“Rumble”
By KOA, art director, graphic designer and illustrator / France
[visit kodazn.com]
price: € 16.00 ( Boys sizes are currently sold out, click “Anfrage” to request reprint )
available at A better tomorrow
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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.
“Hope Attack”
By Nick Deakin, artist and illustrator / United Kingdom
[visit nickdeakin.com]
price: $ 18.00
available at Go Ape Shirts
This is a quick post to let you know about an addition to our blogroll: The Vintage Afficionado, a t-blog about—you guessed it—vintage tees! Very exciting stuff. If you’re at all interested in old, cool, or rare tees, you’ll definitely want to check it out.
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…)
I admit that shamefully I haven’t checked the site of vintagevantage until they wrote me an email recently. Luckily they did. I filed them under “awesomely random funny stuff” immediately. And their offer to send me a sample nicely matched the fact that I wanted one of these really badly upon seeing it. It says “Real men don’t LOL” and what struck me about it was the combination of this rather stupid message using internet slang with its old-fashioned representation of pure manliness: a weightlifter, circa 1920 circus style. I’m not considering myself as the manliest dude around so I always wear this with a grin and a certain sense of irony.
My first impression when unwrapping it was: Wow, even cooler than I thought. The colors are more intense and luminiscent than it seems on the preview pictures on their site. Plus: the combination of yellow, orange and red on a creme colored shirt is just pretty.The details of the design come out beautifully - I always love this kind of ancient looking drawings in the style of old book illustrations or etchings. Its print is soft and barely noticeable with your fingers.
The shirt itself makes me a little skeptical. I can’t figure which shirts they used, apparently they make their own, but the fabric seems rather thin. I know from AA that a thin tissue does not automatically mean poor quality, but I hope this will be lasting quite long, since I am fully in love with this design and want to wear it a lot. Let’s trust them since they’re fond enough of the shirts to sell them as blanks and describe them as “buttery soft and thin loveliness“.
Get yours here, ladies and gents, or best check out all the fun stuff VV has to offer.
Hi… I have this account a while already, but Shirtspotting, everyday life and a long holiday kept me from posting here earlier.
However, as first post I’d like to share some holiday pics with you. My girlfriend and me travelled to Spain and I was thrilled to see so many things there. Our first stop was Madrid. Arriving just on that unlucky day that the SpanAir plane crashed and so many people were killed. However, on arriving at the airport we didn’t get any of this and just heard it in the news later that day.
Beside this sad news we fully enjoyed our time in Madrid. To get back to T-shirts (sometimes this limitation is a bit annoying…), I first realized Spaniards are chic. Really. And they do love shopping. Yeah, everyone does, but I have never seen such a rate of shoe shops per street. And you spot more cool T-shirts worn by friendly people than you do here in Germany.
An absolute must-see is the sunday flea market in a quarter called “El Rastro“. But “the Rastro” has become the synonym for Spain’s most famous flea market. God, I love flea markets anyway, and this one was particularly rich in good finds. There are no private vendors that try to make a few cents out of their old household, just professional sellers. Hundereds of vendors offer their stuff, mainly clothes, shoes, souvenirs and art, and pretty much all of it is a good deal. I started taking pics of the T-shirt stands but after a while decided that it’s enough. This says already pretty much about just how many of them there were. Being that many the T-shirt stands have specialized: some sell fun shirts, others city shirts like in the souvenir shops, there were stands of Metal band merchandise, rock band shirts, design shirts … the latter sold some designs that I knew and were obviously ripped off from Threadless and DBH. I was also a bit surprised to see Tokio Hotel is a popular band in Spain.
With a limited budget for a 16 day trip I had to pull myself together and not start spending like I’d have loved to. At the very last stand I cracked. I mean, you can’t walk past shirts for just 2€, can you. So I bought a nicely drawn shirt of ropes, cats and strange creatures. Even though I expect it to fall apart after a few washes, it has survived until now. I still wonder how they can afford it to sell at that price. It was made in the world’s poorest country, Bangladesh, and I really hope some poor fucker can live from manufacturing these. However, a holiday is not always the best time for ethic dilemmas anyway.
You can see a series of more pics here.
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