Category: custom shirts
The Evolution of the T-shirt
New York Magazine runs an interesting piece about the evolutions and trends of the t-shirt industry.
Quote: “The greatest breakthrough of the last decade was when American Apparel, under the direction of its free-loving founder Dov Charney, turned the fit of a T-shirt into a message. Never mind the graphics or slogans. The message was you—your body thrust out there into the world, shrink-wrapped in every conceivable color. American Apparel remains powerful and ubiquitous in the T-shirt world, but the trends have gotten subtler and more introverted. In the same way that various art movements become hermetic and end up addressing the nature of art itself, today’s cutting-edge T-shirt is all about the T-shirt.”
“Sea Island cotton shirt by Loden Dager.”
Springleap T-shirts Community
Springleap is one of my favorite source for original designs. They have a really great site with lots of good vibes and lots of stuff happening in their social scene.
John Fitzpatrick’s T-Shirt Designs – Finroo
Lately, I’ve been lurking at a bit at Finroo and stumbled across John Fitzpatrick’s T-shirt Designs, which I want to share with you. As a designer, Fitzpatrick has that single inestimable virtue: having seen a design of him once, you admit to yourself, almost with a sigh, that you will have to peep everything that he designed. At a time that t-shirt design has been a slogan war, Fitzpatrick reminds you that a designer can, in its junior way, produce something of a work of art, or at least a worthy vehicle for the play of ideas, feeling, aesthetics and wits.
Here are some of his T-shirts:
On a different subject:
Happy T shirts Shopping at Crywolf
Although The girls from
Crywolf are at the beginning of their design journey, Their positive T-shirt spirit caught my attention. Their designs have a distinctive clear line, they are well branded and their t-shirts is of great quality.
BTW: For me, 2009 is the year where non-silkscreen printing is banned. I’m starting this campaign to abolish all itching parasites from our lovely t-shirts.
Now would be a great time to check out their stuff and enjoy their free shipping for the month of June.

25% off Kill Brand Shirts
Kill Brand are getting ready for their summer line by offering everything currently in store for 25% off. Log on, get what you want and type in this code while checking out: KILLBRANDHOLLER.
Unsigned (T-Shirt) Hype: Taboo Plus
Well, I’ve seen a couple of his prints on actual t-shirts, and they look frickin’ excellent. But those T-shirts have sold out, leaving us with just the designs, so if you’re a store who wants to pick these (frickin’ excellent, may i remind you) designs up, contact the guy at tabooplus at gmail.com.
a small sample:
FreeDarko’s and their shirts
I haven’t decided yet if the following t-shirts are for everyone, but I’ll give it a try. Freedarko is an incredibly high-brow basketball blog which released a book called T he Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac. Catchy name. Besides the astute writing, the highlights of the book are the designs and illustrations which accompany it. Very playmobile-like and stick-figured, and beautiful done. They have recently printed some shirts that go along with the book. Here are my favorites:
Important side note: I’ve recently order some shirts from Freedarko’s, and mistakenly ordered one of them 2 sizes too small. I’ve later emailed the guys and asked them to change it, and they did. Through some mix-up, they ended up sending me the smaller shirt. They’ve noticed it before I did, and later sent the larger shirt in a later shipment for free. That was before I had anything to do with shirtlog. Now that’s a Rick Rubin level of awesomeness
Rahzo’s Shirts
Rahzo are just starting up, but are already showing hints of great t-shirt design – meticulous layouts, with a hint of art-school influence, while using the medium to share ideas and promote urgent issues.
The Rahzo concept is to establish a community which creates and shares designs, while a share of their earning goes towards non-profit organization.
I love the idea, the interface and the design – the holy trinity as far as I’m concerned. Haven’t ordered anything yet, but I’m guessing that will follow along.
8 on the Shirtlog scale, since the selection is still limited, but as soon as the site has more to offer, that’ll go up.
Plus, if you decide to order now, you can use their promo coupon which will take 25% off your order, limited to one order (any number of garments).
COUPON CODE: ”BLOG_Promo3″






























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