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“Moon Girl” comic book cover t-shirt by South Fellini

January 15, 2011

I really like the idea of comic book covers (real or fake) being put onto a tee, and this one has got the style spot on, and the one-colour print helps give it a bit of a retro look. Costiness=$15 Buy it at South Fellini

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5-3 Diagram, a sublimely geeky Mario Bros. t-shirt from 15 Bit Gamer

January 9, 2011

I was looking at this tee thinking to myself “why do I know this tee, and why do I know what is that’s been exploded in the diagram?” after a few minutes it struck me, Coty had written about this tee, and the rare Mario Bros. power-up item it represents. If you knew that just [...]

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A NES style t-shirt from Dr. Hazmat

November 10, 2010

Underneath the TV in my office where I’m writing this blog post there is a NES, an original one, it must be about 20 years old and plays just like the day my parents bought it, how’s that for build quality? To be honest I don’t play on it much/at all, I only got it [...]

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The Chop Shop 80s Pop Culture Reference T-shirt

September 17, 2010

I’m pretty sure that in my last Chop Shop post I said I was getting a bit bored of their silhouette tees since they were flogging a dead horse. Well, perhaps not a dead horse, but one that was slowing down somewhat. This latest tee appears to have revied the style, adding in a new [...]

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Sea of Atlas by CXXVI

September 10, 2010

It’s not particularly cheap at $36, but you could certainly go out and spend a lot more on a lot worse. It;s a simple tee, but it’s got everything going for it, if I was walking down the street and saw someone wearing this I’d think to myself “that dude is cool.” Costiness=$36 Buy it [...]

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Retro gaming + Japanese gardening = a Glennz Tee

September 9, 2010

I wish that Glennz was as popular as Threadless (though for one guy that might a little too much power in the tee world), because then people would make cakes out of all this designs like they do with Threadcakes, because this design would me a cool looking cake. What an odd thing for me [...]

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“Cherry Topiary” a Pac Man loving t-shirt from Glennz

September 3, 2010

Just yesterday I was talking about how much I enjoyed Glennz “Smile” t-shirt because it represented a bit more meaningful and thoughtful work (at least by my interpretation), but the man is also pretty damn good at creating designs that make you happy, nostalgic, and take a sideways look at things. I don’t want Glennz [...]

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Minimalist Street Fighter T-shirt by AshRB at MySoti

September 3, 2010

I like this, it feels as if someone inputted Ryu and Ken into the iPhone Pantone app and this is what spilled out. Actually, in my experience, the Pantone palette result wouldn’t look much like the reality, but it’s still a cool app. Solid concept, well executed, good work AshRB, and good work to Coty [...]

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Space Invaders x Star Wars mashup t-shirt, yes, yes, yes!

July 8, 2010

Want it, NOW. You’d think that people would run out of ways to make really cool space invaders and Star Wars t-shirts. Maybe they have and that’s why we’re now seeing mashups of the two? Costiness=From $17.39 Buy it at MySoti

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A couple of scary and creepy tees from Mini Cassette

June 15, 2010

Okay, neither of these tees are really scary or creepy (though the ‘creepy’ tee has potential depending on who is wearing it), but I am a man who loves a sensationalist headline. Of the two, I prefer scary monster, I really like the colourway that Mini Cassette picked out for this design, really picks up [...]

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USA 1950 ‘Soccer’ shirt by Two Eight Nine

June 14, 2010

Why must I keep punishing myself in this way? Because, let’s be honest, the USA’s football team has a pretty sweet design for their jersey, they had it on Sautrday night, and they had it in 1950 too. Costiness=$20 Buy it at Two Eight Nine’s Spreadshirt Store

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Commodore 64 Logo Tee by Defunkt

March 23, 2010

You’ve got to say, that is one hell of a logo. This tee is currently sold out unfortunately, but I thought it was still worthy of posting. Defunkt (who have a great URL, btw) sell tees that celebrate companies that are no longer with us, so if you’re up for a nostalgia-fest, check them out. [...]

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Moon Property by Cuppa T-Shirts (win part of the moon)

February 12, 2010

Here’s a curious promo to get the word spread about your new tee; giving away an acre of the moon. New Zealand-based Cuppa T-Shirts have launched a competition in which all you have to do to win an acre of the moon is become a fan of them on Facebook, and comment on this video. [...]

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Delorean Time Machine Schematic by 80sTees

January 19, 2010

I know that this t-shirt comes from 80sTees and therefore isn’t ‘cool’, because really, who hasn’t heard of 80sTees? However, as a child of the 80s, I am always willing to overlook a few things if it allows me to get nostalgic about the movies I loved when I was young and not quite as [...]

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When Geek-ness goes retro by Riccardo Bucchioni for Threadless

January 18, 2010

Even though they’re very much different styles of design, I can’t help but think of the previous Threadless tee I posted (Geekology by Aaron Hogg) when I look at this supremely retro geeky tee. I’m digging the large print, especially as you need a large print to do a design like this justice to [...]

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8-bit Invasion by radiomode at Tilteed (Space Invaders, ho!)

January 7, 2010

You know it’s a good week when you get to write about Space Invaders more than once, especially when this tee from Tilteed is so retro-licious. Costiness=$18 Available from Tilteed.

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Geekology by Aaron Hogg for Threadless

January 7, 2010

Now that is a great colourway. I don’t really like the red on its own, but it works really well with the blue and ‘creme’, and together the stark contrast of the three helps to evoke the retro style shown in the various graphics tees. Writing about Threadless tees makes me feel like the Dos [...]

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Large Marge Sent Me by Vig Tees

January 7, 2010

I don’t really get this because I didn’t really watch Pee Wee Herman (he’s known but not patcularly famous in the UK), but I’m sure that more than one of you out there will get a kick out of this shirt from Vig Tees. Costiness=$18 Available from Vig Tees

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Tamagotchi Death by Neighborhoodies

November 2, 2009

Good news! This cute graphic is available as a hoodie as well as a t-shirt (and apparently in 1,200 colour combos!). Did anyone in HYAland have a Tamagotchi? I did, I got it on holiday in Lazarote, I thought they were really cool until I had one, at which point I realised they were actually [...]

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Space Invaders Attack by Bytelove

October 4, 2009

I wonder if there are enough Space Invaders based design out there for me to put together one of my epic lists about them? Costiness=€22 Available from Bytelove

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