Tee Fury - Tee Today Gone Tomorrow!

Hell hath no fury like a t-shirt scorned. If you want what TeeFury.com have on offer you had better hurry, they offer a unique ‘one day only ’service, selling some truly incredible tees from a diverse stock of the highest quality t-shirt designers.

They offer a new screen-printed limited-edition tee every 24 hours for $9 however you can only buy a maximum of 3. They print on high-quality “regular-fit” tees that are made of 100% ringspun cotton. They pay each artist $1 per shirt sold AND the artist keeps full rights to their design. After a design’s 24 hour stint at Tee Fury the artist can sell the design anywhere they like. They charge $2 US and $7 Worldwide shipping.

Their back catalogue brims over with some of the finest illustrative t-shirts you’ll ever see, unfortunately most of them are no longer for sale, such is the nature of the Tee fury beast. I think it best I focus on designers rather than designs, and what a selection TF has, it would be almost impossible to pick out all my favourites without losing a few nights sleep, so I’ll limit this review to the cream of the crop, and don’t worry (where possible) I’ve included links to sites where you can buy their t-shirts whenever you like ,and where I can’t you can vote for a reprint! Teemocracy in action!

Jimiyo ‘Keep Fierce’ T-Shirt

You can buy Keep Fierce at Design By Humans. A superb double-sided design, almost psychedelic in parts!

Jimiyo offers excellent some illustrative detail and a beautiful range of muted colours to make this tee a must have.

Sign up for his newsletter, and be entered to win a FREE t-shirt. To sign up, Jimiyo.com and enter your email. Every time he sends out a newsletter, someone will win a t-shirt!

Jimiyo’s preferred tools of the trade are the almighty pencil and Photoshop.

Ryan Miller is an illustrator and designer who offers commission designed t-shirts, posters and flyers. Unfortunately you won’t see any of his works for sale to the general public but his blog is still well worth a visit.

Ryan Miller has a fantastic knack for grunge-retro images, I particularly appreciate his due care and attention to line and colour.

I love the textural weave effect used in his Obama T-Shirt, and the contrasted colours really make this work come alive.

He’s prepared to sell the rights to this for the right price, so worth considering if you’re looking to beef up your own t-shirt store collection! Visit his blog for more information at http://www.relentlessstudio.com/portfolio.php?id=69

Fouad aka Tessa Vesak only has a few t-shirts on offer but ‘Murder of Crows‘ is a beauty, you can also buy another work ‘Evolution‘ at Uneetee.com, although I still think M.O.C is my fave.

Funnily enough I’ve a few t-shirts submitted there, both are previous Threadless.com incarnations who didn’t make the grade, although Moonlighting did make it through a full seven days of voting.

Yes it’s a shameless plug, but if you fancy voting for ‘Face Book‘ at Uneetee by well …me, you can vote for it here. Yes I know I forgot to include a placement image, doh! I’ve had a few moans and groans about that, don’t worry I won’t forget again!

I’ve realised whilst perusing the artists directory at Tee Fury that many artists haven’t a web site, or they almost exclusively offer commission-based illustrations, which means that very few of TF’s original editions aren’t available, which increases their exclusivity, but makes it rather difficult to review their past offers. However you’ll find the following designers do offer other designs not available at TF, which I have listed below.

J3Concepts has also had success at Tee Fury in the past, here’s on of his classic tees, “Country Club Nouveau” - now available at only $14 from Design By Humans!

Collision Theory is also relatively well known in the underground t-shirt industry, however his winning t-shirt “When Pandas Attack” hasn’t made it at Threadless.com which backs up my argument about the problems with their voting model! CT still has some great tees available, you can buy “Refraction” at Design By Humans, one of my faves by this designer.

Perhaps my current favourite designer to have sold at Tee Fury, Monographiz offers some absolutely perfect designs, MG recently won the weekly prize at UneeTee.com with his design “Hidden Castle“. Just take a look at the detail in this…

I had to give one last mention to Tom Burns who’s well known by many as a winner at Threadless.com, Uneetee.com and DesignByHumans.com. He’s also a past winner at Tee Fury, and currently offers many of his designs from his own store at Loiterink.com including his celebrated “Communist Party” t-shirt. If you can’t remember it - here’s a reminder…

If you’d like to follow in the footsteps of these and many other great t-shirt artists and at the very least make yourself a little extra free publicity, all you need to to is submit your art to art@teefury.com (if your design is selected, they will contact you for the high resolution version).

Submission guidelines:

1. Designs are limited to 6 colours and front chest print up to 15 x 19 inches.
2. Submissions should be at least 800 x 800 pixels (keep file size below 10MB).
3. Include a succinct but interesting biography in your email and a link to your portfolio site.

You’ll find many of Tee Fury’s archived winners’ tees at the following sites:

Threadless.com

DesignByHumans.com

Uneetee.com $10 Deal! One Design, One Day On Sale Everyday. New Deal Every Midnight!