splatterbeasts

OK. What’s not to love about the splatterbeasts. I never like purple tees. Until now. Man - I’m in such a fanboy mood this morning!!!

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just smashing

Smashing Darling do a LOT more than just tees. Not that I care. Tee + pants = fully clothed in my book. The site collects a bunch of designers work into one place - with some really interesting, mainly low key, work on show. Some of the standout stuff linked up below. Watch the pricing, as some of the stuff is pretty labour intensively custom the pricing varies widely - like $12 to $80 for a shirt.

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Tree lined teee by Whosiepie is simple, unusual, and perfect for the subtly mid green look.  Cloak and dagger by student smashup is unusual - The design is printed on the lower-right, back corner of the shirt so it looks like the knife-fighter is jumping into your pocket. Che reverse by Che Woo is a nice eye hurter - clashing colours, gotta love ‘em.

Also - make sure you HUNT for stuff. The categories hide some of the best stuff away - they don’t just have boys and girls, they do ages and stuff too.

pirate tee

I don’t pirate music. Honest! But I know some of you rebellious young guns probably do. You might as well make it easy for the man when he comes to shoot you in the head for being evil. Wear this shirt so he gets you, not your little sister. (via boingboing)

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tenbills cheapies!

Morning folks. I just got a nice message from TenBills - “Your readers can get 20% off their purchase with code: SAVETWENTY (expires 2/15/2008).” Just head on over to turn ten bills into eight bills - as it were.

Skip the main site and hop straight into the quick order catalog. Every teeco should have one of these - so quick and easy to spend too much money! Pic below is of Gemini - a two pack. Same tee, different colours. Nice.

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Fake T-Shirts in Photoshop

Josh from one of my favourite teecos, Insanely Great, has been featured in Photojojo with a tutorial on faking Tsihrts in photoshop. If you have an urge to transform the lettering on someones tee in those holiday snaps - this is the place to start!

Photoshop tutorial > & competition before and afters here.

Medusa Monkey

Hurrah. A monkey with snakes for hair. Animal lovers get to show the love for two species at once. From Design by Humans.
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This reminds me of an idea I had a while back. Basically, to spend a whole week wearing different tshirts with the same animal on it, monkeys one week, snakes the next, hippos the following week. My wardrobe (okay, drawer) allows me to spend an ‘anti mac’ week, a ‘hippy cyclist’ week and a few others, but not a week of the monkey. I need more monkey shirts.

repunation - comedy national insults.

Slogan tees can be a bore - unless they do something a little differently. Repunation does things a little differently. A bunch of slickly typeset, hard hitting or just plain funny national insults / stereotypes.

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The photography is great. Interesting scenes, well shot, in the real tee. No odd photoshopping here. You DO run the risk of being barred entry to clubs, and being smacked in the mouth if you run into touchy foreigners wearing these though. These would make great gifts for people living abroad. Ambiguous shirts galore!

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Obama bandwagon jumpin’

Stolen Goodies have a particularly sinister floaty Obama shirt at the moment, which reminded me I’d been meaning to link them up for a while. Lesson of this shirt - never clutter a good image up with stupid lettering!

They should sell this shirt on the Barack Obama . com site. Much better than this official obama 08 shirt.

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shirts of 2007

I don’t post links to other blogs often enough. Call this a new years resolution! Addicteed.com is a great blog, and just posted their tshirts of 2007 post - a massive flickr gallery of every tee they covered in 2007. An idea I am bound to shamelessly rip off at some point in the future. Great stuff to spend 5 minutes rummaging in.

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Hate filled heart

Spitefuls is a funny collection of shirts built around the general belief that the wearer is generally … well… spiteful towards the world. Some are funnier than others, but generally the standard is good. I’m never sure about the whole ‘wear your mood’ thing. I loved the old Meh shirt from thinkgeek, but if your opinion and vehemence sharpen up during the day it starts to feel a bit… well.. Meh.
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Bitterium is funny, bitter pills are amusing, but my favourite is probably the Cebu Thriller Dance Team tee. Think you can dance? Can you dance in orange? All the tees on one page here.

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Click.

Simple. White. Clean. The flash site can take a week to load on a dodgy shared connection, but stick with it, you want one of these. From Grafik Noise. This is geek without the geek.

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One small nit-picky criticism. The url on the front of the tee seems to big to me. Gameskins used to get the size JUST ABOUT right - with a nice tiny light font. You couldn’t read from a distance, but if anyone wanted to get your shirt, they just asked, because they could see it said something there.

Doradimon

Some shirts just don’t need any explanation. Trust me. A new classic from WrongWroks. Their blog is well worth adding to your reader for random stylish entertainment and the earliest heads up on their newest tees. The good stuff sells out QUICK.

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Startup schwag

I just received the latest startup schwag package on return from my new years break. Sign up for yours here.

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It’s an interesting collection of stickers and another cool tee. Now lets be honest, I’d never go into a store and shout ‘yay -that’s exactly the tee I’m after’. But hey - it has a certain geek value. It’s not as in your face as the techcrunch or reddit shirts, so is a bit more wearable.

It also seems to work for the company on the front of the tee - as I felt compelled to open an imeem account just in case someone asked me about the tee.

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The team at startup schwag also take things pretty seriously - allowing you to spec a different size when the tee will be printed on AA for example. Essential for some. The occassional spoilers on the blog could be better flagged though - half the fun is in not knowing what’s going to arrive on the doorstep.

I know of a few other monthly tee schemes, but they tend to exist outwith the usual tee sites - and be totally nichey. If you know of any drop me a line. I have a feeling that 2008 will be the year of the obscure tshirt.

Tshirt directory Jan 2008

Welcome to the first edition of the OMGTees tshirt directory. Here is a collection of well over 100 t-shirt company websites, from tiny indie labels to monsters clothing half the nation. Enjoy - I bet you find something to wear. I BET you!


American Pig
Political tshirts, and more interesting lady tops than most.

americanpig.com


AMP Street
Urban tees, caps, and other gubbins.

http:amp-street.com


Angry Retail
From tea cozy to tee shirt. Geeky in a Craft rather than Make way.

angryretail.com


Art in the age
Some excellent designs on quality shirts.

artintheage.com


Balcony shirts
Uk based, huge range, Viva Luton!

balconyshirts.co.uk


Bang Bang T-shirts
Funny, geeky and gamer shirts.

bangbangt-shirts.com


Blend apparel
So. Many. Hearts…

blendapparel.com


boobookachoo
Worth a visit for the big blue button shirt alone.

boobookachoo.com


Bountee
Design, vote, buy in a threadless style - with a different enough feel to be worthwhile.

bountee.com


Bumpnose
Home of the $5 graphic tee.

bumpnose.com


Bunny Hop Tees

bunnyhoptees.com


Busted Tees
Funny tees. So many funny tees.

bustedtees.com


Chillers clothing

chillersclothing.com


Chocosho
Not just tees, but the tees are goood.

chocosho.com


Choice shirts
design your own, or buy something funny

choiceshirts.com


Chop Shop
Designy geek shirts, illustrative.

chopshopstore.com


Cock strong tees
music, tees, and cool

cockstrongtees.com


Contrast
Bold designs on tees, hoodies, and other upper body garb.

contrastshop.com


Custom ink
Design and print your own T-shirts

customink.com


Deck Trash

decktrash.com


Deez Teez
Funny tshirts with attitude.

deezteez.com?SSAID=210365


Defunkd

defunkd.com


Design by humans
Huge designs, illustrative and texturey.

designbyhumans.com


Dickey shirts
simple stylish hip tshirts

dickeyshirts.com


Diesel Sweeties

dieselsweeties.comshirts


Dirty Coast

dirtycoast.com


District Cottan
Organic, fairtrade, ethical tees

districtcotton.com


Disturbia

disturbiaclothing.co.uk


Farennikov

farennikov.com


Fat guy shirts
Shirts for fat guys, plenty of food joke tees.

fatguyshirts.com


Fat Rabbit Farm

http:fatrabbitfarm.com


French loser
Boutiquey t-shirt shop with a bizzarro website.

http:frenchloser.com


Good storm
Capitalism done right.

goodstorm.com


Goodness Clothing

weargoodness.com


Gorilla Riot

http:gorillariot.com


Heavy Tees

heavytees.com


Imperfect Articles

imperfectarticles.comStore


Inviaggio
Flash site, lovely photography, interesting tees.

inviaggioonline.com


jasonshogreen

jasonshogreen.comshop.htm


Jinx
Gamer gamer gamer

jinx.com


Johnny Cupcakes

johnnycupcakes.com


Just be nice
Feelgood clothing, ethical, organic, etc…

http:justbenice.com


La Fraise

lafraise.comcontest.php?op=lafraise_shop


Lamstock
Wierd.

lamstok.com


LMNO Tees
Funny tee shirts

lmnotees.comstore


Lochers

lochers.com


Look at me shirts
Funny, random, tees, hoodies and even PJs.

lookatmeshirts.com


Love and Tug

loveandtug.co.uk


Lucky Threadz
Funny, and sometimes sweary tees.

luckythreadz.com


Made Up Apparel
Old school imagery your thing? Head here. Now.

madeupstudios.com


Mimijude
Character tees

mimijude.com


Mod n wild

http:modnwld.com


Monsieur T

monsieurt.net


Moustache
Skulls, horses, all that good stuff.

http:shop.moustacheclothing.com


Mr shape
Mister Shape is a design project located in the heart of the Sonoran Desert focused on the art, the science and the love of shapes.

mistershape.com


Natalie Dee
Sweet sketchy tees based on cartoonist Natalie Dee.

nataliedee.com


Negrete
London based label. Free shipping worldwide. Nice.

negrete.co.uk


Nerdy Shirts
Gamer tees, funny tees, and nerdy tees.

nerdyshirts.com


No Demo

no-demo.com


Noisebot
funny tshirts

noisebot.com


nostarclothing

http:nostarclothing.com


Not bad for a girl
Girly shirts

notbadforagirl.com


Off your back shirts
Your online source for organic, sweatshop free and fair trade apparel. We donate a portion of profits to poverty and the environment.

http:offyourbackshirts.com


One night stand tshirts
Shirts that are comfortable and that you love to wear

onenightstandtshirts.com


orange Alexander

orangealexander.com


Origin 68
Some nice enviro green shirts, give the flash site time.

origin68.com


Progress Wear
Political and activist tees

http:progresswear.com


Pussy Tat

http:pussytat.com


Red Bubble
Where art meets cotton

redbubble.combuy-t-shirts


Rich Robots
Lots of tees, great photography, interesting site. Top notch t-shirt site.

richrobots.com


Road Kill Tshirts

roadkilltshirts.com


Sack wear
Shirts for people

sackwear.com


Sharp Shirter

http:sharpshirter.com


Shirt for a stud
Very college. very.

ashirtforastud.com


Shynola

shynola.com


Sick on sin

sickonsin.comstore


Silent Kimbly

silentkimbly.comShop_Apparel.htm


Skrew Gear
Funny, juvenile, college humor t-shirts.

skrewgear.com


Snorg Tees
Funny, stupid, cool tees.

snorgtees.com


Social T
Social comment subscription tee site, monthly fee, monthly shirt

social-t.comsocialt


Spitefuls

spitefuls.com


Split Reason
Gamer and geek nirvana.

splitreason.com


Spraygraphic
thought provoking stuff

spraygraphic.com


Startup Schwag

startupschwag.com


T chirts

tchirts.com


Tee Shirts Rock
80s tees.

teeshirtsrock.com


Tee Teaser

teeteaser.com


Teetonic
Tshirt design competition

teetonic.com


Ten Bills

tenbills.com


The Affair
Tiny label, tiny selection, big site!

the-affair.com


The Ryde
Vintage surf shirts.

theryde.com


Theolotee
Christian Tee, as in Christian Rock.

theolotee.com


This shirt rocks
funny, vintage, tshirts

thisshirtrocks.com


Threadless
Threadless, the granddaddy of tee competition sites.

threadless.com


Threadpit

http:threadpit.com


Tiny Pony
Vintage tees

tinypony.com


Tippitappi
Green, eco, ethical goodness

tippitappi.com


To die for clothing

http:todieforclothing.com


tons of shirts
vintage shirt site

tonsoft-shirts.comservletStoreFront


Tshirt hell
Got someone to offend? Go here.

tshirthell.com


Turtlehead

turtlehead.ie


Uber index

uberindex.net


Uncle Kimono
John Malkovich official web shop

unclekimono.com


Uneetee
one day, one artist, one cool shirt.

uneetee.com


Unhappy Animals

unhappyanimals.com


Vansity

vansity.com


Velvet Banana

velvetbanana.net


Waterloo
retro heaven

ilovewaterloo.com


Woot! Shirt!

http:shirt.woot.com


Worn By
Retro style shirts inspired by famous tee wearers

wornby.co.uk


Wrong Wroks

http:wrongwroks.com


Wunjo Wear
Graphic designy tees. More cool than funny.

wunjo.com

If I’ve missed your favourite, or your own label / site / imprint then drop me an email or comment below to make it onto the next issue.

The next issue will be Top 100 style, based on clicks from this list, popularity of posts in OMGTees and a secret algorithm tapping into the public mindset!
Note - Any missing thumbnails are probably due to flash breaking my thumbnail code, I’ll get that fixed for next time.

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