Discounts at Aaitski

admin    T-Shirt Discounts     Aaitski, cartoon tees, character t-shirts, t-shirt coupons, t-shirt discounts

The super cute Aaitski t-shirt label, famed for it’s cartoon character tees for kids and, well, ‘big kids’, is offering discounts galore. If you’ve got the World Cup blues, I don’t even like football normally yet I’m sharing in the national grief we’ve experience in England after being beaten (yet again) by the Germans, then don’t worry, you can get 15% off all Afroboy tees at www.Aaitski.com until the final match on the 11th of July.

What’s more Aaitski have kindly offered Buy Tees readers a permanent discount on their whole range of iconic tees, whatever sporting disaster you might cope with in the future you can always cheer yourself up with a 10% discount. Just enter TWITSKI at the checkout and save some dosh!

All of their tees are manually silk screen-printed in Belgium to a very high quality, If you’ve got kids or are a big kid at heart then Aaitski are here for you! Normally available at €25 each you can get any of their shirts at Let’s take a look at some of their latest designs. Prepare to be supercutified:

All these and more are on offer to kids (up to 12 years) and big kids (S-XL) for €22.50 (with the Buy Tees 10% discount). See the rest today at www.Aaitski.com!

Collect London – Artist Series Illustrated Tees

admin    T-Shirt Designers     Collect, Collect London, art t-shirts, illustrated t-shirts, limited edition tees

Collect London is a unique new T-shirt brand with a difference… What better way to support new art… Than to wear it! That’s the concept behind this highly creative label who aim to provide up and coming artists and designers with a platform to launch their work to a wider audience. They only condition being that the designs fit in to their seasonal themes. They seek out the very best in design talent the world over to create artwork to feature on their great fitting T-shirts. So far everyone from new artists to bands such as O.Children and Gold Teeth and the fashion designer Robert Cary Williams have collaborated with the label to create a whole host of completely unique and limited edition pieces.The latest theme to inspire the range is ‘Folk Fantasy’ and from this, what has emerged is a collection of edgy and individual T-shirts to suit every individual.

Boom Tee by Robert Cary-Williams

A leading designer on the British fashion scene, his ability to design clothes that are both experimental, yet have a severe design edge, and then to balance this with ‘wearability’, has become his signature. As well as winning ‘New Generation Sponsorship’ from the British Fashion Council several times, Robert has also been invited to show his work and to lecture in high profile exhibitions such as ‘Fashion in Motion’ at the V&A and showstudio.com. His collections have been worn by the likes of Roisin Murphy, Keira Knightly, Kate Moss, Jude Law, Ewan McGregor and David Bowie.He now brings his expertise to Collect London with the popular Men’s BOOM Pack Tee.

Jackalope Cape T-Shirt by Elliot Hartwell

A multidisciplinary designer with a diverse portfolio of graphic, furniture, product and interior design. Elliot now works as a freelance designer as well as at the design and communication agency, Ethreestudio which he co founded.His designs for Collect London are a mixture of bold colours and hand drawn sketches such as the Women’s Jackalope oversized T-shirt.

Great Bear Tee by William Dove

William Dove is a member of the band Gold Teeth and Co-founder of Art and Design group Holy Dove, Williams lives and works in London.His designs are inspired by alternative creative forms such as tattooing, graphic novels and skateboarding.He mainly works in pen and ink and his loose stroke style aims to create something with an intricate basis but a bold aesthetic. His Men’s Great Bear Tee has become a Collect best-seller.

A Nagy Toll Scoop Tee by Richard Fairhead

I don’t have much on Fairhead except that he’s a great British illustrator with a superb sense of humour. Just check out his blog to be sure. Here’s a very cool retro tee by him, with the weirdest name I’ve come across in a while, the Nagy Toll Tee :p

With 10% of the sales going straight back to the artists, Collect London offers a great opportunity to boost the creative careers of young designers.And with such a wide range of product – there is no better time to buy into great art and wear something truly cutting edge

Pink Cranium Tee

admin    T-Shirt News     LTD TEE, Skull, limited edition t-shirts

“Pink Cranium” T-Shirt & Art Print On Sale 6/28 – 7/4

One of Ltd. Tee’s highly talented interns came to them with this design and they thought it would look great on a shirt, they were right.  Iban Brizuela – a graphic designer from San Francisco – finds inspiration from people deported from reality. Dark and comical art with a twist of obscenity that you can trust.

As always this box set is available for one week only, exclusively at www.ltdtee.net from June 28h to July 4thth.  MSRP for this product is $26.99 and our shirts come in both men’s and women’s sizes. Use discount code “buy-tees” to get 15% off this shirt!  Discount is only valid until 7/4.

The Pink Cranium box set includes:
• High quality, screen printed t-shirt
• 8” x 10” art print
• Custom screen printed box
• Custom neck label
• LTD Tee Sticker pack

Download Pink Cranium Wallpapers:
http://www.ltdtee.net/blog/wallpapers-pink-cranium-by-iban-brizuela.html

Drunk As Lords

admin    T-Shirt News     DAL, Drunk As Lords, Hulk T-Shirt, Hulk tees, Michael Jackson t-shirt, funny t shirts, funny tees

Straight out of the pub and off the printing press are the spanking new t-shirt brand Drunk As Lords. Set up by four friends who met in Chapel Hill, NC. they decided to form a t-shirt label so they could keep in touch share ideas, a few laughs and a few long distant beery cheers.  They include their influences from a whole variety sources, pop culture, indie rock, comic books and real-life anecdotes being a few.  They’re pretty new at this, and class their first four designs as their “freshman” effort, but are already working on new designs which they promise will be out soon.  Designs are printed on American Apparel tees in sizes S-XXL.

Here’s a couple to wet your appetite…

Shamon T-Shirt

In Britain we’re well familiar with the late Jacko’s uninterpretable catchphrase (amongst other things), but that’s more down to the superb comedy Bo’ Selecta’ by the brilliant comedian Leigh Francis. Shame he’s just an idiot presenter on ITV these days. Anyway here’s DAL’s jaded tribute to Michael Jackson in the form of their Shamon T-Shirt. Available for $20 in sizes S-XXL.

The Incredible Drunk T-Shirt

If you have a drinking problem you probably shouldn’t wear this one, even if you are a Hulk fan :p I’m not too much of a drinker myself, in fact hardly ever ,but I did used to watch Hulk on TV as a kid and I think I actually had a Hulk tee way back in the 1970s. I love the retro style of The Incredible Drunk T-Shirt, right down to the Plastisol print. I’m not usually a fan, I’d rather screen printed water-based stuff, but seeing as it’s harking back to the authentic vintage tees back then I can live with it. Yes it’s silly, it’s wordplay, but what the hell, it’s fun. Definitely in keeping with the DAL’s raison d’être! Available for $20 in sizes S-XXL.

Get sloshed on funny fashion tees at www.DrunkAsLords.com. Also keep up-to-date on all their lairy news at Facebook.

The Ignoble Truth

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Ignoble, attitude shirts, limited edition, punk t-shirts

Ignoble, a punk (for the lack of a better description) t-shirt brand, is about as close as you’re going to get to anarchy in the rather prettified world of fashion. If their tees were blind dates I’d walk out the door before they spotted my red carnation., but if I found myself locked in bar room brawl, perhaps even at the gates of hell, I’d want Ignoble on side. They’re rough and tough, there’s no two ways about it, disillusioned art school renegades much like myself, but with the advantage of a decade less compromise on the planet,

We’ve all seen, worn, and even described t-shirts as having ‘attitude’, but for the main part they are the philosophical equivalent of swearing at the dinner table or sticking up two fingers ‘at the man’. Ignoble go a step further, in fact a leap, and I really hope it’s not to their detriment, especially as most anarchists don’t believe in capitalism, or at the very least, can’t afford it. Still, I have to admire their guile. You won’t find any ‘pretty pictures’ in their collection of limited edition tees and art prints. Not a single vector swirl in sight, not even a jot of colour on show, but if I could award a t-shirt brand for sheer bravado, I’d give these guys an A+.

Ignoble seem to really believe in their cause, which personally I find as refreshing as a cool sea breeze on a stiflingly hot summer’s day. This label most definitely want to cut the crap when it comes to fashion, so much so it might even be described as ‘anti fashion’. But whatever it is they do, I’d bet my bottom dollar it isn’t all just hype, if it was they’d knock out something far more visually digestible than the brutalist one colour ‘scratch drawings’ that emblazon every one of their tees. Still, I’ve always been something of a trouble-maker, so this might just be a twisted subconscious kinship obscuring my judgement, so I’ll let you all decide for yourselves.

Dino Boy Tee

Here’s what Ignoble have to say about their Dino Boy Tee… “promoting the extinction of the office-lounging, suit-and-tie wearing dill-holes highly characteristic of most white-collar American co-workers. Maybe you’re already acquainted with Dino Boy. No surprise, we’ve run into him quite a few times ourselves.” I can relate to that one, I spent a few years in my early twenties trying to ‘subvert the system from the inside’. If you’re thinking the same but you’re forced to wear a suit and tie and sell crap to cretins, don’t bother, they’ve already got you by the short and curlies. Probably my fave at the store, available for $22.95 in sizes S-XL printed on American Apparel in a limited run of 50 tees.

Cash Advance Tee

Naked ladies and cold hard cash, certainly a powerful combo, however I’m not quite sure if Ignoble are for or against, is this about the exploitation of women, or an admiration for those women who can with a mere glimpse of their anatomy fleece a sizeable population of men for all they’re worth? Either way, it’s a shocker, as unglamoruous as fashion can get, and that’s good enough for me. The Cash Advance Tee is available $22.95 in sizes S-XL printed on American Apparel in a limited run of 50 tees.

911 Tee

Nope don’t go there, this isn’t another t-shirt commemorating the terrorist attack, or at least I don’t think so. Here’s what Ignoble have to say “Smoking, drinking, competing… the fundamentals of self-destruction and arguably the very basis of western living. Just supply your own high speed ambulance ride and some intense defibrillation and it’s a complete package.” It’s the other ’911′, like the Brits ’999′, call them up and emergency services might be on the way, then again they might not. What I’ve wondered for a while is how come historically the police in America get public funding but healthcare doesn’t? Now that would be total anarchy. How many are going to pay to be beaten up and wrongfully arrested? Anyway… get the 911 Tee for $22.95 in sizes S-XL printed on American Apparel in a limited run of 50 tees.

Who knows, Ignoble might just be the diamond in the rough, work it out for yourself at www.whybecommon.com.

Vuvuzela T-Shirt by Hey Indy

admin    T-Shirt News     football t-shirt, hey indy, vuvuzela t-shirt, world cup

Hey Indy have just emailed me about their latest t-shirt creation. I was hoping to cram in something about the World Cup (yep a real one with countries from all around the world) but haven’t found anything inspiring so far. If you can prove me wrong let me know! Anyway, I have to admit it, I bloody hate vuvzelas, you know those stupid horn things everyone seems to insist on blowing throughout every match? But then again it’s supposed to be a tradition in South Africa, but stuff that, if you can’t even hear the commentary for the noise then what’s the point? Luckily they’ve quietened down a lot, coincidentally the more African teams that are knocked out, the quieter and quieter it gets. I’m not really a football fan, but I keep an eye out when the World Cup is on, besides, it would be nice if England could do something right for once. Although there’s not much chance of that,  sure we managed to beat Slovenia and my footie mad neighbours are strutting like they won the cup, but the fact is we do suck. Especially as we invented the game :/

Anyway asides my gripes about the England team, vuvzelas, noise and the neighbours, Hey Indy’s Vuvuzela T-Shirt is a rather smart tee all the same. Available in 4 colours at £14.99 in sizes S-XL, they’re probably rocketing off the shelves as we speak, seeing as everyone’s gone football craaaazzzzeeeee :p

“3F” T-Shirt by Leon Verres

admin    T-Shirt News     3F t-shirt, American Vogue, Anna Wintour, Leon Verres, charity t-shirt, fashonista

Leon Verres, haute couture designer famous for his credit card dresses amongst other outrageous creations is taking on the hoi poloi of the fashion world with his 3F T-Shirt (a featured in the Huffington Post) which is out now and for sale at €49/$60 (men sizes S-XXL and women XS-XL with free worldwide shipping) made in Italy with the highly controversial slogan “F*ck Vogue F*ck Anna F*ck You”. Definitely one for the fashionistas I’d say! The high prices may put off some however the profits will be entirely donated to the children’s charity I Stand For Children. If you want to know a little more behind the story read this press release from the designer:

‘Anna Wintour and her Vogue have been taken the fashionistas for fools for many years. She presents perfectly styled Hollywood stars in luxurious outfits and declares that to be the new trend. Besides that I do not know anyone with common sense who considers such extravagantly styled fashion-zombies attractive, with its costly produced pseudo trends the Vogue only attends on an elitist minority of the fashion world, which is out of touch with reality and dieing out. To sum it up. The American Vogue has become obsolete as style authority long ago! The time has come for Anna Wintour to accept this and to let the true critics do their work. The true fashionistas on this planet – this means the 99% of the fashion consumers who do not read the Vogue – prefer to support the army of fashion bloggers, which focuses on what real people in real life wear on the streets instead of showing over-stylized fashion photo series with extremely thin models.

Fashion bloggers are the new kings of the world of fashion and I am one of their biggest supporters. It gives me a good feeling to know that I – as one of the very small number of designers who are independent of industry and media – am able to afford to have the Stalin on stilettos as an enemy. After all I am not alone on the mined catwalk. Besides my almost 3 million registered customers, who form the so-called “Legion Verres“, each day more and more people join me. Furthermore the demand for the “3F” T-shirt exceeds all of my expectations. This makes me unutterably pride and happy, because the total revenue for the T-shirts will inure to the benefit of my child relief project “I stand for children’.

As stated by Leon… “Before it´s in Vogue it´s Sold Out!“ Leon Verres’ ultra-trendy 3F T-shirt is finally for sale at www.leonverres.com/shop/index.php.

Seventh.Ink Blowout Sale

admin    T-Shirt Contests, T-Shirt Discounts     Seventh Ink, sale, t-shirt contest, t-shirt discount, t-shirt sale

Our pals at Seventh.Ink are having a great big blowout sale, so if you love an art tee bargain or two dash over to www.furyshirts.com/sale. They’ve reduced every tee in the sale to ten bucks, plenty of vector goodness for everyone, including obligatory skulls, wings, crowns and cute creatures. Hurry though, once they’re gone they’re gone!

One more bit of Seventh.Ink news for ya! They’re currently holding a photo contest and are giving away some great prizes including:

Grand Prize
$100 Coupon Code to use in the Seventh.Ink Store
$50 iTunes Gift Card
Button Pack 1

Two Runners Up will each get
$20 Coupon Code to use in the Seventh.Ink Store
Button Pack 1

All you have to do is buy a shirt, take a photograph of you wearing it, maybe easier if you get a friend to do that part, and send it in to them via their Flickr or Facebook account. The contest still has a month to run so there’s plenty of time to enter ;)

New Tees At Simplified Clothing

admin    T-Shirt News     Simplified Clothing, graphic t-shirts, graphic tees

Simplified Clothing are back with a new website, logo and collection. As you’d expect their new designs are as clean cut, and you guessed it, simple as ever. Before I show you my faves you might want to keep up with all their updates via Flickr and Twitter, and if you’re after a bargain there’s a few tees lingering in their sale section. What’s more if you’re in the trade you’ll be glad to know they offer their shirts at wholesale prices too!

Anyway check these out…

Obama T-Shirt

Yes it’s another Obama T-Shirt but don’t worry this one takes a rather different angle on the usual fawning we’ve all become accustomed to. After all I predicted no one, President or not, could live up to the massive hype Obama received. I really like the graphic, a pixelated Barack smoking a cigarette, something that probably wouldn’t have gone down to well at the elections, then again the tobacco giants must be lapping it up. If you want to see more “early Obama” photos see Lisa Jack’s 1980 shots of a funky doob smoking President to be at Time.com. According to ABC News the guy’s hooked on Nicorette these days ;) Get the Simplified Obama Tee for $21.99 in sizes XS-XXL.

O.G Logo T-Shirt

Well it’s the Simplified Clothing logo to be precise, but who knows, they might be “original gangsters”, then again I might completely have the wrong end of the stick there. Still I like the use of the “no bleach” symbol, a good choice, and one they’ve extended (rather cleverly) towards the whole environmental debate via their No Bleach tee, (what debate? we’re all going to die :/). If you’re a fan of laundry symbols, the ultimate in geek graphics asides motorway signs, then take a look at their Take Care tee. In the meantime, don’t bleach this tee, your hair or the environment, let’s keep it au naturelle :0 Anyway, this one looks a little like a Pink Floyd tee from a distance, which is a plus for me, but then again I did used to be a hippy when I had the hair “sigh”. Get this shirt for Men in grey (S-L) and Women in black (S-L) for $21.99.

Diamond T-Shirt

A diamond might be a girl’s best friend, but this shirt must be a close acquaintance at the very least.Funnily enough though this is a unisex tee, and in all honesty the blueprint style graphics leans towards the masculine if you ask me. I like it, I like the coldness of the design, rather like a visual equivalent of Autobahn by Kraftwerk it leaves you stumped, supplanted with the cryptic advice that “Fig.5a The color is most easily discernible at the point of the stone.” Rather fascinating yet as always, simplified. This one’s available for $21.99 for guys in a whole array of sizes.

Finally learn the truth that “less is more” at Simplified Clothing today!

Artcotic T-Shirts

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     art shirts, artcotic, illustrated tees, limited edition, limited edition t-shirts

Artcotic.com offer a wide range of highly artistic limited edition tees created in collaboration with new and established art talent from around the world. Usually the t-shirt print runs are limited to 500 each and once they’re gone they’re gone. At Artcotic a far greater variety of styles on offer, there’s no particular “house style”, some are hand drawn, others superbly executed with a retro graphic aplomb, even a few montage pieces too. They work  very closely with their artists and interview every one of them, after all where would they be without them?

They’re usually open for submissions, but I think they must have their books full as they’ve closed the doors, at least for the immediate future. Still they do like to collaborate, helping the indie music industry on the side by giving out a few shouts to their fave bands and artists at their Turntable Archive – which is full of interviews and music clips to keep your brain occupied for a while. Whilst you’re they’re you really should check out their t-shirts though, after all that is what they make. Anyway as the store is loaded with Javascript I can’t link to their products directly,  so you’ll have to do a little hunting for yourself. Here are some cool picks from the store:

Artcotic Traditional T-Shirt

Designed by Shawn Conn from Rochester, NY, a part-time tattooist and talented artist who’s exhibited at several shows, as well as designing art for t-shirts, skateboards and more. I’m always a sucker for a good tattoo tee, and this one’s a beaut. ust $14.99 for men in all sizes.

Happy Pointer T-Shirt

A fine example of Trent Call‘s work. I love this guy’s art, his cartoon style illustrations are like taking an acid trip through the early age of animation, when Mickey Mouse was neither beautified nor a mascot for an evil corporation (as Bart from The Simpsons would say). You’re either a fan or not, I definitely am. Trent works from the Captain Caption Studios in Salt Lake City, he’s done illustrations for the likes of Newsweek and he even runs his own zine called Swinj. Get this limited edition tee for men/women in sizes S-XL for a piddlin’ $14.95.

Running Operative: Final Mission T-Shirt

This tee is by Derek M Ballard (aka the line tamer) currently resides in Gainesville, FL. He’s created art for Giant Robot, Wonkavision, SCREW, Escort, The Drama, Faesthetic, Circus Punks, SEIBEI, Eros/Fantagraphics, Tinymeat, Go Ape tees, Royal Flush and tons more. Top notch t-shirt by a top notch artist. A total Ninja Kama Sutra in glorious retro toon style. Get it for just $14.95 in S-XXL sizes.

Untitled T-Shirt

Here’s a rarity, it’s a t-shirt design by the rather famous artist Dalek (as opposed to the Dr. Who frenemy), what’s more it’s figurative! Well kinda – in a cartoon stylie. This guy creates an amazing array of technicolour abstract paintings, he’s probably one of my favourites in the genre, I’ve never seen him do anything like this, still it’s rather cool, and mad (as usual). Again on sale for a pittance at $14.95, especially when you think how well known the artist is and that the tee is limited to 500. Available in all sizes.

See the rest at www.artcotic.com.