Just enter the referral code chimaera when you place your order.  It’s that simple!

But are there any good tees on DBH?  Are there ever!  Check these recent additions out.

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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 …

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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.

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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)

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So, to the tees!

Nadia Plesner decided last year to do some good in the world.  She created a tshirt with a thought provoking and somewhat controversial design, with the idea of helping out with the Darfur crisis.  All proceeds from the shirt go straight to Divest for Darfur.  So, the shirt:

Now the bag might look familiar, even though it doesn’t use the brand name or logo.  Louis Vuitton anyone?  I guess it is pretty obvious.  Which presumably is why Vuitton are taking action to try and remove the design from Nadia’s site, even though it is purely for charity.  She is being sued for $7,500 per day for showing the image, and another $7,500 for using the Louis Vuitton name on her site.  Crazy?  Yes, but she is fighting back.

If you want to support, go and buy a shirt.  Leave a comment in support.  Or just burn your Vuitton bag.

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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.

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That said, I couldn’t resist posting about the Threadless sale going on right now, because it really is too good to miss.

Oh.  My.  God.

I don’t know if any of you have ever written a blog before, but posting something like this takes a little while.  And while I was retreiving the above image from the Threadless site, I noticed a tee I hadn’t spotted yesterday when I was looking at the new shirts.

I looked at it, thought about it and then had a ‘moment’ - “I NEED THAT SHIRT!“.  Now I’ve not had such a moment very often before, but when they come along you don’t really want to be around because I go a bit nuts.

The below tee might just be the BEST tee I have ever seen.  I have already ordered it, despite only recently placing an order with Threadless.  I am only gutted that the XL and XXL hoodies are already sold out otherwise I would have to have one of those too.

Do you agree that it is awesome?  Hmm, maybe you have to think Resevoir Dogs is one of the best movies ever made?  That probably helps.

Deep breath.  Okay.  That’s better.

I was going to post about this tee while complaining about the tee colour, but it’s almost meaningless now.  Ah well I’ll post it anyway because it’s cool.

[EDIT]Wait, it’s a reprint?  The best shirt ever made is a reprint?!  Why hadn’t I noticed it before??  I’m somewhat of a Threadless addict, so how the hell did I miss that?  Man alive, I need to be more of a tee geek in future.  Maybe I’ll as Karl for some tips!

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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.

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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.

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Last year, Threadless opened up a store in Chicago and by all reports it seems to be going great guns.  A very innovative approach to marketing through scheduled events and regular display art has led to the store being a huge success (the display art sales alone have totalled almost $10k and sell out quickly).

Well another big name in tshirt design is opening up a second ‘real life’ store in LA, having one already situated in Boston.  Johnny Cupcakes has gone from strength to strength in recent years.  Check out the new LA store (due to open May 2008) and the change in warehousing facilities over the last five years …

“Warehouse” in 2003, his parent’s dining room:

And the new in-development warehouse, 2008:

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