Frischfleisch (‘Fresh Meat’ in German) sent me an e-mail saying “hey we have cool shirts” and I would tend to agree with them, the idea of a shirt with FRISCHFLEISCH stamped on the front in a fairly imposing typface with unique and individual blood-like splatters on the front of the shirt is fairly cool. Admittedly, it’s not especially original, but just because something isn’t original doesn’t mean you shouldn’t like it.
However, I can’t work out how you’re actually meant to buy one of their shirts, am I being silly or is it not particularly obvious?
Dexter is such a good show, anyone else watch it? I’ve even read that it’s one of those rare cases of the TV show/movie being better than that book. I know it’s pretty rare for me to link to something from ThinkGeek when I’m not writing a list or analysing what Roy wore in The IT Crowd, but they actually have some pretty cool pop culture tees, and I’d count this one referencing our (apparently) happy-go-lucky serial killer anti-hero amongst them. Am I reading too much into it, or do you think hey picked that khaki green colour for the tee because it matches what Dexter wears when he’s out on a killing mission (or does he wear grey? I can’t remember)?
Costiness=$16.99 Buy it at ThinkGeek
This tee is pretty simple, but sometimes simplicity is the key to a tee that is really wearable, and this tee looks damn wearable to me.
One of the interesting things about Cure Apparel, and it would take a man (or woman, obviously) smarter than me to realise, is that all their designs are related to diabetes in some way. The brand’s founder, Kelly, has type 1 diabetes, and Cure Apparel is his way of supporting research into the ailment (disease? I don’t know how to descrbie it) by giving some of the profit to diabetes research.
Costiness=$19.99 Buy it at Cure Apparel
Here’s the latest and greatest from the robot-lovers over at
Terratag, this time around they’ve got Tokyoplastic to do the designing for them, and I think he’s done a pretty tidy job. The mix between the halftones and the solid-colour blood splashes works really well.
Costiness=£20 Buy it at Terratag
To me, the character design on Tokyo Massacre is pretty cute, yes, she’s holding a chainsaw, but at the same time, its a pretty cute style. Maybe I’m starting to get a bit dark if I think that anyone wielding a chainsaw can be cute, please shout at me if the blog starts getting too gothy (“dudes, this glow in the glow in the dark tee would go great with my pentagram necklace, ring, and belt buckle!”).
The second design that Akumu Ink released this month looks like someone decided to put a chess board on your chest with a razor blade, and even gothy old Andy thinks that this may well be a little dark, but I do quite like it. The tee is called Shukketsu, any chance a Japanese speaker in the audience could enlighten us?
Oh, and they promise they’ll have hoodies on sale next month, huzzah!
Akumu Ink
