Archive for September, 2007

Everybody Loves Torso

30Sep07by Karl

Ok everyone, you can stop emailing me about Torso I’ve had them on my radar a while but was waiting for them to start selling their Tee’s before I wrote about them, I always get people emailing me where to buy stuff if I don’t put a source up. First off I love the [...]

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WHY Louisville -

30Sep07by Karl

Release the Kraken
Andrea submitted this little t-shirt store in Louisville called WhyLouisville, which is not your average tourist shop. I particularly like the fact that the designs are from local artists and designers, some irreverent and others nothing to do with Louisville. Here’s what Andrea has to say:

A couple of errant Louisvillians began Lebowskifest (an [...]

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Threadless $25 Gift Certificates For T-Shirt Related News and Posts

28Sep07by Karl

So I have a total of $2000 in gift certificates to give away, read on if you want to figure out how to win some. I had written a while ago that I was going to send out free t-shirts to people that sent me new tips that I published, but as it turns out [...]

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Red Star Industries - Very Cool Tees

27Sep07by Karl

Some more new friends from Threadshow, Red Star Industries. Their stuff immediately caught my eye, it’s hard to describe, a sort of post apocalyptic urban chic I posted a couple of my favs including the Gas Mask Man Tee, the Roses and Skulls polo shirt and the Ex Band Geek tee. They also do [...]

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Fiftyseven-thirtythree - T-Shirts out of Oakland

26Sep07by Karl

FiftySeven-ThirtyThree is another of my new friends I met at Threadshow, they are an indie label out of Oakland, CA, just across the bay, and they sell all their stuff through Etsy. The design they are holding above is a hand stenciled and airbrushed design of Johnny Rotten on a Union Flag (only the [...]

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Karma Loop $3000 T-Shirt Design Contest

26Sep07by Karl

Karmaloop is running a t-shirt contest, go here to sign up, here are the deets:
Karmaloop has brought back their T-Shirt design contest, and this time the winner will truly cake. The grand prize winner gets $3000! 5 Runners-up will receive $500 in gift certificates for us at Karmaloop.com, all winning designs will be printed and [...]

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Awesome Creatures from BarrelNY.com

26Sep07by Karl

Barrel a design shop in New York has just launched a new fun line of t-shirts called Awesome Creatures. These shirts are just straight forward fun.

The Turdle T-shirt

The Rhinostone T-shirt totally reminds me of the Flight of the Conchords Rhymenocerous and Hiphopopotomus

Other great design shops with t-shirts check out Airside, ChopShop Mule [...]

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America, Everybody Hates Us Now T-shirt - Headline Shirts

25Sep07by Karl

One of the great t-shirt entrepreneurs i met at Threadshow was Chris, pictured holding one of his t-shirts. America, Everybody Hates Us Now. Chris runs a whole mess of t-shirt businesses from Revel Industries, to Headline t-shirts, and I was amazed to find out the founder of Reactee who i wrote about in June. [...]

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T-Shirt Cannon - The Sabre Semi Automatic Bleacher Reacher

25Sep07by Karl

OMG, I can’t look at this thing without thinking of the Simpsons episode where Maude Flanders is killed by a t-shirt cannon, I wonder if it was this model?
Conclusive proof that on the internet you can’t be too niche check out tshirtguns.com

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Guitar [Han] Solo from Go Ape Shirts

24Sep07by Karl

Go Ape, already a “Star Wars” hall of famer with their Boo Boo Walker has partnered with t-shirt desgner extraorinare, Tom Burns to hit us with another star wars themed t-shirt, this time its Guitar Solo. I have a couple of Go Ape shirts and they are great quality shirts and screen prints, they do [...]

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Owl Movement Season 6 is out

24Sep07by Karl

More unique and creative designs out of the strangely named Owl Movement. Screen printed on lightweight American Apparel poly cotton blends.

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Threadshow San Francisco Redux

23Sep07by Karl

Wow, so I’m back from Threadshow SF and it was an awesome event, 100+ indie fashion designers and entrepreneurs all under one roof with everything from hand-painted leather jackets, to sneakers, to t-shirts, t-shirts, t-shirts. For me it was wonderful to go round and in most cases get to talk to the owners and designers [...]

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Ho On The Go T-shirt and emergency kit for one night stands

23Sep07by Karl

If there was going to be a “best in threadshow” Ho On The Go would totally be in the running. It’s basically a little emergency overnight kit that you throw in your purse when you go out “just in case”, containing a toothbrush, two condoms (in case you’re really lucky), a fresh pair of undies, [...]

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Accordion Hero - Should Be A T

21Sep07by Karl

Although Cowbell Hero is my fav guitar hero inspired t-shirt, Accordion Hero would come a close second if it actually existed.

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Vote On 756*

20Sep07by Karl

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