You probably all know by now that I really like it when t-shirt brands to something a little out of the ordinary, and I think that doing 3D designs and including glasses with every tee is certainly a little out of the ordinary. Fair enough, I wouldn’t wear the subtly titled “36D” tee for an afternoon stroll in the park, but I like the skull design without even seeing it in its three dimensional glory. Unsurprisingly, the tees come at a bit of a premium, but I’m sure that wearing such an impressive talking point will justify the €45 outlay, and at least it gives you a half-decent reason to wear sunglasses at night.

3D tees by Dissizit at Dadawan

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Remember the laFraise x Popdeck competition I mentioned back in May? Well, the skate deck has been available for a while (I thought it was, but can’t find it in the Popdeck shop at the moment), but its taken until now for the three t-shirt designs to become available.

Working from left to write in the picture, we have Afrobaby, Pop Corn, and Salaryman. Damn fine designs, each and every one.

laFraise

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Here’s another great theme for a design competition. Allmightys latest competition has the name “Future-Past-Perfect”, you may be wondering waht the devil that means. Well, how about letting Allmightys explain:

“…refers to a time that is in the future, relative to another point in the past, but is in the past relative to a point in its future.”

We would like you to think of the future as imagined in the past and how and what we expected to be has become somewhat different. Think future in relation to the past, think memories, challenges, imagination, expectation, disappointment and the future that lies ahead of us. What have we learnt and what should we expect?

Dates:
Competition announced: Monday 7th July 2008
Submission Deadline: Monday 25th August 2008, 23.00 GMT
Voting Ends: Friday 29th August 2008, 23.00 GMT

I’m sure I’m not the only person who thinks its fun to take a look at where people in the past thought we’d be by now. If you’re after some light inspiration for this theme, may I suggest you check out Daniel H. Wilson’s book Where’s My Jetpack? Which is a fun overview of all the technology that was promised to us in the 60s (jetpacks, food pills, moon bases, etc.) which never arrived. Or if you don’t feel like dropping the cash (the book is beautifully designed by the way, very shiny), you could always check out a cool blog I found called Paleo-Future that is all about this subject, and a fun read too. If that isn’t enough inspiration for you I don’t know what is, so go and let your imaginations run wild, because this theme seems like a lot of fun.

As is often the case with Allmightys competitions, €1 from the sale of each of the winning designs will be given to charity, in this case Greenpeace will be receiving the donations.

Read this info (minus my delightful commentary) again at the Allmightys blog, or check out the competition’s dedicated page.

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Hmmm… the mighty strawberry are trying to tell us something, but have hidden it within some kind of impenetrable code:

Tomorrow -> August 2nd -> voucher code -> LFSALES08 -> -25% -> even on the 11 or 17 Euro shirts.

Can anyone work it out? It’s like an enigma, trapped in a riddle, surrounded my a mystery (I wonder if Winston Churchill ever thought that his description of Russia would ever be used to descirbe a t-shirt sale).

LaFraise

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Tags » Coupon Codes • France • lafraise • sales • T-shirts

A great range of tees that deserve far more words of description than this, click on through to find out for yourself.Coltesse

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Have you noticed how amazing Sehubabe’s designs are, quick, someone put them all on Rumplo, now!The promo poster for their new designs is pretty sweet too, click on the image to see it larger.
Sehubabe

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This tee is surprisingly awesome considering it seems to have come from the pun that Superman and superstitious both have ’super’ at the start of the word. The ‘S’ effect appears fairly subtle on the detailed view, which worried me a little, but it’s actually pretty pronounced with that familiar red and slightly less familiar ‘every other colour in the world ever’ colourway on the promo shot up top, which calmed my fears. Isn’t it odd that I was worried by the second picture in LaFraise’s blog post when I obviously saw the top picture first?Costiness=€22 Link

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Tags » blue • France • lafraise • logo • Mens • movies • parody • superman • superstitious • T-shirts • Womens

I’ve mentioned on HYA before that I’m something of a fan of Justice, the rather excellent purveyors of electronic music. I’d noticed that there was a few tees around referencing them and their music, so I thought I’d whip together a post about them. A couple of these are from the infamous video for D.A.N.C.E, but I realise that there a lot more of the tees from that vid can be found on these Daily Tee and Tcritic posts.

1. Teelovers described the tee at the top of this post as the ultimate t-shirt for lovers of Justice. I like the idea of random people in the street not knowing who it is and just thinking you’ve got some weird guys face on your tee (hey, that might be a good idea for a line…). No link since I don’t have a clue where this one if from or if it can even be bought.

2. I think it’s cool that someone would like a song so much that they’d design a tee that references it, especially when the song in question has loads of tees in its video. Link
3. This tee is a totally unofficial homage to one of my favourite tees in the d.a.n.c.e video. I think it would look nice paired with a shirt. Link
4. This tee is also from the d.a.n.c.e video, and tickles the part of me that likes fake clothes, by which I mean t-shirts that aren’t meant to look like t-shirts (the fake tuxedo tee is probably the most famous example). If you go to The Kid America Club store, then put in your region, then click on t-shirts, and you’ll find this beast staring you in the face. I’d give you a link straight the the tee, but KAC are rather particular about how you reach it.
5. Ok, fair enough, this design is from the same collection as number 2, but why mess with something that works? For those of you that aren’t up on your Justice, this tee has the main lyrics to the breakout remix they did (Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends) for a radio remix contest that was so good it led to them signing to Ed Banger records, who they’ve been with since 2003. (to see this in yellow, and with more skin than you would have thought was necessary, go here) Link

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I bet you thought you’d never see the cotton filter again!

Shirt.Woot: As spotted by Jay, Shirt.Woot is now shipping to 45 countries beyond the US & Canadian borders, and are doing so for the low price of $5 too.

FFee Clothing: In other shipping related matters, FFee clothing are offering free shipping on all orders (even international ones) until the end of May.

T-Shirt Magazine: This site claims to be the only magazine about T-shirts whether online and off, which is… wrong (and Tcritic’s new look is farily magazine-like too), but lets not hold that against them, since there is some decent content on the site.

LaFraise: They can now print up to 12 colours on a shirt rather than the 8 that they had before, which is an increase of 50%… hurrah! To celebrate, they’re making up a test design (only 250 to be produced) called ‘Let’s Get Ready To Rainbow’, which I think is a pretty splendid phrase.

Threadless: If you’ve ever wanted to know, these are the people that do the screenprinting for Threadless (the art prints, not the tees). Also, here’s another magazine article fawning over Threadless and their business model, there’s pretty much nothing new in the article, but it does provide a decent overview.

Pete Wentz: Apparently he likes Local Celebrity clothing so much that he asked to take some after wearing it for a Fall Out Boy video shoot. Presumably he’s trying to save some cash for when Ashlee pops that baby out.

Creative Directory 101: A directory of sites for creative people, obviously, this will be helpful for people trying to get themselves set up in the tee biz (especially if you’re in the UK). [Disclosure: I'm still working on a HYA Directory that would crush compete with this site]

Pikiware: Mashable described this site as being the “Wordpress of Online Tshirts”, and since I love Wordpress and t-shirts I figured it was worth a peep, especially since the last time I found out about a t-shirt store from Mashable it was Design By Humans. From what I can tell, pikiware is basically a storefront system for people that print their own products, so that you can make your own Cafepress or Spreadshirt kind of business, though I have been known to make mistakes in the past, so I could easily be wrong. I don’t really see this being of huge interest to “HYA kinda people”, but since it does represent something kinda new in the tee world then I thought it was worth a mention.

Instructables: Here’s an instructable about photo-emulsion screenprinting, which I assume would be helpful for those of you that would like to print your own tees but don’t know how.

HipHipUK Discusses Crowdsourcing: This post seems to have become rather business-y, and this is the most business-y of the lot. Adam wrote an article a few weeks ago called “Which risks and problems will companies, that run Crowdsourcing business models, face in the future? Amongst other things” that I think should probably be a must read for any of you out there that are running a design competition or thinking about running a design competition.

Photojojo: They’ve got an article all about shooting pictures for use on eBay, but a lot of the techniques can also be applied to taking products shots for your tees and hoodies. There’s also a video on the same subject at Etsy if you don’t feel like reading.

Dadawan: They’re selling cool cushions now!

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I wouldn’t usually mention a t-shirt that has sold out (especially as the last post was something that didn’t have a ‘buy’ link), but I spotted this on in my bookmarks and I’m really annoyed that I didn’t mention it to you before. In my defence, on the French blog post about it (yep, I even subscribe to the blog I can barely read) a couple of months ago they didn’t provide a link to the sale page, so I guess I was probably waiting for a shop link to come up before posting it, and then just forgot entirely. Hopefully something that looks this good will get reprinted at some point, and I think that the print might actually glow in the dark, which I can only imagine would be utterly incredible.Costiness=€11 (if it were in stock) Atlantis by Pagan for LaFraise

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Tags » American Apparel • city • France • green • hot model • jellyfish • lafraise • ocean • Pagan • sea • T-shirts