This collaboration has been quite a long time coming, teaming up UK streetwear label AnyForty with the worlds only t-shirt magazine, T-World, to release a t-shirt series showcasing the best design talent from Australia. There’s quite a few more designs in the collection, but there’s only so much space on the blog, y’know?
It’s really impressive to see how AnyForty has been growing recently, there seems to be something new happening over there every day and they keep pushing themselves to greater heights. We all know that I’m a fan of T-world (even though I believe it has been shamefully bereft of references to HYA!), and it’s really cool to see someone of Eddie’s influence collaborating with a UK streetwear label when I would imagine it would have been more lucrative to partner with someone in the US (though clothing seems to be fairly global these days anyway, especially when you get towards the slightly more premium streetwear prices).
Each shirt is £30, and comes with a special 24-page edition of T-World that is specific to the t-shirt artist.
by Andy on April 25, 2012
I would be lying if I said that the shirts at Purpleberry Blue were of my typical style, but that’s okay, partly because I don’t have to like everything, and partly because they only sell shirts for women and children. 10% of every shirt sold on Purpleberry Blue goes to help Crohn’s disease research, and that’s not just some charity that they’re picked out of the air, it means something. Will, the guy that started PB, suffered from Crohn’s disease from the age of 12 to 19, I don’t know how old he is now but I get the feeling that he is one of the fortunate one’s who have been able to get over the disease, and because he feels lucky to have his health back he wants to help others. I respect that a lot and wish him the best of luck.
Costiness=$20 Buy it at Purpleberry Blue
by Andy on March 20, 2012
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Hi Andy,
I thought you and your readers would be interested in hearing about the Design Comp we have going on here at Das Monk right now. It is open to all artists and designers, with the winner grabbing US$500 plus a spot in our Artist Collective (and a t-shirt no doubt!). Last year we had over 500 entries and we expect this year to be even bigger so we’d love you to spread the word via Hide Your Arms.
You can see all competition details here.
Thanks for your time and hope to hear from you soon.
Cheers
Brooke
Andy: I love it when people treat the post submission page like sending me an e-mail, it feels so much more personal and as if they actually want to be involved with the site rather than just getting their publicity and never being in contact again.
This post was submitted by Brooke Hendrick.
by Andy on January 31, 2012
Mountainman launched rather recently after the founder, John Hargreaves, graduated from High School. I don’t know how it works in Australia, but I take that to mean that John is pretty young. Still, there’s no reason why youth should get in the way of putting out a solid line of t-shirts if you’ve got the talent. John currently has four design in his Big Cartel powered store and the one above is my favourite, I also feel it gives a pretty good representation of his style (well, that and the launch poster, which I think he should get put onto some physical prints, pronto).
John is also blogging about the experience of creating his own designs and other aspects of launching his own line of tees. It does make for a very interesting read (for me, at least), and it’s cool to see the pride and passion that he clearly has for his work.
Looking forward to seeing what comes from Mountainman in the future.
Costiness=$23 (AUD?) Buy it at Mountainman
by Andy on January 19, 2012
Syke Clothing got in touch a couple of days ago to say “hey, we’re here!” I checked them out and I am mighty impressed, they’ve got some great graphic tees and I guess they’re something of a lifestyle brand because they’ve got shirts, shorts, hoodies and jackets too. None of it is particularly cheap, but as I understand it getting anything produced in Australia is a costly business (they’re based in Melbourne), even compared to the UK, so there’s not a lot they can do about that, and it all looks like good quality stuff so maybe the price is justified, it’s hard to tell just looking at a monitor.
Costiness=AUD $59.95 Buy it at Syke Illustrated
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