Ronald McDonald + Pizza = Ha!

Costiness=$19.95 Tee Link

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Ucon, who came to our attention a few weeks back and I’m happy to be featuring them again with a new line of food-themed tees and a great photoshoot to go with them (which explains why I put so many pics at the top of this post).

There’s three colourful designs in the mini-collection, involving donuts, ice lollies and watermelon, or as I like to call them, two things I feel guilty about eating and one that I don’t.

They’re all €29.95 and all in stock at the Ucon shop at the moment.

Ucon Acrobatics

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Glennz continues his fine run of form with another top notch design. I wonder why he didn’t add faces into the mascots? I know you can’t usually see the face anyway with mascots, but it seems to leave a darkened circle on each character.Costiness=$19.95 Link (also available as a poster for $12.95)

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Andy: “Ummmm, why have you put those badges into takeaway cartons?”YCMIH: “One day we were making our onion-design badges and we noticed that they were… y’know, onion… badges…“(Queue bemused look from the devilishly handsome blogger)

Andy: “……..”

YCMIH: “Onion Bhajis!”

Andy: “Ahhhhh! Now I get it”

And with that, I was thoroughly smitten with the ladies behind You Can Make It Happen, a small Manchester-based company set up by Jo Finlay in 2003. There was a fantastic quirky-Britishness about them, their designs, and entire brand philosophy that was really endearing. The often doodle-like hand drawn illustration style is a staple of their (usually food-inspired) designs, something which goes hand-in-hand with the hand-printed, limited edition nature of all their pieces.

Fittingly, considering the food-theme that seems to run through their range, YCMIH are getting healthy and eating their greens. That rather strained metaphor (analogy?) means that they’re sourcing all their products from manufacturers that employ fair, ethically and environmentally conscious working practices.

They had quite a few products at Margin that I can’t spot on their typically whimsical, hand drawn website, such as a new ‘eat your greens’ range, and a guilt-free eco-bag, a product that is really big in the UK at the moment, so it might be a case of it taking a while for them to get to the site, but it’s entirely possible that they’ll have the latest stuff at Manchester’s Fashion Market every Saturday 10am-5pm on Tib Street (near Debenhams, if you know Manc. you’ll probably know where that is).

You Can Make It Happen

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I’m currently umming and ahhing about whether I should go to Hong Kong in a couple of weeks for a holiday. I want to go, but I’m a little apprehensive about going on my own. And when I saw this tee land in my inbox, I took it as another sign that I’m meant to see this view with my own eyes at some point in the future.Costiness=€28 Link

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JC has been getting all anthropomorphic on us, dropping three new designs on us that all involves kitchen appliance’s getting their own back. As ever, great style, funny images (yeah, I said funny, nothing scares the Andy!), and you can still get a free scarf ($35.99 value) if you spend more than $100, which is about 3 tees in Cupcake land.

Costiness=$35.99 Link (Kitchen monster designs are currently occupying the top row of the shop)

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I noticed Turk (actor Donald Faison) wearing this tee on an old episode of Scrubs a couple of days ago and found it pretty easy to track down. I think this is yet another case of product pictures not doing the design justice. Admittedly, this isn’t exactly a stunner, but surely once you’ve received your tees from the printers it makes a lot more sense to show the customer the real thing rather than a computer-generated mock-up?I got a box of tofu for Christmas (strange family, I know) and I was amazed to find that the box is a tofu ‘factory’, when it goes into the carton it is a liquid, and starts to turn solid in the carton. Something about that process says to me, ‘this should not be eaten by people.’

Costiness=$21 Link

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I like the abstract nature of this hoody, even though I don’t really know what ‘collard greens’ are, must be an American thing… readers?

Anyway, Beandip clothing make every sweater and tee to order. Their hoody range is pretty interesting (as are their hats) so check out what they have to offer. Personally, I just think there’s something kinda cool about wearing a shopping list…

Costiness=$48, only large available and the hoody URL is here.

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