If you haven’t heard of Rumplo, a site dedicated to public tshirt submissions and discussions, check it out. I have visited the site for a while but hadn’t noticed their “20 most popular tees” section. Some of them are pretty damn cool, others I can’t really see why they are up there. Anyway, here is by far the most popular and a couple of others I love. Visit http://rumplo.com/tees/mostpopular/ for the rest.
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But are there any good tees on DBH? Are there ever! Check these recent additions out.
There are a gazillion places that you can buy a tshirt. There are some online stores that are quite popular. Then there’s Johnny Cupcakes.
Never before has a tshirt brand caused such a stir, with a legion of die-hard fans. Here are some good examples of recent fanaticism.
1) The new LA store is due to open on August 2nd. This guy had already booked a flight from Boston (where the other store is) for the opening. Crazy.
2) June 13 2008 - news posted about some new tees going to be launched at the Boston store the following Saturday (June 21), along with some very exclusive designs available only in-store.
June 19 - there are peoplealready camping outside the store, two days in advance.
Damnnn! It’s little things like this that make me super excited to keep creating new Johnny Cupcakes’ recipes.
June 20 - the number camping out has grown. You’d think the new iPhone was coming out or something!
June 21 - the queue for the store was around the block. This to buy tshirts!
Crazy huh? Well if you want to get in on the act, the new summer range has just been released - some 24 new designs! Here are my favourites - dinnerdinnerdinnerdinnerdinnerdinnerdinnerdinner …
So I was thinking earlier about a set of tshirt types that I could blog about, and for some reason boobs came to mind. Well, I am a man after all.
Here are the 12 best I could find on the ‘net.
1) Nice Boobies - Threadless
The nicest Boobies I’ve seen in an age …
2) Staring at Boobies - Tshirt Humor
Another Boobies pun.
3) Hot ass - T-Shirt Hell
Are you an ass man?
4) I Love Bouncing - Bouncing for Boobies
Great charity t-shirt!
5) BOOBS Calculator - Let’s Be Awesome
‘Cause we’ve all done this at some point. I also used to like 55378008.
6) Tits - Vivienne Westwood
You’ll need some spare cash to afford this one - £75!
7) Nipples - Zazzle print
Small boob prejudice.
8 ) Boobies Make Me Smile - Chargrilled
Don’t they make every man?
9) Heavy Boobs - Tshirt Outlet
We should all do our bit to ’support’ heavy boobs
10) 6 Points - Primitive State
Get creative and make your own Scrabble tee.
So DBH made a big claim in their newsletter today. I quote:
DBH has pushed the limits of t-shirt printing to new levels this week rising to the design challenge of the DBH Artists by printing a design deemed “unprintable” by some.
So I was excited to see the tee, headed straight to the site to see it in its full glory:
Dissapointing? I was at least. Sure the printing is impressive, but it’s not a tee I would ever wear. It’s a shame but let’s hope the new technique will be put to better use soon.
Help get a great design printed and vote for this one. I love it:
ps - I’m officially going to stop commenting on how crap I am at posting because a) nobody reads this blog, and b) that’s just the way it is - I’m a busy fella =0)
You may have heard of or about T-Shirt Hell? Probably for all of the wrong reasons. Personally I think it has some good shirts, very funny and not too offensive. But it also has some that go a little too far, even for me.
Well now you can enjoy the slightly twisted humour of T-Shirt Hell without being offended, with the launch of a new and toned down site, TorsoPants.
The site design certainly stands out from the crowd, it’s wacky, quirky and very visual with lots of hidden surprises (like the moving eye near the bottom of the front page). But I am sure the cost of the design will be worth it and in the long run, the site may even rival T-Shirt Hell for revenue.
Part of me immediately thought “man, this is selling out to the extreme”. But then my partner very wisely pointed out that people who don’t ’sell out’ (whatever that really means), tend to be poor. Good point well made.
So to the important part, the tees. Well there are a lot to choose from at launch which is good to ensure momentum, and most of them are at least mildly humourous. But for me, most were just “eh” rather than “hold crap I want that”.
One that did make me chuckle was this one, given that it’s one of my pet peeves with bowling:
Prices are $18 per tee but you do get the huge choice of styles and colours. And the site already appears to have a big following - as comments are allowed on the tees (great idea), it’s clear that many people are taking the effort to have their say and get involved.
Oh wait, I almost forgot the important bit! If you sign up to the site this week, you’ll get 8 TorsoWashingtons (basically dollars that you can only spend on this site) in your account! Which would make your first purchase just $10. Click below to go to the special promo page:
So good luck to TorsoPants, may all your non-offensive dreams come true.
I think I have already mentioned that I am pretty anti-censorship. Which is why I had to grab this shirt from t-shirt hell:
Now it’s not the type of tee I can wear every day (I don’t think my employer would approve!), but it does communicate well my views on censored words such as these. I bet if I say “cunt”, someone will be offended. But please, don’t be - did it really hurt you to read that?
On another note, one of my favourite all time Threadless tees was reprinted recently! Stabby McKnife. The first time it was printed I wasn’t a regular enough Threadless visitor to grab it before it sold out. Then it was reprinted while I was on damn holiday a couple of years ago. So this time I was quick off the mark (plus Threadless tees don’t sell out anywhere near as quickly as they used to when there were just a few released per week). However, having shouted with joy, I am now a little, just a tad, gutted. Why? Because my damn fiancee pleaded with me to let her order it instead. I’m a sucker for a cute girl, what can I say? And somehow the prospect of having matching tshirts didn’t appeal …
I did however have to grab a few others while ordering, picking up Merge, also for the fiancee (though I kinda wanted it too), Birds of a Feather, and Mr Choppy (which I LOVE).
Final note is the lack of updates - not that anyone is reading this blog yet haha. But even so, I planned on posting a few times a week at least - but work has been really hectic, not to mention spending a week in Budapest (work related conference). But from now on I’ll try to stick to the regime. Otherwise this blog will fall into the deadpool along with all of the other failed tshirt blogs.
Well personally I reckon that Donald would win out, but Yackfou think differently. Which sums up their tshirts actually, they are very ‘different’. Which personally I love. Also check out Jesus Fights, awesome.
Yackfou is a German site with many, many, awesome designs. The shirts are pricey at €30-35, but sometimes you just have to pay for quality designs.
You could however grab one of their designs, Napoleon’s Ride, for just fifteen bucks at Threadless.
Do you like to fuck with people’s minds? If so then this might be the perfect tshirt site for you.
Disinformation Tshirts sell tees that at first glance look like a bog standard shirt. Then you look again and wonder what’s going on, and then it clicks. At least I think it would because I was obviously viewing these on the site knowing that something was wrong …
See it says that Nixon made the quote, but it’s got a picture of Kennedy and the quote was actually made by Roosevelt. In actual fact the shirt falls down slightly because it seems that the actual quote is “… the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. Which isn’t quite the same, and isn’t, from what I can tell, intentional.
Anyhoos, here are another couple to play with your mind a little. I have no idea if the image quality is really this bad or if it’s just their site … I hope the latter.
I can’t decide whether this tee by designbyhumans is the ugliest thing I ever saw, or whether it is in fact pretty cool.
So what do you reckon?
Likewise this design by Threadless.
I am leaning towards ugly for both. Yup, definitely ugly.