Square Thursday go across my radar and sometimes barely make a blip, but this T-shirt won my heart. When I was a kid I used to do origami a lot. My mom bought me a book of designs and papers and I used to go to her office after school and sit on the floor behind her desk and make little animals. So this fox T-shirt reminded me of that time (although I’m not sure I ever made anything as complicated as the fox).

It’s a beautifully balanced T-shirt, both in design and in production: Square Thursday’s organic cotton comes from low-irrigation areas, with guaranteed and audited adult agricultural labour and a closed loop dye-water system that ensures nothing nasty leaks into the ecosystem. The shirts are printed with organic ink, packed in recycled packaging and shipped by Royal Mail. All in all it’s a good package. £25 is not cheap for a T-shirt, but all that love and care (and the neat little creases in those origami folds!) make it totally worth it.

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Sebastien Millon is a top designer. Partly because of his designs, naturally. Partly though, because his ‘about’ statement is a masterly example of understatement.

To whit: ‘His work is noted for its lack of vision and his art is usually muddled in a turbid stew of crockery. Many artists, art critics, and frankly most of the public views his work with great disdain and disrespects everything he is about (no one actually even knows what he is about, including the artist himself). Sebastien Millon‘s work lacks truth, vision, and sadly, any artistic integrity.’

Some of which is definitely untrue. There may be muddle but it is not turbid. Also, there’s a truth there. It may be twisted, but truth often is.

I am fond of this T-shirt, for its simple brilliance, its excellent use of colour and the beautiful rendering of that spotlight – graphic design does not come better than this. Also, what’s not to love about psychotic bunnies? $25 per T-shirt, shipping $5 or $10 for those of us outside of the USA.

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Okay, I can’t tell you what Mikey likes to pretend SHU stands for, but it’s actually Stupid Hurts.Us which (I have to admit) is quite a hokey name for a site. On the back of my posting about Speak Against Injustice, I’ve been looking out for Tees that feature designers from parts of the world I don’t personally know a lot about, just to see what’s out there, and this one was featured over at Hide Your Arms. I like the idea that SHU have micro-credit funding on offer, that’s something I was hearing about at the rally and organic cotton is always good news – but the real clincher, for me, was the globally submitted artwork.

There are a lot of talented designers in Indonesia, and Micronesia too, but we don’t get to see enough of their work in the West, so this T-shirt by Dadi Setiadi is definitely going on my list to buy when I have get paid. At $15 for a standard short sleeve it’s a good deal too, although I think I’m going to opt for the red on red option which is more dramatic than the blue on white.

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Okay, this is my chance to get a little obsessive on you all, as my esteemed colleague has gone home for a few weeks and will only be posting intermittently, so I get to hog the picks and for me, this week, it’s Sherlock all the way.

Not the Robert Downey Jr version either. Acceptable although that is, the real thing is the Benedict Cumberbatch. And this T-shirt is a fitting homage to this season’s wrap episode. Am I the only person who thinks Moriarty will turn out to be a creature cloned from the DNA of Ant & Dec? That would make a great T-shirt …

So, exceptionally cheap at £7.50 plus postage, available for just two more days over at Othertees, and definitely a keeper, this simple design by Hoborobo is a brilliant blend of current affairs, fandom and genius use of colour.

Be quick, be clever and be ready for season 3

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It was over at Design By Humans on 22 December, by roncarbz and I never even saw it – maybe it was the festive season or maybe I was just coasting a little too randomly but I swear I didn’t see it at the time.

So it’s called Ink Fisher – even the name is cool! And while DBH seems to be having some kind of bear fetish going on, and I don’t know what that’s about and I really don’t care to ask, this is the kind of elegance that occasionally emerges on votable T-shirt sites, where often the average seems to win out. Maybe that’s because average Joes have a lot of friends, I don’t know and I try not to judge. Well that’s not true – I judge a lot but I try to be fair.

Anyway, the DBH101 is an excellent read for all T-shirt designers, should be something they have to go and review pretty well annually in my opinion. Not that I agree with everything said there, but it’s solid and sometimes thought-provoking. And despite the plethora of bears, the sometimes derivative robot tees and the often overly-coloured fantasy pieces like Three Wolf Moon meets Fantasia, this is still a site that has some gems for $20.

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I’d forgotten just how good Graniph can be. Glad to have been reminded this week though.

This T-shirt is exactly what a good tee should be: simple, stylish, smart. Okay, the price is high end – it’s about £21 plus postage, but if you think that’s bad, it’s 2,500 Japanese Yen which immediately makes the sterling rate sound like a bargain.

What I love about Graniph is that they give the size the model is wearing AND the height of the model. Yes. This chap is wearing a medium and 6 feet 1 1/4 inches tall and from that I can totally extrapolate his build and what size of T-shirt would therefore work for me. I’m a little shorter and a little broader than this guy, to be honest. New Year’s Resolution coming up!

The only thing that isn’t utterly amazing about Graniph is their postage which does take a while from Japan, but it’s worth it in the long run.

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This one took me a while to track down, believe me. I saw it on New Year’s in London and grabbed a picture on my mobile, but it was a really crowded party and I never actually got across the room to talk to the girl who was wearing it, and she had a scarf that covered to top of the image so I could only see the bottom of the lettering which made it a task and a half to decipher. But I got there, with the help of a grunge rocker gal who’s the friend of a friend and who took one look at the picture I texted her and texted back one word: Paramore. Then she texted another word: emo.

So … I don’t know. Is it emo? Whatever.

$25.00 is really really cheap for such an excellent T-shirt. It seems labelist to call it emo, but maybe that’s my own judgement. Either way, it’s a T-shirt that I’d be happy to wear.

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This is just gorgeous – if I’d seen it in time, I’d have been wearing it for New Year’s. I like Remuse – this $18 tee has all the impact of much more expensive designs, and yet holds to its skate/street origins. The clothing is sweat-shop free, so you can give it as a gift without worrying that you’d offend an ethically-focused friend (like me, hint hint?)

So this is called Fall From Grace and the tagline says ‘We have all fallen from grace at some point in life. Whether it be from peer pressure, loss of faith, or personal gain. The true test is restoring that grace.’ I think there’s a lot to that … and I love this girl’s hair, butterflies and general lushness. I mean the girl on the T-shirt, obviously, although the model has good hair and great tats!

The Philly based collective is young, and quirky. Their art is thought-provoking without being exclusive and I really think it’s going to grow … maybe 2012 will be their year.

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Rapanui is an Isle of Wight clothing company. That’s where I grew up, people. And it’s partnered with Britain’s most trusted/hated/established/relied on organisation – the Meteorological Office. This superb Cloud Cutter design is Raglan cut, 100% organic cotton, made with wind power and phthalate-free.

It is the one thing I want for Christmas…

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I have to say that this may not be the most salubrious name for a Norwegian T-shirt brand, right now, and also that (as usual) Mikey and I are not in entire agreement about their work.

I like the Killer Brigade T-shirt that looks like a leather jacket with the jawbone of a skull under it – I think it’s cool and clever. Mikey (predicatably) hates it.

We agree on this one though, the ‘black is back’ is a nice T-shirt with a balance of grim humor and strong design. I thought it would be great to wear this along with my boyfriend in the ‘disco is dead’ T-shirt which would make a really clever statement about being a couple and also be a great riff on ‘his and hers clothing’ but Mikey though that was crass and ‘typically American’.

I have no idea what 150 Kroner is in any kind of other money – but I’ve added this T-shirt to my Christmas list and hope that my honey will buy it for me, so I can buy the ‘disco is dead’ one for him. Mikey is now pretending to spew into the wastebasket…

Season of peace and goodwill in the teejunkie office? I don’t think so!

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