Plastic Fantastic Kitsch-Nitsch

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We all want to be individual, and there is plenty of limited edition gear available out there in the world of fashion, but what about one-offs? Ever bought a one-off, one of a kind, limited edition of one t-shirt? Would you like to? Well now you have a chance to be the proud owner of a truly, totally and completely unique t-shirt from Kitsch-Nitsch. Solely managed by the graphic design duo Aka Neon & MNCHRM from their base in Slovenia (guessing by the shipping rates), these guys thrive at illustration, decoration, product design and scenography. However they specialise in a wide range of cut-out vinyl sets, that can be applied to walls, cars, or as they begun to experiment with recently, ready made products such as bags or clothes.

The Kitsch-Nitsch ideology sees design as “temporary and not timeless, revolution is the only way to make a change and constant reinvention and searching for the latest craze are the only things worth living for.” Kitsch-Nitsch offers uniquely limited edition tees designed on computers and made by hand. If you’re into your t-shirts but want something that no one else is wearing in the world, this might be your best bet! They offer world-wide shipping at ‚Ǩ5 for Slovenia, ‚Ǩ10 for Europe and ‚Ǩ20 for the rest of the planet. The site looks like a promo for a new indie band that music journos slaver after each year to make up their column inches for cynical new wave indie aficionados that have heard it all before. Great layout, stunning photos, mad designs, insane concept, it might just work out big time for these two renegades of the fashion world. Take a look at what’s still available to buy right now… read more

ImaHotTee.com – Takes The High Road

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Before I get started, two things to mention, firstly the hilarious video we’re featuring at Buy-Tees.net this week, it stars the man, the brain, the frenzy of activity that is Mike Martin, the creator of I’m A Hot Tee (ImaHotTee.com). For more of his hilarious t-shirt related videos take a jaunt down to Mike’s little corner of Youtube.com

Secondly it’s Mike, I’ve rarely enjoyed an email (or five) as much as I have Mike’s. An intelligent, funny and at times inspiring chap who, as far as I can tell is about to make it big in Hollywood if his agent can sell the script, but don’t tell him I’ve mentioned this, he will most likely deny it, he’s a modest guy and besides it’s all extremely hush-hush you know? Such are the ways of La La Land.

On to the label itself. Mike is a fan of Buy Tees, and seeing as he’s just launched his new t-shirt company, I’m a Hot Tee (www.imahottee.com), he thought we could set him off to a good stead (we’ll do our best!). The ethos behind I’m A Hot Tee is a simple, but dare I say it, righteous one. Yet again I’m breaking one of my golden rules, I have two pet hates as far as t-shirts go. ‘Slogan tees’ and ‘funny shirts’. However Mike’s mission to provide a genuine alternative to the old school stores offering the same vulgar, crude, and just generally insulting shirts out there, and his intelligent and highly amusing personality swayed me.

Avoiding clich√©d offensive shirts that I believe, most sane people, without a Meth habit, and not living in a trailer park, would most likely avoid. Let’s lay our cards on the table here, what kind of people can hold down a job and wear these expletive-loaded, hate everyone under the sun, bar brawler shirts anyway? Do they have a secret wardrobe? Perhaps there are special conventions for extremely bad taste t-shirt addicts. Do they sell well in the Summer, or is it just a Winter fancy to secrete beneath a thick sweater or two? Mike has a sound philosophy, he wants to sell t-shirts that everyone can wear, not teenagers who’ve decided they hate their parents and need to be forced out of the family nest in order to get some housing credits. I’m a Hot Tee’s slogan says it all – ‘Hot Tees You Can Take Home to Mom!‘ read more

Full Bleed Ahead With Rob Dobi

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I knew it wouldn’t be long before I’d have to bring your attention to Rob Dobi and his Connecticut-based designer t-shirt label Full Bleed. Last year Rob focused a lot more on band tees and commissions, however now he has his own label up and running, although I’d ignore the home page – it says ‘Summer collection ’08 Coming Soon’, and to be honest I think we’re already there, although you couldn’t tell by the British weather :/

I love the simplicity of Rob’s t-shirts, almost every one of his designs offers a pithy pun and a surrealist sidelong glance at the world, something I’m sure Threadless would dress down, (I know that from bitter experience), however I’m giving this guy full marks for a great collection of unique and individualistic tees. I suppose I do lean towards his kind of style whenever I’m scouring the net for originality and purpose in the world of t-shirts, Rob has it by the bucketful. I’d love to create a collection as cohesive as this, I do come up good ideas (honest), but stylistically I dart about depending on the topic. That isn’t the way to create a long lasting collection (as does Glennz for instance), Dobi has an immediately recognisable ouevre and he capitalises on it. I don’t, I chop and change, I feel that different subjects deserve different treatments, though Glennz’s ideas and angle on the world are immediately recognisable, Dobi is more subtle, producing ideas from a slightly askew view of the world. I’d say that Dobi must be one of the best at what he does, a subtle design with an even more subtle message. read more