Adeline – Tees by Green Day

Badgirl    T-Shirt News, T-Shirt Reviews     Green Day, celebrity t-shirts, music t-shirt, punk t-shirts, rock music t-shirts, rock t-shirts

Adeline Street is the punk inspired clothing collection produced by Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day and his wife Adrienne. Adeline Street began as a spin off from a record label offering up a fine selection of promo t-shirts but they sold so many that now the clothing line has taken off whilst the record label went under. Billie describes their t-shirt range as “basic rock and roll streetwear”, taking influence from the early punk stylings of classic punk rockers like The Clash to more avant-garde bands of the time such as Devo. Before you get too excited Billie and his wife haven’t physically designed these tees, they say their input is more of a “fashion philosophy” but what the heck, they’re all still very cool whoever they found to create them. Billie and his wife went through the draft designs telling the designers what sucked and what rocked and voila Adeline Street’s t-shirt collection was born.

In this interview Billie is rather vague when it comes to their ethical policy, I heard the mention of sustainable clothing but that was quickly followed by the phrase “baby steps” which essentially means their dragging their feet. I mean if you were a worldwide famous rock star I’m sure you’d pull your thumb out, still as he says, it’s on the cards :/

He also vaguely mentions indie retailers selling their wares which was again a little wishy washy on the detail, still luckily I’ve managed to track down their tees on sale at GrindStore.com. Massive reductions if you’re after any!

Rifle T-shirt on sale now for just £6.99 US$10.51 €7.69

Fill’R Up T-Shirt on sale for £4.99 US$7.50  €5.49 (medium)

The Pitch T-shirt on sale now for £4.99 US$7.50 €5.49

Oohs and Aahs t-shirt on sale now Adeline T-shirt – Mens Oohs & Aahs Adeline T-shirt – Mens Oohs & Aahs £4.99  US$7.50 €5.49.

There are plenty more on offer though various sizes for each tee have already sold out, and no wonder at these prices, catch the Adeline t-shirt sale now at GrindStore.com before they’ve all gone!

Gateway T-Shirt by Rob Dobi

Badgirl    T-Shirt Designers, T-Shirt Reviews, T-Shirts     Design By Humans, art shirts, full bleed, rob dobi

It’s been a good few years since we featured Rob Dobi’s work, perhaps one of the greatest artists in the t-shirt industry right now, he’s gone from strength to strength in style and ability, and his choice of subject matter has leant more and more towards the surreal. For those not familiar with his work read ‘Full Bleed Ahead‘ for the full low-down. If you want to see what’s he’s been up to then check out his site at FullBleed.org, however I have to feature one of his most recent creations which has just won it’s rightful place amongst the hallowed halls of Design By Humans. It’s called the Gateway T-Shirt, and speaking personally it’s absolutely beautiful!

An absolutely incredible design oozing sci-fi and fantasy all over the place. I love the extremely delicate use of halftones in this piece, deceptively simple and filled to the brim with a sense of wonder. I think this must be Dobi’s best work yet. It’s available for both men and women for $19 however they’ve sold out of small size tees for women :/  Still you can get yours at http://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/detail/6190.

Whilst I’m at it here are three classic designs redesigned or as he describes it ‘reset’ available at Rob Dobi’s own store FullBleed.org.

Forever Longing T-Shirt available here.

Paint It Red T-Shirt available here.

Work Is For The Birds T-Shirt available here.

Rob Dobi’s client list has exploded over the past few years, just before I scarper check out these big names…

Amazing!

Winter 2010 design from Prestigious

Rangga    T-Shirt Reviews     Prestigious, Winter 2010

As soon as you read the name Prestigious, you know their clothing line offers quality. Prestigious’ tagline “hand made by human beings” is reassuringly frank, they offer the t-shirt industry a high ethical standard and fair labour treatment.

This season, Winter 2010, Prestigious offer up six new designs. All with a Prestigious signature and rendered graphics. All are available for both men and women. I can divide these designs into three categories.

The first category is based on rendered photos entitled Treeline and Fixture. Both are based on photos taken by William Matte, Jr from different places, and then rendered graphically by Sam Kaufman. William Matte, Jr is the owner of Prestigious himself.

The second is based on natural spectacle. Prestigious promised to bring more designs into this category this year. The Falling describes the natural observation what happen to trees in Massachusetts when entering Fall. It began to change color beautifully from green to red, orange, earth-like color. Very nice! Bear in mind that this tee design is for sale at US$18

The last category comes with default logo and tagline of Prestigious. Three others are among this one. While the other two are made on AA2001 American Apparel, there’s one come with V-neck style, if you interested. For full line ups, check the Prestigious shop.

Rangga is blogger-editor at T-shirt blog Cottonable.com. This posting is written with assistance by Amir.

Unlikely Surfers on Your Vintage Shirt

Rangga    T-Shirt Reviews, T-Shirts    

When we talk about vintage surfing, many will think of hippies in trunks riding wooden surfboards. Yes, surfboards were originally made of solid wood and were large and heavy (often up to 12 feet (3.7 m) long and 100 pounds (45 kg)). It’s funny to imagine how people coped at the beginning of the surfing craze, especially when many of the boards were so cumbersome and heavy. How did they carry the surfboard to the beach? How did they look? The Ryde clothing line from Laguna Beach, has been wondering the same thing.

Which is exactly why the have created their own series of vintage surfing inspired tees, designed to entertain! One features a Penny Farthing ($24) which makes you wonder if surfers might have had no choice to get to the beach this way, well that is unless they had a horse? It’s funny!

How about Moonlight Glide tee ($24). Where one night a couple of young Native Americans went out in search of the perfect wave. As the moon rose from behind the mountains a star shown in the east. The Ryde’s “Moonlight Glide” t-shirt captures this trip in all of it’s glory. Their t-shirt designs prove that The Ryde t-shirts and clothing are for good humored laid back individuals.

Rangga is blogger-editor at T-shirt blog Cottonable.com. This posting is written with assistance by Ollie.

Pattern from publicdomain

Rangga    T-Shirt Reviews     Balloon Pattern, Pattern, Publicdomain, Scooter Pattern

Check out the new Pattern series of tees at publicdomainclothing.com. A brand that can boast a celebrity clientèle including Paris Hilton on their order books. Public Domain have just unveiled two of their latest designs for the line. The first is Scooter Pattern, and the second is Balloon Pattern. Both are included the  women’s collection, however men will miss out this time around.

Powerful black and white graphics that take their cue from textile design, a lovely selection of old favourites in the tailoring game, such as herringbone. In art, the repeated pattern is usually called a motif, Public Domain offers a combination of Burberry-like and tartar skirt motif. Simple yet sophisticated.

Personally, the Scooter Pattern is my favourite, as it offers a richer range of shapes and stripes. I’d love a real scooter that looked like this, perhaps I’m just a Mod at heart. Anyway, these two tees can be yours for US$25 each. Both are available in black and white, but black is my personal favourite. Available in all sizes.

Rangga is blogger-editor at T-shirt blog Cottonable.com. This posting is written with assistance by Amir.

Buy Tees Relaunch

Badgirl    T-Shirt Reviews     Baines, Cottonable, Rangga, T-Shirt Designers, T-Shirt Reviews, buy tees, buy tees relaunch, buy-tees.net

It looks like www.buy-tees.net has had (yet another) reprieve in the form of Rangga from the highly respected fashion blog www.Cottonable.com – he’ll be taking over the reigns in writing reviews from now on, so keep your eyes peeled over the next few weeks as we get the party started one more time.

There are already changes underway, the blog has had a revamp, is proudly wearing a new logo, is opening up space for advertisers, and offers a new featured category called T-Shirt Designers, which will hopefully feature plenty of new, views and interviews with all the freshest brightest new and established stars in the t-shirt design industry.

I will of course be giving a hand where I can, offering up suggestions and the occassional post if time permits, but all you need to know is no matter if it’s Rangga, myself, or what will in the future most likely be a team of writers in the industry, you can expect only but the best in t-shirt reviews, news, events, features, discounts, contests and much much more.

So, let’s all take a deep breath, a sigh of relief, and await the forthcoming relaunch of www.Buy-Tees.net

Stick in there, it will be worth it

Buy-Tees.net is winding down… honest

admin    T-Shirt News, T-Shirt Reviews     Paul Baines, T-Shirt Reviews, buy tees, t shirt blog

I know some or even many of you have heard it all before, but here’s the problem money and time. Basically I and Chris are flat broke, the roof is crumbling, we’ve little money coming in and with water damage to almost every floor of the house I’m going to have to grow up (finally) and prioritize. That means, very little blogging, which was always just for fun, and an expensive hobby at that. No more reviews, although I’ll try and maintain this blog as an archive for as long as possible.

Career wise I’ll be focusing on graphic design (if anyone needs a decent graphic designer contact me at art@paulbaines.co.uk as long as you like your graphics weird – see my art blogs at http://www.arturban.co.uk and http://paulbaines.co.uk for more info.)

Hopefully, eventually, if the demand for my art picks up I’ll have money enough to sort out my life and even revive this and a few other blogs, but for now I have to admit that problems are coming thick and fast from all directions so reality needs to set in…

Thanks to all those who have read, followed, contributed and generally supported the blog in many ways.

Have fun

Paul

Bainsey @ Threadless

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Threadless, contest, t-shirt

Hey all, yes this is a little cheeky of me but I need your support! If you’re a member of Threadless.com come and show some props for my first submission to the Goliath of t-shirt contest sites. Don’t worry I’m not expecting any miracles, it’d just be nice if I had a few watching my back on this one. Anyway check out my t-shirt design at Threadless simply entitled “Naked Eye“.

It would be great to put my money (if I had any) where my mouth is, but I’m worldly weary enough to know that miracles rarely happen, but if somehow I did make it through with this design you can bet it would put a big smile on my face knowing that I had my readers on my side. After all if I am a t-shirt reviewer I should at least try and prove my worth. What’s more if I make the grade expect some freebies at Buy Tees!

Still expecting egg on face all the same hah… read more

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

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