I may not know too much about the printing/manufacturing side of the t-shirt industry, though I am learning throughout this HYA tee and upcoming artist series process, but one thing I have learned so far is that there is no point in me trying to do everything myself. I know what I’m good at (rambling on the internet) and I know what I’m not (most other things). Jon Kruse has written a great post about outsourcing and delegating your workload when trying to run a t-shirt business that says what I just said, but in a longer and more entertaining way that actually explains why you should delegate.
Check it out at How To Start A Clothing Comapny
I can’t help but feel that I am in the perfect positition to be the guy that runs Year Of The T-Shirt. Basically, he’s just going to wear a different shirt every day of the year, take a photo of him wearing it, and provide minimal commentary. In some respects he’s kind of like the I Wear Your Shirt guy, except he isn’t pimping the people who make the shirts at every opportunity, in fact, I think that a vast proportion of the tees are ones that he bought himself, though like most people he probably wouldn’t complain if you sent him a tee. The site is quite sparse, but in a pleasing way, which is probably why I’d ruin a project like this, because if I see a space I just have to fill it, and every so often I have to fill it with adverts, because otherwise I’d have to be doing some job I hate.
It’s a cool site and a nice idea, so check it out.
by Andy on December 14, 2009
in Bargains!, Celebrities, Environmental, Lists, Mens, News, Political, Retro, T-shirts, Text/Typography, Threadless, Womens, funny, movies
After the success and popularity of my previous list posts such at the
202 Star Wars t-shirts and
robot lists (and of course the ridiculously meta
list of t-shirt lists), I started saving up links of tees that fit into various categories, but there’s no point me just saving them up indefinitely, so it’s about time I started posting all these lists, most of them don’t quite breach the lofty barrier of more than 100 items in a list, but as they say, it’s not the size, it’s the amount of time Andy spent thinking up the metaphor.
As fasr as t-shirts go, few are more iconic than the design Milton Glaser created to help promote New York (the state, not just the city) back in the 70s. That design has gone on to be used in hundreds of different ways and become part of American pop culture, so it’s hardly surprising that the style has found it’s way onto more than a few t-shirts.
As ever with my list posts, THEY ARE NOT IN ANY RANKED ORDER, the numbers are merely there to keep track of the amount of tees in the list. I say this every time and no one seems to listen, it’s as if you skip the intro and move straight on to all the tees! Also, there are some affiliate linked shirts in there, so it’s possible I will earn money from people buying certain t-shirts on this list, but as I’ve listed just about as many as I could find, it’s hardly surprising that some of the companies have affiliate programmes. Some of the tees in the list are sold out already, and depending upon the success of this post some of them could become sold out in the future, but they could also be reprinted, so in many ways these tees are like Schroedinger’s cat before you click on the link. The list has been split into two pages to make things a little bit easier on my server, but please click through to the second page, because some of my favourites are on there and I think the list finishes pretty strongly, so they’re all worth checking out.
As ever, any exposure you can give to the list (stumble, tweet, delicious bookmark, blog post, digg, ill-considered full-back tattoo) will be greatly appreciated, and I’ll write up a thank you post with links back to everyone that helped in a couple of weeks. Now let’s go love some t-shirts!
1. I heart Something by The Tee Party – From $15.99
2. I heart Google by NerdyShirts – $19.97
3. I have never seen Star Wars by Reece Ward at redbubble – $24.34
4. I Bike SF by Super7 – currently unavailable
5. I cannot remember much about the weekend by Regal Clothing – £17.50
6. New York Loves Me by Local Celebrity – $28
7. I heart TPM by The Printed Mind – $19.99
8. I heart LDN by Clothing For Culture – £25 (various colours available)
9. I heart New Year by ha-wear at Etsy – $20.99
10. I really just want to have sex with you by DeezTeez – $14.99
11. I Texas NY by Saltlick NYC – $58 (yeah, I know)
12. I Square Pixels by Bytelove – €22
13. I bomb NY by The Originators – $25 (I assume ‘bomb’ is a graffiti term?)
14. I Love Coffee by Kirksey Wells for Threadless – $12 (currently sold out)
15. I dyslexia heart by Busted Tees – $20
16. I Steel Pittsburgh by Peoples Cartel – $28
17. I heart my nerd by NoiseBot.com – $22.95 (available in many colours and as a hoodie)
18. I love Beatport by Beatport – $24
19. I love Apple Pi by Adam de la Mare at RedBubble – $25.94
20. I Used To Love Her by UNDRCRWN – $28 (currently sold out)
21. I Love To Cook by Pyknic Clothing – $26.98
22. I love toxic waste by Found Item Clothing – $21.95 (as seen in the film ‘Real Genius’)
23. I USB Geeks by Lola Camisetas – €11
24. I love zombies by Mike Friedrich for Scribtee – £15.40
25. I Uzi LA (I don’t know where to buy this but I’d like too)
26. I love love love polygamy by Busted Tees – $20
27. I Love Love by Blend Apparel – $29.99 (printed on a bamboo tee)
28. I Disco NY by fauxsure at Etsy – $23
29. I’m apparently not too happy with LA by Rogue Status at Karmaloop – $18
30. I love Electric Zombie by Electric Zombie – $10 (on it’s last printing and only available in large)
31. I rock out to Metal by Ex-Boyfriend – $24.99
32. I heart nerds at Zazzle – $32.60
33. I Love Pixels by zerotees at Skreened – $23.99
34. I F LA by Lipstick Prohpets – $26
35. Holly Madison loves Candy (and publicity) and I have no idea where to buy her top from.
36. I heart NY (with gold foil) by Christopher – $34
37. I heart LA (with gold foil) by Christopher – $34
38. I love shoes bags and boys by House of Mental at MoreTVicar – £22
39. I love Mushrooms by Tee and Toast – £20
40. I can Street Art by Cotton Factory – $15.99
41. I bike LA by Local Celebrity – $28
42. I Sample Favela Funk by Palmercash – $22.97
43. I love New York Girls by Monsieur Steve – €19
44. I Love/Stake Buffy by Thinkgeek – $18.99
45. I love the Poker Room, no clue where you can buy this, I just like the photo.
46. I Love Lamp by snorgtees – $16.11 (currently on sale)
47. I Love Boxed Wine by NoiseBot – $22.95
48. I Bike Bike by Cotton Factory – $15.99
49. I Miss NY by Lipstick Prophets – $32
50. I bread clip bread clips (& I don’t get it?) bySport Coat Clothing – $13
Click here to visit the second page of this list, there’s some really great tees coming up, I promise!
It would be remiss of me not to mention that Micah of
ATshirtBlog.com (formerly tees.ms, or tee.ms, I can’t remember) is also going to be making that risky transition from ‘person who tells you which tees are good’ to ‘person who hopes his tees are good’
with the tee you can see above. His shirt is kind of a logo tee, the three yellow bars can be found on the favicon of the site and yellow is prominent in the design, so it’s a logo tee, but it’s a subtle one.
Micah writes what I think is one of the best t-shirt blogs out there, I like almost every tee he posts, and I’m pretty sure I steal more tees from him than anyone else (for posting, I’m not making the trip to San Francsico every week to rob the man), so I really hope that his venture in the tee world goes well.
Much like my effort, the shirt will be ‘coming soon’, and I’ll let you guys know of any developments.
