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Pukka/Dank have been kind enough to provide HYA readers with an opportunity to pick up their ingenious t-shirt sketchbook for half price. In case you haven’t seen it before, the concept is simple, it’s a sketchbook shaped like a t-shirt so you can quickly sketch shirt designs. I know that you could just draw a shirt shape on a regular piece of paper, but where’s the fun in that?

Usually the price is $15 for a sketchbook, but PUKKA/DANK have been kind enough to offer us a coupon code that will give 50 people 50% off the sketchbook, making it just $7.50. Use the coupon code HIDEYOURARMS to receive the discount, and be quick, because there are only 50 uses on that coupon, once they’ve been used, the deal is gone.

T-shirt Sketchbook: It’s a sketchbook in the shape of a t-shirt!

by Andy on September 29, 2011

This is a pretty cool idea, I know that in practical terms you could just draw the shape of a tee in a regular sketchbook and just draw inside the lines, but this is a really fun way of constraining yourself to the shape and it might actually even be a useful tool for t-shirt designers that don’t do everything on their computer with a tablet. Each book contains 170 pages of 150gsm paper, and whilst at $15 there are cheaper notebooks out there, this one certainly is unique.

Costiness=$15 Buy it at Pukka/Dank

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T-World Teaser video for their upcoming 7th issue

by Andy on August 26, 2011

T-world 7: New York tee-ser from T-world on Vimeo.

Long-time readers will be well aware that I am a fan of T-World magazine (no point linking to the website, it’s literally a black page), even though I haven’t been able to pick up an issue for years now, since they seem to be stocked in 2 stores in the UK for about 1 week a year and if I want to get it online I’d have to pay £20. Twenty quid for a magazine is a bit much even if it is being sent from Australia.

This video is a teaser for their 7th issue which will be all about New York. It is also going to be a new format for the magazine and a new direction, and I think that it’s going to be available as a hardcover edition, which sounds an awful lot like a book to me.

So, I know that the 7th issue will be released a some point in the near-ish future, which means the hunt will soon be on to find a copy. If you know of any stockists let me know!

Gorgeous “Inferno” t-shirt by The Affair (with a coupon code)

by Andy on August 13, 2011

Hands up, who wouldn’t want to wear this shirt? I can only imagine that zero hands were just raised.

Costiness=£25 (get £4 off with coupon code dante) Buy it at The Affair Mens/Womens

“Soma” t-shirt inspired by Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’

by Andy on July 25, 2011

I’ve never read the book, I probably never will read the book (after reading about t-shirts all day I’m not too inclined to look at more words), so the reference is completely lost on me, but gosh darn it that is a great t-shirt.

Costiness=£25 Buy it at The Affair

“We’re all mad here!” Alice in Wonderland T-shirt

July 25, 2011

I really like this t-shirt, the style and colourway work well for me. I think I’d probably prefer it without the Alice In Wonderland logo, but it’s still very wearable as is. Costiness=R$45 Buy it at SambaClub [via Rumplo]

TypoShirt One book gets released, looks cool

November 17, 2010

We all know that I’m something of a fan of typography t-shirts, so it’s nice to see that this book has finally been released after the call for submissions I posted about earlier in the year. As you can see from the gallery there are a huge amount of t-shirts in the book, over 1700 [...]

Review: The Threadless Book (and win your own copy!)

October 15, 2010

I didn’t really know what to expect from the Threadless book, before the release I’d thought it was cool that they were putting something together for the 10th year, but I hadn’t paid much attention to what was going to be in the tome of ten years of Threadless dominating the ‘indie’ t-shirt landscape. Frankly, [...]

Check out the special boxed edition of the Threadless book!

October 14, 2010

I’ve got the regular edition of the Threadless book on my desk right now (review and giveaway coming up tomorrow), but I thought I’d share this video of the special edition that will be released soon, looks like a really cool package.

The Threadless book is looking good

August 7, 2010

As you are no doubt aware, Threadless are in their 10th year of business and making something of a song-and-dance about it, which is hardly surprising. I’m fairly sure that their 10th anniversary is on August 19th (note: it’s fairly likely that will be a $10 tee day, just my hunch), and whilst this book [...]

Call for submissions to a Typography themed t-shirt book

February 27, 2010

It’s Saturday, so hopefully you’ll forgive me for just copy/pasting this e-mail from the people putting the book together: TypoShirt One – Call for entries TypoShirt One is about typography on T-shirts. It is definitely not the first publication that deals with the topic of “T-shirts”, but it’s the first one that focuses exclusively on [...]

howies t-shirt of the month

September 24, 2009

I don’t really understand why they’ve decided to become a target of the grammar police with this tee, but it has reminded me that I need to try and read more books, bite-size knowledge from RSS feeds will only get me so far! Costiness=£25 Available for men and women at howies

Concrete Hermit are in Tate Modern

August 6, 2009

Whenever I visit the Tate Modern (I like walking along the South Bank when I’m in London, so I do pop in when I can), it reminds me that I know pretty much nothing about art. But then I get annoyed when people just trash the stuff in there because they don’t understand it, just [...]

Concrete Hermit’s Mystery Pack, it’s good because they’re good

April 7, 2009

Grab bags can be a perplexing beast, you may be getting a good deal, but is it really a good deal if you don’t like what the postman (or woman, it is the 21st century) brings to your door? Fortunately Concrete Hermit make good tees, by good artists, and whilst I’ve never perused one of [...]

Of Literature

September 26, 2008

I found out about this brand via emptees, yeah, that’s right there are forums out there where you’ll actually find something cool that isn’t a lolcat. Anyway, Of Literature is a brand that bases its designs upon famous books (such as the Wizard of Oz) and each tee features a quote from those books. I [...]

Wrongwroks: Everyone Steals

July 17, 2008

The more I learn about Wrongwroks the more I find that he’s actually “kind of a big deal” in Asia. At a recent toy festival in Taiwan people were queuing up two and a half hours early to be in line for a signing he was doing, and they were waiting in the rain! They [...]

Zeixs x Spreadshirt: T-shirt Design Book [Review]

July 9, 2008

Spreadshirt were kind enough to send over a copy of the book they put together along with Zeixs for the posts that I wrote about the recent International T-Shirt Day activities (peep some pics of the Berlin festivities here). Since I’ve got a fairly decent collection of t-shirt related books now I thought it might [...]

The Screen Printing Primer by Print Liberation

June 27, 2008

If you want to learn how to screen print from anyone, a company that makes really cool tees is a pretty good choice. I’ve never attempted screen printing, but I’d imagine that if I were going to give it a go then I’d need a fair amount of instruction, and my SpideyAndy-sense is telling me [...]

Concrete Hermit: Quick, over there, its a sale!

June 25, 2008

Straight from their mailout: We are having a quick sale in our online store. There are big savings to be had with between 20% – 50% off T-shirts and Books and 10% off all badge sets. We’re having a clear out to make way for our new stock. Some sizes/ designs may be limited… HURRY! [...]