Without more ado:
Yes No Maybe have a crush on Gideon Conn. If you don’t know who he is, then Google him you lazy sods. But he can design a decent T-shirt.

This one, say Yes No Maybe, is hand-printed by characters of questionable morality and they claim the print position changes slightly from one print to the next – making it a limited edition kind of thing.

Very nice, and having spent time dodging nippers at Tartan Heart I’m in favour of finding the guy who could make this tee a reality and hiring him to deal with people who take their ankle-biters to rock festivals. Other than that and some rain, a good time was had by all and no, I didn’t wear a kilt.

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Missed us? Bet you have! If our inbox and desks are anything to go by, you’ve been teejunkie deprived and you’ve let us feel your pain! Anyhoo, we had a few days off while the decorators were in and now I’m staring at the pristine white office walls (and wondering how long it’s going to take Mikey to do a Banksy on them) and pondering why, exactly, the stain around the wastepaper bin hasn’t disappeared. Mikey insists that it’s only where he spilt his Irn-Bru after a particularly heavy night’s clubbing, but I’m not convinced – Irn-Bru doesn’t make blisters in lino imo. If it does, I’m glad I don’t drink it.

But you don’t care about our refurbished digs, you want to know about tees! I’ve had a sneak preview of Mikey’s next pick, which is more than a bit edgy, so I’m going with something a lot more wholesome (but still controversial) inspired by our excellent (and almost certainly short-lived) new working conditions. Teach the Controversy has a spankingly good design, which looks just lovely on a female teeshirt as you can see …

But even better, when you get a close up of the picture, it’s not just a nice piece of artwork, it’s the kind of T-shirt that inspires a heated debate especially in the old student union bar!

I WOOT, not just because I like tees with little devils on (although I do, I do!) but because I’m all in favour of T-shirt wit and this one has it in spades (that’s a pun on the T-shirt image, geddit?) You can have this tee without the promotional wording underneath, just specify when you order. And there’s more … Jeremy over at Controversy is offering a back to school deal 25% off your entire order if it includes two or more T-shirts, and you enter into your order the coupon code SCHOOL308. My schooldays are so far over that St Trinian’s looks like contempary drama to me, but nobody can tell how old you are in cyberspace …

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My not-very-esteemed colleague is making me do a double shift and then she butts in with T-shirts she thinks I should feature! Herself has a whole bollywood ‘thing’ just because she once went to Mumbai. So to annoy her, I’ve picked out a Brooklyn-based Bollywood design.

You might not get it at first, but it’s a blend of Indian traffic and one of those ink blot jobs they make you look at if you have head-case problems. The reason I like it.

It’s one of those piccies that you can encourage people of the opposite sex to get right up close to, so they can make out the design. Just the thing for clubbing imo. And the love-shack summer colours don’t do it any harm either. It comes from Chor Bazaar which as I say, is not Bolly-based but calls Brooklyn home. Speaking of which, by the time junior Beckham is old enough to get a passport, I reckon that region of New York will have changed its name so as not to end up with the Paris Hilton effect

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Do you ever get the feeling you�re being got at? Workmates having a dig because you take a few days off? Join the club mate!

About seven million people sent information about T-shirts they thought would tickle the old teejunkie: they were 99% wrong!

American presidential tees who the foursquare is Adlai Stevenson anyway? Bad idea. Not interested.
Cutesy anime Hello Kitty type tees forget it.
4th of July T-shirts? Come on give me a break!

Wading through the emails is like finding out your mum’s ironed your hoodie � bad news that you have to be polite about.

Did find myself going back to this

It came with one of those announcements that makes you want to kick the writer in the slats: mainly cos it started with ‘We are kicking-off’ and didn’t continue to talk about football, wittering about typography instead.

Then more football For this series the main goal will be getting high quality t-shirts with fresh designs on to your beautiful bodies!! Somebody either needs a better copywriter or a life. Because my bod is not beautiful that’s why I put tees on it in the first place, mate. If it looked good naked, why would I bother?

Anyway the man with the good eye and the bad copywriter can be found here: Hellowman and he actually gave me a laugh at the end by saying, A big plus is that, we made sure that the t-shirts are made from biological cotton and are emission and sweatshop free. Fantastic so there’s no emissions from my T-shirt, right? Obviously Hellowman hasn’t been down Brixton on a Saturday night then.

By Mikey, who has …. ; ) and still can’t get his iPhone to send his copy to the www like it promised it would on the tin.

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What’s the T-shirt equivalent of karaoke? It’s the hundred and one places you can submit a tee design to be voted on by viewers. Still, as Mikey skipped out on his next post, it was up to me to find something to please you. Well, it pleases me, you can go and do as you like (wasn’t that polite?) seeing as I’m doing a double shift.

Vespamike1 emailed teejunkie to say he’d won the Designbyhumans
contest of the week. Yawn, yawn, yawn, I thought. But I went and had a look and it’s really not half bad.

I like it. You don’t see many good full design tees these days, it’s largely centred graphics or an offset logo I’m in favour of something that uses the shape of the T-shirt (and the person inside it)! to contribute to design, and this is a very curvy feminine image, which is going to work well for day wear but can be combined with a long skirt and take you into the evening just fine. Congratulations Vespamike1 (who’s offering a 20% off discount btw, just mention teejunkie when you order) you are a justifiable winner of the week.

Posted by Kay, who knows there’s supposed to be an umlaut over the ‘u’ in Designbyhumans but really can’t be arsed, to tell the truth.

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We go the distance to find the best tees, I tell you. Like this one:

Isn’t that a beauty? I’ve got to tell you, fresh back from festival-land, I was wishing I’d had one of these, and I’ve spent the last few days tracking down the designer and finding out how to get hold of one. The coolness of this T-shirt is doubled: it’s a cool design, and if you spill water down your front when drinking from a bottle or pour it over your head when festival moshing, it looks like a deliberate fashion statement coolness cubed! So cool, in fact, that you could be the polar bear on the glacier mint.

But here’s the coolest thing of all this tee is not on general sale and right here, right now I’m going to tell you how to get one. Oh yes, we go the distance! You have to email missmoustache.design@gmail.com which reaches Marta and Herminia who together make up Miss Moustache Design and they will arrange a price for your T-shirt and delivery.

Now delivery is a big deal here, because it includes packaging, and the packing for this totally limited edition item looks like this:

Now tell me that’s not style in a bag!

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Can anybody tell me why Neil Diamond was wearing his jammies on stage at Glastonbury?

Anyway after the usual outbreak of fairy wings, leggings and tie-dye, I need to get back to something with a bit of an edge. What better than Element?

Quick confess I don’t wear their girly tees which are branded under Element Eden very nice I’m sure but very nice doesn’t really cut it, for me. I don’t skate either but we don’t care about anything but tees, like it says in the logline, and their boy T-shirts are razor sharp like this apple pickin offering by Emil Kozak.

I don’t have to tell you about Emil, do I? Okay you lazy sods, I do! He’s Danish and lives in Barcelona (the coolness factor reaches warp drive already) and his work is all over the best places. Including this spiffy tee. Anti-Glasto achieved!

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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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