Get Ready For A Shirt Fight!

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Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee, welcome to Shirtfight.com, the latest addition to the ever expanding crowdfunding t-shirt market that brings designers and fans together for an all out battle of graphic prowess, urban style and community spirit.

We received a request recently (sorry have been on the razzle all weekend) for a review from Miss Etti, one of the crazy people at Shirt Fight and couldn’t resist the chance to open up your eyes to this relatively new t-shirt contest site offering weekly themed design competitions aptly named “Shirt Fights”. They’ve already got a few winners under their belt and have plenty more in the running. The site is slick yet friendly and they go out on a limb to make sure their community gets the full lowdown on each of their winning designers.

Check out their interview with Evanimal – their first winner and their hand picked top 10 heavyweights. SF offer a whopping $500 for a winning design so if you have the talent and are out of pocket it’s well worth knocking out a tee and seeing if it lasts the gruelling rounds. There are plenty of ways of keeping up-to-date with all the latest happenings at SF including Twitter, Facebook, RSS and the blog. However as you may have guessed we’re going to focus on the t-shirts, that is why you’re here after all?

Spirit Quest – Only $15!

Spirit Quest is SF’s latest winner, it’s on sale now for just $15, so if you’re looking for a budget alternative to “doing a Jim” – i.e Jim Morrisson wandering off from The Doors in the middle of the desert and following a bald Indian into a cave (yes I’m quoting the Oliver Stone version of events here) – well this is most likely your best best to get a little D.I.Y shamanism in on the sly. It’s a simple but effective design by Zipperking (let’s not even get into why they chose that as their username) with some very attractive detailing, wild vector extravagance (or is it a Photoshop brush?) for the effervescent spirit rising on high, rather ectoplasmic in style and a smooth tonal range gliding into a turquoise blue. Smart hippy, minimalist stoner attire.

You Might Need More Than A Nightlight This Time

Very reminiscent of Maurice Sendak’s children’s book Where The Wild Things Are, I used to love that in my most formative years, You Might Need More Than A Nightlight This Time plays upon those very same childhood fears, although I’d say there was a good deal of psychedelic influence in this design too. Evananimal has managed to maintain a sense of humour in the artwork and I appreciate the detail of a lad peeking from under their covers to view the oncoming cartoon nightmare. Trippy without being dippy, scary but not too much, an explosion of colour tamed by a master of line and contour.

Vote For Zilladelic

Amazing design terrible t-shirt colour. Something that can be easily remedied I’m sure. Zilladelic is a great example of old school comic art at its best, way before the cutesy doe-eyed elfin figures of so much of Manga and Anime, the Japanese did a damn good job of mimicking DC and Marvel style comic art, whilst adding their own inimitable blend of weird and wonderful mythology. Now if someone could just get the message across to TNT138 that lurid day-glo green isn’t the most popular of t-shirt colours we may witness another future winner here!

Vote For El Presidente’s Loco Robo

Now I know that robots have been done to death, just like skulls and all manner of other popular images in t-shirt design, but you have to admit this is about the strangest and most funky robot you’ve seen in a while. Totally crazy vectors, mad colours, mad love. It’s kind of a tribute to El Presidente, the self-elected leader of the gang at Shirt Fight, which is fair enough, someone has to run the site and deal with all the barmy t-shirt designers and fans there! Anyway I love it, it looks best on a black tee as far as I am concerned, it has everything you could want in a t-shirt, ufos, monsters, aliens, robots, lasers, a totally wacky showdown of colour and line that adds up to a marvellous cacophany of a design. El Presidente’s Loco Robo – great stuff from ElvinJohn18!

Take a look, submit a vote, buy a tee, design and submit a tee, it’s your choice at Shirtfight.com – just make sure you don’t try and design anything with your boxing gloves, and if you don’t mind a few bruises to your ego who knows you could be up $500 before you know it. Oh btw SF offer free shipping across the USA and are suposed to have pretty reasonable rates for the rest of the world. Oh you lucky Americans you.

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