Tee-Issue

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Tee-Issue is a t-shirt community with a difference, they’re guided by a series of values, and noble ones at that. “Love. Freedom. Dreams. Children’s rights. Environmental preservation.” For all those who wear their heart on their sleeve, perhaps its time to consider wearing it on your chest. If you’d like to jump in at the deep end and share Tee-Issue’s love of storytellling and moral highground, have a strong design background and want to get involved then contact them at designs@tee-issue.com.

If you’d rather do a little shopping then check out these shirts, ranging from $35 to $40 each and in various cuts and sizes, there is a naive yet rather charming range of designs on offer.

Swing Not Wii Tee

Get this cutie (for the ladies) in sizes S-L for $35. Funny thing about the Wii, why don’t they just connect it to an exercise machine and get it over with – or at the very least add a few pounds weight to that controller :p

Spring Fling Tee

Is a Spring Fling something like a holiday fling? It seems to be mandatory if you’re a Brit in Ibiza. Ah well, nice tee, cool style too, get this unisex shirt for $35 in sizes S-L.

A Sip of Love Tee

A gorgeous ladies tee, this and the next are printed on both sides hence the price hike. Great value all the same. Rather French in appearance which would probably go down well in St. Tropez, then again you’d probably be wearing a Monokini :0 Ladies can get their sip of love for $40 in sizes S-L.

Mirror Tee

Mirror is very childlike in style and character, but the overall composition leans towards the profound. Something like a Bergman scene painted by a kindergarten Picasso. This and most of the tees at Tee-Issue definitely evoke a more painterly style. Very refreshing! $40 in sizes S-L.

See the rest at www.tee-issue.com.

50% Off at BrandOfTheFree.com

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If you’re after a stylish bargain or two check out the latest tees on offer at BrandOfTheFree.com – this t-shirt company is as ethical as they come, only using organic shirts and water-based inks to produce their unique line of highly original urban streetwear for men and women. Here are their discount codes, but hurry this is a limited offer so first come first served!

Buy 1 t-shirt and get 30% off at checkout. Use offer code – SAVEARTH
Buy 2 or more tees and get 50% off at checkout. Use offer code – FALL50

Their titles include ‘Lasting Liberty‘, ‘Support Local Farmers‘, ‘Open Mic‘ (about free speech) and ‘Protect US‘ amongst others. read more

Kowtow Bows To No One!

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Kowtow are shaking New Zealand’s fashion scene to its foundations. I never thought I’d put the words fashion and New Zealand together, but there’s always a first for everything! My partner Christina spent a good few years of her childhood over there when her father tried to seek his fortune as a landscape architect. It didn’t work out, mainly due to the abundance of other Brits who’d had the same idea at the same time, but what Chris bring back was the memory of a drab and rather conservative fashion sense which she spent her teenage years ripping apart as a goth, a hippy, a raver and so on and so on.

Luckily the current generation of NZ fashion addicts can rest easy, Kowtow.com has it all under control. They tick so many my style boxes, that it’s hard to fault anything about these guys. For a start their designs mix the absurdist theatrics and wordplay of the Surrealists with a highly acute sense of style, something reminiscent of both American underground comics of the 60′s and the early British punk movement of the 70′s. Stylish and funny, gritty and colourful, it’s been fun roaming their collection, there should be something there for all of you to enjoy. read more

Social Conscience T-Shirt Competition @ DistrictCotton.com

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Submit to Your Social Conscience – Submit Your Eco Tee!

I was immersed in a “PHP programming hell” of my own making, desperately trying to install a directory script for TshirtPrinter.org* , when a very welcome distraction arrived in my inbox from Brett Novick of DistrictCotton.com. Brett wanted me to bring everyone’s attention to the latest round of their Ethical T-Shirt Design Competition – The theme is ‚ÄúBig City‚Äù, and it will benefit a very worthy cause, the charity “Brooklyn’s Trees Not Trash.” You can vote for any of the designs here or if you’d like to submit a t-shirt (read the guidelines first buddy!), you can email them here. This May/June the contest will benefit Trees Not Trash in Bushwick (or East Williamsburg) – Submissions are accepted until June 20.

The Prize is $300 cash, plus a $100 gift certificate to DC, plus $250 every time they reprint the shirt. read more

Fair Trade Eco T-Shirts – a designers’ dilemma

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There’s a moral obligation for all t-shirt designers to try and pressure the industry, alongside the consumer, to practice business more ethically. This for me is a completely different argument to judging the conditions of the Third World from a First World perspective. Here the only people who we can blame are the t-shirt printers and textile industries of the West, which is fine and dandy with me! read more

Plastic Tees – Coca Cola’s Plastic Fashion Stunt

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Coca-Cola’s Plastic Tees

Is it a cynical stunt? Should we see these new Plastic Tees as the future of ecologically sustainable clothing? Wal-Mart stores across the USA will display Coca-Cola apparel created from recycled plastic bottles. They maybe colourful t-shirts but they aren’t so ecological after all, they have actually blended recycled plastic bottles with cotton and besides they give Coca-Cola a chance to extend their marketing reach even further! Behind the somewhat obvious slogans such as ‚ÄúMake your Plastic Fantastic‚Äù and ‚ÄúRehash your Trash‚Äù, is a company desperately trying to “appear to” reduce its Carbon Footprint.

I have offered an alternative of my own, essentially free t-shirt designs for people to have printed or print themselves locally, on used clothing wherever possible. Recently I designed a t-shirt to spread the word for a political cause, i.e boycotting the Beijing Olympics 2008 and I offered this option as a way for anyone to be able to join in the protest.

My point is that corporations will never be green, it is not in their nature to be, they are profit hungry animals the corporations. Essentially as with all economic systems, expansion and growth keep the rich rich, decline reduces the value of everything including share ownership, corporate career advancement. I’m telling you most of this junk won’t be here in another decade or so. Imagine trucking a load of cans of Cola across the States in a few decades, imagine the fuel bill. If you can’t make it locally, forget it. Most plastic is formed for the purposes of packaging, and essentially image branded packaging. The most ecological path that Coca-Cola and all the corporate giants can take is closure. read more