The Wired Jester

Ah Threadless. Every now and then I think it’s all getting very samey and dull, and I find myself thinking that the label ‘the new Threadless’ is all but printed out and ready to be applied to some other t-shirt site - and then, into my inbox pops an e-mail with new Threadless designs and one of them is always rather fabulous. I can feel its hands teasing my wallet open even now.

‘Sugar and spice’ is a great piece of work; it reminds me of the original manga of Ghost In The Shell. It shares a similar colour palette, and the bulbous, chaotic, inky machine shapes are reminiscent of Masamune Shirow’s robot designs. Top stuff. 

Tuesday: Email from Threadless. Your T-shirt has shipped!
Wed: Lovely new Katamari T-shirts available from Panic (see above).
Friday: Threadless t-shirt arrives.
Saturday: Email from Panic. Katamari shirt in the post!
Sunday: Temperature plummets. Light Hail.
Monday: SNOW.
Tuesday (AM): Spent the morning looking ruefully at new Threadless t-shirt, before covering it with many layers of jumper.
Tuesday (PM): Blog about lovely new Katamari shirt. Fear it won’t see daylight til June.

The Imaginary Foundation has just released a new collection of T-shirts. The IF is surely one of the most peculiar of online t-shirt retailers (the IF itself is, apparently, a ” think tank from Switzerland that does experimental research on new ways of thinking and the power of the imagination”) but as ever, they’ve still come up with some wonderful t-shirt designs. Have a look here.

It being so cold outside, it’s only natural, as you can see from this smiling girl, for the sartorial department of one’s mind to turn its attention to towards t-shirts. With its latest round of reprints, Threadless continues its journey to becoming the equivalent of Wikipedia when it comes to t-shirts on the web: ubiquitous, but still loved, and still capable of surprising in a good way. This one in particular - ‘Limb - is gorgeous.

For more t-shirts, check out the Funky Duds blog. It’s rather good.

Everyone’s favourite online t-shirt store, Threadless is having a sale - so if you’re buying in a currency that’s not dollars, their t-shirts now cost about as much as a Mars bar. Which is pretty good when they have rocking designs like this! Perfect to go with that copy of Guitar Hero

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I’m
posting this because of some vague sense of completism that is probably
a left over from my brief infatuation with Panini stickers. Because
this comes via the ever-marvellous Boing Boing,
so everyone in the world ever has seen it already. But it is a very good t-shirt, so
I shouldn’t exclude it for simply for being popular. That would be reverting back
to my teenage angsty stage. And I have Green Day MP3s for that. And I have a fondness for comedy Che
revolutionaryness (crap_verb_alert!!) that stretches back to my student
days. Fight the Power, with Urban Medium. Link.

Pic: Urban Medium

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Been a while since I’ve updated the t-shirts - I have been busy, with, among other things, beginning to learn Japanese. So Irasshaimase
to you all Am doing it through language tapes, and at the moment
“we” (my tape friends and I) have introduced ourselves and are at the
generic-language-course coffee shop, ordering a drink. Makes you wonder if they could build a mall full of the coffee shops
from every language course and stick them all next to each other. How
surreal that would be, especially if you wandered into the wrong one… Anyway.
T-shirts. Japan, as you all probably know, has its weird side,
particularly when it comes to crazy merchandise. Hello Kitty being a good example. If you want to get that kind of stuff
over here, websites like JBox (link) import a range of Japanese market stuff
that runs from bizarre to… a zone of bizarre that’s indescribable in english. (Although JBox isn’t as scary as
partner site JList,
which includes adult stuff….) Anyway, JBox does a nice line in
Japan-inspired t-shirts, like the Domo-kun one below. Some of the
t-shirts are naffly
wide of the mark but some are very neat - there’s a great Totoro one,
showing the famous anime character. If you’re interested in Japan, you
should also sign up for JBox’s well-written newsletter, too - it’s a
very interesting and frequently astonishing read. Link.

Pic: JBox

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My first t-shirt post
highlighted excellent online store MoreTVicar, and in particular, a
brand called Eieio. I’ve just had an e-mail from one of their
designers, James, asking me to show off two more of their very cool designs (shown
below - click for an enlarged version). The speakers one in particular is very neat…
Eieio are also working on their
website, www.eieioclothing.com, which will feature an online store, and should be up at the end of September.

Pic: Eieio

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