Ooh, coffee, our nearly favorite! Can’t say what our favorite favorite is for legal reasons, but coffee comes damn close. In reverse order our top three tees are:

#3 – The Herkimer Coffee T-shirt from Destee-nation – you may not known Seattle and you may not have tried Herkimer’s coffee but this teeshirt wins because of the great subtle colors and the sort of Bauhaus feel to the design – not sure if Bauhaus was ever big in Seattle but there you go, we approve.

As one of those little instigations to purchase, a Destee-nation T-shirt comes with a little tag that tells you about the coffee supplier in question and why they think it’s worth promoting. Sort of reminds us of ‘Local’, the series of comics published by Oni Press that featured a different city in each issue, but Seattle was never one of them – Brian Wood was the writer, for those who care about such things (like Kay).

#2 – If you’re a Starbucks junkie look away now – Kay drinks a lot of starbucks, while Mikey favors something called Horlicks that is brewed by monks in rural England or Irn-Bru which is from Scotland and causes fights, apparently. Anyway, it seems a lot of people who value independence over truly great standardised coffee object to world domination by the coffee house in question and this protest T-shirt by rubyred at redbubble is the result. We like the collision of cultural icons here, we like the excellent use of color and Mikey likes the post-consumer angst expressed in buying a T-shirt to express concern about consumerism and its effects – circular, innit?

#1 – There’s a lot of these around, but the best of them is at thinkgeek. As seen on The Big Bang Theory this is the caffeine molecule T-shirt. Well actually it’s an alkaloid, but who’s picky? Thinkgeek is, as they tell us in some detail: in chemical line-angle structures (like the structure of caffeine shown on our t-shirt), carbon and hydrogen are not usually shown explicitly. Carbon is assumed to be at every junction of lines, and the proper number of hydrogen atoms needed to give each carbon a total of four bonds is assumed. This representation of the caffeine molecule is simplified based on these rules and is widely used and recognized throughout the scientific community.
Right, so that’s why their caffeine model is different to other caffeine models and if you’re the kind of person who both drinks coffee and wears a molecule on your T-shirt, Mikey thinks this is going to be the shirt for you.

Also, it’s cool to be clever, right? And lime green on navy is the T-shirt equivalent of drawing the correct caffeine molecule – it’s simple, it’s elegant and it gets you to the top.

Post by Kay and Mikey who got together across time zones for this one …

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