Rian Hughes, who is so well known in the UK that even I’ve heard of him (and I live in the middle of nowhere), has launched a couple of tee designs through his company, Device.

To be completely honest, the tees don’t actually excite me all that much, the prints look a bit small for my liking, and I don’t really understand the concept behind ‘Good not God’ (beyond it being for atheists), though I do think that the illustration for Chic Geek is pretty cute. The graphic novels listed underneath the tees on the page look awesome though, I think I might need to look into this Rian Hughes fellow a little more.

Device Shop

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Tags » black • blue • cute • device • fruit of the loom • pink • religion • rian hughes • T-shirts • text • white

I’m sure that there are plenty of terrible jokes I could make about a company called Medicated Clothing, but I’m afraid I can’t think of any… I’ve lost my bad joke mojo!

Medicated Clothing is the brainchild of a children’s book illustrator who has a thing for irony and surrealism, something which you’ll notice runs through the tees on the site. The designs from Meidcated Clothing can be broadly put into three categories, illustrative (pictured above), slogan, and photo. For me, the illustrative tees are far better than the slogan and photo efforts. Even though the slogans are original, and the photos certainly live up to their promise of being surreal, I don’t really think that they fit with the rest of the site, especially since the illustrations are really strong and work well as t-shirts.

*Update: It’s been brought to my attention that the designs I wasn’t giving much love were launch designs and don’t really reflect where the company is headed, so I’d guess that those designs will be phased out at some point, so buy ‘em if you like ‘em.

Medicated Clothing

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Tags » funny • illustrations • irony • medicated clothing • surreal • T-shirts • text

Its amazing that a t-shirt with a ransom message on it like this…

BRING TEN THOUSAND POUND IN CASH TO VAUXHALL BRIDGE ON THE TWENTY SEVENTH OF JULY AT THREE PM OR YOU WILL NEVER SEE YOUR SON AGAIN.

… could have been designed by Gideon Conn, a man described on Yes No Maybe’s site as “a lovely chap.” I really like this design, I imagine that its one of those tees that you actually get quite uncomfortable wearing because everyone is always staring at your chest reading it, unless you’re this guys, of course.

Costiness=£26 Tee Link

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Tags » funny • gideon conn • grey • london • ransom • T-shirts • text • UK • yes no maybe

I don’t know if you guys can quite make it out because the picture has been scaled-down a bit to fit it in the column, but this is a really clever tee. Obviously you can tell that it says “everything is fine”, but can you tell that those words are made up of lots of things that should scare us and will most likely bring about your untimely death (such as stuck zippers, avalanches, and runaway elephants)?

In case you’re unaware, Wondermark is a popular webcomic written by David Maliki ! (he writes his name with an exclamation point after it) that uses illustrations from 19th century books and is pretty dang funny. This particular tee was loosely inspired by this comic.

Costiness=$18 Tee link (on preorder, shipping around August 20th)

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Tags » comic • funny • T-shirts • text • topatoco • webcomic • wondermark

I remember seeing this t-shirt a couple of years ago when it was the full-blooded, swearing like a sailor version, but I didn’t post it since back then I didn’t want to swear on the blog (and I still don’t), so happily Reason clothing have released a version that is totally inoffensive because no one will possibly be able to work out what letters #%^ are meant to represent.

Costiness=$35 Tee link

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Tags » funny • green • reason clothing • T-shirts • text

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Costiness=$9 Tee Link (available for 13 more hours at the time of posting)

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Tags » black • funny • latin • limited edition • rikkiB • T-shirts • teefury • text

What, what, tally ho and all that, because this is the third British post in a row, you practically need a cup of tea in your hand just to read the blog today!

Famed doodler Jon Burgerman has put his own spin on Yes No Maybe’s name and produced this rather spiffy looking tee. One of the things that I like about Yes No Maybe is that whilst they do put their name in most of their products, they never do it in a way that screams “this is a logo tee, everyone go and buy YNM clothes,” its more like they’re using they tell artists to create a design that is inspired by the name, not about the name, which I guess means that they’ve got a lot of great opportunities for playing with typography. Another interesting thing about this design is that it marks the beginning of YNMs summer colour range, they’re going to be using the traffic light colourway of red, orange, and green over the next few months in a lot of their summer releases, possibly in reference to the ridiculous amounts of traffic that clog up the arteries of Britain’s road network as soon as the sun pops out from behind the clouds for five minutes.

Costiness=£26 Tee Link (that’s the men’s grey tee, other styles and colours can be found here)

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Tags » art • grey • jon burgerman • Mens • poster • Summer • T-shirts • text • typography • white • Womens • yes no maybe

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To support my spirtual brothers on the other side of the country in Newcastle, here’s a peak at Electrik Sheep’s in-house line, Prefab, the first half of the line is instore and online now, and the second half should be on its way soon. I was quite surprised to see that the line follows streetwear style, I was expecting the tees to be more like the artwork that they sell under the Prefab name.

Electrik Sheep

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Tags » electrik sheep • newcastle • streetwear • T-shirts • text

There’s something really pleasing about the way that the lines of the text seem to move around of their own accord. It reminds me of when you’re on the phone and you’ve noted something down, and then you just keep going over what you’ve written with your pen and then start flicking the pen around on the ends of the letters. Lovely soothing colourway as well.

Costiness=$20 Tee Link

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Tags » black • lines • T-shirts • text • typography • yellow black & white

I don’t usually mention tees from Threadless since I just presume that if you’re the kind of person that reads HYA then you probably get their newsletter every Monday anyway, but since glow in the dark tees make my heart flutter I just couldn’t help myself. As far as glow in the dark tees go, this one is a beast, I really like it when a designer takes glow ink and uses it for a real reason other than just making something glow for the sake of it. I guess that the design is slightly flawed on the level that for people to get it they need to see the wearer move from the light to the dark, although my romantic side does like the idea of a tee that says ‘hold me’, I’m sure that’d get me lots of action on a night out… it’d probably be from dudes though, and my boys hug me enough as it is…

Costiness=$16 Tee Link

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Tags » dan maltzman • glow • glow in the dark • T-shirts • text • Threadless