Go Ape For Go Ape Shirts

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Ed Pincombe, Go Ape Shirts, designer t-shirts, indie t-shirts, screen printed shirts

GoApeShirts.com is run solely by the ever dedicated Josh Perkins, a designer with a passion for t-shirts who with a help of a small army of talented friends has been knocking out some rather stunning designs lately. Now and again other t-shirt blogs have featured one or two of their products, but as usual it’s down to Buy Tees to give you lovely people the full lowdown on this uniquely funny yet creative label and their impressive range of original tees.

All of Go Ape’s shirts and hoodies are screen printed by the highly professional Mammoth Printshop of Alabama on American Apparel products, so you’re rest assured everyone of their tees is both sweatshop-free and of the highest quality. Shipping is $4.50 for one shirt and $1.00 more for each additional shirt after that. Orders outside of the USA, Canada, and Mexico are a flat $4.00 extra per order. They also say they accept design submissions, but be warned, Go Ape are highly selective, so all designers out there, prepare for disappointment!

Some of the current designers on their books include Leon Ryan (who also designed their superb logo), Julian Glander, Hong Kong’s Graphic Airlines, Henrique Lima, John Mitchell (whose sketches lie precariously in between Aubrey Beardsley and Ralph Steadman – the illustrator for Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in  Las Vegas), Olly Moss, UPSO, Cloxboy and far too many more to mention. Still you get the idea, this is a classy operation, as far as the design department goes anyway. So, let’s go ape and check out some of their finest tees on offer at the moment… read more

Teextile 2.0

admin    T-Shirt News     Teextile, teextile 2.0, teextile relaunch, teextile.com

We’ve posted about Teextile t-shirt contest community a few times here at Buy Tees. For those who have been having problems with the site, just to let you know they have just relaunched with a new and improved version of the site called Teextile 2.0. This isn’t just a glossy redesign, Teextile have fundamentally changed the way they operate, here’s how: read more

The Sun Always Shines on LadyUmbrella

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     LadyUmbrella, art shirts, girl's t-shirts, girls tees, womens t-shirts, womens tees

For those of the female persuasion we have a real treat for you, a feature on LadyUmbrella, an art t-shirt company based in Ireland, and fuelled by the creative powerhouse that is the Spanish designer Elena Montes Casado. In fact it was her experience of arriving in rainy Dublin directly from the hot and spicy climate of her home in Madrid that prompted her to think of the name. “I saw lots of people with umbrellas and couldn’t really see peoples faces and from that I got the idea…”. Casado’s love of animals also shows through in a lot of her work, birds and beasts of all kinds appear in her art, in her own words “I can’t imagine her talking to human beings so instead she has lots of feathered friends (for now).”

LadyUmbrella is an immediately recognisable character for one very obvious reason, she has an umbrella for a head, don’t laugh, it’s poetic or symbolic or something…

I love the style, it reminds me of animation I used to watch growing up as a kid in Britain, it was so gentle and delicate then, a world away from the slick CGI of nowadays. Dreamy, that’s the word, something along the lines of Crystal Tipps meets the original Moomins.

LU launched their online t-shirt store on the 20th of January 2010 and have created a lovely site and store, and of course collection. The whole feel of the brand is light, slightly dreamy and very delicate, something rare in the world of t-shirt art. So… if you’re ready to meet LadyUmbrella read on! read more

List of Haiti Relief T-shirts

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Haiti earthquake t-shirts, Haiti relief t-shirts, Haiti relief tees, Haiti t-shirts, Lady Gaga, Shepard Fairey

We are all aware of the terrible devastation, pain and suffering caused by the January 12th Earthquake in Haiti. Thousands upon thousands have died in the disaster, many more are injured, infected by various groundwater spore diseases, homeless, and hungry. I have been approached by several brands regarding their own efforts in aiding the Haitian people and have decided to create a combo post for maximum effect. Help the people of Haiti by purchasing one of the Haiti Earthquake Relief tees below… Be a fashionista for a good cause! read more

The Hermit Returns!

admin    T-Shirt News     Concrete Hermit, art t-shirts, concretehermit.com

Concrete Hermit are back bigger and better than ever with a fabulous new selection of quirky art shirts designed by top artists from around the world. For those not in the know check out my past review entitled Solid As a Rock – Concrete Hermit. For the rest of us I think we should just on and check out what goodies the Hermit has brought back from his travels to the back and beyond of t-shirt inspired revelry and delirium, in that order… read more

Delete Toast Tees

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Delete Toast, art t-shirt, art t-shirts, art tees, designer t-shirts, photo montage, surreal tees

Here’s a brand new label, and I mean so fresh off the press it’ll burn your fingers. Delete Toast, which must be the strangest name for a t-shirt brand I have come across so far, are offering a slick batch of super fine tees to kick things off. Recently started by Joyce Kim, a professional graphic designer with an advertising/art direction background from NY’s Pratt institute, you can expect quality over quantity.

I asked Joyce about the name, “it’s simply a happy accident, a random blending of two words to form a new oxymoron.” Much like her t-shirt designs which are for the main part collages/photo montages, peppered with rather funky typographic and abstract experiments. Joyce lists her influences far and wide, being inspired by the fine arts, abstract graphics, nature, music, streetwear, and high fashion, her tastes and style are indeed eclectic.

There are only a few tees on offer at the moment, but rest assured more are to come, still what there is on offer is top quality so… let’s get toasty

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More Discounts at Tolky Monkys

admin    T-Shirt News     cartoon shirts, funny t shirts, kids t-shirts, sale, tolky monkys, toon tees

(A belated) New Year sale now on at Tolky Monkys. Prices range from 20% off up to a massive 45% off!

Tolky Monkys’ crazy world of cartoon tees are on sale again, in case you’ve forgotten their inimitable style (how could you?) check out this reminder…

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RateTshirts.com

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     T-Shirt Votes, best t-shirts, new t-shirts, rate t-shirts, ratetshirts.com, t-shirt community, t-shirt ratings

You may have noticed the posts have been relatively drying up at Buy Tees since Xmas. The truth is we need contributors, true t-shirt fans with a passion for blogging, we will credit your blog or website on our homepage if you’re reviews are up to scratch, and we’d need at least 2 a month from each contributor. Plus carte blanche on all or any t-shirt news you can hunt down on the net. Email me if you fancy reviewing shirts, but please, no self-promoters, just true fans of the art.

The fact is I’m snowed under with a million things to do at the moment. What with my personal blog, my new arts blog at ArtUrban.co.uk and now the latest addition to the Bainsey network, RateTshirts.com. I’ve had this domain sitting around for years, I thought it might have sold by now, but thinking about it I’m glad it didn’t. It means I can still keep a hand in as far as t-shirt design goes, sharing my love for the latest and greatest in t-shirt design and so can all of you! read more

New Dark Bunny Tees

admin    T-Shirt News     Anchorman, Dark Bunny Tees, Shaun of the Dead, Star Wars, movie t-shirts, movie tees, zombie t-shirt

Dark Bunny Tees are going from strength to strength with their new additions to the collection, as usual venturing into the world of movies, yet adding their inimitable and usually rather hilarious take on some of the most cherished cult, horror, sci-fi and action blockbusters of all-time including the latest Golden Globe gobbling Avatar from James Cameron. Alex, the illustrating dynamo behind the label has certainly been very busy these last few months with an impressive half dozen more tees on offer, here are three of my faves to wet your appetite… read more

Darth Vader Tee at Springleap

admin    T-Shirt News     Darth Vader, Star Wars, Star Wars T-shirt, springleap

Springleap.com’s latest winning tee features Darth Vader with the caption “Who’s Your Daddy?”.

Cute vector rendition of the classic Starwars baddie, not sure about the yellow t-shirt though.

Anyway check it out…

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