Art Shirts @ Graniph

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Graniph, Japanese t-shirts, allover, art shirts, art tees, artist t-shirts, cut and sew, jumbo prints

Graniph is a design house based in Tokyo, Japan. They offer plenty of very cool art shirts, cut & sew tees, hoodies and more plus they provide a great platform for artists wanting to get into the fashion trade. All the tees are on offer at JPY  2,500 which is roughly $29.69 each for guys and girls. There are literally 1000′s of tees on offer, too many too feature as it happens, but I wanted to share a few of my ultimate faves. Any of which would make a great late Xmas present if you want to risk the late post! Still worth thinking about for next year I s’pose! Don’t worry they have a translated section in case you haven’t brushed up on your Japanese lately. If you fancy trying your luck and submitting a few designs click here.

Anyway check these out:

Nicholas Lorden vol.02 Tee

An absolutely gorgeous ladies cut & sew tee by photographer Nicholas Lorden. Very moody. In case you’re wondering what the big deal is about a cut & sew tee, essentially panels of cloth are printed cut to size and then sewn together to create all over and jumbo prints. The same applies to side seam tees although they don’t seem as popular plus there’s also a technique using a belt screen printer which was big in the 90s. Check this post out at T-shirt Forums for some handy links.

Marcus Walters vol.2 Ladies Tee

A highly amusing tee by Marcus Walters featuring one of my fave artworks by the greatest conceptualist of all time. If you’re scratching your head right now, think about it. Over a 100 years ago a highly respected and influential artist ruins his career in order to point out the hipocracy of the gallery/salon system. Marcel Duchamp made the last factory worker on the line producing gents toilets to sign it, R. Mutt. Marcel was probably the nearest to a futurologist this world has ever seen, his conceptual ideas influenced most of the 20th Century, including artists like Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons. Duchamp is the man, and La Fontaine is the most hilarious sculpture ever produced…

National Flag Skull Tee

A smart idea, not sure how well it turned out visually but I love the concept all the same.

Colourful Mushrooms Tee

I spent my late teens scrabbling around damp hills surrounding Brighton, usually in October, all for the love of shrooms. Crazy design, turn on, tune in, tee out. Love that generous print size right up to the seams!

Naughty Ape Tee

Very Banksy. Although I am getting a little sick of ape designs, this tee is definitely cute!

Swifty 001 Tee

This superb take on a classic Warhol is by Swifty, a highly talented UK street artist…

Jack a Dandy Tee

This one is just plain weird, which is good by the way lol.

Alice Wars 2 Tee

Another edition of the classic Alice Wars tee. Balloons and guns, a perfect combo!

Andy Smith vol.03 Tee

Love this one, it’s by the designer/illustrator Andy Smith. Flying rats never looked so cute.

See ‘em all at www.graniph.com and make sure you check the sizes though as Japanese sizes can be a little less forgiving :p

One Ten at 8Ball

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     8ball, One Ten, artist t-shirts, graphic tees, illustrated tees, t-shirt collective

You probably already know 8Ball.co.uk – they are a very familiar site on the t-shirt scene, a British store selling licensed tees from many of the major labels and manufacturers from around the world, particularly funny shirts. However, 8Ball are taking a new direction with their new collaborative/collective project titled One Ten Clothing. You may think you’ve heard it all before, a successful mainstream t-shirt company dipping their toes into the indie/artist market but in all honesty, when Rich at 8Ball sent over a wealth of sample images I was proverbially floored by the quality of both the artists and the designs. They have some extremely hot hot hot tees on offer right now. Expect both up ‘n’ coming and established indie artists to wow you all the way to the checkout, I really think you’re in for a treat today, and I don’t say that lightly. These are what I call ‘real’ art shirts, many hand drawn and inked, covering a broad diversity of edgy styles and subjects, and wonderfully eclectic as a whole collection.

All of the tees at One Ten are available at £17.99 each (Buy Tees Exclusive Discount – Enter BUYTEES at the checkout for a whopping 20% off all One Ten tees!!!) and come in sizes S-XXL for both guys and girls, check out these phenomenal selected tees and artists… yes this post is a biggie.

Budi Satria Tees

Budi Satria Kwan is a highly accomplished graphic designer based in Singapore with a flair for simplicity and fluid line, rather surrealist in both style/content, each illustration is in itself a take on life and confidently conceived for maximum impact. Budi is both blessed with great ideas and a slick and simple graphic style that really stands out.

Drawn To Play Tees

Drawn to Play is UK illustrator Chris Carr, expect surreal, street/graffiti styles and a tendency to explore the ‘beauty of the ugly’ in much of his work. Harking back to a golden age of skater art, expect naked ladies and freaks all round :D

Masch Tees

Masch aka Mark Schofield is a professional designer and creative consultant based in the UK who loves to spend his free time letting his proverbial hair down and designing for the love of it. Cool, smart, funny.

Lunartik Tees

Lunartik is the alter ego of artist, designer and all round madman Matt Jones – his work for One Ten is inspired by his time in Japan & London. His characters and creations have been shown worldwide, both in exhibitions and in his work for Toy2R, Forbidden Planet, SEGA Games, & Mind Candy.

Paul Roberts Tees

Paul Roberts under the guise of Monsters Monsters is well known for his silly funny quirky line in outsider art/simplified illustration style – his tees are guaranteed to make you laugh if only out of disbelief. I love these two shirts, although I can understand those who’d say Roberts’ work is an acquired taste – heh.

SHHH Tee by Peasoup

This tee is absolutely mad, designed by the artist Peasoup, the acronym stands for “Self Help for Hard of Hearing” and is supposed to represent the chaos that surrounds us all. Still… if you have a dirty mind like me… well… it looks more like some kind of, how can I say this politely? An erotic explosion. Lol. Available for men and women in all sizes.

Seb Burnett Tees

Some of the funniest shirts at One Ten have to be from the quirky mind of Seb Burnett, an illustrator, character designer & reluctant animator based in Bristol, UK. The King Charles tee has to be one of the most kooky tees ever spawned, when is this going to be a hit animated series? Time to talk to Adult Swim!

Finally, probably my favourite designer of all at One Ten right now, there’s a touch of tattoo/stencil art about Steven Silverwood, ever-so-slightly Shepard Fairey(ish) if he’s been raised by the Tim Burton the movie director.

Steven Silverwood Tees

Steven Silverwood is a highly versatile designer and artist with a real feel for what people want, no matter the brief, a very talented guy in my opinion.

Check out all the art tees at One Ten via www.8ball.co.uk/one-ten-clothing.