You can visit Threadless every day and look at the new Tees and it gets a bit like clothing porn. Yeah. Yawn, T-shirt. Yawn. ‘nother T-shirt. Drink coffee. Do work. Yawn.

Which isn’t to say they aren’t good tees – quite often they are. But it takes something really outstanding to be stand-out. And this T-shirt by Alvaro Arteaga was enough to stop me yawning.

Born in Spain but living in Chile he’s graphic designer and illustrator and I believe that always shows in clothing work, because while untrained artists can produce great art, what they generally lack is the ability to site that artwork well on a garment. What’s so impressive about this teeshirt is the shadow-work which is utterly three-dimensional, despite the colour range used being very limited, although vivid, which gives an extra feeling of weird to the garment as a whole. It’s more Bosch than Goth, is what I am trying to say, I guess.

Our guy Al wants to move to the States – what’s wrong with the T-shirt world as seen from London England? Mind you, if you were born in Spain and you’re living in Chile you’d be even more than usually stupid to move here, so perhaps I can understand his thinking after all.

This post by Mikey should have been blogged on the worst day of the year, but it was such a baaaad day he didn’t even post …

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