I got an e-mail from a guy called Gaston Caba, an Argentinian artist who seems to specialise exclusively in ‘good’ art, to tell me about the designs that he’s made for a hitherto unkown (to me) brand called Outer Space, who hail from Taiwan. I guess that you could say that almost all the designs are logo tees, but since Outer Space is a fairly generic term I think that you could easily wear it and people wouldn’t have a clue that you were promoting a brand.

I really like Gaston’s style, there’s something really fun, cute and retro about it. There’s a big gallery after the cut, with some great images, so you might want to check that out.

Outer Space
Gaston’s blog post about the designs (including how to order the tees if you aren’t Taiwanese)

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Bobby from Monstar Clothing dropped me a line to say that he’s running a sale from now until the end of the month (thats October 31st, obviously) where his tees are priced rather attractively, one of themis even just $6.66, which are the kind of seasonal sale prices you like to see!

Monstar Clothing

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If you’ve ever looked at Beautiful/Decay’s apparel line thought “awesome but too expensive,” well, you are in luck my friend because tees are currently $15 a pop, and hoodies can be picked up for the equally enjoyable prices of $39 a piece. The sale runs until September 23rd, which is next Tuesday.

Beautiful/Decay [everyone's posted this, but I first saw it on Shirts on Sale]

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I wrote about this Italy-based company a few weeks ago and mentioned that I couldn’t really work out what ‘frustone’ meant, despite having it explained to me by the owners and them selling a t-shirt that is actually called ‘Definition of a Frustone.‘ Well, I think I’m getting closer, but I’m still not 100% there with it. Clearly, ‘frustone’ can mean ‘problem’, I’ve gathered that from this tee, but when it was being sent to me I was asked to let them know when it arrived, “because the mail here in Italy can be a bit frustone,” so I guess that it can mean something that is a bit flaky too (and most likely corrupt judging by my semester of studying Italian politics).

The design is obviously a moderately simple affair, based upon the iconic images taken on the surface of the moon (and they were) by the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission. I can’t find an image where Neil Armstrong is saluting the American flag like this, so I guess the Frustone crew have taken a bit of poetic design license there, but it’s a solid looking image, and the addition of the little footprints suggests that they can handle printing more intricate work than this fairly blocky image.

One of the reasons why I was excited to receive this tee was because I’ve never seen, touched, worn, or even smelt (what? I do this stuff for you guys!) a bamboo t-shirt, and that’s what Frustone print all their tees on. I’d heard good things about bamboo (and not just its ability to be used as scaffolding), and whilst I’ve got no idea about how it will survive over the course of time, I am really impressed with it at the moment. Its very soft, fits well, and has a bit more stretch to it than a regular cotton tee, meaning it can be a bit more forgiving if you put on a few pounds over winter. Oh, and apparently bamboo shirts are better for the planet, which is nice. The print is decent too, solid but not too heavy, and with no imperfections. I guess you could say that this tee isn’t frustone… or not, seriously, what does this word mean?

Costiness=€24 Guys buy it here/Girls buy it here

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I think this sale has been going on for quite a long time, presumably since 08/08/08, but I kept forgetting to post it, so here ya go!

Monstar Clothing

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Beautiful/Decay, who I hear more about for their clothes than their magazine nowadays (then again, I would, wouldn’t I?) have released five new designs (4 tees & 1 necklace), all collaborations with artists who have weird names like Sentimental Soycheese and ToothJuice. I’ve picked the tee above for the post picture because I thought it was a fantastic example of a logo tee. It’s such a good example of a logo tee ‘done right’ that I think that I’m going to start tagging good logo tees as such.Check out all the new goodies at B/Ds pages on the Indie Merch Store

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