Artistic Green Apparel (1 tee = 1 tree)

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This is as about as green as the t-shirt industry can get, a remarkable offer of one tree  planted for every Artistic Green Apparel tee bought. Amazing. I’d love to see this happen with every product out there, and perhaps a small forest for every S.U.V purchased out there. The website design is seriously dated, and that colour scheme something akin to militaristic, but all is forgiven when you realise that not only is their heart in the right place but they have knocked out a few cool t-shirts too ;)

All of their clothing is American Apparel and as mentioned, for each t-shirt a customer buys, they plant one tree (1 tee = 1 tree).  They have recently won $25,000 in the Pepsi Refresh Project and have been using the money to help expand their clothing line and reach. Their business has massively expanded over the past few months and they are definitely looking forward to the future. Their future consisting of more eco tees, plus some sterling work for the environment including recycling drives and park clean ups, a goal of attaining a zero carbon footprint, and for next summer jaunting off to as many music festivals as possible to promote their brand. Now that’s the way to do business, save the earth and still have fun!

Right now I’d say that these two definitely stand out from the collection…

Man o’ Warning Tee

The absolutely best tee on the site, a lovely style, reminds me of a few vintage Japanese illustrations I’ve ogled in the past. The story behind the shirt is rather terrifying actually, it looks like the sea has warmed up so much that asides the vast swathes of “plastic soup” drifting in the Atlantic, now it seems that jellyfish are killing everything they can find in the sea. The Brits have already just about lost their stable diet of cod and chips, what now, jellyfish and noodles? Someone pass me a pair of Marigolds and a large net. This tee is available for guys and girls in sizes S-XL at $16.99 each.

No. The Facts Tee

A cool typographic tee with a serious message… “30 billion plastic bottles every year. Less than 5% is recycled. Bottles take 700 years to decompose. 1.04 billion bags per day. Only 1% gets recycled.” Available for guys and girls in sizes S-XL for $16.99 each.

For more eco-inspired tees and their great offer of 1 tree planted for every tee bought visit AGA at www.verdestyles.com.

Tasty Green Tees From PLB

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Pier-Luk Bouthillier, the man behind PLB at www.plb-store.com, one of Montreal’s most popular independent green t-shirt labels, has an impressive CV. After a stint as Art Director for the cultural weekly ‚ÄúICI Montreal‚Äù, he began freelancing under the name ‚ÄúPLB Design‚Äù. For over a decade Pier has worked alongside some major advertising agencies, collaborating on projects ranging from design of promotional material for theatre companies and stage productions, to identity and logo design, product advertisements, packaging and website design.

In 2007, he launched his first in a series of environmentally-themed T-shirts. Sales of the T-shirts, in collaboration with the “Crazy Lily” boutique have been a rip-roaring success. His “Protect Nature” design has already sold over 600 units (and counting) worldwide. The in-house style of Pier and the PLB is stark and uncompromising, almost modular in appearance, each t-shirt plainly and clearly spells out an aspect of the environmental cause with the professionalism he has garnered whilst working on big budget commercial and corporate projects throughout his varied and impressive career.

Expect no compromises, this is a fashion label you will either love or you won’t, far removed from the stereotypical image of ecological fashions, Pier-Luk offers a limited range of confident, chic, and for the right market highly desirable t-shirts that suit the progressive and career-minded go-getters of the 21st century. Whilst still affording them some form of assurance that they are in some way helping to “spread the message” that unless the world starts changing its habitual obsession for consumerism and waste, it may just be the last years of so-called civilisation. Designer eco-tees that look more at home on the back of a model on a catwalk than a hitch-hiking hippie – that’s the name of the game with PLB.

Pier-Luk has melded his passion for design and concern for the environment to produce a range of t-shirts that suggest the sustainability of design as much that of the Earth’s resources. Offering the consumer an opportunity to take “baby steps” towards a greener society via “intelligent consumption” integrated with a healthy respect for the environment. The iconography of PLB’s products reflect this balance, viewing good design as a fusion of aesthetics and functionality in harmony with one another. Each tee has been printed with water-based inks, although I would’ve thought that they would all have to be made from recycled cotton or hemp to fulfil PLB’s objective of promoting themselves as a purely ecological t-shirt label. Something I am sure that Pier will be considering as we speak? It would be most ironic to think that PLB was actually damaging the earth in able to promote it’s sustainability! read more

Vote Green at District Cotton’s Eco T-Shirt Competition!

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As promised this is my submission to DistrictCotton.com’s Shoot Out t-shirt design competition. I’ve posted a review of DC here, and was so impressed with their stance on ethical business I thought I’d make a contribution, and this is it. The theme for the contest is “Big City” and DC are donating 10% of all profits from the winning t-shirt (as with all their tees) to a great charity, in this case Trees Not Trash.

So help me out and vote for my t-shirt design!

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Don’t Recycle – Teecycle!

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TeeCycle.org – Recycle Your Tees!

If you’ve read my post Fair Trade Eco T-Shirts – A Designer’s Dilemma you’ll already know my opinions on the terrible reputation of the t-shirt trade be it ecology or worker’s rights, (as a point of interest, Andy Lunt of T-Shirt & Sons never did get back to my email. Not surprising really, by using Spreadshirt and other services I am helping pollute the planet. Andy should give us the option to do better I say). read more