I like chocolate chip cookies! And one time I accidentally made the recipe wrong, because I didn’t read very carefully, but I like this way more than the recipe! So here is my recipe for chocolate chip cookies, which is almost the same as the recipe on the bag of Guittard semisweet chocolate chips (my favorite kind of chocolate chips!).
Monthly Archive for January, 2008
Binkie ‘combines grandma’s love for overly decorative doilies with post punk chic and the collage techniques of dada and surrealism’. In other words, Binkie is really awesome. As you may know, I like patterns, so you shouldn’t be surprised to hear that I’m gushing over Binkie! They take patterned t-shirts one step farther… they appliqué.
Sparrow from Binkie
Binkie have an entire series of bird designs, called Bird on a Wire. The combinations of different fabrics with silhouettes of different birds create incredibly different tones. Unlike the 50s-cheerful spotted sparrow pictured above, this tui, cut from textured black fabric, despite being on yellow seems melancholy.
Fast Car from Binkie
If birds aren’t your cup of tea (but they certainly are a popular t-shirt design element!), there are also Posessions (which seems more like a miscellaneous category, since it contains not only fast cars, but guns, deer, anchors, hearts, and flowers).
Aside from the usual t-shirts for men and women, Binkie also have tees for children as young as six months! In fact, they have more items for kids than adults! (And more for women than men, incidentally.) I almost wish I had a miniature me just so I could dress them up in some of Binkie’s amazing appliqué t-shirts like Bambi, which I find absolutely stunning.
Link: [Binkie]
Expensiveness: $75-$83 (men’s and women’s) / $45 (kids’)
P.S. If I’ve sparked a lust for appliquéd children’s clothes, but you’re looking for something a bit less expensive, well, I have just the thing: adorable appliquéd tops!
[via Tshirt Island]
For a limited time, every single design at Designgive (whom we’ve featured before) is available both on t-shirts and hoodies. To celebrate this wondrous event, all t-shirts are on sale for $10, all hoodies for $20.
Designgive gives a portion of all proceeds to a charity of your choice, and they work with amazing designers like Si Scott, Jeremy Somers, Scott Bartlett, Paul Macgregor, Jenna Ebanks, and more!
My personal favorite is Warbird, by Kronk, which I believe used to be sold out. So if you want it, get it while it’s still available! I happen to own it, so here’s a photo I took of the print:
A detail picture of my own Warbird
Link: [Designgive]
Expensiveness: $10 t-shirts / $20 hoodies (during the sale)
Before The Bygone Bureau, visionaries Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens staked a claim as t-shirt retailers targeting indie rock hipsters. Due to a series of production issues, conflicts of interest, America’s obesity problem, and robotic monotones, the site never took off. The Bureau’s editors present their line of shirts, sadly never put into production.
(If that blurb is good enough for you, just read the original and hilarious article. If not, read on…)
Now, Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens think their indie rock t-shirts would never sell. I beg to differ, because I think they’re forgetting perhaps the single greatest weakness of hipsters: irony. This level of irony is what hipsters thrive off of.
I’m absolutely positive that this t-shirt, and many of the others featured on The Bygone Bureau, would be a smash hit. Kevin and Nick, if you’re reading: do you want to start a t-shirt company with me? I’ve already done it once. And I’m completely serious about this. I wouldn’t share it with the entire internet if I weren’t serious.
Hey, look! It’s a shirt! A green shirt about trees and people and people’s penchant for abusing trees!
Man Made Earth at Origin68: £19
A somewhat cynical consciousness of humanity’s more disturbing, almost involuntary habits—such as its tendency to stamp nature’s face into the ground with its horrible boots of death and stomping—permeates many of Origin68’s designs. I don’t use “cynical” in a reproachful tone, though, since, frankly, it’s difficult not to be when pondering such things. Origin68 describes this shirt as the first in a series of “man-made” shirts, so look out for future juxtapositions of nature and spurious symbols of worth (viz., the barcode1).
Those wary of rampant consumerism might also want to check out Origin68’s Consume Everything, which derides people’s tendency to spend money they don’t have on things they don’t need in order to obtain things that can’t be bought. Aah, my head!
A small note: Origin68’s website is cumbersome to navigate, but I am confident that you will manage. Small hint: use the Gallery page to navigate between the designs. It is faster and sexier.
Link: [Origin68]
Expensiveness: 19 British monies
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1Man, slap the barcode anywhere, and BAM! Instant commentary.
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