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Organized Food Fight by Glennz

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)

American Dad Newspaper Headline

Ahh, too truer words have never been said, people that I meet always think that they’ve had a great idea for a t-shirt (a lot of people think I make or sell t-shirts, not just write about them), and they’re usually lame, so I have to smile politely and nod to spare their feelings. Clearly this isn’t just a UK issue, as shown by this newspaper headline from the title sequence of American Dad (season 3, episode 13 for those of you that are interested).

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It’s been an incredibly long time since we last took a look at Lenko, and thankfully they’re packing a catalogue filled with cool, if slightly bizarre designs. Unfortunately their pics are a bit small so its pretty hard to make out the details, but I think we can get the gist of it.

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The text reads “Have you noticed the squirrels are stocking up on canned goods?” I haven’t, around more area I have spotted a lot more of the damned grey squirrels and a lot less of the native red squirrels, but that’s probably beside the point… probably.

Costiness=AU$69 Link

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I think that this t-shirt makes a pretty good example for why CNNs idea to put news headlines onto t-shirts is a bit stupid. I didn’t write about it a few weeks ago when it went live because I couldn’t really understand why a person would buy a tee that had a news headline on it (unless, perhaps, it was a historical one like ‘Dewey defeats Truman‘) and this tee that I found on Digg is a pretty good example of that. I guess its funny, but only because it points out how silly this headline t-shirt idea is, although I must give props to Spreadshirt for getting such a big name client to use their API.

Costiness=$19.99 Link [via Digg]

AerWear Designs T-shirts

I’ve got the feeling that there will be people out there that won’t get this range of tees, because they are pretty bizarre, I’ll be the first to grant you that, but I think they’re funnier than a lot of ‘funny’ pun-based tees out there.

Basically, AerWear Designs take photos and puts captions with them that on their own aren’t really that funny, but when you put them onto a t-shirt, and you don’t know any of the people in the photo, its just about weird enough to go past ‘what the hell?’ to something that’s pretty funny, although like I said earlier, you’ve got to get it.

With a range like this, you’d think that quality would be an after-thought, in fact, I guess if you were going for a really a authentic look then the worse the quality the better, but AerWear actually offer each design on a ’standard’ t-shirt and the hipsters favourite, American Apparel. Prices are very good too, just $9.95 for a standard tee and $12.95 for one printed on AA stock.

AerWear Designs

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All funny, all $19.95, and all available @ Glennz

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Glennz: 3 new designs

Team Photo by Glennz

I neglected to tell you about Glenn Jones’ (better known as Glennz, who has had many tees printed by Threadless) new tee store a few weeks ago when everyone else was mentioning it. It’s not that I don’t like the designs, I just forgot to do it, but hopefully I can make it up to you by posting about the three newest designs that went on sale at his store a couple of days ago.
Haunted Housework by Glennz After Hours by Glennz

My fave is ‘Team Photo‘, it suits Glennz style really well, ‘Haunted Housework‘ is pretty funny and works well as a tee since there’s still a lot of people out there that love Ghostbusters, but I’m not really a big fan of ‘After Hours‘, possibly because I’m more of a pirate person than ninja person, though the image is pretty funny.

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The Rumplo crew have put together a blog post that has twenty high quality costume tees. I’m usually not a fan of costume tees since they’re a bit too novelty for my tastes, but some of these are actually pretty cool, especially since most aren’t really for costumes, more like visual tricks (like the one in the pic).

Rumplo Costume Tee blog post

Quicktees: TorsoPants

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Everyone seems to be posting about TorsoPants, a new tee site from T-Shirt Hell founder Sunshine Megatron (yes, that’s his legal name), and about how ‘dry’ it is. They’ve also got ads going on Gmail, again pointing out how dry it is. To be honest, I can take or leave the tees, they’re better than I would have expected, and there’s definitely a market for them, but they just aren’t my style.

Check out this page to see how you can get $8 off your order. Oh, and the links page is pretty funny.

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Tag Cloud tee by ShirtCity

Blog tag cloud tee by ShirtCity

Tag cloud’s always look a bit messy to me, which is why you won’t be finding one on HYA despite me slowly working my way through the archives adding tags to each post (which over more than 1000 posts is quite a lot of work). But I do think that its a pretty neat idea when it comes to t-shirt design. It would be nice if it were possible to input your web address and then have a robot generate personalised tags for your site automatically and put them onto the tee, but I guess that if you really wanted a personalised version then you could always just make up a tee of your own on one of the many custom t-shirt sites, of which ShirtCity is one.Costiness=€14.95 Link

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