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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…

Killovision T-shirt

This one’s been around for a few years but due to popular demand the Killovision tee has been reprinted and is available now in all sizes for $18. A truly madly deeply retro spectacular from the twisted visionary mind of Aaron Hogg. He’s designed another great shirt for Go Ape Shirts, check out his reassuringly subversive Face of Capitalism tee.

The Ultimate Cute T-shirt

Although it’s available for men and women, The Ultimate Cute t-shirt by Christian San Jose is most definitely aimed at the latter. As it happens small sizes for women are already sold out, although it’s still available in all other sizes for guys and girls at $18. If you’re up for an overload of cuteness, this tee, which I am sure would be a definite contender for the Japanese flag should they ever want a redesign from their sole red spot. A shirt that is the stuff of nightmares for red-blooded blokes and that of dreams for girls, of course there are always exceptions I am sure :0

I’m Walken on Sunshine T-shirt

I think it’s true to say that when it comes to Lunchbox Brain you either love his style or… well you don’t. Something akin to Beavis and Butthead when it comes to illustration, I’m not saying it’s outsider art, but there’s definitely a strong sense of naïveté in LBB’s crazy scribblings. This is most definitely a LBB classic, the I’m Walken on Sunshine shirt has been around a couple of years now and the fact there are still a few sizes left means Go Ape have either reprinted or… well this particular shirt requires an acquired taste. Still I like it, I’m always up for a good pun Available for $18 in sizes small and large for girls and small and medium for guys.

Hip Hop Hibernation T-shirt

Ed Pincombe has to be one of my all-time personal favourite t-shirt designers, a winner of plenty of contests at Threadless his style exudes woodcut, he’s even featured in a list of 10 Amazing T Shirt Designer Portfolios at Color Overload which is well worth checking out if you’re looking for the best of the best. The detail in his Hip Hop Hibernation shirt is exquisite, love the fur and the bling on this one. Get it in all sizes for $18 here.

Do take a look at the whole collection at www.GoApeShirts.com – there’s definitely no monkeying around when it comes to quality at this label!

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