 2010
On the face of it, the concept of a t-shirt about curling (the winter sport involving stones and brushes that apparently Scottish women are good at) done in the style of an 8-bit cartridge game package from the 80s doesn’t sound like it would catch my fancy, and when the designer sent me an e-mail about it was wasn’t that intrigued to be honest, but I clicked through anyway, and I was pleasantly surprised by what confronted me. Something isn’t sitting quite right with me about the font used for ‘curling adventure’ but I don’t really know what it is or how I would make it better, so it’s a bit of an open-ended gripe.
Costiness=$18 Buy it at Goodjoe (pre-order, shipped Nov. 5th)
by Andy on September 17, 2010
I’m pretty sure that in my last Chop Shop post I said I was getting a bit bored of their silhouette tees since they were flogging a dead horse. Well, perhaps not a dead horse, but one that was slowing down somewhat. This latest tee appears to have revied the style, adding in a new style, new shapes, and more colours. I like it.
Costiness=$17 Buy it at Chop Shop
by Andy on January 19, 2010
I know that this t-shirt comes from 80sTees and therefore isn’t ‘cool’, because really, who hasn’t heard of 80sTees? However, as a child of the 80s, I am always willing to overlook a few things if it allows me to get nostalgic about the movies I loved when I was young and not quite as bitter, and to be fair to this design, there isn’t really much more they could do with the concept, at least the blue of the shirt is being used as the ‘paper’ for the blueprints to be drawn onto.
Costiness=$20 Available from 80sTees [via Coty]
