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What a crazy deal! The blowing up Linty Fresh have four of their older t-shirt designs available for only $5! Sizes are limited, and while the men’s varieties are printed on Fruit of the Loom 50/50, the women’s are printed on American Apparel, so these shirts are quite a steal! Get clicking:
Link: [Linty Fresh]
Expensiveness: $5!
New Faces
SENCI: Only four shirts so far. This shop claims interest in themes varying from technology and military to evolution.
Karmaloop: This shirt was the result of a contest to see who could make the best Lupe Fiasco-themed design. All proceeds go to charity.
Unplug Designs: Display your discontent for a tech-obsessed world by… buying t-shirts online?
Secret Agenda: Their blog is listed as a $0.02 item on their site, which is a clever little touch that I didn’t quite get at first.
Brand Resistant: An eco-friendly company featuring designs with fiercely liberal messages.
Melanie Kahlke: This one will require a little work on your part. Follow the link and scroll down to see the knife-belt shirt. If you want one, you’ll have to do things the old-fashioned way and e-mail the artist.
Lowman: If you like big text, you might like this shirt.
The T-Shirt Gang: They say they represent “the realest of the real”. That’s, like, at least three times more real than I am.
Familiar Places
Bat and Rat at Donkeyshines: These oft-misunderstood animals finally get some respect in t-shirt form.
The classics are back at Heavy Rotation: Their email to us had a picture of a guy who looks like Jesus wearing a shirt with anthropomorphic mustard on it. Basically, I love these guys.
Sales
Summer sale at Waterloo: Get up to 40% off!
Lots of news today, for some reason. Let’s get right to it.
1) There’s a mid-year sale going on at Glennz Tees!
It’s for the next 5 days, and everything is either $14 or $16. And hey—did you know that you can get 12″x18″ poster prints of any of the designs? Somehow that had slipped past my attention, but that’s kinda neat.
2) We’ve only mentioned Tolky Monkys in TWiTS posts till now, but they’ve got some cute characters that I think you should take a look at. The one that caught my eye was Hikiko, the game-crazy mime.
This kind of reminds me of the evil cultist mimes you run across in Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness.
(Aside: John and I both highly recommend PAA:OTRSPOD; you should definitely play it. It’s available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, so if you’re reading this on a computer (and I have the sneaking suspicion that you are) you can play the game. (Well, unless you’re using BeOS or something, in which case I don’t really knowwhat to say.) And even if you’re not reading this on a computer, you can still play it on your XBox 360 via XBox Live Arcade. If you’re still not convinced, just download the free demo and try it before you buy it. What I’m trying to say here is that you have pretty much no reason whatsoever not to try the game. But I’ll stop harping on this point, since we’re purportedly a t-shirt blog, not a gaming one.)
3) New designs from Imaginary Foundation! You might be a little disappointed to hear that it’s pretty standard IF fare, though: shirts with hand-produced color fade, one-of-a-kind tye-dyed prints, and a dude playing drums on the moon.
Come on, Imaginary Foundation: get with the program! Where are all your snarky text-only tees? Where are the ironic pop culture references? Oh well… maybe next time.
Normally soaps don’t make me feel hungry… but the exquisite soaps from Savor certainly do! When I first saw these, I just knew I had to write about them, even though they’re not t-shirts. They would make such fantastic gifts! Picture time:
Link: [Savor Soaps]
Expensiveness: $4-5
Fuel Your Creativity has a neat little feature today about 50 inspiring logos that will… well, inspire you. I mention it here because one of the logos they’ve featured is that of Kotton Designshirts, which I wrote about here a little while back.
They’re not kidding about the inspiration bit! Now I kind of want to redesign the Fantastic Bonanza logo. 
Hey folks! Sorry about missing TWiTS last week. To make up for it, we have a double-stuffed edition for you today!
New to Us
Contrast Shop: Their shirts have contrast, which is good, because that way you can see what is on them!
Listen to Barack at CHIT: new storefront for easy purchasing!
Never Say Never: But a shirt for the cause you want to support. Shirts have stories printed on the inside, which is an interesting idea.
You vs. Boxfresh: If you’re not tired of designing t-shirts for other people yet, here’s another place to submit your ideas.
Donkeyshines: The product “photos” on this site are actually watercolor paintings! They’re pretty neat, so you should definitely go check it out.
Shirtfind: It’s a blog. And it has t-shirts on it. That’s pretty much it.
Dutch Southern: Three funny pop culture designs. I love Fantastic Forefathers.
Ser-vice: Not much to say about this one. It’s a t-shirt!
CommonThreadz: Shirts for charity! And the shirts are really well designed. I meant to blog this one earlier, but it fell through the cracks. Definitely check this out.
Needleful: It’s a Threadless-aggregator type thing. Kind of reminds me of the Threadless Numbers posts Joe did way back when.
Take Pride: A shirt inspired by a soldier’s story.
News from Familiar Faces
It’s Bottle, Jim! at Glennz Tees: The prolific Glennz has a clever starship-in-a-bottle design this week.
The Vintage Aficionado: Defunkd is kind of going defunked… but they’ve spawned a glorious new vintage t-shirt blog that you simply must check out.
Bang Bang T-Shirts: Some very funny new designs from the folks at Bang Bang.
Heavy Rotation: New summer things at Heavy Rotation for all your summering needs.
Punctuation at Turn Nocturnal: Do you love punctuation? I know I do! Apparently, so do the folks at Turn Nocturnal: they made this t-shirt devoted to it (punctuation, that is).
The Sale Corner
Mingled: All t-shirts reduced in price—everything’s between $17 and $20.
Featured Items
Check our archives to see what we’ve already written about!
Kris Straub, creator of Starslip Crisis and webcomicker extraordinaire, has just put up my favoritist design ever for pre-order at his storefront. It is called The Seas Are Just Packed, for reasons that I hope will be abundantly clear to you once you see it. According to one extremely unbiased observer, it is “unquestionably the greatest shirt ever.”
Anyway, the deal with this design is as follows:
We’ll be printing a set number for San Diego Comic Con. The order will be sent this weekend. If you want to be guaranteed a shirt, you can pre-order now, and we’ll add that to the run. If you wait until we come back from SDCC to get one, we may be sold out. This is, unquestionably, the greatest shirt ever.
Basically, if you want one, either pre-order now—or get your butt over to San Diego between July 23 and 27.* For most people, I suspect one of these choices will be more feasible than the other. I leave it to you to figure out which.
Link: [Nightlight Press]
Expensiveness: $19.99
* Be sure to say “hi” to John and me, since we’ll both be there!
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