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Design By Humans/Jeff Finley T-Shirt Revolution

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Joe

on June 7, 2008

in Design by Humans, new releases and t-shirts

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UPDATE: you can now view the entire printing process that went into this design on Flicker, starting here.

Jeff Finley, in cooperation with Design by Humans, have set new heights for t-shirt printing with DBH’s latest tee, Jeff’s Bold Is Beautiful:

Bold Is Beautiful by Jeff Finley NEW! at Design by Humans

This print pushes some boundaries in three ways, and in combination makes it all the more impressive:

it’s an oversize print covering nearly all of the shirt area, which requires some big screens and platens
it was printed using nine colors to capture all the complexity of the original design; their separator, Dan, deserves some HUGE props
to top it all off, this oversized, 9-color print has a soft hand… on a black shirt! Normally prints on dark shirts aren’t as soft because they require more ink to be opaque on the dark background, so this is all hugely impressive.

Well, congratulations DBH and Jeff Finley! The finished product looks absolutely fantastic.

If you want more Bold Is Beautiful… you can read this comment thread about Bold Is Beautiful at Emptees.

P.S. Happy birthday, Jeff!

Enclothe Yourself in Something New

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Greg

on June 3, 2008

in Enclothe, new releases and t-shirts

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Two new shirts at Enclothe! That is one more than one new shirt! Two more than zero! Three less than five!

Here is one of them:

Electric Buddha Head at Enclothe

Now I’ve gotta jet, but you should definitely check out their other new release, Broadcast Shiva, since it is Shiva playing video games. And video games are awesome!

While you’re at it, you can also catch their new colorways for Axis Mundi, Abe, and Baltar Is My Homeboy.

Expensiveness: $20
Link: [Enclothe]

Art in the Age’s New Releases

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Greg

on May 27, 2008

in new releases and t-shirts

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For relatively old values of the word “new”, our friends over at Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction have a slew of new t-shirts you should take a gander at. Here: let me help you in your gandering pursuits with this digital reproduction of an image from their site!

Press Tee from Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Now, I’ve got to be honest with you here about something: If you click on that image and go to the shirt page on Art in the Age’s site, you will find that the man wearing that t-shirt does not look particularly excited about it. In fact, he looks a little depressed. I might go so far as to say that he is glowering.

Perhaps he is just tired after a full day’s work of slaving away at the printing presses. That’s fair, and completely understandable. But as a prospective procurer of t-shirty goodness, this image fails to move me. The photo instills many feelings in me—fear, rage, and pity, among others—but irrational consumerism is not one of them.

Anyway, the design’s the thing, and I quite like the arresting monochrome that’s going on here. While we Bonanziers tend not to be huge fans of branding/logos on t-shirts, I personally don’t have a problem with it here. I mean, when you couple the phrase “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” with the image of the printing press, it’s got meaning entirely separate from any branding purpose. It’s thought provoking! What has the advent of mechanical reproduction meant for art? What of digital reproduction in the modern age? Has it democratized art, or is art by its very nature an elitist medium? Why am I asking so many questions?

Anyway, this design has been on a baseball tee for a while, so if you want to see some of the really “new” stuff, you should just go look for your own dang self.

Sans Serif, Plus Turn Nocturnal!

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Joe

on May 20, 2008

in new releases and t-shirts

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Sans-Serif NEW! from Turn Nocturnal

A t-shirt full of the best sans serif typefaces ‘including Helvetica, Meta, Avenir, Frutiger, Officina, Optima, Gotham, Akzidenz Grotesk, Univers, Trade Gothic, Din, Agenda, Interstate, News Gothic, Myriad, Eurostile, and Gill Sans. (and NOT Arial)’? Sounds good to me! Be sure to check out a huge picture of the shirt on Emptees. This new typography tee is brought to you by Turn Nocturnal, home of Huge Type Looks Sweet.

Link: [Sans-Serif at Turn Nocturnal]
Expensiveness: $17

Mediocore Clothing Pre-Sale & Contest

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Joe

on May 19, 2008

in new releases, on sale and t-shirts

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All three brand-new t-shirts at Mediocore Clothing are on pre-order for $19.99! Use exclusive Fantastic Blognanza discount code fantastic for 10% off! My favorite of the designs? Shark Week:

Shark Week - Jonathan Kruse - Mediocore Clothing

Shark Week NEW! from Mediocore Clothing

To sweeten the deal, every pre-order automatically gets entered into this awesome contest:
Grand Prize

TMNT trilogy
Shark week 4 disc 20th Anniversary Collection
Awesome TMNT figures

Link: [Mediocore Clothing]
Expensiveness: $19.99 (use exclusive coupon code fantastic for 10% off!)

Fantastic Bonanza New Releases & Pre-Order Sale!

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Joe

on May 12, 2008

in Fantastic Bonanza, new releases, on sale and t-shirts

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Fantastic Bonanza has three brand new t-shirts available for pre-order right now! All three are available in full size runs in both men’s and women’s styles. These t-shirts will be available for pre-order until May 24th, and will ship June 15th, at which point they will be available for normal-order. But if you pre-order yours, you get savings! Because we love you. We love you sooooooo much that you can use coupon code ‘friend’ (sans quotes) for 15% off your entire order at Fantastic Bonanza, including pre-ordered shirts! Whoa!

The People’s Condiment NEW! & ON SALE! at Fantastic Bonanza

What could be better than Lenin holding a bottle of his own brand of ketchup, Leninz? This design was inspired by the redness (what a qualisign!) of ketchup, because, you know, red… Communism… it all makes sense! I swear. But seriously: this design has some cool details that you can only see in this detail image. You’ll be able to see them when it’s printed, too, of course.
NB: This design will undergo some very minor and probably unnoticeable (unless you have some sort of ‘photographic memory’) changes before going to print.

MUSTARD – NO! NEW! & ON SALE! at Fantastic Bonanza

Obviously Lenin’s Soviet Union wouldn’t be able to tolerate the use of a capitalist condiment such as mustard! No, sir. Which is why we somehow traveled through time or something to bring you this message: ГОРЧИЦА – НЕТ! (Psst, that means ‘MUSTARD – NO!’ in Russian! Trick all your friends into believing that you know Russian by wearing this shirt!) The People are depending on you to spread this anti-mustard, pro-ketchup message, comrade.

Fancy Mustachio NEW! & ON SALE! at Fantastic Bonanza

If you’ve been reading this here blog, you’ve probably already seen Fancy Mustachio. But you probably didn’t know that it will for sure be getting printed with two specialty inks: suede ink for fuzziness and metallic ink for shininess. You can’t go wrong with this multimedia smorgasbord of sensation! Seriously, you can’t. It’s going to be amazingly sweet and I can’t wait to wear mine and rub the fuzzy suede ink kind of creepily in public.
Please visit the Fancy Mustachio page for placement mockups of the design!

Link: [Fantastic Bonanza]
Expensiveness: $20 while on pre-sale, use coupon code friend for 15% off!
Should you hurry: pre-sale ends June 1st, but coupon lasts indefinitely!

P.S. Don’t forget that all three of these designs are available in men’s S-XXL and women’s S-XL!

3 New Tees at Glennz Tees!

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Joe

on April 30, 2008

in new releases and t-shirts

. 3 Comments

Glenn Jones is really pumping out the t-shirt designs on his new label, Glennz Tees! It probably helps that he already has quite a large following from his enormous prior success at Threadless. My favorite of the batch? Deflating Defenses!