Origin68 - Butterfly Girl

Another great release from Origin68. This time it's Butterfly Girl. This one has been kicking around for a while on the site, so it's good to see it finally up, it looks damn good too. Great colours and a nice design.

All the original designs these guys had up on their site are now in production, it will be damn interesting to see what they put out next. I will be keeping a close watch on these guys as Ive been more than impressed with what they've put out so far.

See for yourselves

http://www.origin68.com/

ThreadJunkies

I'm sure there are millions of you earthlings out there who are well aware of these chappies/chappesses. As for me, I wasn't aware of their work, but now that I am, I'm really glad about it. I like their stuff. Firstly, it's a very tasty looking site, its well put together and functions well, not that this kinda crap usually floats my boat I'm usually more into whether the shirts are nice. However this is good. Secondly, and more importantly, the shirts are pretty tasty. My particular faves are Yay-yo (top) and Can't Stop Won't Stop (bottom), the can't cook, won't cook of the t shirt world. My advice would be, swing by and find your own favourites, that's what all the cool kids are doing.

http://www.threadjunkies.com/

Deadscene

Found these bad boys whilst having a bazz round t'internet. Pretty cool, nice price too. £8.99 of your cash money is great value for something limited and well thought about. Plenty of colour options on some of them too which always helps. Have a Terry Butchers over at:

http://www.deadscene.co.uk/

Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Two things. (1) Have you ever seen a tee quite like that!? (Top) That's definately one for the people out there who like to be noticed. It's very cool, not sure I could pull it off myself though. (2)Awesome beards. You may have noticed that i have somewhat of a penchant for beards. I've invested alot of time in training my own facial hair over the years so any chance i get to admire some fellow beard wearers is a pleasure. (Tip: If you want to get your shirts noticed then get a bearded model) .Which brings me nicely on to the t shirt at the bottom, well what can i say, it features a beard, its a nice image. Ideal for the people out their who struggle to grow more than bum fluff. The t shirt above the beard is one of my faves, i love the whole random sketchyness, has a kinda Jeff Lewis feel to it which always works for me.

Oh yeah, by the way, these shirts are from Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction based in the US of A. Definately putting the art into tshirts. That's pretty much what I like to see. I'm a simple man with simple needs.

Check em

http://www.artintheage.com/

Collapse Design

More Helvetic madness follwing the recent article about Collapse Design and their sex, drugs, helvetica, bold shirts (now available in red, Woo!) This time it's the incredibly lovable Helveticat. Simple really, Helvetica with a t. Easy as. Nicely executed aswell. As I've probably mentioned before, Helvetica rocks. Nuff said.

http://www.collapse-design.co.uk/pages/tshirts.html

Bountee ( UK)

Had a nice email from Steve from a Uk based shirt company called Bountee. Steve seems like a great bloke. His sites pretty sweet too. It has a great concept.

Basically to cut a long story short, Bountee are using direct to print methods to produce their shirts. This is in layman's terms is sticking a tshirt through a printer, sceptical??? Don't be, I've touched one with my own hands and it's pretty effing good. It enables Bountee and their customers an enormous amount of freedom. Customers can create their own designs just how they want them and then sell them through their shop. Seeing as they print their shirts to demand there is no excess stock and therefore no risk. If nobody likes a particular design it doesn't matter, they havn't lost out and they don't have tonnes of stock lying around. I'm sure the customers and designers love this too, it gives everyone a great deal of freedom. Anyways, I would advise you to check them out, theres something for everyone on there, that's the beauty of it.

I posted up a couple of my faves, the top one being the Peter Saville/Joy Division inspired 'D.A.N.C.E' by a designer called Progeny, and the other below called 'Progress Marches On' by a chap with the name Steve218. I'm sure you will have your own favourites.

http://www.bountee.com/

Christmas T Shirt Giveaway - Tshirty.net

Introducing the brand new (hopefully annual) Christmas tshirt giveaway from tshirty.net. This is perhaps the easiest contest to enter......ever, and has some really great prizes up for grabs. There are contributions from Origin68, Awesome Creatures, 2 Smart Monkeys, Odd Hero, Crack Smoking Shirts and Crazy Tee Shirts. I encourage everyone to let your friends know as well, because with 7 different T-Shirts for the winner, I’m sure they can spare a few for you.

The contest is up and running, so to enter simply submit your name on the web page and wait for Lady Luck to do her thing.

http://www.tshirty.net/christmas-giveaway