This hoodie is very cool, and has that typical Paul Frank cheekiness about it. You know how you want to listen to music when you’re wandering around, but you have to mess around with the cable from the headphones so that it isn’t dangling around, well this hoodies solves those issues by having a headphone jack in the pocket and earbuds at the end of the drawstrings. My first thought when I saw this was “how do you wash it?” It says on the product page that the hoodie is ‘machine washable’ so clearly that’s been taken into consideration. I doubt that you’ll be getting the same sound quality out of these earbuds as with a pair of badass
Skullcandy ones like mine, but come on, the headphones are in the drawstrings, how cool is that!?
Coatiness=$36 Available from hoodiepeople.com
Have you ever looked at a t-shirt and gone “hey, wouldn’t it be cool if someone took this tee and printed another graphic on top of it, and wouldn’t it just blow your mind if those two graphics were random and not paired up in any way?”
That’s what Nonsek do, and at first you’d presume that it was a really stupid idea, pretty much flying in the face of all that makes sense in the design world. But, shockingly, some of that tees are actually pretty cool. Using the Nonsek Machine you pick an artist, and then just remix to your hearts desire until out pops a t-shirt that you like, and ‘good’ tees do appear with surprising frequency. It’s an unusual concept, so I recommend that you try it out yourself simply for the novelty value.
Nonsek [thanks for the tip, Pam!]
My apologies for the page of pics before getting down to the text (because I know you hang off my every word… right? Guys? Hello? Is anyone reading?), but I wanted to show you a few designs so that the effect was clear. Basically, as the tee gets hotter, presumably from body heat, parts of the design change colour, changing the tone of the entire design. As you can probably guess from the title, this is an idea that I really like, I’d like to see it in reality rather than in mock-ups, but
Ink Fruit are clearly trying something really interesting. I’d probably be just as excited about the designs as the special ink if they hadn’t put the text on the tree & suitcase designs, but I guess I can’t have everything. I should probably point out that I can’t find the above tees in their catalogue, which is disappointing (I’d written the rest of the post before noticing), so I would expect that these tees are currently being produced, sorry to get you all excited.
Also make sure you check out Ink Fruit’s other tees, they’re a(nother) design contest that have some great tees in their catalogue. [via Shirtlog]
I can’t see this catching on in the mainstream, like a lot of
Out Of Office Collective’s strange but wonderful products, but as a concept it’s very cool, and when writing about t-shirts has turned me into a millionaire I’m definitely going to buy one, possibly two. Basically, that little blue flap at the bottom of the tee makes sure that not only is this a normal t-shirt (with a flap at the bottom) but also a functioning pillow case. I can’t really imagine a situation in which you would need an emergency pillow case, but dammit I admire OOO for filling what may well be a void in the apparel/sleeping market.
