Sep

Swish Swosh Sneak Peek Preview!

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In just under 24 hours SwishSwosh.com – a British t-shirt contest site will be officially opening their doors to the public, and just to stir up a little more excitement I thought it best to share the love and let you all see what’s around the corner from this exciting new store. What I can tell you is this, Swish Swosh will be offering all their t-shirts on pre-order at £12 each (£15 for winners), yes a Brit tee community at last, and they already have quite a few cool submissions under their wing, and that’s no surprise seeing as SS are offering a whopping great prize of £1100 for the first place winner plus 50p per t-shirt sold. The total in prizes is £2009, and with ten winning positions to fill I’m sure a lot of you budding t-shirt designers can see a chance for success here! Every runner up receives £101 plus 50p in commissions which should be enticing for the least adventurous, but if you haven’t submitted a tee you will probably have to submit for the next round. There has been so much demand that SS have actually been accepting votes in beta, and some of their tees are already in pre-order!

As their motto states ‘no more clones’ SS will be limiting prints to just 50 of each size per print so if you do fancy any of their winning tees (and hoodies) I’d hurry because I doubt they’ll be hanging around too long. Although this will be a monthly contest so if you do want to get in on the action you have a decent amount of time to get on board for the next round. Fancy submitting a design? Then submit your design here. They want cutting edge, drop dead gorgeous designs if you can muster them, and I’ll tell you why.

The two founders of SS (I’d give you more details but their meet the founders page simply states ‘be patient you nosey gits’ right now) decided to create SwishSwosh.com after running a heap of successful club events where they witnessed fashion atrocities that would send anyone barmy, not only in calibre but also quantity. Imagine turning up for a night out and bumping into half a dozen other clubbers wearing the same t-shirt as you? It’s not just sad, it’s a a sad indictment of the state of corporate fashion these days. The fact is that originality is king, and that’s what SS are all about, if you want originality they will try their damndest to provide it via an army of keen talent touting for your votes. Let’s check out how Old Blighty are fairing in the t-shirt contest war…

Swish Swosh Store

A nice clean design, very well laid out and you might notice they even have a video section, SwishSwosh.com TV, which should be fun, not sure what will be playing, I’m guessing general visual madness submitted by their users. We will just have to wait and see. Now let’s take a gander at some of the designs up for grabs, as long as they win the contest of course!

Eclipse! Tee

Available at £12 for men and women in all sizes (for now), Eclipse! by Radiomode is a simple yet rather beautiful vector style print t-shirt depicting what you’d expect, an eclipse. I love the composition in this design, it’s rather brave really, using the form of eclipse is a great way to circumscribe the usual obsession with centralising a t-shirt illustration. To leave an enormous space in the middle of a tee design is usually a big no no, but not in this example, I’d say this is a strong contender for the overall winner. Mystical and scientific, logically dreamy, it’s the end of the world and I feel fine.

Surrender Earth Tee

Probably my favourite design at Swish Swosh right now and judging by the availability – which is nowt – I guess I am not on my own here. I’d say that Surrender Earth deserves to win, but as you all know it’s up to the people! There are some beautiful details in this illustration, and a wonderful array of crazy characters, I especially like the spiral eyes and a pair of 3d glasses on the pyramid creature. There also seems to be rather a lot of brain eating blobs, and if it wasn’t for the subtle hues I’d have thought this an outtake from a mad Japanese version of Futurama. Kitsch, retro, funny, cool. A great tee, not sure if any more will be available in any size, but if you can grab one at £12 you have nabbed yourself a real bargain.

Floral Skull Tee

You can’t go wrong with a skull, skulls rule, and no they will never go out of fashion – lol. Floral skulls are usually a particularly hot item for the ladies, although this one is available for both men and women. Oh no, it’s not, looks like this isn’t available in any size as yet, or have they sold out already? Who knows, we will see. Brings a new light to the old saying ‘pushing up the daisies’. In fact that would’ve been a better title retrospect, still hindsight isn’t clever, it’s just picky. Floral Skull – a finely illustrated deceptively simple designed tee from Beatbeatwing.

Tikihead Tee

Tikihead Tee. Love it. Very bold, very confident style and still up for votes, should win if there’s any justice in the world, but who knows. There are still 28 days of voting left on this design by StormyInTheNorth, and so there’s no excuse not to give this designer some props. I don’t normally like Tiki designs which probably explains why I’m a fan of this particular design, they’ve overcome my irrational dislike for this cultural genre. I’m not American, I’ve never been to a toga party and I don’t chug chug chug, and yet with those odds stacked against Stormy they’ve still managed to win through as far as I’m concerned. Very Scooby Doo, nice highlights and shadows, clean cut and great dimensions. Cool!

Anyway, get over to www.SwishSwosh.com now and have some fun, support this fledgling UK brand and give the Brits something to cheer about (for once).