We get a lot of emails every week, some of which we don’t get around to responding to, and some of which we don’t end up featuring here. And we feel kind of bad about it. Besides, not everybody has the same taste in t-shirts as us, so we may as well give you a heads up on some shirts that just aren’t our style. So starting now, every week we’re going to post brief synopses of all the indie t-shirts news in the past week, including everything we’ve reviewed and emails we’ve gotten from shop owners (sort of like the Cotton Filter at Hide Your Arms). We’re not going to be retroactive about this, though, so if you want to appear on this list you’ve got to email us again. Without further ado, the first installment of This Week in T-Shirts (TWiTS)!
New Faces:
- How 2 T-Shirts: t-shirts that display activities that are printed with instructions… they’re actually more interesting than that makes them sound.
- MonkeyFist Brands: If you like monkeys who think they’re humans, you’ll love MonkeyFist!
- FeelDude: a new Italian t-shirt design contest
- Th.INK It (via compete-tee-tion): a fledgling t-shirt design competition that still has some kinks to work out.
- A Number of Small Things: the new online shop for Human Empire, a German t-shirt label
- FFee: shirts from a couple of coffee-loving graphic designers
Familiar Places:
- Designgive (read all the info): t-shirts for a cause by excellent designers. All designs available on tees and hoodies and on sale for a limited time!
- Burnswell (read all the info): have announced the winners of their Big Deal t-shirt competition, but they were only available until Friday.
For You Cheapskates:
- Sub Urban Riot (read all the info): buy a hoodie at full price, get a t-shirt for free!
- People Like Us: $33 AUD sale on all Original designs.
- Limitees: sale on ’selekkted’ t-shirts.
- Concrete Hermit (via HYA): 10-25% off all t-shirts through January.
- Coltesse (via T-Shirts Around the Internet): 50-60% off select designs.
Bloggy Happenings:
- 45 robot t-shirts: the second of two huge lists of robot t-shirts, brought to you by Andy of HYA. if you like robots or t-shirts, chances are you’ll love this list!
- You Design It blog: a brand-new but excellent t-shirt blog from the printing and design side of the industry. I’m expecting great things!
And the things we’ve featured this week:
- Binkie (read our full review): stunning appliquéd t-shirts for men, women, and children.
- After the Rain Comes a Rainbow (read our full review): beautiful typographic storytelling in a new tee from Design by Humans
- Love Etsy t-shirt (read our full review): by an Etsyan, for Etsyans, it’s the Love Etsy tree tee!
- Bananalabra (read our full review): the most delicious t-shirt in the world comes from Small Victory Studios.
- Artifex Shirts (read our full review): 100% organic, sweatshop-free cotton t-shirts printed with positive green imagery and messages. Some proceeds go to carbon offset programs.
- Retro Campaigns (read our full review): vintage-style t-shirts featuring images and slogans from American political campaigns from the ’50s through the ’70s.




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