Retro Campaigns have released seven new tees, based upon their winning formula of popular political designs from the past, which I’m sure you guys might find refreshing if you’re feeling a bit of political burnout from the relentless coverage of Obama vs McCain.

Retro Campaigns

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I don’t have a problem with political designs on t-shirts, if you want to say something and feel that a tee is the best way to go about it then go ahead, be my guest, my only problem with political tees is that they usually go for substance over style. If you’re going to go to all the bother of printing a tee, why not make it look good?

I get the feeling that Pop Vulture might be on the same wavelength with me in this, because their tees have graphics on them that don’t look like clip art. They raise a lot of good and important points with their designs, which are accompanied on the product pages with facts and clippings related to that tees issue (on the flash site, not the retail site). Oh, and they don’t like Paris Hilton, awesome.

Pop Vulture T-shirt

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Whenever I see the term ‘up to 70% off’ in an e-mail from a brand I like I wonder if I’m going to wipe the cobwebs off my credit card and actually buy a shirt or two, rather than just waiting for the sample tees to come to me.

Congrats to Glarkware’s customer service manager Leah on the (early but a-okay) arrival of her first daughter Olivia! It threw our schedule out a bit but now that we are back we’re looking to move our office around and that’s easier when there’s less shirts to move with it! So we’ve set prices really low for the month of July! Check out the bargoons!

* You can snag Glarkware shirts at up to 70% off our regular prices ($6 shirts!)
* 2XL and 3XL at base prices
* Big savings our our entire kids line
* Last chance at many Limited Edition leftovers (at $12!)
* 25% and up discounts from our Friends stores (Cute Overload, Go Fug Yourself, Cho Stuff)

In addition to that we are adding a small 5% discount to top things off. Your discount number is summer-4276t4a

Enter this number in the discount area (on the summary page after you choose a shipping option) and be sure to hit recalculate before continuing checking out! The discount number is good until 11:59pm ET on July 11th.

Please note — sale shipments start July 16th.

I don’t know when they released it, but the tee in the picture seems pretty apt for this time of year (though admittedly a few days late). It’s a design which has the Declaration of Independence on it, except signed by one of the lesser-known founding fathers, Zartram the Merciless, who wasn’t a human but a “nine-foot alien from an unknown planet from beyond the stars.” Beyond the subtle joke (would you notice it if someone walked past you wearing this?), I really like the idea of putting a historical document on a t-shirt, especially when they’ve done it in a way that doesn’t give it a novelty or souvenir look.

Glarkware

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Kat, of T-shirts Around the Internet fame, has written a great post about Obama shirts on the ‘net that don’t suck, in fact, they’re the opposite of suck, they’re good!

One that she’s missing (perhaps on purpose) is ‘We Are the People We’ve Been Waiting For’ by Ban T-shirts that I reviewed back at the end of March/

Read all about them here. [Photo Credit: threecee]

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I’ve just realised that none of my tee blogging brethren have gone near this story, which probably means I should steer clear too, but if its on a t-shirt and its news then I think I should at the very least alert you to its presence. Basically, a tavern owner in Georgia thought it was a good idea to produce a t-shirt which had Curious George, a cartoon chimp for those of you that are unaware, on it with the slogan “Obama in ‘08″ written underneath. The Bar owner, Mike Norman, claims that he doesn’t mean any offence with the t-shirts, and that he just thought that the monkey and Senator Obama looked alike. He’s still selling the t-shirts (who on Earth would buy one?), but the owners of Curious George (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) aren’t particularly happy about their image being used in such a way, so whilst free speech ensures this guy can create such a t-shirt, copyright law will probably mean that he can’t do so for very long.

Read all about it at the Washington Post [Photo Credit: Same WP article]

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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

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I was watching a debate with the three front runners for the London Mayoral Election (Boris Johnson - Conservative, Ken Livingston - Labour, Brian Paddick - Liberal Democrat) on Sunday, and I realised that I wouldn’t really want any of them to be in charge of a city that I lived in, they were squabbling like kids. How much is it to ask that we have political figures that I can actually respect?
Since I don’t live in London it doesn’t effect me that much, but I’d imagine its a pretty confusing position for Londoners to be in, having to pick the best of a bad bunch, and I think that this latest couple of tees from Mingled highlights the situation pretty well. For those of you that don’t recognise the faces, Boris’ face is on the Vote Ken tee, and Ken’s face is on the Vote Boris tee. They’ve also made the Vote Boris tee red, which is traditionally Labour’s colour, but the Vote Ken tee is in green, which is a little odd since you’d expect them to carry on the party-switching by making it a blue tee, which would be the Conservatives traditional colour, unless they really being politically astute and recognising how David Cameron has been saying that a vote for the Conservatives is a green vote because of all his promised green initiatives….and that paragraph above provides you with an excellent example of why I don’t write about politics anymore… because it’s all incredibly confusing. Props to Mingled for taking their products shots outside of City Hall!

Costiness=$19.99 Vote Ken/Vote Boris

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Over last week I spent quite a lot of my time on ticket websites (including ticketmaster, which appears to do everything it can to discourage a customer from being able to use their website) trying to get a day ticket (at a cost of around $140) to see Rage Against the Machine at the Leeds Festival. But they sold out very quickly, computer systems were down, and ticket touts were out in full force. I was actually raging against my laptop machine trying to get tickets for Rage Against the Machine. Oh the freakin’ irony.

All of that left me with the need for a tee with angry people on it with a message of hope, and I thought that this tee by Alphanumeric fit the bill. They’ve made quite a few tees in this style (strong type with a repeated message above a large newspaper print style image) and this example is another good example of it.

Costiness=$30 Link (if you want to revolt against that $30 price then use the rep code AS7594 and get up to 20% off)

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I don’t expect you to know Latin, so I’ve googled the phrase for you; ’sic semper tyrannis’ means “thus ever (or always) to tyrants.” Whilst I did only bookmark this tee because I thought the image was cool, there is clearly a political message to it, although unusually for these kinds of tees there’s actually a fairly wide scope for discussion of what the message means in this particular context. Who are meant to be the tyrants?

But if you look at it on a more superficial level, and I sure did, this is a great take on the crest style tee that we see so often. To be honest I think that the flames are a bit weak, but that’s almost always the case when you try and print photo style flames.

Costiness=$39 Link

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I wrote about this t-shirt ten days ago, and then it turned up in the mail a couple of days ago, so I’m going to ask again, Ferrari, if you want me to review an Enzo, I’ll gladly have one for the weekend. You have eight days to respond!
For those of you that are unaware, the slogan on this tee comes from a speech made by Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, and even though it isn’t mentioned explicitly, I think that the quote clearly relates to his sounds-nice-but-doesn’t-mean-a-thing messages of ‘hope’ and ‘change’. When I first wrote about this tee a commenter, Carl, said that the design was lacking since there was so much wasted space. At the time I thought that Carl might be right, especially as we all know that huge type looks sweet, but now that I’ve had it in my hands I feel a bit different, the size feels about right, perhaps not having it dominate the shirt is meant to make the message seem a bit calmer and less shouty than it would with a large type tee? Also, I really like the use of a full stop to try and reinforce the message.
This is an organic tee from American Apparel’s ‘Sustainable Edition‘, which presumably means that the cotton plants get massages just like the AA employees famously do. This is actually the first AA organics tee I’ve received, and I must say I’m impressed, it feels pretty much the same as a regular AA tee, which I guess is what you want, no reduction in quality whilst producing an environmentally conscientious product. I don’t know how they last through various washings, so if anyone has experience with them I’d appreciate an opinion. Print is fairly thick, I think its plastisol ink.Costiness=$18.50 Link

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