Well, here’s a novel concept, a t-shirt company that think everyone is an artist. I think they realise that not everyone is the next Rothko or Mozart, but they might be on to something with this idea that ‘everyone doodles’. I guess that’s true to one extent or another, and it actually works surprisingly well as the basis for a clothing line.

Despite the whole “everyone is an artist” thing, their first range of tees shows a lot more doodling talent that you’d find on the writing-pad next to my telephone, and the 3 tees are all pretty cool. Each range (released every few months) is based upon a theme, and the first theme was ‘monsters’ which always provides excellent fodder for designers. I don’t think that there’s actually any kind of prize for people that submit their doodles (although even designs that don’t become a tee get shown off in their gallery), but I really like the old-school way that to submit your artwork your have to send it via snail mail, after all, its hardly a doodle if you’ve done it in Adobe Illustrator!

Draw Limited

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Coltesse are one of those brands that I think typify a European style of design and illustration even though I’m not really able to pin-point what it is about them that makes them seem so European (oh Andy, so good with ideas, so poor with execution). They’re running a 33% off sale at the moment, which drops their tees from €29.90 to an altogether more friendly €20 each. The sale runs until October 10th, which is the day after International Andy Day (… my birthday).

Coltesse

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I know this isn’t even close to being about clothes (although I guess the badges could be attached to clothes), I thought you guys might be interested. Funkrush have released a couple of new very reasonably priced (£5) A3 sized prints based, one of which is based upon a popular and/or awesome tee design, and I think the other is a fresh design that would make a popular and/or awesome tee design. They’ve also released a couple of badge packs that can be purchased for £2.99 each.

Funkrush

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Tags » badges • funkrush • ghosts • illustration • prints • UK

I can’t decide whether I’d actually wear this tee, I’m not that into wearing tees with illustrated puke on them, but I must admit that it is a beast of a design. It’s a collaboration between Horsebites Design, Derek Deal and Team Doom, a group who, I’m sure you’ll agree, all have rather respectable design chops.

Costiness=$20 Pre-order the tee here

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Tags » American Apparel • big cartel • collaboration • derek deal • horsebites design • illustration • T-shirts • team doom • viking • white

When I took my mini break earlier this week it was because I headed down to London to wave goodbye to this guy since he moved to Brussels yesterday. In the interests of maintaining a decent segue I thought it would be appropriate to post Toykyo, a Belgian-based production and design company that also sell art/clothing/plush dolls and urban vinyl. They’ve got a cute and fun style and really know their way around t-shirts, so hopefully this first run of three designs (limited to 200 pieces each) will lead to more releases in the future.

Toykyo

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I don’t think I’ve ever written about a Russian t-shirt site before, so I guess this is another country that we can cross off the map (if I had a map like that, which I don’t).I’d actually found out about Blokk a few months ago, bookmarked them, and then promptly forgot to write an article. Luckily I was reminded by the company themselves of their existence, and I decided it was about time that I did my bit to try and thaw Anglo-Russian diplomatic relations. If anything can fix things after we might have spied on them, and a Russian got radiation poisoning in Britain under dubious circumstances, I’m sure writing about an awesome t-shirt company will do the trick.
They’ve got 4 designs up for sale at the moment, and I’d describe each and every one of them as pure, unadulterated torso-candy. Three of them were done by an in-house artist (Klokki), and oneby a Ukrainian artist called Irena Zablotska (also known as Joulu) as their first collaboration ina . There’s no real unifying theme to the designs, both in terms of style and subject, which is surprising considering Klokki accounts for 75% of what’s available. That isn’t an issue though, since, as was previously mentioned, all the tees are chocked full of awesome.There isn’t a whole load of English on their site, but you should be able to work things out just by clicking around, and you can make an order by e-mailing them if you aren’t in Russia (and judging by my traffic logs, you probably aren’t).

Blokk

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Now, isn’t that a pretty picture?

 

Cool design, homemade silk print (so don’t expect a costiness/link at the bottom), and a cool log exposure photo to go with it, how could you want anything more? I’m sure I recognise the style of the face on the pyramid from somewhere, I get the feeling it might be some kind of Japanese character, if you’ve got any idea just drop a comment please.Photo credits: taklu4she & herbhrb

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Tags » flickr • games • green • illustration • T-shirts • teal

Le Sucre, the French-named, Germany-based, sugar-loving clothing company, have released a series of new designs that look pretty freakin’ sweet, and rather unusually, some of the girls designs are printed onto tee dresses. They aren’t particularly cheap, but prices do include shipping (although people outside of Europe need to contact them to discuss how much their shipping will be).

Le Sucre

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Tags » American Apparel • Germany • illustration • le sucre • Mens • New Designs • T-shirts • text • Womens

Hicalorie, whom I’ve professed my love for on HYA in the past, have unleashed their summer 2008 range upon stores across the world, but they wanted to reward their many die hard fans by posting some items that are exclusive to their Big Cartel powered store. It’s not all quite available yet (the skate decks and original art are labelled ‘coming soon’), but there’s plenty there to whet your appetite. The store is British and all listed in pounds, so I’m afraid it might make painful reading for Americans even with the dollar/pound rate swinging a little bit back your way, but if the prices bring a tear to your eye, at least you’ve got some decent eye candy to look at.Hicalorie.com
Hicalorie store

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Tags » Exclusive • hicalorie • illustration • New Designs • UK