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Ten awesome CMYK tees

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Markus
on November 10, 2008
in Design by Humans, Threadless, art, contests, misc., music and t-shirts
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For some reason I got a crush on these colors lately. Maybe because I saw several tees with them lately that I really like.  So I put together a list of them. In no particular order. Enjoy!

Octaprintah! Design by Draco, sold @ LaFraise

(I own this btw)

CMYK tee by The Loots @ Karmaloop

Chance Of Rain by Jeff Sheldon @ scribtee

(I hope to own this soon btw)

Zapf Dingbats by Silberfischer (can you unveil the secret message?)

The Sound Of Color, by Fitz Hammond @ Threadless

CMYK? by Master Control @ Design By Humans

Smoking by Turn Nocturnal

This is actually a band shirt by the wicked Architecture In Helsinki, designed by Singer Cameron Bird, sold @ InSound

C M … guess what by yanmos @ Red Bubble

CMYK Ink Drop by Inku @ Bountee

These lovely patterns from Vogelwerk

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Markus
on October 17, 2008
in art, industry and t-shirts
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Hallo Leute, it’s se German correspondent again wiss more noos from Sauerkraut country.

It’s been a month now that the e-shop of vogelwerk.net has gone online. I discovered this brand at a festival and fell in love with these designs immediately. Its name can be roughly translated as “bird’s work” or “bird plant” or “bird company” or however you like it. Their collection consists of cleverly built monochrome patterns, such as “Faces” (left pic) whose overall impression is achieved by lining up little face drawings that are differently drawn. They are available on different shirt colors: purple, asphalt, heather grey, grass, raspberry … The white prints are made “by using a special bleaching color that extracts the color from the textile. The result is a permanent print that is not distinguishable from the surface structure of the textile itself.” The black prints are also barely noticeable, so if you don’t like the feeling of thick rubber layers on your chest, this might be something for you. They do not only have T-shirts, there’s also hoodies, long sleeves and jackets.

Tolky Monkys Microstories contest: We have a winner

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Markus
on October 15, 2008
in contests and t-shirts
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The verdict at Tolky Monkys‘ Microstories Contest is reached, and we have a winner:

Congratulations to Marisa who commented here and took away the best story prize. (The best name was given at Solo Pienso En Camisetas.) Since there were only two commenters and two shirts per blog given away, Ricky also takes away a surprise shirt.

I was a bit surprised there were not more participants though since these shirts are oh so awesome…

One Featured Tee By One Favourite Artist / Ninhol

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Markus
on October 9, 2008
in One Tee One Artist, Threadless, art, blogs, contests and t-shirts
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I simply join this series and want to feature one of my favourite T-shirts at the moment. It’s called “Luz” which is Spanish and Portugese for “Light”. It’s more an unusual design for him … if you check his online Portfolio at ninhol.com you’ll find his rather individual style is like patchwork sewn from different pieces. Like with his designs Hummingbird And Snake, Fears and Desires or the recently released Favela. You can also read a little interview with him on the Scribtee T-Shirt-Blog.

Name this monky !

Published
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Markus
on September 30, 2008
in contests and t-shirts
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If you haven’t heard of Tolky Monkys yet: Shame on you, go check out the site immediately. As you should know, the idea of these T-shirts are cute little heroes who all have a story about them. To be read on the site and on labels attached to T-shirts.

Now here’s where you come in: Above you see a future inhabitant of Tolkyworld of whom we know nothing yet. Now look at him: what do you think is his name, what special attributes, talents and qualities does he have, what history does he have …. ? Hint: the site says he’s a bear, I would have identified him as a badger or a mole at first. Maybe he’s even some animal we haven’t heard of yet. Up to you. In a world that is crowded with undie loving raccoons, self-cutting Japanese octopus chefs, living eyeballs and one-eared revenge seeking rabbits nothing is too weird.

Post your ideas in the comment section. There are two prizes for best name and best story, and both of them are awarded with a Tolky Monky new collection package containing four items. Yummy. Plus: 2 surprise T-Shirts will be given out amongst all peeps who participate here. Easily earned tees, isn’t it? The twenty best names will get printed on the shirt label.

I’ll go ahead with my idea to see what this could look like:

Breakdancing Benny

The problem of Benny was that he was just plain stupid… well, it was not really a problem for him. He has always been getting along with people, was always friendly, he was just a bit slow on the uptake. So he didn’t really understand all the flak he had to take at school. But since he concluded that this was none of his fault he got along. But, boy, he loved music.

One day when he walked past his school he saw a bunch of other kids doing breakdance in front of a loud ghettoblaster. He started to twitch immediately and it was not half a minute that he’d broken into a fierce dance. Everybody was staring at him - they had never seen such funny movements. But since his St. Vitus dances always gathered a lot of attention once he started them he was allowed to join the breakdancing gang. Two years later he was discovered by a rap band that took him on tour as a sort of mascot. Like Leroy at The Prodigy - no real use, but fun to look at and thus a part of the gang. So he found himself dancing to the beats he loved every evening, much cheered at. He even took occasional objects thrown at him, because deep inside, he knew he was now cool.

Pretty average, huh? I’m sure you can do better.

Please have a seat!

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Markus
on September 26, 2008
in art, industry and new releases
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A different kind of concept is by this new site from Austria: Seatshirt.eu takes public design to the shirt. And with “public design” I mean the patterns of the seats in public transports from all over the world. While these would not necessarily be suitable for great allover-shirts, on seatshirts these mostly overlooked design works are presented like in frames: they go on dark shirts which maximizes the contrast and gives a nifty overall impression. The series starts off with seat pattern designs from Copenhagen (simple dark blue on dark grey shirt, as above), Tokio (pink and cyan check pattern on black) and Vienna (floating irregular shapes, blue background on black shirt).

All shirts are limited edition, organic and climate neutral, as is the site.

The history of the tee - on a tee

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Markus
on September 24, 2008
in art, new releases and t-shirts
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This is a truly great find. The history of a T-shirt in a few words written all over the medium itself - the T-shirt:

“The Origin of the T-shirt is obscure. It claims reach from California to Britainia And from 1913 to 1948. The …(*) of the person that invented this blessed rag need to be put on a pedestal and worshiped for eternity.”

((*) I think this word is “remnants” … ?)

This is the stuff that has the potential to separate the T-shirt aficionados from the tee maniacs. Also because it costs 45 €. By the way, I just purchased a book about T-Shirts and I think it says a little more about the historical origins … so if you want to learn more about this subject, I might do a write-up. On request.

It is available from Uniforms For The Dedicated (great shop name, too!) and you really should look at their collection since all of their designs are pretty awesome.

Discovered at the Rumplo Blog (Rumplo rocks! I guess this has been said before…)