Long story short, Lowdtown is closing down for a while because my man Ray (designer of the HYA logo, and therefore designer of the HYA tee) had a logo for Lowdtown that looked a lot like a design by someone else, and that other guy had copyright. Ray is a straight-shooter so I know he’s being honest when he says he didn’t know about the other design, it wouldn’t be worth the trouble for him to rip somone when he has enough talent of his own. Still, instead of fighting it, he accepted that the designs were similar and took it like a man, removing the mouthcan logo and all associated products from his site.
This all came just a few weeks after his Winter line had been released, including custom mouthcan branded wallets, and he’d already sunk a few thousand dollars into getting fitted hats made up in Hong Kong. I’m really gutted (that’s a British term for severe disappointment) that Ray has had such bad luck with this, but he’s a resilient fellow and he’s going to bounce back in the summer with a new line. In the mean time, he has stock to shift, unfortunately the contraband items aren’t available, but everything else is, and it’s ridiculously cheap, so cheap that even though I have more t-shirts than any man will ever need ever, I’m tempted to crack open my wallet and blow off the cobwebs. Basically, you should make a purchase, you’ll get a good quality item, and you’ll help to support a damn good artist. Oh, and naturally, with prices like this expect stocks to be pretty low on some items.
Since you guys know Ray from Lowdtown is the creative force behind the new HYA logo, and responsible for the tee in the HYA store, you’d think that there’s no way I’d be able to give him a fair and unbaised review… and you’d be right. So I’m not going to. Instead, here’s some cool new items from Lowdtown, including other crew neck sweaters, a tee, and wallet. Yes, a wallet, and a pretty sweet one at that. I like them, you judge for yourself.
You guys know I’m a fan of Lowdtown, but I’m also a fan of sales, so this one works out great for me. In addition to the sale, get 10% off FOREVER (not just until the end of the sale) with the coupon code hya.
15% off at eco-friendly Omunky from now until December 18th with the coupon code MerryMUNKY.
The e-mail was in German so I struggled to understand it, but I think that Limitees have 25% off all or some of their shirts from now until December 31st… or something like that.
Hypnic are doing the pre-Christmas sale thing with 30% off all their tees until Sunday (12/20), making them $16.99 a pop.
The Made With Awesome sale is now on, with up to 40% off items, so tees are $15, posters $14, and totes $5.
15% off everything at much-praised Holebrain, no need for a coupon code, prices are already discounted.
I Am The Trend also give you a rundown of hot models in the indie tee world. Note to my girlfriend, this kind of thing disgusts me… ummm, anyone believe that?
Spreadshirt are a pretty well-known in Germany, when I was in Berlin I remember more than one person telling me about how CEO Jana Eggers was ‘kind of a big deal’ for what she’d done with Spreadshirt (and creating jobs within the country rather than outsourcing), and clearly they’re continuing to grow because now they’re running ads on German TV. The embedded video above has no sound, presumably because of copyright on the music and because the German voice-over would have been confusing, but I think it looks good and gets over what Spreadshirt do. I’m thinking I might use Spreadshirt to test out a few ideas for HYA products so that I can get a single item made before ordering a whole bunch.
Another quick France update, things are busier than I imagined here so HYA updates will be more sporadic than expected, but I’ll try to put a couple of posts together quickly every night before I go to bed, though it’s hard to motivate myself after a long day trying to talk to French people when [...]
Competition time! Tilteed are offering a lucky HYA reader both of the tees that won their grand launch competition last week, Get A Job by rawroutloud (aka Lowdtown), and Explosion by a.mar.illo.
Entry is simple, in fact, it’s almost insultingly easy, so if I don’t see lots of entries coming in I’ll cry. All you have [...]
Lowdtown really impressed me when I first featured them back in April, so it’s pretty natural that I like their stuff even more when it can be picked up for up to 25% off the regular price, meaning that the tees weigh in at around $16 a pop. No need for a coupon code, the [...]
From the ashes of RAWR! Clothing has risen Lowdtown, and to be honest, I don’t care what the name is, but I do care what the tees are like, and they are good. Damn good. The one I’ve picked for the pic is probably my favourite, it reminds me of the Gorillaz, but the rest [...]
