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Flickr Finds: Blending In

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I know that me posting a t-shirt that has a Napoleon Dynamite quote on it might damage my indie tee cred somewhat, but come on, she’s got a blender on her head… and it’s actually running!

I think this might be the epitome of random Friday t-shirt posting.

Photo credit: Amadika (who sets her photos as ‘all rights reserved’, but hopefully won’t mind me using this one on account of its awesomeness)

Superstitious by LaFraise

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This tee is surprisingly awesome considering it seems to have come from the pun that Superman and superstitious both have ’super’ at the start of the word. The ‘S’ effect appears fairly subtle on the detailed view, which worried me a little, but it’s actually pretty pronounced with that familiar red and slightly less familiar ‘every other colour in the world ever’ colourway on the promo shot up top, which calmed my fears. Isn’t it odd that I was worried by the second picture in LaFraise’s blog post when I obviously saw the top picture first?Costiness=€22 Link

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Go Ape really know how to get ‘names’, don’t they?

I assume that YASLY is well known to most people in design circles, since if I know who he is, then its safe to presume that he’s pretty well known. I guess that him being a ‘name’ shouldn’t be an issue, if a tees good, its good, if a tees bad, its bad, it doesn’t matter who the designer is, although I guess famous artists are more likely to make good tees on a regular basis… I don’t know where I’m going with this… this is a cool tee though.

Costiness=$18 Link

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I saw this tee and laughed, I think that’s enough to make it worthy of a post. I’m a sucker for mashups and parodies, and whoever thought of putting a political slant onto ‘Back to the Future’ had a pretty bright idea.It really does seem as if Obama has wrapped up the vote of graphic designers in America, I see a lot more Obama tees than Clinton tees (no McCain ones at all…), and the Barack fans are usually better designed as well.

Costiness=$20 Link

2-2 without a grudge

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Just because England can never beat Sweden at football (by which I mean the version where people use their feet rather than their hands) doesn’t mean I have anything against them, hell, I thought Stockholm was freakin’ awesome when I went there a few years ago. And now I’m e-returning to Svenska via the caliroots store, which I had presumed would be based in California, but I guess its just the clothes that have roots in American culture…

… Much like this track jacket from MHI which is inspired by a movie called ‘The Warriors’, which I’ve never seen, but with an IMDB rating of 7.3 it might be worth a rental. I don’t want to get off track here, but there is another film called ‘Warriors‘ (starring Gary Busey) that came up when I was searching, and one of the users comments was “really bad, even for a Canadian film”. Ok, now back to the track jacket.

I think you’ll agree that it’s a pretty bold design, and I like the font in a spray-paint can kind of a way, and the style of the map is cool, with the messy outline drips contrasting with the tourist-information-esque pictures of the subway cars. And on the front of the jacket there is an MHI/The Warriors logo mashup on the left breast.

Costiness=799 SEK (about 111 US Dollars, which kinda shocked me as being a bit high) URL