Here’s the latest blurb “Founded in 2010. Gryphony comes out of the necessity of finding premium quality clothing and fun detailed designs. Gryphony is a clothing line by artists for artists. We hand pick everything that comes on our store and we believe clothing should be unique. We showcase a limited t-shirt design every 72 hours. Knowing the needs of today’s designers, we want to give back to the community by helping struggling artists promote their work, create a fan base and spread the word about what they love to do, design.“

In the meantime I have sneak preview of what I presume will be their first shirt:

Mario Vs. The Smurfs Tee

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• Just click the Facebook like button on the 3 tees that you want.
• Five lucky winners will each receive their 3 tees for free!
• They’ll be in touch with the 5 lucky winners via Facebook on January 31.

Here are a few of the new tees at YOL all of which are available for $48 in sizes S-XL and cuts for guys and girls/unisex.

Bob Dylan x Beethoven Tee

Love it, an amazing graphic transposition. It’s one of those images you’d had have expected to crop up yonks ago. Nice one ;) Get it in black and white for men and women. Remember these and all YOL’s tees are highly limited!

Rats Tee

Hilarious. Now that’s what I call theatre :p I never could stand Lloyd Webber, to be honest I’ve always felt that there’s a natural evolution in the arts and theatre has most definitely seen better days. Dumbing it down doesn’t help. If you can’t stand bad British theatre you can get the Rats Tee for guys and girls.

New York Smile Tee

Again, another classic design in the making. I am shocked that no one in NY had thought of this design until now. So simple it hurts. A smile in NY is a rare thing, get it in t-shirt form for guys and girls in black and white.

See more of the new additions at Young Lovers. Don’t forget to vote too!

Short-STACK Tee

One of a couple of highly limited shirts, I love the crazy promo shot for this tee, the graphics are of course great, it looks like someone is bulking up lol. ;) There’s a nice little piece of subtle logo branding on the back too.

Ass-Backwards Tee

Probably the best piece of branding subterfuge I’ve ever seen. Geddit?

Party Animal Tee (Limited Edition)

Here’s a limited edition tee for the girls (or “dolls” according to SSA). I love the design but I’m not so keen on the colour combo, although I’m not a “doll” unless it’s Action Man I suppose hah.

Sweet ‘n’ Simple Tee

Last but not least it’s the Sweet ‘n’ Simple Tee, an ultra clean design, really smooth lines, and more food related craziness from the team at SSA. Very tasty…

See ‘em all at www.sgrstk.com.

Their first 3 tees for guys & girls (except for Rōnin) are on sale at $22 each, printed on 100% fine cotton jerseys in all sizes. The print colours are superbly rich and clean and each design is a limited edition – cleverly incorporating their branding without jarring the composition. The subject matter is a tad crazy too… just the way I like it :D

Bear Attack Tee

Rōnin Tee

Go! Sailor Tee

Go! Girl Sailor Tee

Nice stuff! I for one am eagerly awaiting plenty more tees from Closd.

It’s the Shark Week Sale at Seventh.Ink, get 20% off any and all products at their store at www.furyshirts.com until Sunday the 8th. Just use their promo code “sharkweek”at the checkout. If you’re scratching your head wondering what the hell Shark Week is, then don’t worry, I was in exactly the same predicament a minute ago, it seems it’s an American TV tradition, which sounds rather scary to me. Not so much the idea of vegging out in front of the TV and watching sharks as much as having a week dedicated to anything on TV at the height of summer. This sounds like viral marketing gone mad, I know one thing, the Brits have too much weather to ever consider gawping at the boob tube when the sun is out, it’s shirts off, down the beach and gawping at real boobs on the beach for most red-blooded British males (except for goths and emos). The nearest we get to a TV event is Big Brother, but thankfully that’s finishing this year :p

2010 Limited Edition Logo Tee

All of their tees are superbly screen-printed shirts and the inks “feel nice & soft” (I’m hoping this means water-based?), using slim-fitting and sweat-shop free American Apparel tees. Some of their designs are way out there in cuckoo land, which is just fine for me, it’s where I belong ;p Right now there’s a $10 Summer Sale on so if you fancy sprucing up your wardrobe with some highly original limited edition art then take a look at this lot:

Skulls and Kittens Tee

I’m sure I’ve featured this one somewhere before, if I haven’t it’s a crime, this design is awesome, kinda creepy but it hits the perfect tone of sarcasm. If you’re fearless in the face of death and love cute animals you’ll be glad to know this shirt by Brandon Dunlap is available in pink (M-L), grey (S/L), blue(L) and yellow(S-XL)! Yep everyone of them is just $10 in the sale.

Bureaucrat Tee

The faceless corporate drone gets his 15+ minutes of fame due to the highly creative mind of Josh Bertrand. Simple, powerful and highly effective design, you can get the Bureaucrat Tee for $10 in XL.

King Rhino Tee

Years ago Chris and I went to a country park in Sussex, they kept Rhinos there, one of them suddenly began to bolt towards us, it looked like it was about to charge through the fence and over the ditch. Then it stopped, and sort of whined and simpered. We picked some grass nearby, fed it, and then patted its head. I love rhinos. I also had a ghetto blaster as a teen, I painted crap all over it and took it everywhere then some sod at a party “borrowed it” like 20 years ago hah. So, King Rhino has a lot of personal connections for me lol. No seriously, love this one, it’s groovayyy. Get it as a tee (s/L/XL) or polo (S) for $10 each.

Two Guys And An Octopus Tee

Don’t ask, I have no idea what’s going on, the general idea seems to be “steam punk gone awry”, all I know is that it’s weird and that’s good for me. If you have a penchant for Victorian freakery, and want something a little more spectacular than The Elephant Man, then meet Two Guys And An Octopus – available in sizes S/M for $10.

Check out the Summer Sale at www.ResistToday.com.

Boom Tee by Robert Cary-Williams

A leading designer on the British fashion scene, his ability to design clothes that are both experimental, yet have a severe design edge, and then to balance this with ‘wearability’, has become his signature. As well as winning ‘New Generation Sponsorship’ from the British Fashion Council several times, Robert has also been invited to show his work and to lecture in high profile exhibitions such as ‘Fashion in Motion’ at the V&A and showstudio.com. His collections have been worn by the likes of Roisin Murphy, Keira Knightly, Kate Moss, Jude Law, Ewan McGregor and David Bowie.He now brings his expertise to Collect London with the popular Men’s BOOM Pack Tee.

Jackalope Cape T-Shirt by Elliot Hartwell

A multidisciplinary designer with a diverse portfolio of graphic, furniture, product and interior design. Elliot now works as a freelance designer as well as at the design and communication agency, Ethreestudio which he co founded.His designs for Collect London are a mixture of bold colours and hand drawn sketches such as the Women’s Jackalope oversized T-shirt.

Great Bear Tee by William Dove

William Dove is a member of the band Gold Teeth and Co-founder of Art and Design group Holy Dove, Williams lives and works in London.His designs are inspired by alternative creative forms such as tattooing, graphic novels and skateboarding.He mainly works in pen and ink and his loose stroke style aims to create something with an intricate basis but a bold aesthetic. His Men’s Great Bear Tee has become a Collect best-seller.

A Nagy Toll Scoop Tee by Richard Fairhead

I don’t have much on Fairhead except that he’s a great British illustrator with a superb sense of humour. Just check out his blog to be sure. Here’s a very cool retro tee by him, with the weirdest name I’ve come across in a while, the Nagy Toll Tee :p

With 10% of the sales going straight back to the artists, Collect London offers a great opportunity to boost the creative careers of young designers.And with such a wide range of product – there is no better time to buy into great art and wear something truly cutting edge

Itself

Now, I have to admit the earlier half of the collection isn’t anything to write home about, but every label has to start somewhere, they need to be established to some degree to attract the calibre of design they require for a discerning audience, and so I’m sure we can both forgive them a quick evolution from the generic in order to provide a platform for their top picks in t-shirt design. Which fortunately is exactly how it’s worked out for Itself. There are at least half a dozen cracking designs on offer now, by names you might not recognise, but I assure you once you see their work, you will remember them.

If you want to get involved you can submit your own designs here, sign up and vote keep up with their latest offerings at Facebook and follow them at Twitter, but even if you’re adverse to social networking at least sign up as a member and get the first word on any new tees and offers in the making. What’s more send in a photo of you wearing one of their tees and get a dollar back! Time for this brand to speak for itself in the medium of great t-shirt design…

Making Up For Lost Time Tee

I love the premise and style of Jeff Sheldon‘s design, Making Up For Lost Time is a best seller at Itself, and for all the right reasons, it offers a beautifully delicate illustration with some of the finest shadow work I’ve seen on a t-shirt in quite a while. If you fancy capturing those lost moments and banish all regrets of a former life then you can nab this fine example of design on a tee for $24 in sizes S to XXL for men and XS to XL for women. Jeff Sheldon is the man behind Ugmonk.com, foremostly known for it’s typographic tees, so this t-shirt design is for me, a welcome change in direction! If you’re a fan of Design By Humans you might have seen his work around before, Itself have certainly brought the best out of this graphic designer.

Strange Aquatic Tee

A beautiful example of stream of consciousness design, the illustrative style reminds me of late Victorian etchings from the earliest renditions of fantasy art, beautifully composed and momentously details, I love the sense of humour that exudes from the mysterious Opifan64′s pen in this example. The Strange Aquatic tee is available for men and women in all sizes at $24.

More Tape Tee

Another very popular design, this one leans more on the abstract side, but again exudes a terrific sense of humour, not sure why anyone would get into this particular predicament, but we’ll leave that to the designer to work out in therapy :0. Tang Yau Hoong of Malaysia is definitely an artistic to keep a look out for, their angle on life is at the very least truly unique! Get the More Tape tee for men and women in all sizes at $24.

Gardener Tee

Flying Mouse has certainly found the solution for all the gardeners out there with little time on their hands, topiary, the art of hedge-trimming might be the answer. OK maybe not, but somewhere in the imagination of Flying Mouse I am certain they have a wonderful garden, even if it is only on paper, r in this case cotton. Love the concept, wonderful illustration, one for the spring I say, perhaps FM has a solution for speeding up the Winter months whilst they are at it? Who knows, at least this t-shirt cheered me up, get the Gardener tee in all sizes for men and women for $24 here.

If you fancy any of these or voting on some new tees get on over to Itself today. BTW if you spend more than $60 you get free shipping too, what’s more almost all their orders leave the warehouse within 48 hrs. so they definitely won’t leave you hanging!

Everyone has experienced t-shirt envy at some point or other in their lives, many more of us have experienced exactly the opposite, and that’s over the saturation of our favourite designs. If you hate spotting your t-shirt on passers by, if you can’t stand the fact that many labels out there hit their margins by selling your most treasured t-shirts to all and sundry, if you’d like your wardrobe to be as unique as possible without going mad on haute couture items, then here’s what Finroo can offer you.

Purple Label

Limited edition of 200

Gold Label

Limited edition of 100

Platinum Label

Limited edition of 50

And the ultra exclusive

Black Label

limited edition of 25!

Now, expect the prices to rise depending on the label, the black label tees are a whopping $94.99 each which is steep I agree, but remember, only 25 people in the world will proudly wear your favourite design. So essentially you pay for the exclusivity, if you don’t care how many dopes are wearing your favourite design then I’d try K-Mart, if you do then here are some of my favourites on offer right now, although I can’t guarantee half of these won’t be sold out by tomorrow!

Daligantesk Tee

This has to be my favourite on the whole site, in fact, perhaps one of my fave tees of all time. I am a sucker for anything Dali, old Salvador was bonkers, totally crazy, well perhaps not totally, he had a killer painting style, although I did have to sit through a lot of lectures denigrating him as a mere showman and technically adept painter, I still love his work. Asides the excellent illustrative flair in Daligantesk aka Dali On The Run, apart from the great details and composition I particularly appreciate two things about this t-shirt. Firstly there’s the incorporation of an old analogue telephone handset, something that’s missing from one of Dali’s most famous and most ridiculous sculptures – Lobster Telephone (1936). The other is the positioning of a running shoe hanging from his ear, to many this might seem nothing more than nonsense, but that’s the whole point, because Salvador was a lover of the absurd. If he was alive today he’d probably make earrings from a pair of Nikes, his mind ran faster than his feet could ever take him. This piece deserves to be more, a giant mural outside the Salvador Dali Museum Florida. I’ve no idea why the museum is there, it should really be somewhere in Catalonia, but money talks I suppose. Anyway this is one a a range of fine t-shirts by a new start designer at Finroo, Vallois Loic, check him out. Funnily enough he hasn’t sold one of these as yet, I’m guessing the enormous price is a stumbling block at $94.99, I can understand why Finroo have bumped it so high but I don’t know if the market is ready for this yet, especially in the midst of a worldwide recession. Available in gorgeously soft bamboo tees for men and women, in all sizes, it will be interesting to see how the sales of the black label range progress from here.

Deadmau5 Tee

Naughty naughty. I love this tee even though I’m not a fan of progressive/electro house and Deadmau5 music, I do love the iconography that goes along with Deadmau5. The thing is I’m a little worried that Finroo might get into some deep doo doo with this design by Jakob Sikais – well it’s his design for all intensive purposes anyway. This is a tricky one, it’s a great design, I mean it couldn’t be more fun, I’d have probably rendered the mixer in vectors myself, but that asides this is a strong, nay powerful t-shirt. The fact is it would have sold out in seconds flat if Deadmau5 had designed it I know that for sure.

I’ll tell you why have misgivings. I’m an artist myself, I’m about to start printing limited edition works soon, and I have already been approached by people telling me they’re going to rip my work. There’s a guy in Florida who’s churning out t-shirts and a guy in India who is rolling off posters, I’m not a big corporation, I don’t have the backing of one, the only thing that protects me is my signature. I know the art market, limited edition prints, signed and numbered will sell due to their authenticity, rips won’t, and if they do, hell it doesn’t matter, it just means more publicity for me and higher prices for originals. I hope for the sake of Jakob the same thing applies to Deadmau5. I’m guessing he and Finroo are safe in this case, looking around Google a lot of people are ripping his mouse character, but it’s dicey nonetheless. It’s always best to test the water, see if anyone and their legal team are gunning for action, then take the leap. Who knows, maybe they have it squared, although there’s already one comment on the product page raising the same debate. Still a fine tee all the same. This is a gold label tee, 100 available, and it’s selling for $34.95 in all sizes for men and women here.

The Fly Tee

Perhaps too subtle for some, I love it all the same, it’s rather beautiful in a twisted kind of way, and despite the fact that a lot of you will no doubt protest, I think the composition is superb. Why? Because this design offers so much more emotional impact at this scale, it really jumps out at you, and scaling up the bloody fly would simply cross the fine line of artistic flair that Loic has once again shown in another classic tee for Finroo. It’s bigger than life-size, any smaller and it be rather a novelty gimmick, this is no piece of joke shop fashion, it’s testing the boundaries of taste and style to a degree that the t-shirt market might not realise it has the potential to reach – quite yet. Very polemic, cerebral, engaging, and even secretive to a degree. The world and all it’s inhabitants are dying of just about everything under the sun, life is viral, live the new flesh. Great. Platinum label release, The Fly is limited to a run of 50 for $64.95 on bamboo tees in all sizes for men and women. Exremely intriguing.

Polar Stand Tee

Now, I was rather torn between Polar Stand and Young Bull, both t-shirt designs are from the expert hand of Sean Flannigan, but I think this just about tops Youn Bull, if merely for the composition. It’s a traditional style I know, literally hand drawn and posted to the site, but that’s what makes his work so attractive. Notice the freehand shapes that gesture at a quality of fur without laboriously detailing every strand as many illustrators insist on doing these days. Flannigan is almost from a lost age, a time in the past when many botanists and naturalists, explorers and artists would set off on a rickety ship and record every minute detail of lands, plants, trees and animals unseen to the Western eye. Extremely evocative, refreshingly traditional, surprisingly simple, Polar Stand is a Purple Range tee available for $27.99 in all sizes for men and women.

Go fish for your own level of uniqueness, fashion needn’t be exclusive, but sometimes it might just be worth the investment if you view the art of t-shirt design as exactlyy that, art. All this and more available at www.Finroo.com now.