It ain’t half T-shirt, Mum!

Couldn’t resist that. Anyway, talking about tee designs, if you like something a different, pop over to
Inkfruit

It’s the standard concept: you stick up a design, a bunch of people vote for it or they don’t and if you win you get a copy of your tee, and some moolah.

I’d say their winners range from naff to excellent, which suggests people do actually get to vote, and at the excellent end this saddhu T-shirt is tee nirvana: great design, good colourways, cheeky message. I’m getting one.

What Inkfruit say about themselves is:

Based around an ongoing t-shirt design contest, all of the designs you see on Inkfruit have been submitted by our community. Headquartered in Bombay, India, Inkfruit (then called Gnome) officially launched in early December 2007.

Fascinating isn’t it?

All of us at Inkfruit are nutty about two things. The first is to give you the best designs and the best quality tees! We have started offering our t-shirts only online. Cutting out the high street saves you money and lets us make better products. A few clicks and they’re on their way to you. The second is to empower designers across the world to give an output to their genius through our website! We have seen loads of great designers not being able to do much about their creations. Inkfruit provides them with a platform where great designs are recognized and rewarded. How do we do that?

Tell me fast, I can’t stand the suspense!

• Think a tee is mindblowing!? Rate it and if plenty of you say the same then, hey mr. design god …you just made it to the Inkfruit Hall of Fame (read prizes and rokda, moolah, paisa, cash, etc.)!
• Use photoshop, Coreldraw or Illustrator to convert your idea into a graphic design that makes their knees go weak! You finally upload a jpg, gif or png version of it onto www.inkfruit.com, following the submission instructions in the submit design section.
• For a period of 21 days all members of Inkfruit vote and comment on your work. You must improve your chances by forwarding your design to loads of friends & family! If loads of people tell us that they love your creation, we print it on our tees! You get your name on the t-shirt label (yipeeee!), You get a free t-shirt to show off!, 500 reward points to splurge on www.inkfruit.com and 1500 in cash!

I think that’s rupees, not $ or £, before your heads explode!

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Those eclectic peeps at BangBang are running another competition and they have some pretty cool entries for it. They have a nicely anarchic robot tee of their own on sale too. It’s called aimbot and it features a cowboy robot - very retro!

Now they want to expand their robot range, so they are looking for designs that feature at least one robot (they do have a complete robot fetish over there) and at least one person will win £125 or the equivalent (not sure what that means – you can have your prize as dosh or a number of gold teeth, maybe?) Anyway, this is the deal: If they pick your design as a winner, you will retain ownership of the image and in return for the prize money you will give them permission to be the only seller of the design on T-shirts for the next 12 months.

You can vote on the winner but why bother? Bang Bang say they will make the final decision on who wins and will use the ratings as a guide to make that decision. Hmmm, that’s not exactly Big Brother voting then, more like the House of Lords chucking out the Terrorist Legislation in favour of a ruling on free beer on Fridays (as if!) and there’s a deadline - all designs must be entered by Monday 1st July 2008.

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Mikey going on about Glastonbury reminded me of something. An excellent T-shirt brand that regularly produces the cool’n’funky (and oftentimes, muddy) kind of tees that Glastonites revel in. The company in question is Spunky and I nipped over to their website to see what they had on offer.

And actually, I was deeply disappointed. Not in their tees, but in their site. When I buy a T-shirt I want to see the T, not some artist’s impression of the garment. So having drooled over a truly spectacular bit of artwork on a friend’s bod, (the bod wasn’t bad either) it was a bit of a comedown to go to the site and find this:

it’s a minging little image, and you cannot tell what it’s of, even.

Okay, when you roll over the image you get to see a proper sized version, but as soon as you roll off, you’re back to this bit of artwork:

Nice enough design, but showing a graphic hardly tells you how the T-shirt looks in reality (take my word for it, it looks good) and that’s not gonna get my money out of my pocket, I can tell you! So ‘full marks’ to Spunky for manning and womaning a great marquee at Glastonbury and definitely a ‘could do better’ on the selling their gear on the net front.

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No, don’t be mobbing. We haven’t got any. In fact, nobody’s got any. Why? Surely the most iconic weird electronic music sensation since Kraftwerk ought to have a bunch of iconic T-shirts?

But there aren’t any. Nor any touring dates this year. Bleah. And if they aren’t touring, the least they could do is put out a T-shirt, right? Doesn’t matter where you go or how you search: google, froogle, clusty, drawing an pentacle and sprinkling your life-blood in it while chanting to the Evil One, nothing comes up. And what’s even more annoying is they actually designed a tee for Playboy!

Yup, robots for rabbits! But the Daft Punk one is already on back order so whether you can get your mitts on one … who knows? It’s an ubercool foil print design called Rock The Rabbit (I kid you not) and it costs $38 plus international postage from Shop the Bunny, Playboy’s own webby.

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Yes, even though their weird announcement process seems highly pretentious, and their site is in French, by and large (pas de problem, as we learnt to say in GCSE Franglais) I WOOT this.

Not surprising really, as it’s the creation of the fiendishly clever folk behind artoyz, now taking over the world by moving into ATZ clothing.

If you’re grown up enough not to know the joy of artoyz, you shouldn’t be reading this blog, ‘kay? But for the rest of us, their insanely wootable creations (dare I say flocky goon?) and customisable toys are an addiction that could bankrupt us faster than the rising mortgage rate.

Detail is their speciality, and if you gaze at this so cute woot of a tee, you can see what looks like a little triangular tab on the left hand side of the garment hem, but it’s actually an asymmetric T-shirt, so when you stand up, it comes to a point right there – so very, very clever those damned ATZ designers … perhaps if I eBay all my Da Warriors, I could afford a tee … but how could I let my lovely toys go?

Posted by Kay who went straight into second childhood without leaving her first

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Never let it be said that we have good taste. (We do have good taste, but we don’t want anybody to say it.)

Anyway, here’s the T-shirt of the summer – the
Atomretro
Keith Springs tee. It commemorates a certain moment in the life of a certain rocker who fell out of a certain tree onto his bonce and ended up with concussion. That was two years ago, and the aged wrinkly seems as spry as ever, so perhaps this isn’t as bad taste as it first appears. Made us giggle though and it’s bound to get them going on the beaches of Ibiza, where spry wrinklies are ten a penny anyway.

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What to do when ur workmates go randomly weird and start talking about football and Eurovision? The only thing to do is hide their Red Bull and go with the flow.

I heard the good word about troubletease and took a look.

Talk about random weirdness! But these tees are strangely cool and I’m holding out for design as the only measure of a T-shirt, not this strange concept of durability that seems to be infecting some people. Normally I despise this kind of ‘craft’ designed Etsy based T-shirt … what can I say? Nobody said I was a good person … but these won me over.

The UFO tees are just stellar if U get the pun? Take a second look at little ufos aren’t so scary – fantastic artwork and a photograph that goes the whole distance into the truly weird, that’s what I call design commitment.

I’d wear it.

The ufo T-shirts are the best, imo, but there are some bird ones which are cool - there’s even a dawg tee, which has a picture of a dog on it, and I’m getting the feeling that since I wrote about K9 I’m going to find dogs everywhere I go. Mind you, I’d rather have dogs than ufos following me around, if u know what I mean. troubletease get top marks for: good design, a T-shirt that’s a talking point, and enough fine detail to get the opposite sex in close for a look-see.

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In case you missed the news, we trounced Trinidad and Tobago at footie, with Goldenballs wearing the captain’s armband, but we came equal last in the Eurovision Song Contest with a scary Polish woman who seemed to have replaced her teeth with piano keys.

So, in the spirit of creativity (yeah, we do have some creativity, we don’t just leech off other people’s smarts) we at tee-junkie have a suggestion. Given that Beckham’s succeeding as the come-back kid in the beautiful game, why not go for a Eurovision act who would get the voters to ring up in droves?

I’m talking about your favourite, my favourite, your gran’s favourite: he can sing and dance and tell jokes (so they say) …. Ladies and gentlemen, I suggest that in 2009 we choose … Bruce Forsyth!

And with eerily perfect timing, the guys and gals at Tonic have produced a T-shirt to support the ‘Bruce for Eurovision’ campaign.

I’m loving that it’s organic and ethical and think that if you all get behind me we can take over the world.

Right, that may be a bit excessive, given the general level of laziness inherent in having a t-shirt Jones but surely we can once again win Eurovision! After all, Tonic have Graham Norton in the bag (see their site) so all we need to do is buy the t-shirt, get Graham as compere, and find a song for Brucie to sing - how difficult can it be?

Okay, we can buy the tee …

Posted by Kay who knows she’s not supposed to talk about football, being a girl and all …

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