The Art of Rhetoric - Persuasion by Design

RhetoricTshirts.com officially launched on October 4th. An American clothing company focused on if not driven to the core by high-concept design. Their mantra states the use of the medium of T-shirts bears out two distinct design directives:-

Prints inspired by innovative examples of pop art, fringe sub-culture and youth.
Shirts that are custom manufactured from the finest textiles and materials including pima cotton.

In combination these two directives herald a direct challenge to the quality and integrity of competitors’, and t-shirt design and production in the general market. Read more

DrawLimited.com Need Your Doodles!

Sarah Roberts from Draw Limited wants Buy Tees to give a shout out to all aspiring t-shirt designers who fancy seeing their best doodles featured as DL’s next range of t-shirts. They’ve already been featured at Iloveyourshirt.com so there’s little for me to say here (should have come to Buy Tees first!) - however here’s Sarah’s blurb for all those who want to join in the fun. Read more

SeatShirt - T-Shirts Off The Rail

This is most certainly a new one on me, SeatShirt.eu offer designs from the seats from trains, buses and trams to your t-shirt! I’ve always been fascinated by the miserable failure of public transport textile design. Though personally as a Brit, seeing those infamously awful yet familiar tartan patterns of the old ’slammer’ trains replaced by plain and rather unnoticeable corporate patterns over recent years has been subconsciously disconcerting. I think I had grown to love the sad municipality of British design history without really knowing it, the home-made affair of ‘keen workers with an eye’ being given a chance (under union rules no doubt) to express their artistic bent in some small fashion.

Nowadays transport textiles are probably designed by corporate design groups armed with a team of hotshot psychologists and market researchers, however I can’t imagine what their remit would be? Something that doesn’t looked stained, even if it is, be it sweat, urine, alcohol, greasy takeaways or newspaper print. I’m not sure how often train seat covers are cleaned, but seeing as they’re stapled to the bench I doubt it’s very often. Read more

Zero Boutique End Of Summer T-Shirt Sale!

Here’s another quickie - Zero Boutique, recently reviewed by Buy Tees at (ZeroBoutique.com - From Zeroes to Heroes) are holding an end of summer sale!

All shirts have been marked down to only $14.80 for the following week, until midnight on September 2nd, 2008. Mention the code “BUYTEES” for an additional 10% refund, making the shirts only $13.32 each. This is a permanent code you can use any time, even after the sale is over. At these prices, many of these shirts won’t last long! Get yours here.