I don’t know if this tee is quite as good as one of DBHs other robot-based designs, Robot Attack, but it’s still pretty darned cool. I like the style, I like the way that the blue and pink perk up the largely grey colourway, and I like… I just like it.Costiness=$19 Link

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Tags » DBH • design by humans • grey • recycledwax • robot • robots • T-shirts

If you’ve ever seen the TV show ‘The Big Bang Theory’ you may well have noticed that the characters, who we’re meant to believe are more interested in quantum theory than fashion, can be found wearing some pretty cool t-shirts. I guess that someone else noticed this and decided to hunt down where the tees can be bought online, and put together a site all about it. Some of the links aren’t exactly right, I doubt that CBS’s wardrobe department are buying their tees from Cafepress, but its still a pretty good resource.

Sheldon Shirts [Photo credit: NY Times]

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Tags » big bang theory • geek • nerd • robots • T-shirts • television • tv

Ahhh, another day, another robot design, considering I only have one robot-based item of clothing (I think), I sure do write about them a lot, don’t I?

I also have a bit of a tendency to fall in love with hand drawn designs, so this tee has swept me off my feet on two counts. The designer (’epidemic’ in the BBT community) also has a pretty great gallery on DeviantArt.

Costiness=£13.99 (with free worldwide delivery!) Link

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Tags » American Apparel • Band Bang T-Shirts • deviantart • hand drawn • kizioko • robots • supernatural • white

Now we’re talking, Terratag are part of an exhibition, and for a change it isn’t in London! They’re involved with a show called ‘How Manga Took Over the World’ which is running until September 27th at the magnificently designed Urbis Gallery in Manchester (fact: I have waited for a taxi at 4am outside that gallery). I might actually get a chance to go to this, so if I do I’ll post a report.

The artwork that they’re displaying there has been made available as limited edition prints at the exhibition, online, and at their physical store on Brick Lane, London. But I know most of you aren’t concerned with an exhibition, you’re all about the tees, and luckily I can help you there too.

To celebrate the May Bank Holiday and (hopefully) a start to summer, Terratag has added a further 10 Robot designs to the Mecha range. With this release we are also offering 10% off - offer ends 09 May.

Also, if you are in London this weekend, print out this email and present it in the Terratag Store on Brick Lane… And, you too will get 10% off anything you buy.

Here’s the new robot designs.

Terratag [Photo CC licensed by tienvijftien]

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Tags » • discount • exhibition • robot • robots • T-shirts • terratag

So, I write about robot tees months ago and all of a sudden everyone is selling them. I’m not saying that I’m a barometer of style, but… okay, that’s exactly what I’m saying, I can’t wait to see what design trend I cause next!*

Ten Bills are back (even though they barely went away) with their fifth series, title Robot Rebellion, and its a really strong set of releases. What I like about Ten Bills is that they don’t necessarily stick to one certain style set, which I guess is fairly natural since they have a few artists, but it is still pretty easy for brands like Ten Bills falling into a safe routine of releasing tees that look similar in style, so I applaud them for avoiding that. My personal fave from this bunch? Blazin’ Glory on Forest Green by Bobby Liquori (4th from the left in the above pic).

Costiness=$10 (duh!) Link

*I do not actually believe that I cause design trends… yet

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Tags » releases • robot • robots • ten bills

This flew off the virtual shelves when it was first put on sale, and the Chop Shop team have been pretty swift in getting it back on sale again. So if you missed out on this multiple-robot extravaganza of a t-shirt when I first wrote about it a couple of weeks ago, now is your chance!

Costiness=$25 Link

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Tags » chop shop • grey • Restock • robot • robots • t-shirt

Robot overload! Robot overload!

This is a great idea from the gang over at Chop Shop, a tee with silhouettes of 51 robots from “film, television, books and even one from a classic rock album cover”, which is sure to get a few conversations going where you try and work out how many of them you recognise (me? disappointingly few).

Costiness=$25 Link

Also, Chop Shop are still running a few coupons on a few of their other tees:

Use “bushed” to get BUSH BRAINS for only $5 plus shipping.

Use “seenfor6” to get AS SEEN ON WWW for only $6 plus shipping.

Use “TENDA” to get NATIONAL DESIGN ASSOCIATION for only $10 plus shipping.

Enjoy!

Chop Shop

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Tags » charcoal • chop shop • Coupon Codes • red • robot • robots • t-shirt • white

Just a month (and a week) after the event actually occurred, I’m finally treating you to some reports on brands that I found at Margin. As most of the vendors at Margin didn’t want photos being taken of their goods (and a few at The Park were pretty rude over the whole photo situation), and I can understand why, the clothes world can be pretty cut throat, I won’t be using any personally taken photos of the brands I met, but I think that I was able to get a much better insight into what all the brands were about, so there should be a bit more authority to these posts than my regular ‘hey, that looks cool’ offerings.


Terratag were the first brand I chatted too, so I thought it would be appropriate that I profiled them first. It’s hardly surprising that Terratag made a big impression on me, they love robots, perhaps even more than I do (they’re putting together a book with more than 200 robot t-shirts in it), and the way that their designs seamlessly mix British and Japanese pop culture really pushes my buttons (in a good way). They employ lots of strong images, often inspired by the extremely popular Gundam series, which helps to explain why Japan is one of their biggest sources of international orders. They also have no fear in using metallic inks, something that I’m happy to see. But to make it seem as if Terratag are robot obsesses is pretty unfair, their designs run a fairly wide gamut of subject matter, they like to dabble in graffiti style and vivid, neon colourways (some of which actually glow under UV light!) that are bound to get a lot of attention.

Overall, a very impressive line, who had a friendly guy working their booth that didn’t appear to mind answering my annoying newbie-journo questions.

Terratag links: Main Site/MySpace/Photos on Flickr

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Tags » Day Glo • graffiti • japan • Japanese • margin2008 • marginreports • robot • robots • street art • t-shirt • terratag • UV

‘Backseat Kiss Clothing‘ may well be as good of a name for a clothing company as ‘Cute Is What We Aim For‘ is for a band, but I’m sure there’s a self-referential meaning behind it which makes my mockery merely mean, so I’ll just get right onto the hood.

So… its a heart, on a robot, placed on a heart, nice and simple with some decent solid lines, though I don’t know if I would personally wear pink on black, I’ve only just become accustomed to wearing the luminous pink ink from the Handsome Sausage.

The hoodie is printed on American Apparel stock and is available for both guys and girls. Sizing is a bit limited though, with S, M & L for the ladies and M + L for the dudes.

Costiness=$39 URL

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Tags » backseat kiss • black • heart • hoodie • pink • robot • robots

I’ve wanted to post about Owl Movement for ages, but they used to be a tee only outfit, but now they’ve added a hoodie to their roster, and although it was produced by a couple of brothers from Australia called Huskworks it still manages to smoothly fit in with the range at OM.

The hoodie they’ve produced is pretty cool, I *think* it glows in the dark, except for the purple robot on the top right. I’m not sure if I’m too into the whole upside down and horizontal robot thing, I don’t quite get it, but I see it around on a lot of designs, so clearly it’s what people are into. That said, I do still think that it’s well designed, and it looks pretty detailed, it’s printed on AA, and come on, it (probably) glows in the freakin’ dark!

Costiness=$40 URL=Robots by Huskworks. The hoodie is on a ‘very small run’, so be aware of that.

*UPDATE* I can’t believe that I forgot to mention that the tee version of this design was featured on the season finale of Alias. Take a look at Owl Movement’s blog for some pics.

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Tags » asphalt • grey • hoodie • huskworks • owl movement • robot • robots