According to FB Joe:

Several of the fantastic t-shirts at Design by Humans are on sale for only $12! They’re trying to clear out some designs that they’re never going to reprint, so this will be your last chance ever to get them!

Combine this with the cheaper shipping options (or did that just about to non-US orders?) and we’ve got a bargain on our hands! The cheap tees are on the front page of designbyhumans.com under the title ‘Clothes Out’.

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I know that shipping costs are hardly the most exciting topic, but when you hear that something is going to be getting cheaper then I think it is worth noting.

I’ve never actually made an order at Design By Humans, so I have no real frame of reference to the shipping prices, but they’re damned cheap now. Their most recent mailout said that a single tee could be posted for as little as $5, which is a cut of about 60% on the previous cost. But when I added one tee to my basket and proceeded to the checkout, it said that postage to the UK was $4.14, which is obviously less than $5, and an excellent deal for those of us on this side of the Atlantic that love buying stuff from America but hate having to pay over the odds for it to actually get here.

They’ve also reprinted a load of tees as well, so if you were disappointed to miss out on a tee in the past take a look and see if its back in stock.

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Tags » design by humans • Restock • shipping

GearCrave, a blog all about manly stuff that manly-men buy, are giving away 25 tees from super-awesome design compeitition Design By Humans. Usually with these kind of things you’ll tell them your size, get what you’re given and be happy about it, but this giveaway has a little extra treat that you actually get to choose which tee you win.

To qualify for a free t-shirt from DesignByHumans, you must sign up, choose, and comment. Here’s how:

* Sign up for the GearCrave email newsletter. (you can do so here)
* Choose the shirt you want to win at DesignByHumans.com.
* Comment on this page and include a link to the shirt you want to win.

The contest is running until “Sunday, April 27th 2008 at 11:59p.m.”, I don’t know what time zone that is though, so I’d suggest not dilly dallying and leaving a comment now before you forget.

Here’s their blog post all about it.

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Hehe, I couldn’t stop myself resurrecting my old habit of punishing Americans for using American spellings in the title (how dare you not speak the Queens English!).dhectwenty (AKA Herman Lee, I think), you sir, are the man. If this tee wasn’t good enough, and it is, the one I’m featuring today is pretty damned impressive too. Paint splatters had seemed to be out of fashion of late, but this tee seems to deal with them in a different way. Instead of it looking as if paint has been flicked on it, there’s something a whole lot more natural about many of the splashes, although I guess that might be something to do with the gorgeous choice of colours. Colours, not ‘colors’. I’m never gonna give this spelling thing up am I?Costiness=$19 Link

In other DBH news, they’ve finally let us know what the ‘Fabric Edition’ is that we’ve been teased with for the past few weeks:

40 singles 100% combed ringspun cotton, custom colors.
Silicon and enzyme washed for extra softness.
Featuring hand picked designs every Friday.
Selected designers receive $1,000 instant cash!

Basically, they’re going to be picking their favourite submissions and printing them, negating the whole voting process, which seems slightly counter-intuitive to the process, but I think we can all accept that DBH (and any other design competition) isn’t a democracy and that sometimes they spot some designs that they just love and want to print whether the community wants it or not. I guess you could also argue that Fabric Edition actually reinforces the democratic nature behind the voting process, since if they’re doing this, they’re clearly dedicated to supporting the decisions of the voting community.

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Tags » black • design by humans • dhectwenty • fabric edition

Design By Humans, the hotter than hot design competition, have launched ‘Design For’, a new feature which I believe will be occurring monthly in which artists design tees based on a certain subject or theme for an entity such as a band, brand, or person. I’ve never heard of the band, but apparently Temposhark are the ‘next big thing’, so what the devil do I know. There is an inflated prize compared to usual, with the top prize being worth more than $1400 in cash and prizes, with several smaller prize packages coming beneath that.

Click here for all the details

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Tags » design by humans • temposhark

I remember when emo kids used to dress in all black, with a bit more black on the side, and spent their days staring glumly at the floor. Nowadays they’re all about the crazy-haircuts and dressing in neon. Whatever happened to emo kids actually being emo?

Well, that intro certainly made me feel old, but csj89 (the tees designer) has helpfully explained in tag cloud form exactly what emo is today:

emu bird, blade, chucks, black square rimmed glasses, finding fish, skate shoes, familiar puppet, skulls, crying, pills, social networks, makeup, nailpolish, tear, eyeshadow, guyliner, guitar, broken hearts, vinyl, piercings, mascara, stab, online journals, bleed, old school video games, butterflies, girly jeans, poetry, diary, roses, and rainbows.

Got it, cool, now there’s no need to people to post in forums about what emo is. Funnily enough, I wouldn’t think of this tee as emo, which was probably the point, its funny, its irreverent, and most importantly, it lets us know that razor blades are fun, and that’s a message we can all get behind.

Costiness=$19 Mens/Womens

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I keep hearing rumblings that Design By Humans is ‘taking over’ Threadless as the design competition to keep your eyes on. Personally, I think of them as serving separate markets, even if some of the artists submit designs to both sites, DBHs style is definitely evolving in a way that moves it away from Threadless.Industry-musing aside, this is a great looking tee and yet another solid release, it reminds me of Imaginary Foundation’s style (hmmm, I wonder why), casajordi has done a great job of putting a lot of elements, yet somehow managing to balance it and not make the design feel too busy.Costiness=$19 Link

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Tags » black • casajordi • collage • design by humans • imagine

One of my pet peeves about the green movement is that its all a bit in your face or ecotistical, so to find a tee that both supports the little changes that everyone can make, and is pretty funny is really refreshing.

Do you think that when you have an idea using a CFL bulb it takes slightly longer to dawn on you and is slightly less cool?

Costiness=$19 Link

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Tags » blue • bulb • design by humans • environment • green • light • sirbeauris • t-shirt