So, what do we have here? It’s a new t-shirt design competition… again, who is the designer of this t-shirt? wotto… again. It almost feels as if this blog is turning into the wotto appreciation society, which wouldn’t exactly the worst thing in the world since he clearly knows his way around Illustrator, but how about giving some other designers a chance, eh wotto?

Fair and Bare are a new-ish design competition based in Wales who use Fairtrade certified cotton t-shirts (from Epona Clothing. Apparently the shirts are made in an organic way, but they don’t have organic certification yet because that is a two-year process. Basically, you can be assured that kids in sweatshops didn’t make your t-shirts, unless the screen printer at Fair and Bare HQ in Cardiff is a small boy… which I doubt. The first design they’ve released, is of someone hugging a tree, but I’ve been told that they don’t actually want to be known as a tree hugger kind of company, just a t-shirt company that happens to use fair trade tees. In terms of money the winners prize is £200 ($375 according to xe.com), not as much as some of the bigger players, but hopefully the prize package will grow as the company does.

Costiness=£18 Tee Link

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Hey! Do you like panthers? Do you like hoodies? Do you like panthers printed onto hoodies? No? Oh. Sorry to have wasted your time.

If you happen to be a fan of panthers (and/or organic cotton), check out the blurbage:

Eco-Heather: Alternative earth’s eco-heather collection are now manufactured using organic cotton, recycled polyester & rayon made from naturally occurring polymers.

Panthers are pretty amazing. There are some really famous stories of them eating giant spiders and pterodactyls. They are so rad in fact, I painted this on my living room wall. It’s eyes follow me throughout the living room. I’m kind of hoping this artwork follows you around as well.

Artwork by Karl Addison

Costiness=$52.45 Flickr Link Hoodie Link

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District Cotton have got a site wide sale going on at the moment (they also have a fairly nifty blog), which lasts until the end of July, which doesn’t give you all that much time to dilly dally about what you want to buy. Printed tees are going for between $5 and $9 each, and the blank hoodies are on sale too.

District Cotton

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Das Monk are a graphic t-shirt label based in the beautiful city of Sydney, Australia. It’s pretty hard to nail down exactly what their style is, because they’ve got a couple of designs like the one above, but they also have photo style design, comic book art, pattern, hand-drawn (I realise all designs are hand-drawn, but you know what I mean, right?), and even a tee that has a play around with some text. They’ve got a solid line-up of designs, quite a few of them are simpler than the one pictured above, AOK, and quite a few of them are in the shape de rigeur of a large rectangular print.I’m sure that when you heard that Das Monk were from Australia sky-high shipping prices crossed your mind, well, if you purchase two of their tees (which are all produced using 100% organic cotton) then you’ll get free shipping no matter where you are in the world.Das Monk

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If you’re after some 100% organic clothing, Artifex might be the people for you. Prices are surprisingly low considering that quite a lot of companies see the organic label as a sign to crank up the prices, bravo to you Artifex!

Artifex

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I won’t start political soap-boxing, but I really like the message behind this tee. Why is it that we have to hope that people vote for a President that provides ‘change’ (has anyone asked what kind of changes these are yet? I would appreciate a checklist), why can’t people just change things themselves, why we need to wait 8 months for someone else to be in charge before good things can start happening. Can you imagine how much good stuff could be done in 8 months by people, and that’s before ‘change’ even starts happening?

Anyway, this is a cool t-shirt, I would totally be friends with anyone who I met wearing it at some kind of protest or rally (unless they were a damned hippy)

Costiness=$18.50 Link

(Man, I can’t believe how much the guy that thinks HYA is too Ameri-centric is gonna hate this post)

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