Tcritic – The T-Shirt Blog Covering The Best in Nerd Fashion

Origami dollar t-shirt
Originally uploaded by Vaguely Artistic.

Not only is this super cool, but there are also instructions on how to create your own, please send me pictures if you make any yourself. Cheers.

Immolate Your Heroes is a pretty amazing t-shirt that depicts Th??ch Quang Duc, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who self-immolated at a busy Saigon intersection on June 11, 1963. From a design standpoint they’ve done some great stuff, somehow drawing 6 or 7 colors out of a 3 color print through clever mixing and overprinting. Shirts are printed on American Apparel (snug fit), and run around $17. My picture almost doesn’t do it justice, if you want to see a larger pic I’ve put one on flickr here.

Tech Crunch have just done a nice little write up of Goodstorm’s “design your own t-shirt” flash tool.

I actually know the founder of the company, Yobie Benjamin and he is on a mission with Goodstorm to make ecommerce tools available to anyone. If your interested I actually interviewed him on my shortlived podcast called “the co-creative business show” at customersonfire.com – maybe I should do a t-shirt podcast.

I just got an email about these t-shirts and I’ve got to say i’ve never seen anything like it. Definitely original, a bit weird, pretty cool, maybe creepy. All of the shirts are silhouettes of animals with human heads/faces, i’m not sure if this is some kind of art stemming from some kind of ancient tradition or just the result of an imaginative mind.

This t-shirt from threadless always gets lots of comments and a bit of a grin. No High falutin design, just plain old smutt.

The “love” t-shirt is a great design by a Dutch company called Frogbite. Update, if you want to order this t-shirt from the crazy dutch guys just send Frank an email frank@frogbite.nl – another update is you can buy these shirts via paypal now, just email Frank and let him know what size and style you want, include your paypal email and he can request the funds from you.

I don’t know why I came up with that headline, but here’s a story of a girl that doesn’t want to get hit by any more cars so she’s selling t-shirts to try and raise some funds so she can join the LA car race. Meet Karen, she currently rides a bike to work in LA and has been hit twice so she created a T-Shirt that says “I don’t want to die on the streets of LA”

Admittedly these are cafepress shirts which are not quality screenprints, but I can dig the concept, I ride a bike to work as well.

Anyway, on to the wishes part of this story (hence the headline), have you ever heard of the Robin Hood Fund? It’s a site where you can post a “wish” and people will vote on your wishes, sometimes contributing a bit of money, and at the end of the month they tally up the votes and make some wishes come true. Pretty sweet, kind of like Digg for wishes. Anyway, check out Karens page on the Robin Hood Fund and if you are so inclined vote. Skeptical? Well this guy got 10,000 for video equipment based on this video wish, which is hysterical (in a very twisted dry kind of way).

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The “love” t-shirt is a great design by a Dutch company called Frogbite. It’s kind of tough because it’s all in Dutch but I think you click on “bestell” if you want to order it, and then click on “betaal” on the left to check out. Tip of the hat to DesignSpotter.com.

Update, if you want to order this t-shirt from the crazy dutch guys just send Frank an email frank@frogbite.nl – another update is you can buy these shirts via paypal now, just email Frank and let him know what size and style you want, include your paypal email and he can request the funds from you.

here’s a note he wrote to me:

Thank you for paying attention to our website. You must have had a hard time visititing our site, or you have the amazing skill of reading dutch . We are a fairly young company and mainly based on the benelux (netherlands,
belgium and luxembourg) but we are thinking about also making an english version of our site, this could take a while but is in the planning.

The good news is that we do ship to the US (we have done this before). The shipping cost is around 5 euro instead of the regular 3,50. What we did so far is jsut let the people sent the money in an enveloppe, we look at
www.xe.com for the current dollar<>euro exchange rate. If people would like to order the shirt they best just sent me an email.

Hope this answers your question, just email me if you need any other information.

With best regards,
Frank / Frogbite.nl

Another design from Threadless called Peace and Hate is in a similar vein.

and there is always the classic Love/Hate t-shirt I posted back in june:

again, from European store called Made In Design

UPDATE: I just found out they do a black t-shirt that says Love and a red t-shirt that says Hate, you just have to select in the drop down “Black Love L”, how cool is that!

Seems like they only have red in medium and black in large

Monsieur T’s is having a 3rd anniversary sale with T-shirts ranging from 30% to 50% off, mostly short run stuff so it will run out. Girls go here and boys go here.

And the good folks at waterloo have released a line of tank tops featuring some of their fun designs.

I guess it’s kind of like threadless in Europe, but anyway La Fraise is looking for a UK ambassador to help judge, blog, and grow the community around their T-shirts. It sounds like a paying gig, but they don’t say anything about a salary. They are offering a prize of 1000 Euro’s worth of shirts for people who refer potential candidates so check out this page if you’re interested.

An example shirt from them, the money vice.