New Glenn On The Block – Aled Lewis

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Aled Lewis, Glennz, Threadless, funny t shirts, funny tees, illustration, woot

You’re probably all aware of Glennz tees, run by Glenn Jones, a highly talented and humorous Australian illustrator who has for the main part cornered his area of the market with a wide variety of pithy pun-based t-shirts illustrating much of the ridiculous in society and the media. However you might not have heard of Aled Lewis, who for all intensive purposes is as about as close to an apprentice if not challenger for the place as king of comic tees.

Their styles are interchangeable, both Aled Lewis and Glennz being masters of graphic design, sticking to the old adage that ‘less is more’ both manage to convey t-shirt designs packed with humour and artistic reference without cluttering their work with excessive details and effects. Pure as purest vectors can be. The only real difference I can spot is that Alex has a decidedly more British sense of humour, featuring such British icons as The Tardis from Doctor Who, medieval humour and old school punk rock in the form of a male chicken.

Aled doesn’t have his own store as such however you’ll be relieved to know that all his works are available as winning designs (sometimes in collaboration with others) at Threadless and Shirt.Woot. Let’s take a look at some of Aled’s funniest creations and see exactly why this guy may become the new t-shirt king of comedy!
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Up To 40% Off Made With Awesome!

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Holiday Sale until Dec 18th (5pm EST). Up to 40% off regular price! Tees $15 – Posters $14 – Totes $5.

Made With Awesome specializes in original, off-the-wall slogans and cool tee designs that aspire to make you think just a little bit while you’re laughing your guts out. All their designs are printed on oh-so-super-comfy 100% cotton American Apparel tees. Remember you can always vote for the latest designs too here.

Here’s one on the drawing board I’d like to see make it to the store…

Vote For Magic Mushroom Tee

Check out the store at MadeWithAwesome.com.

New Corporation Tees at Arcane Projects

admin    T-Shirt News     corporate t-shirts, funny tees, movie tees, pocket shirts

We’ve reviewed Arcane Projects a few times now however here’s a quick note to tell you about their new range of corporate t-shirts. Arcane Projects are a spoof movie t-shirt brand, they’ve worked on a number of different movie inspired tees from every genre, horror, sci-fi, action, comedy, you name it they’ve been there.

Their latest offerings are spoof corporate tees, one of the ways that Arcane Projects works on ideas is by featuring a fictional business, shop, brand or corporation from a popular movie and using that as the inspiration for a design. Well now they’ve gone one step further with tees like Nakatomi Security from Die Hard, Amity Island Lifeguard service from Jaws and Haddonfield Sanitarium from the Halloween movie franchise and created subtle left-breast designs to look like company work shirts.

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More Tolkys

admin    T-Shirt News     Spanish t-shirts, cartoon shirts, character t-shirts, funny tees, tolky monkys, tolkymonkys.com

Here’s a quickie, Tolky Monkys have just released three new tees for guys, the new character-based shirts are Death – Vanity Fear, Bluby Birdo and The Astonishing Neighbours of 33C. I know, crazy, but isn’t that why we love ‘em? If there’s an award for lost-in-translation surrealism, it has to be the Tolkys. To be honest, I’d be disappointed if it was any other way.

Muerte/Death is an old favourite on the site, one of their original characters you might say. Bluby has featured before in the 5th edition of their Microstories Contest. As usual all the designs are limited edition and silk screen printed, plus they’re also printing new XXL sizes for some of their shirts. Anyway, here’s the frontrunner for me out of their three new tees:- read more

T-Shirt Goodies At Goodie Two Sleeves

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Goodie Two Sleeves, Top Shop, funny t shirts, funny tees, goodietwosleeves.com

Goodie Two Sleeves are certainly starting to make waves over this side of the Atlantic, their range of funny t-shirts may be a familiar sight over in the States but this very well established brand are starting to go down a storm in Britain. Established around 7 years ago they’ve finally decided to crack the British market (and then some) with contracts with high street names like Top Shop and Bank Fashion they’ve now started to ship direct to the UK and so we think it’s time they got a little bit more attention for their range of humorous tees. What’s more they’re having a massive sale next week, aptly named ‘Black Week’ in recognition of the US shopping spree day, Black Friday. They have hundreds of original tees and several awesome licenses too – they’re the US distributor for UK brand Lazy Oaf amongst others. From next week (23/11 to 29/11) all of Goodie 2 Sleeves’ shirts will be available at half price, to get your 50% discount simply enter YOUCRAZY84 when you reach their checkout and save a bundle.

Their site is a lot of fun too, nicely presented with plenty of customer participation, check out their fan pics as well as a bunch of celebrities who wear their gear, including the band Flaming Lips amongst others. Anyway, fancy a laugh? Let’s look at some funny tees then… read more

Scientific Beach Boys Tee @ Miss Wit

admin    T-Shirt News     Beach Boys, Dan Meth, Jeff Rubin, Miss Wit, funny t shirts, funny tees

Miss Wit have just released an Early Beach Boys Song Topics tee, this design has a long and venerable history, at least in Internet terms. It all began when college humour writers Jeff Rubin and Dan Meth (famous for such cultural highlights as Internet People) got chatting one day about all the cultural Venn diagrams that Dan had been making, and agreed that the Beach Boys’ early career would be a perfect addition. Their later career, from ‘Pet Sounds‘ onwards would of course involve all sorts of random factors like drugs and depression.

The design has been featured in The New York Times and the UK’s Guardian, and now it’s a t-shirt, true fame at last I’d say. Anyway take a look at some pics… read more

Say Hi To Seibei

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     BFF, SNES, Seibei, Seibei monster t-shirts, Seibei.com, South Park, funny t shirts, funny tees, humour tees, monster t-shirts

Seibei must be one of the most famous “underground” t-shirt labels out there, everyone who loves tees knows who they are, their dinosaur character being a cult figure for thousands around the world, but as the saying goes you can’t have too much publicity, and seeing as they have a whole heap of treats on offer right now, we couldn’t resist giving this fun and funky brand a big shout out! First off, David Murray, the guy/guru/madman/genius behind Seibei has kindly offered up a discount code for all you lucky readers, get a whopping 10% off any of their products by entering BUYTEES at the checkout!

If you want more? (Yes more more!) We’ve just been tipped off about their latest contest where you can win a very generous $200 CASH just for re-tweeting the following:-

RT @davidSEIBEI: JOIN THE INTRAMURAL ZOMBIE HUNTING LEAGUE! RT & follow thru 10/25 for a chance to win $200! http://tinyurl.com/joinizhl

So, for those not in the know here’s what to expect from Seibei, their name is based upon a character from a story by Naoya Shiga, David is sick of explaining the reasoning behind it by now as he’s been asked 100s of times, but if you really want the full low-down there’s an excellent interview at T-shirt Magazine that’s well worth checking out. They produce a lot of monster tees, not your usual ghoulish sort with blood dripping from their mouths and gore splattered backgrounds, but rather innocent and colourful ones that scream kitsch and collectible. I can imagine a lot of Seibei’s customers buying one design after another, it’s a case of ‘if you’re into them, your addicted’. They have a fine collection of iconic tees all designed by David Murray, who if you haven’t had a chance, do read his about page as there is a hilarious retort aimed at his former Japanese teacher, Professor Meera Viswanathan of Brown University. All the t-shirts are expertly printed by American Icon, which as it happens are David’s former employers, so you can be assured if anyone knows how to design for print it’s this guy.

Seibei have recently taken a very interesting direction, having formed the Intramural Zombie Hunting League, hence the Twitter promotion, you can see the t-shirt celebrating the fact here. Unfortunately international hunters won’t be able to order in time for Halloween, but if you’re in the USA you’re in luck, just get your order in by October 19th and you should be safe… phew. However they’re available all year round all the same. These are personally customised too with an optional sleeve crest and personal name and number for the back, great fun I have to admit.

Whilst you’re at Seibei do make sure you visit the blog, it’s funny, informative, and it offers far more than merely info on the brand and their latest exploits, right now they’ve posted a feature on an excellent new t-shirt book ‘Tees: The Art of the T-Shirt‘ by MAKI Design which honestly looks superb and you guessed it, Seibei are included, as are plenty of other great brands on the scene. Plus of course you can keep up with all of Seibei’s latest exploits at Twitter, and remember to retweet their message! Right, let’s take a look at what makes Seibei’s tees so cool:- read more

Fifty Percent Off Tolky Monkys Tees

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Woot! If you’re after a bargain and are one of the first five people to read this post then do I have a bargain for you! Totally mad t-shirt label Tolky Monkys have done it again, here’s the thinking behind the offer in their own insane words…

“When last year the Tolky Monkys sent the Resales, Sally and Sally, back home, they thought that these naughty twins would never come again to make a visit. They were wrong. Surprisingly, they have knocked at their door and in only 10 minutes they have destroyed the whole studio. How naive they were… After that, they have created for us a special coupon with a 50% off.“

I know once again the reasoning behind Tolky Monkys’s wisdom has been lost in translation, still, all you need to know is this…

The first 5 readers to use this coupon code: REBUYTEES can buy any adult tee at just 50% of the usual price. The offer doesn’t include posters, metro-wallets, but does include boys t-shirts, girls t-shirts, hoodies and polos. You have from Wednesday 23rd till Thursday 1st of October to use this coupon: REBUYTEES. But be quick, only the first 5 readers will take advantage of it.

If you need a recap on the madness of TM then check out this past review, but hurry, the first 5 to order get a real bargain!!

Made With Awesome – Original Slogan Tees

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Japanese horror, Made With Awesome, funny tees, madewithawesome.com, nerd tee, slogan t-shirts, unicorn

Slogan tees. You know, you’ve seen them all, every single ‘dad joke’ out there has been printed on a t-shirt by now, whatever resembles a one-liner has probably made it on to a tee somewhere sometime. But a new brand at www.MadeWithAwesome.com have taken a new slant on the tradition of humour tees and have come up with a few funnies you most likely haven’t heard before. Let’s just say their humour is off the wall, strange to say the least, not so much all out weird as slightly demented with a knowing wink and a smirk on the side. MWA are well aware how awash the funny slogan t-shirt market is these days and you can tell, their concepts are both refreshingly original and surreal in their approach.

Evan Ferstenfeld and Roni Lagin the genuinely crazy (call a psychiatrist please) pair behind the label have deliberately taken this crowded niche head-on, which takes a great deal of courage and a wholesome dose of insanity to make it work, but, to be honest, they might just get away with it. It’s not that their jokes are the funniest in the world, I’m not rolling around the floor in hysterics here, but I can certainly feel a giggle or two rising, which is quite an achievement considering the fact I’ve seen 1000s of funny slogan t-shirts in my time writing for Buy Tees. What is most refreshing about MWA’s line of slogan and graphic tees (yes they have a few – I’d like to see far more), is that their designs leave you scratching your head, and wondering if the human race is really that dumb these days? Surrealism for the common man (and woman) is a succinct way of placing this brand’s ideology, if it’s weird, if it’s funny, and if it hasn’t been done before I’m sure Made With Awesome will give the idea a good going over. Ferstenfeld and Lagin (no they don’t run a law firm on the side) made their name(s) in the world of tees via the mighty Threadless network. Two of their winning tees there include Lagin’s A Very Naughty Bear and Ferstenfeld’s Food Fight are amongst a total 15 winners at both Threadless and their sister site TypeTees plus a prestigious 2007 Slogan Of The Year Bestee Award.

Their past successes should more than assure everyone but the most skeptic t-shirt fans out there that MWA mean business, let’s take a look at exactly what they’re up to right now. read more

Tee Off With Golf Refugees

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Maurice Flitcroft, funny t shirts, funny tees, golf hackers, golf hacking, golf refugees, golf t-shirts, golf-refugees.com

Never have so many balls been lost by so few. I’ll be straight with you here, I know nothing of golf, I’m not really a fan of sport in general, but golf has to be there up with cricket, darts and snooker in the boredom stakes. Although in the case of golf it might just be down to the fact that most of us wouldn’t have a hope in hell playing against anyone even mildly professional – I’ve tried a little crazy golf in my time and even then I sucked. Still there are rogues amongst the vast swathe of checked trousered faded celebrities in the game, the most (in)famous of all being UK golf hacker Maurice Flitcroft. He has the dubious accolade of being the worst player ever at the Open Championship. Maurice passed away in 2007 however his legend lives on, and the British Golf Museum at St. Andrews have even considered including his exploits in their hall of fame. Maurice has also been celebrated by the golf hacking t-shirt brand Golf Refugees, in fact they feature a whole world golf hackers and their awkward position in the sport. Even if you’re in my camp and haven’t the slightest about the game, you should find their tees worth a laugh or two.

Golf Refugees keep busy in a wide range of subversive methods, they’ve filmed a vid with MTV, taking three skateboarders and encouraging them to play golf through the hazardous streets of London. One of their tees called Crest, ‘ Refugees Street Golf – Hit And Run’, celebrates the event. Then there are their Black Balls which via Thermal Distance Technology are supposed to improve your game, they are the originators, everyone else including brands like Nike ripped them off btw. What’s more they write their own blog, again with a subversive slant, including encouraging their readers to daub graffiti over their own balls, golf balls that is. They even sell a line of graffiti balls, a random 3 of which have been painted by UK graffiti artist Rough who they reckon might be the next Banksy, hmm… I thought this guy was the next Banksy – hah.

From what I can tell Golf Refugees aren’t welcome in the golfing mainstream establishment, and to celebrate their dubious status within the sport’s fraternity they like to shout about it loudly and proudly through their range of funny carbon neutral 100% organic cotton tees. Take a look and see what I mean… read more