Rockhart Clothing are a startup aiming to sell t-shirts about video games that aren’t totally lame. Whilst the video game tee world isn’t all bad, a lot of them seem to cater to stereotypical gamers that live in their parent’s basements and live vicariously through their WoW characters, so I can understand why Rockhart would want to make some cooler shirts for gamers. Judging from the mockups and what’s going in the goodie bag I think they’re well on their way to achieving that aim, but they do have one little issue, they need funding on Kickstarter so they can make it happen.
As I write this they’re more than a third of the way to their goal with 17 days to go so it’s looking fairly good that they’ll make it, so if you are tempted to pledge some money it’s pretty likely you’ll get a tee out of it.
It’s funny how you get certain kinds of designer naturally gravitate towards different POD sites, parodies tend to end up on RedBubble, cool arty t-shirts go to MySoti, and people that aren’t designers go to Cafepress. (your insults in the comments, please)
Rob posted this re-imagining of ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ that I thought was pretty fun:
Welcome to the Center [Johnson/Wheatley Remix]
Welcome to the Center
We got cake ‘n’ tests
We got Companion Cubes you want
And Lemons, you know the rest
We’re the AI that can see
Wherever you may be
If you see the turrets honey
Say goodbye to your knees
Portal… Step into the Portal
Oh you are a t,t,t,t,t,t,t,t,t,t,t,t,t,t tease, teeease
Costiness=£16.38 Buy it at RedBubble
food, gaming, and Pokemon. I’m sure there’s a Venn diagram out there with those three on it. These shirts were released by BustedTees last week but it’s taken me until now to get them up. Don’t forget to check out their clearance section either, lots of cool tees in there at $10 a piece.
It’s *quite* pricey, but cripes is this a great design, and that’s coming from someone who I think has only ever played one Zelda game (the N64 one). King of Games have a license from Nintendo too, so this shirt is 100% sanctioned and 100% wearable. Oh, and a cool product picture too.
Costiness= 4900 yen Buy it at King of Games (various colourways)
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 by looking at it, bravo Sir (or madam, but probably Sir), and if not don’t worry, that’s perfectly normal. Very cool looking tee though, what is it about technical diagram tees that make me post them every time I see one?
Costiness=$18 Buy it at 15 Bit Gamer
