There are a few that were saved for online orders (and they might even be gone by now), but you can’t get them through the store, you need to e-mail your order (and possibly an offer of a bribe) to monster@johnnycupcakes.com.
Johnny Cupcakes [via Highsnobiety]
23 Oct
Posted by Andy as Bricks & Mortar, Competitions

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15 Oct
Posted by Andy as Bricks & Mortar, T-shirts

There’s Something In The Cupcake Mix Series 3
With the recent store opening of Johnny Cupcakes Los Angeles, hundreds of die hard fans flew in from all around the country to sleep on the street of Melrose Ave, awaiting for the grand opening of this coveted brand. Johnny Cupcakes flagship store in Boston is used to this type of excitement from fans.
There’s Something In The Cupcake Mix is a yearly Halloween t-shirt release party. Every year, Johnny Cupcakes releases a series of 4 limited, exclusive, monster-related shirts that sell out quick! This year, they should sell out even quicker. Every shirt is numbered up to 150 — but since we’re splitting them between both shops (Boston + LA) — there will only be 75 shirts of each of the 4 designs. Once they are gone, they are gone forever. All shirts are packaged in cupcake mix boxes, with hidden monster trivia pertaining to each of the monsters, a scratch and sniff sticker on top, as well as sprinkles that you have to dust off of your boxed t-shirt.
Doors don’t open until 9pm, but we suggest you getting there early. Feel free to come days in advance to wait in line with other fans. This year, we’re having all of our customers wear their best costumes to the release. We’re giving out free shirts to the first 100 customers. We’ll also be giving out real cupcakes and other treats throughout the evening. Photos and videos of the events will be posted on JohnnyCupcakes.com.
Doors open at 9pm
Wear your best costume!
Very limited - will sellout that night!Friday October 17, 2008
279 Newbury St
Boston MA 02116Saturday October 18, 2008
7959 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles CA 90046
From what I’ve been told, the lines will have already started forming for this (crazy!), but maybe if you run down now then you’ll be close enough in line to actually pick up one or two of the limited edition tees.
I can’t be entirely sure, but I think that they are the ones who have released the tees above, that I think are based upon photos of musicians (Iggy Pop, PJ Harvey, Stupefilp and my band of this year and last, Justice) by a French photographer that goes by the name of Natydred.
Find the tees at Nukod. Pour homme et pour femme.
06 Oct
Posted by Andy as Bricks & Mortar, political

Here’s what went down, last Saturday, on the last day for voter registration in Nevada, UNDFTD held an in-store voter registration session to try and encourage as many people as possible to get politically engaged. All of the people that registered in the UNDFTD store were given the tee shown above (by t-shirt design God Geoff McFetridge) as a gift. I don’t know how I feel about people essentially being bribed to register to vote (although I guess that just registering doesn’t actually mean that these people will actually cast a ballot), but I do have to applaud UNDFTD for doing their bit and getting involved with the election.
UNDFTD : Geoff McFetridge : [via Hypebeast]
10 Sep
Posted by Andy as Bricks & Mortar, video
Johnny Cupcakes LA shoppe: Webisode #4 from Johnny Cupcakes on Vimeo.
Here’s a video which shows off the cult of Johnny Cupcakes. Its a load of interviews with fans (and JC’s parents) from the day when the LA store opened, and I really enjoyed watching it, not just because I got to see the insides of the crazy store, but also because it was genuinely heartwarming to see how far these people would go to support one of their design heroes.
09 Sep
Posted by Andy as Bricks & Mortar, T-shirts
Just so we’re clear, these aren’t necessarily ink stains either, some of the ‘inks’ used are made from henna, wheat grass, fish guts, and delicious ice lollies. Dirty Laundry invited artists to stain t-shirts with a medium of their choice to be exhibited in the Nuuanu Gallery in Honolulu, Hawaii. The idea behind it is to make you question whether its possible to actually ruin a t-shirt, someone spills wine on your tee? Pour more wine on it! It’s not a ruined t-shirt, its art!
The exhibition runs from now until September 20th.

Upper Playground

Demo

Super Superficial

Howies

Chateau Roux

Lazy Oaf

Terratag

Your Eyes Lie

Concrete Hermit

Magma

Hideout

Slam City Skates

I’m sure that I’m missing loads of great stores off, but since I don’t go to London all that much I haven’t had a lot of opportunity to go exploring, so if you know of a shop that should be on this list when I’m next down in the big smoke then leave a comment and I’ll add it to the list (after a thorough vetting process of me deciding whether its cool or not).