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Your music sucks

Order it here.

Yes, you too can be a french painter

I dunno why, but I find this shirt and beret set pretty hilarious. Maybe it's only because Restoration Hardware is selling it in its holiday gift catalog which I must say presents a mighty decent collection of potential gifts. I see a possible Halloween costume in this... They also have some sickly cute mittens made for lovers.

I also got the Williams-Sonoma Gift catalog; it'ssweet, sweet food porn. (The first page even folds out.)

I still can't vote

So I may as support faux candidates.

Threadless $7 sale through Wednesday

I freaking bought a Threadless tshirt today during their $10 sale and just stumbled across a $3 off discount code. DOH! For the rest of you it's "skinnycorpse" and it's good through Wednesday.

Yay! Making T-shirts

This t-shirt I designed for the Maiden Lane Annual Block Party will be on sale at some of the Maiden Lane shops on the Sept. 14th. I'm not making any money from the sales, but wouldn't it be sweet to own something I designed? (There is no correct answer other than "yes." )

Didn't get what you wanted for Christmas?

Cool T-shirts you didn't get for Christmas:
French Army Knife
The internet is great for looking up porn.
Brendan Monroe T-shirt
Mojitos, Mo' Problems.

I want a Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures" T-shirt! I may have to get a dude's T-shirt and chop it down to size.

Film will not die... not yet

Here are all the polaroids I've taken for my thesis project so far. They look pretty cool all together. I have about 6 more people to photograph and then I will be all photographing. I love Flickr's Slideshow. Too cool.

Free Custom T-shirt

I'm still looking for people to participate in my Graphic Design Thesis on T-shirts. The absolute latest I will be taking photographs for the project is December 10th (the sooner the better).

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Hello my San Francisco friends,

I'm doing my Graphic Design thesis project on using the T-shirt as a means of personal expression* and I need volunteers in San Francisco to help me out. In exchange for your time and effort you will receive the t-shirt you authored in December.

How to participate:

1. Answer a question
I'm giving each participant a blank white t-shirt. On the t-shirt will be your answer to this question: What do you want your t-shirt to say to the people around you? Please think carefully about your answer and answer truthfully.
Message (email_monica at yahoo dot com) me with your answer and tell me what American Apparel size t-shirt you wear (I only have girl L and unisex L-XXL left). See examples here.
T-shirt size chart: Girly and Unisex

2. Have your photo taken
After I get your answer, I will make a t-shirt for you (assuming I have your size available) with your answer written on it. Then you will need to come to my studio (AKA my apartment) to have your photo taken of you wearing your t-shirt. This will only take 15 minutes. My studio is located near USF/Panhandle in San Francisco.

3. (optional) Attend show and see my final piece
Come to the Thesis exhibition at the California College of the Arts in SF (evening of Dec 16th) so you can pick up your free t-shirt and check out my final project as well as other students' projects.

If you cannot do Parts 1 and 2, do not participate. I paid for these T-shirts myself so I don't want to make a T-shirt for you that will not be used for the project.

Let me know if you can help me out with my project.

Thanks!

*My current thesis statement:
MASS PRODUCED NO MORE: Take back your T-shirt
When James Dean wore a white T-shirt as outerwear, he made a powerful statement about his place in society. Nowadays, the T-shirt, usually emblazoned with the logos and commercial slogans of companies, has become yet another form of advertising; our T-shirts are spreading the messages of others. By giving many people that are a part of my everyday life an opportunity to write their own personal statement onto a T-shirt, I hope use the T-shirt to make an impact again— to show that people have something to say.

YES! Another T-shirt blog!!

A Piece of Shirt
They also sell $10 blank American Apparel T-shirts! That's $5 less than the American Apparel Stores sell them for.

Nerd out!

Dude! Check out this web store! Drag and drop shopping cart?! Totally kicks ass.

Panic Goods t-shirts

Dov Charney talks back

In the October issue of Jane magazine Claudine Ko revisits Dov Charney, CEO of American Apparel, to straightening some things out about her very controversial interview with him last year which included him masturbating in front of Claudine. In the new interview Dov says, "I'm not some Terry Richardson guy who's there for shock value." Oops. Sorry, Dov. I couldn't tell... you seemed like Terry Richardson lite to me. I still love your company and its products.

Designers respond to t-shirts

Buy this $10 t-shirt and Threadless will give $20 to the Katrina Hurricane Relief Fund. That kicks ass! It's a really cool t-shirt too. I just bought mine. At least from a superficial fashion standpoint this disaster is spawning cool tshirts...

UPDATE: Threadless raised $50,000 in less than 48-hours and they're continuing to raise money. $10 for every shirt sold.

How to Screen Print a Poster

DIY screen printing complete with photographs because we're visual people. The same techniques apply to printing a tshirt.

Threadless Interview

Interview with the guys who started Threadless.com, where you vote on the best tshirts designs and the winners get printed.

Ma homies!

This girl's tshirt is too funny.

No Ping Pong Table

Here's a cool article on the CollegeHumor guys who also started BustedTees.

The partners went for a retro design and asked attractive girls they knew or met in bars to model the shirts for online ads, which they promoted under the name Busted Tees. So far, the company has sold about 100,000 T-shirts online, at a profit of $11 each, and another 75,000 through retailers, at a profit of about $2. There were other benefits as well. Mr. Klein, who does design and photography, is now dating one of the models.

Nice.

The screenprinted t-shirt is not dead

Way cooler than a tuxedo tshirt.

This one is pretty sweet too but where's the crackpipe?!

Sexual Harassment Tshirt

Hmmm, so Dov Charney, founder of American Apparel is in trouble for apparently sexually harassing his employees. If it's true the question will be: sweatshop or sexual harassement? Damnit, Dov, you idiot, you had such a good company with awesome products, why'd you have to go and let your penis do the talking?

Who has Seoul?

Oooh... such a clever K-pride t-shirt. Too bad it doesn't come in women's sizes.

iLove

The perfect tshirt for the gadget geek with a sense of humor.