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All hail our robot overlords!

by Chris_S on May 21, 2012

Robots are cool. I think that much we can all agree on, right? I mean, there’s been a fixation on robots for about the past 70 years, with sci-fi films and utopian visions of the future imagining that we’d all be living in space pods, served by robots wearing French maid outfits with pneumatic silver boobs. For some reason, robots just capture the imagination. They seem to connect with us as an image of our potential: eventually we will be able to master creating humanity (of sorts) and will render it in metal.

Which is why I like these two shirts by Design By Humans quite so much. They popped up in my inbox as part of a regular email from the site, and I was drawn to them immediately. You’ve got two separate designs here, I think. Halftone Robot by Old30Bastard is very much a hipster Transformer. It takes up the whole tee, and its shapes are angular and true to life. I particularly like that the robot’s head looks like its a repurposed boombox. At $15, you’d be criminal not to get this.

Then there’s the slightly more expensive ($20) Violin Bot. It’s cute, it’s quirky and it’s the sort of thing you’d see in Futurama. In fact, I’m not entirely sure a similar idea wasn’t in an episode of Futurama when Bender starts a band, playing himself like a washboard. BUt if anything that makes me want this thing more. It’s a beautiful design and it’s sure to bring a smile to people’s faces.

Costiness: $15/$20

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“Robo Karaoke” by Dave Perillo at Tshirt Contest [Submitted]

by Tod Kennedy on February 14, 2012

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This week’s artist shines out from the burbs of Philly, Pennsylvania – Dave Perillo!
http://catalog.tshirtcontest.com
Rendered in a thrilling retro style, Dave’s design features a karaoke bar where all the giant mecha-robots can kick back, drink some sake and sing some Journey tunes. The distinguished lounge lizards include: Voltron, Ultraman, Jet Jaguar, Manzinger Z & Mechagodzilla tending bar.
Dave maintains a very interesting read over at MontyGog.blogspot.com and a fine shop at Etsy.com/shop/hennchicks. Please check them out!
Dave Perillo was born in 1974, the same year Wham-O introduced the Slip N’ Slide…coincidence? In 1st grade, Dave revealed in his autobiography “Me Book”, that when he grew up he would like to be Ziggy. This ambition was deflated by 2nd grade when he realized that A) Ziggy is not real, B) Ziggy is completely bald, and C) Ziggy wears no pants. While the thought of going throughout life sans pants was somewhat appealing he decided to pursue his second choice, a career in art. Dave draws inspiration for his work from many of the following sources: 1950’s Sci-Fi Movies, Charles Schultz, Jim Flora, Ray Harryhausen, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Henson, Hanna Barbera, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock & Character Advertising Icons. Dave currently resides in the burbs of Philly, works as an illustrator, believes that bowling is the sport of kings and a bag of Swedish Fish is a seafood dinner.

Andy: This is Tshirt Contest‘s winner from last week, expect me to be posting more submitted posts than usual as I try and clear the backlog from my holiday.

This post was submitted by Tod Kennedy.

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Daily T-shirts & News for January 10th

by Andy on January 10, 2012

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Sonic Screwdriver shirt from TeeFury today, is Doctor Who really that big in the US that they can put out so many DW designs?

I think I’d prefer this blood-sucking t-shirt from Shirt.Woot without the ‘Vampires!’ text at the top.

RIPT have a ‘Mega Iron Man’ 8-bit tee up for sale today.

I’m sorry but my powers have eluded me once again, can anyone take a stab at explaining this Shirt Punch tee to me?

Nowhere Bad have a delightful 8-bit Star Wars shirt today.

TeeRaiders are fans of Bioshock.

Tshirt Contest have added a robot design to their growing catalogue.

Very interesting shirt from DBH today, I like the flecks of paint working their way up the shirt.

24tee continue to push their meme tees.

The pic looks a bit messed up, but that is an awfully cute drug-referencing t-shirt at Loviu today.

My favourite Tilteed design makes a return.

Camiseteria have a couple of new tees.

The Shirt List have a massive (and fascinating) interview with Alex Solis, creator of many top Threadless designs, amongst other things.

I’ve added four new products to Rigu, including the wrist straps you can see above, and remember that there is free shipping on all UK orders, and cheap shipping for EU & International packages.

604Republic have turned 3 of their most popular designs into posters.

Use coupon code NEW12 to get 20% off at Karmaloop until Friday.

krudmart have a load of stuff in from The Hundreds, Undrcrwn, 10.Deep and many more, get 15% off your order with the coupon code BIGGERISBETTER.

Hot Topic are offering “$4.95 Flat Rate Ground Shipping on All Orders! Shop Now – Offer ends 1/22” no coupon required by the looks of it.

BustedTees have added several t-shirts to their $10 clearance section.

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Delightful robot shirt from A Better Tomorrow

by Andy on December 6, 2011

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Love that style.

A Better Tomorrow

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Daily Tees & News for December 2nd

by Andy on December 2, 2011

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When I opened all the daily sites today (21 tabs, Firefox doesn’t care for that much) I wondered whether I’d actually get to see the TeeFury site. Thankfully it turned up, so any possible malware that may have existed yesterday appears to have been removed and all is right with the world again. I remain disappointed by the response from TeeFury about the issue, it took them at least 13 hours to acknowledge any kind of problem (done by their Facebook page), and they only wrote about it after the warning message had been removed. They posted this message on Twitter at the same time as the Facebook message: “If you had trouble reaching http://teefury.com earlier, try now! We’ve addressed the issue that was causing problems: http://ow.ly/7LyK8″ That link now goes to a 404 page. Frankly, that is not good enough, if you might be exposing your fans to malware via your site you have to tell people by every avenue about the issue and warn them as soon as possible, not when you’ve fixed the problem, and you should make some kind of mention of it when you send out a newsletter that day (presumably to thousands of people). I still like TeeFury and will continue to write about them, but I do not like the way they dealt with this situation.

Nerd joke at RIPT today.

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Daily Tees & News for November 30th

by Andy on November 30, 2011

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That’s how I like to start out the daily roundup, with a muscular naked man, thanks TeeFury!

‘Dead Head’ comes back from the dead at Tilteed.

Oh wow, it’s a Firefly/Serenity reference that I understand from RIPT.

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Robot Heads T-shirt by Retrolicious

September 7, 2011

It’s very, very rare that I link to a t-shirt on CafePress, but it’s also rare someone that has a Cafepress shop e-mails me (I think they fear a severe tongue-lashing). However, a good design is a good, design, and I think that this shirt featuring retro robot heads is exactly that.

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“Destroy III” an asian robot themed t-shirt by xiaobaosg at Tilteed

May 16, 2011

See, I said that I was going to cover more Tilteed releases, and I will continue to if the designs are going to be as nice as this. You have got a couple of days to pick up the shirt for $12 before it’s gone.

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Robot Apocalypse by 2012 Threads

February 26, 2010

Usually when I write about a shirt with this kind of design style, I feel the need to give it a caveat or say “hey, here’s your horror tee ‘o the week,” and I’ll post it because I respect the amount of work that has gone into it, but I rarely actually like the tee. [...]

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The Robots Come Out at Knight by Evan Ferstenfled & Mark R. Skipper at Made With Awesome

November 18, 2009

Because it’s clearly been far too long since I last posted a robot t-shirt. Costiness=$24 Available from Made With Awesome

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Clash of the Titans by Bear Annihilator

September 24, 2009

It’s a bear fighting a robot, which is pretty awesome, frankly, I’m surprise you don’t already have your credit card out of your wallet/purse/man-bag to make the purchase. Costiness=$21 Available from Bear Annihilator [via Cottonable]

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My Own Personal Robot by Wotto for Fair & Bare

September 15, 2009

I wonder if Wotto is ever going to run out of ideas for t-shirts? My guess: no. Costiness=£16 Available from Fair & Bare

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3D Robot by Drop Dead Clothing

August 21, 2009

Drop Dead claim that this is “probably the best 3-d shirt on planet earth”, and whilst I can’t point to any specific examples right now (though help would be much appreciated in the comments), I get the feeling that probably isn’t true. That said, it’s a pretty freakin’ sweet tee, especially since they come with [...]

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Build Robots Today To Fight Aliens Tomorrow by Cuppa T-Shirts

August 12, 2009

Much like I keep seeing Star Wars tees since writing the Star Wars tee list, I keep seeing new robot tees after writing the 101 robot tees list. Cuppa T-Shirts is a New Zealand-based store that is themed around techno-culture & robots, which would have really come in handy when I was writing the robots [...]

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202 Star Wars T-Shirts [Lists]

July 16, 2009

I think that you’d be pretty hard pressed to find a series of movies that have gained as much of a following as Star Wars, and as you’d expect that has resulted in a huge amount of t-shirts being produced that reference the films in one way or another. So, being HYA, I thought that [...]

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I Am A Robot by tee and toast

July 11, 2009

Unfortunately I didn’t know this tee existed, so it didn’t make it into the 101 t-shirts post that I wrote a few weeks ago (that got crazy amounts of traffic over the past few days, hurrah!), but instead been given the honour of a 6pm post on a Saturday, which is basically the worst possible [...]

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Party Machines by Alanis for Shirt Fight

July 6, 2009

I haven’t actually mentioned Shirt Fight before, I’ve got no idea why because looking through their catalogue they’ve got some great designs, so expect to see more of them. Ever since completing the epic ‘101 Robots T-Shirts List‘ there seems to have been a flurry of robo-tees popping up in my browser, so I may [...]

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The Ultimate List of T-Shirt Lists

July 2, 2009

You know what people love? T-Shirts. You know what people also love? Lists. I guess that explains why I’ve written so many t-shirt lists in the past, but did you know that other people have written lists about t-shirts as well? I know, crazy right, I’m not the only person who thought of that, hell, [...]

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Android Stole My Ride by The Dept.

June 29, 2009

A little bit late for my 101 Robot Tees post I guess, but the Dept. have put together a really solid group of designs largely based on robots… and we all love robot tees, right? Fair enough, the 79′ Battlestar Galactica MK-1 Viper on the tee isn’t a robot, but it’s being driven/flown/piloted by an [...]

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101 Robot T-Shirts [Lists]

June 19, 2009

With the release of what is almost certain to be the greatest movie of all time today in the UK and across the world over the next week, I thought it would be an excellent opportunity for me to hunt down some robot t-shirts, especially as the previous robot-themed lists have are two of Hide [...]

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