Studio Script Tee

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Here’s a great idea, if you’re a struggling art student then why not set up a t-shirt label and raise those vital funds for living expenses, materials, erm… booze and partyin’. I wish I’d though of that one back in the day. Fortunately Craig Aucutt the founder & Creative Director of Iowa based CA Studio a far more savvy lad, he’s already made it to college (yay) and he’s just released his third tee, which despite being a logo tee is still a very snazzy addition. Man does that kid know his typography!

Studio Script Tee

Gorgeous, if you’re going to design a logo tee this is the way to go, even I’d wear this one… besides the advertising goes to a good cause ;) I love the way Craig has incorporated a paint brush and the back detail is a nice extra. Available in S-XL for $20 each.

See his other tees at www.castudio.bigcartel.com.

Delete Toast Tees

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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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TenBills.com – Art Tees On A Budget

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What can you buy for $10 these days? A couple of gallons of gas, or a family-sized Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket, or a few beers? Wow that sounds like a dull night. How about some art, some great art, art you can wear, a t-shirt designed by a top artist, produced by a company that loves every tee they produce, heck they even wear them themselves! If you’re suitably tantalised then head on down to TenBills.com and stretch your dollars further than they’ve ever been stretched before!

TenBills.com is run by a team of t-shirt fanatics lovers who had a dream of not only making t-shirts they could afford, but t-shirts that they’d love! TB describe themselves as “an online-based t-shirt design, production and retail company that prides itself in delivering solid illustrations to our members” – I’d say there was more to it than that, an arts collective using the medium of fashion to evoke a public response to their work. Their ethos is very much akin to ours here at Buy Tees, they see the humble t-shirt as a powerful arts medium, a way of communicating an emotionally charged message across the world. Compare how many of us will see a piece of art in a gallery to the thousands who will clock a cool t-shirt on the street and you’re probably getting the message loud and clear. Society is run by cold hard logic, emotions take second place, especially in these economically turbulent times, and so it’s a proverbial breath of fresh air when we come come across a company with such an emotional commitment like Ten Bills. They have turned their dreams into reality and have never lost sight of their goal, to deliver fabulously artistic tees that they’d want to wear themselves, to the general public, on a tight budget.

There’s a great community spirit at TenBills.com, run by a dedicated team, every tee is designed by a member of their t-shirt “family”, each with a solid background in the arts and a unique vision of how much further the envelope of t-shirt design can be pushed. There’s a highly informative blog and news section to keep you updated with all the latest happenings at the site you can follow them on Twitter, hook up with them at Myspace and Facebook, track their progress (in pictorial form) at Shuttercal. If you’d like a chance at winning a free t-shirt then simply register as a friend of Ten Bills and then read this blog post for the rules. Essentially the offer is open until the end of April, it may continue we will just have to wait and see. There’s a different stipulation to qualify each day such as following and contacting them on Twitter, making them a top 8 favourite at Myspace and so on. What’s great about the contest is you don’t have to purchase anything to qualify so why not give it a bash, who knows you may just win! Even if you don’t $10 is still dirt cheap for a high quality tee, plus they offer a generous flat fee of $5 1st class shipping for all USA orders which can’t be half bad and all the t-shirts are available in sizes S to XL for women (as girly t-shirts) and up to XXL for men plus a few youth sizes to boot.

If you hurry you can get any of their older tees for half the price right now, yes just $5 until 04/05/09 so take a look around and see what you think, the site/store design is slick yet simple to navigate, the ideology extremely sound and the enthusiasm behind the label impressive to say the least, or keep reading this post as we take a look a what t-shirts Ten Bills are offering at the moment… read more