$2000 T-Shirt Design Contest

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The Curiositee Imachination T-Shirt Contest is offering a grand prize of $2000 for all you t-shirt designers looking to make some real money. It’s being run by the science and technology obsessed Phathom Tribe at Phathom.com so I think you can already guess what they’re looking for. You’ve still got until 11.59 PM EST March 15th to submit your entry, which is also when the public vote ends so the quicker you submit the better I’d say. Judging begins 16th March to the 22nd of March when the winner will be announced.

Here’s some of their blurb (complete with typo) to give you an idea of what you’re in for…

“Whether your mission is to protect John Conner Connor at all costs or you simply have an idea on how to make your flux capacitor a little more eco- friendly. This is the T-shirt design contest to melt you steel heart.“

Here’s the submission kit. You’ll be glad to know you can make unlimited entries too! So if you’re over 18, a sci-fi buff, and handy with a Wacom then here’s your chance to pay off those Xmas bills. If you want to keep up with all the latest then follow them at Twitter. Let’s hope they’ve bought the ‘Curiositee.com’ domain which is lying empty right now as hosting a t-shirt brand in a subdirectory won’t do them many favours at Google.

Inkvasion

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Don’t worry the world isn’t about to be destroyed by black blobs of ink from space, in fact Inkvasion hooked up with me at Twitter and so I checked out their site and found a couple of really sweet tees there, one is a juicy zombie shirt in a nice ‘n’ slick comic art style and the other looks like a lost poster for 2001 or any sci-fi movie of the same vein, very ominous! I’m keeping this brief as I really need to get a Sunday in once in a while, so take a gander at these two while I make sure there isn’t any black smoke bellowing out of the oven…

Eclipse Tee

A beautifully simple abstract design, a tad spooky with some dark sci-fi pretensions, love it. Get the Eclipse Tee for guys and girls in heather grey or purple at $29.95 each in sizes S-XL.

Zombie Tee

Another great shirt, this time featuring zombies, I’m always a sucker for zombie tees. Great illustrations too. Get the Zombie Tee Tee for guys and girls in white at $21 each in sizes S-XL.$21 each.

All Invasion’s tees are limited edition, hand printed and come with a lifetime warranty!?! Honest, it’s true, with just a few stipulations… “If your shirt is destroyed in any way whether Tornado, Laundry Mishap, Lightning Strike, Shark Attack, Alien invasion or even burning your threads saving babies from burning buildings, We will replace it for free.“

See ‘em all at www.TheInkvasion.com.

15% Off Kurt Vonnegut Tee

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Literary label and friends of Buy Tees Kafkacotton are offering a generous 15% off their latest tee based on Kurt Vonnegut‘s classic time/space skipping sci-fi novel Slaughterhouse-Five. Just enter the code BTCHRISTMAS at the checkout and if you order one of their tees by Xmas it’s free shipping too! SH5 was one of my earliest favourite reads and even the movie does the plot justice. If you haven’t heard of the book think of a less gruesome  Jacob’s Ladder on laughing gas in the midst of WW2 interspersed with a little original Star Trek and you’re on the right track. If there’s one planet I’d like to visit for my vacation it’s Tralfamadore, the Tralfamadorians exist in all times simultaneously and have a very different perspective on mortality. Although I must admit, I wouldn’t appreciate being kept in a zoo, then again the protagonist of SH5 Billy Pilgrim did have company, in the form of an adult movie actress. Hmm…

Slaughterhouse-Five Tee

Get yours in sizes S-3XL from $24 (or 15% less with our code) at www.Kafkacotton.com.

Head of the Giant Robot Tee

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Excuse the tardy posting, I’ve been slaving away high up on scaffolding painting the house whilst the Autumn sun holds out. I really meant to write something about LTD Tee‘s latest offering in the form of their Head of the Giant Robot Tee by comic book artist supremo Shane White. This latest collaboration with the Jet City Comic Show held on Saturday 25th of October at the Seattle Exhibition Center. If you’re in the area and a comic art nut then you can book tickets for the show for $8 each here.

I’ve just stumbled Shane’s site and I can’t believe I’m the first to give it a thumbs up? You can judge his talents for yourself by taking a peek at LTD Tee’s exclusive box set including the Head of the Giant Robot tee, a limited edition print, screen printed box, a certificate of authenticity and stickers is available for the presale price of $24.99 (normally $26.99).

Head of the Giant Robot Tee

LTD Tee have outdone themselves again, they really are becoming a magnet for truly talented artists, I’m not always a fan of their choices, although this particular tee is exceptional, but you have to admire them for pushing the  envelope, if you want to grab your tee pre-order one at www.ltdtee.net.

New Robocop Tee at Dark Bunny

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Hot off the press is Dark Bunny‘s latest offering, a spoof of the classic sci-fi movie Robocop but with a twist. With just 50 tees available you will have to hurry if you want your own – this time taking a side swipe at the corporate branding and the young, Directive 3 Baby Food offers crowd control from the moment of birth!

This cynical product from Omni Consumer Products comes with a free ED-209 Meal Buddy, based on the defunct ED-209 that Murphy trashes so well (they can’t walk down stairs lol), this miniature version offers encouraging words to the kids like “Please eat – You have 20 seconds to comply” & “I am now authorized to use physical force” and yes, he really shoots!

This is an exclusive 50 print run t-shirt. There will only ever be 50 printed. Stock will be available Jan – Feb 2010. Pre-Order now to ensure you get yours. read more

Almost Human Tees at The Department

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Here’s a rather quirky label at TheDept.com offer a variety of groovy android-related items including t-shirts, badges and bags and the guy behind the obsession brand is L.A based designer Richard Leighton. I have to admit I share many of his earliest passions for sci-fi movies and TV shows, and corporate logos from the 1970′s. He’s even designed some Space 1999 badges, which I’d love to see make it to t-shirts, but for now we’ll focus on his insistence that ‘Androids Always WIn’. He’s also working on a few short animated videos forAndroids Always Win!, as well as more designs, and products for release in the fall at The Dept. Store.

Now, first of all I predict that a vast majority of females of the human species will be rolling their eyes in disbelief or even nodding off at this very moment. I learned very early on that if you want to impress a girl, don’t mention humanoid synthetic organisms. Perhaps times have changed but in my early teens it was a definite no no to express any interest in robotics and A.I on the dance floor. Maybe it’s different in Japan, almost everyone there is robot mad, the more the better it seems, they’ve even started creating something called an actroid, which I guess won’t be winning any Oscars in the near future. Osaka has even been nicknamed Robot City, which is populated by so many robot receptionists, cleaners, tourist guides, and factory workers I have an inkling that it won’t be long before all humans can rest on their laurels and let androids run the place soon.

Still, for now, if you haven’t quite got the budget for your own android, you can always purchase one of Leighton’s t-shirts, and share his belief that indeed, Androids Always Win. What’s more you get a free pennant with every order to help you cheer on the oncoming advancement of a new and artificially intelligent race, let’s just hope they don’t decide to wipe us all out and take over the planet :/ read more