Classic Graffiti Burner Tee

admin    T-Shirts     Coul Clap Apparel, Soul Clap, graffitees, graffiti t-shirts, graffiti tees

One of a few releases by forthcoming graffiti tee (or should that be graffitee?) label Soul Clap Apparel. The site is up and running and the launch party will be April 2011 in NYC. SCA’s gear is illustrated by Skam2 and PROFESONE.  Skam2 is best known for his artwork for Grammy award winning rapper Eminem.  PROFESONE is currently working on illustrations for Marvel and DC comics. His work is also on display on the Green Lantern album cover featuring acclaimed hip hop artist Styles P.

Classic Graffiti Burner Tee

Traditional graffiti logo tee, but a nice one, smooth work there. Get it for $25 in sizes M-XXL. FREE SHIPPING.

Their site needs work though, kinda messy right now! Put down that bong and get bizzy wizzit heh.

See more at www.SoulClapApparel.com.

Kinkiking

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Bathman Tee, Celebritees, Kinkiking, Prin T Error, Tokyo Toxics, comic tees, graffiti tees, urban t-shirts

Mad name, superb tees, in fact it’s been a long old while since I’ve stumbled upon a label that ticks all the boxes. Kinkiking has four brands under one roof, Tokyo Toxics, Celebritees, Kinkiking and Prin T Error, and they all rock. Honest guv‘. This find is all down to Twitter, if they hadn’t tracked me down there I’d probably have missed them altogether. They’re based in Barcelona and generally, design-wise at the very least, completely and utterly have their finger on the pulse. There are definitely some instant classics in their collection too, I can’t get their Bathman out of my mind, a rather disturbing sight, especially if you’re an old school comic fan. Their infectious sense of humour spreads with other memorable tees like Mr. Rubrik and Toast Rider.

Gundam Tee

If you love your Manga but want it strawberry flavoured then here is your chance. €21 each for guys (M/L/XL) and €23 for girls (M/L). Of course the sexy model isn’t included.

MECHAel Jackson Tee

Jacko is long gone, but MECHAel Jackson is on a worldwide tour courtesy of Tokyo Toxics. Available for girls in M/L €23 and guys M-XL €21.

The Bathman Tee

This is a newbie from their sub-label Celebritees and probably would’ve been one of my favourites of 2011 if it wasn’t for the print size – big is definitely better. Still, besides the titchy print, I love the concept!! If I was a Kinkiking artist I’d seriously consider launching a comic book, who knows, a movie deal might just be around the corner? Available for girls in M/L €25 and guys M-XL €21.

Mr. Rubrik Tee

Another serious contender from the Celebritees series, love it. Available for girls in M/L €23 and guys M-XL €21.

If you want to see how Mr. Rubrik ended up like that then watch this…

Cold Coffee Tee

There’s nothing worse than a cold coffee, well actually there is plenty worse, but still, this is a great take on a rather annoying theme for me. Let me just take a sip of my coffee… urrggh. Get this snazzy little tee for girls in M/L €25 and guys M-XL €21.

There’s plenty more on offer including superb buttons and badges, and some mad hats, plenty of videos to keep you occupied, and they’re socially hooked up everywhere, Behance, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube. This is one organised label! In their spare time, Kinkiking, which is jam-packed with some great artists and designers like spend their spare time (when they have any) reading comics, rocking out and spraying and pasting Barcelona with their unique street art. If it’s urban, if it’s art, if it’s in Barcelona, they are there. See more cool tees at www.Kinkiking.com!

Heist Tee by Prefab77

admin    T-Shirts     Heist, Prefab77, graffiti t-shirts, graffiti tees, street art, street art t-shirt

Prefab77 is a Tyneside arts/street arts collective with a great deal of respect in the field, at least in the UK. Described by some as ‘The Geordie Faile‘, they’re known for their cut-up and paste up art which you’ll find on sale at Art Republic. Anyway I found a very cool t-shirt by these guys worth seeing, it’s called Heist…

Heist Tee

Very nice, love the edgy subject and check out that uber savvy logo detail on the back! £35 each, screen printed by Prefab77, and the first 20 customers get a free print too! Wowzers.

I think that Pete Manning and the design house Reluctant Hero are somehow connected to Prefab77, could be wrong.

Merry Xmas From 2 Sick Bastards

admin    T-Shirt Contests     2 sick bastards, 2SB, Christmas t-shirts, Jacko, Michael Jackson, Xmas tees, art, graffiti tees, street art t-shirts

2SB are celebrating the season of cheer in their own twisted way with a chance to win a limited edition signed screen print of one of their best selling tees Rest in Pieces. Usually you’d have to fork out £95 for this, which is screen printed on some very festive silver metallic paper!

The Smooth Crimi-Noël Contest

The London Vandal

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     London, The London Vandal, graffiti t-shirts, graffiti tees, street art tees, urban tees

First off I must declare an interest, or at least an enormous bias, I lived in London for years and have always been a big ol’ fan of street/urban/graffiti art, so as far as I am concerned The London Vandal (urban art blog and collective) could print a poop on a t-shirt and it would still be worth reviewing. What The London Vandal are doing is exactly what I’ve always hoped for the future of the indie t-shirt industry. As soon as street artists began screen printing limited editions of their work to fund those daredevil jaunts around the world I knew it wouldn’t be long before they began to stray into the t-shirt market, especially as they use exactly the same gear to print them up and here’s the proof.

The London Vandal fund their superb urban art showcase site at www.thelondonvandal.com and all their personal exploits on the streets of London with the sales from their unique tees, which have just about all the street cred you could ask for. Damn, Fairey is such a sell out these days we need something other than ripped Banksy’s for our beloved tee collection. Asides the enormous kudos the designs are top-notch, I wouldn’t expect any less from these guys. There are only 3 tees on offer right now, one is designed by the legendary toon tripping Dutch illustrator that is Rick Berkelman. Ironically enough the other two are by French artist Reack, so none are actually by a Londoner (hey I’m an urban artist and I’m in was born London… hint hint lol).

Anyway check ‘em out, they are gorge, and on offer at £17 each in all sizes right now.

The Original Tee (by Rick Berkelmen)

This one is limited to just 150 so I doubt I will be getting a freebie lol. Love it, love Berkelmen’s work, a really nice composition and cute too – which is a rarity for me to say positively – but yes damn it, it’s cute all right? J

Don’t Get Caught Tee (by Reack)

Lovely piece of graffiti inspired illustration from French artist Reack, there’s another one for you in a ‘mo. Good advice too!

Sick Mart Now Open!

admin    T-Shirt News     2 sick bastards, 2sickbastarrds, Banksy, UK fashion, funny t shirts, funny tees, graffiti tees, political tees, stencil tees, street art t-shirts

If you’re easily offended I’d move on now… as for the rest of you social delinquents I am happy to say that ‘SickMart’, the new online store by the t-shirt crazy punks 2 Sick Bastards (yes that really is their brand name) is open for highly subversive business. 2SB are graffiti artists, screen printers, t-shirt designers and all round trouble makers and I feel somewhat relieved that at last someone has the Cahunas to knock  out some quasi-intelligent smut rather than the inanely offensive crap from sites like T-Shirt Hell… These guys roll around in the gutter press like pigs in clover and I love it. They’ve been getting quite a bit of attention lately, and yes, some of it is even positive :p

They will be releasing 2 new limited edition T-shirt prints every 2 weeks in the lead up to Xmas. They’ve kick off with ‘Petrol Bombed’ and ‘Eazy Tiger’ which are available now at a ‘special’ pre-order price. All new designs are available exclusively at ‘SickMart’ in limited runs of 50 pieces each. All their tees are screen printed and available for guys at a whopping R.R.P of £29.99 each and £24.99 for the girls (although you can pay with other currencies too) – however there is a sale on so at least one of their best tees Disgraceland is available at £19.99 right now. If you’re sick of the B.S and love a anti-media showdown you’ve come to the right place!

Back To Smack Tee

Disgraceland Tee

Eazy Tiger Tee

In Greed We Trust Tee

Rest In Pieces Tee

Enjoy Kate Tee

For more gloriously grubby art shirts see the rest of their collection at www.2SickBastards.com.

Fresh Dough – Piping Hot!

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     food t-shirts, fresh dough, graffiti tees

Tom Cwikla is a talented lad, at just 20 this UConn student already runs his own independent clothing brand, Fresh Dough, all on his tod. He’s got a real fresh style going on which I am sure will bring him plenty of dough in the long run – heh. Seriously though, think graffiti as soft and curvy as squeezing art from a toothpaste tube and you’re starting to get the idea, very fluid designs, a few food related obsessions, and the occasional sea monster go to make up a very fine collection, even if the selection is on the modest side.

Although saying that Fresh Dough does offer plenty of different cuts for girls and guys such as V-necks and tanks. What’s more it’s all damn cheap at just $12 each – most definitely worth a look! Prepare to be dazzled by the colourful cacophony that is the Fresh Dough style (and some mental photos lol) :-

Donut DNA Tee

Get It Krakken Tee

Look It’s A Hotdog Tee

Ruby Red Tees

admin    T-Shirt Designers     RubyRed, Star Wars T-shirt, funny t shirts, funny tees, graffiti tees, redbubble, shirt woot, t-shirt designer

I’m doing it again, breaking my own rules by featuring this designer as he doesn’t own his own indie store, however I have to give Roger Denyer the graphic wizard behind Ruby Red Design the kudos he deserves, besides he’s based near me on the coast in Brighton so call it community spirit if you will. During the week he works as Senior Designer for an international media company based in the UK. He’s responsible for the design and branding for many exhibitions and publications. T-shirt design provides an all together different kind of creative outlet. However Roger likes to spend his spare time designing t-shirts, he enjoys the freedom of creativity and the lack of corporate pressure involved in creating tees. “If I like what I create, I sell it, there’s no client to disrupt the flow.”

RubyRed t-shirts have won prizes at many t-shirt crowdsourcing sites including Teefury, Shirt.Woot, Ript Apparel, Goodjoe, TeeInvaders, many of which have evolved into top selling lines. Here’s a couple of my fave available tees by RubyRed right now at the Ozzie tee community RedBubble:

AT-AT Anatomy Tee

The AT-AT Anatomy tee reminds me of Moist Production‘s posters such as his creation (Hello) Kitty Anatomy. An extremely popular tee, you can get this hilarious shirt at $30.71 / £16.16 in all sizes and colours here.

Space Race Tee

This shirt is just superb, I’m actually working on a new piece myself which features a Space Hopper, so I can totally relate. I was even at the UK premiere of the very first Star Wars movie showing at Leicester Square in London in the 1970′s, this shirt is just about as tailor-made for me as they get. If you’re thinking is along the same lines you can buy the Space Race t-shirt for $30.71 / £16.16 in all sizes and colours here.

Soft Inside T-Shirt

Ouch! This t-shirt bites, but in the best possible fashion! I’ve seen dodgy Chinese toys on Watchdog, featuring dangerous springs sticking out the neck and a bit of bad stitching but this is a new one one me. You’ll never look at a soft toy in quite the same way again.You can buy the Soft Inside t-shirt for $30.71 / £16.16 in all sizes and colours here – but do watch your fingers :p

Graffiti Bombing

I absolutely love this one, wordplay taken to a new level, expertly designed with some very nice half tones and a great image over all. Get your graffiti bomb (in t-shirt form) in all sizes and colours at $30.71 / £16.16 here.

You can keep up with all things RubyRed at his blog – keep an eye out for more of his tees – he’s everywhere!

The T-Shirt Playground

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Dalek, Faile, Fifty24SF Gallery, Sam Flores, Upper Playground, graffiti tees, street art fashion, urban art t-shirts

This review focuses on two of my creative mediums, urban/street art and of course t-shirt design. I’m featuring Upper Playground tees today, having been run independently for over a decade by the highly respected Fifty24SF Gallery, it’s the place where some of the big boys and girls of the street movement sell their works in all kinds of forms, including t-shirts at their store. Some of the super fine artists on their books including: Jeremy Fish, who has exhibited his work in esteemed galleries such as White Walls in San Francisco – Rinzen an Australian arts collective who have made waves in everything from fashion to illustration to design, read more about them at Format Magazine – David Ellis who’s woodcut-style intricate prints are highly respected within the urban arts scene and Hera, a German based illustrator who has designed a capsule t-shirt collection for UP based upon her own infamous and darkly comic illustrated characters.

Upper Playground also runs nine retail stores, mostly in the U.S as well as one in the UK and one in Mexico, see all the locales here. Asides the stores, their site, their blog and gallery, they also offer two other t-shirt labels which are 12 Grain by Sam Flores and Fifty24SF. These t-shirt companies feature work from some of the legends of the design and graffiti world such as Mark Bode, Iz the Wiz, Cope 2, Dave Choe, Daze, Faile, Dalek and Sam Flores. There really are too many great tees to feature in one review, but I’ll do my best to give you a brief idea of the exuberance and energetic art tees of Upper Playground… read more

More Tees From The Toilet

admin    T-Shirt News     Letter From John, graffiti t-shirts, graffiti tees, letterfromjohn.com, toilet graffiti, toilet humour

Since our last review one of the strangest t-shirt brands in the world LetterFromJohn.com have gone from strength to strength and are back this summer with 12 new filthy t-shirts, (13 more to come soon) designs ripped straight from the walls of unsuspecting public toilets around the world. In case you thought your drunk ramblings in graffiti form were safe from the public, excepting other drunks who happen to read them, think again! John has enough raw images to produce hundreds of more designs at his own discretion – so be warned this is not the last you’ll hear from the pissoir of creativity.

There’s not much to say when it comes to LMF’s tees, they’re all pretty much self-explanatory. Don’t expect the greatest works of art, perhaps the greatest works of humour would be stretching it too far as well, however when it comes to divulging the true primal wants and needs of human nature, you’ll be hard pressed to find anything that cuts so close to the bone. Adoration for narcotics, theological arguments, social comment and anarchistic political views are just some of the subjects covered by John’s tees. So let’s take a trip down to the loos and see what’s floating in the bowl today. read more