T-Shirt Mash Ups @ Nonsek

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Ames Bros., Nonsek, limited edition t-shirt, nonsek machine, nonsek.com, remixing t-shirts, t-shirt design, t-shirt wysiwyg, unique tees

Life is getting more interactive every day, more and more companies are fighting hard to allay the fears of the recession, offering customised and personalised products to relieve the consumer doldrums. You name it someone somewhere can offer you that something little extra, gold plated and monogrammed iPods, pick your own toppings and sauces at a string of high street restaurants, cars with all the accessories and upgrades imaginable, if you can buy it, someone is selling a better version out there.

The t-shirt industry has gone through a similar reinvention over the last decade, with more and more people adept at graphic design, mainly down to advances in all sorts of software, sites like Cafepress and Spreadshirt have turned their attention to personalised tees. Essentially giving you a chance to upload your own images to almost anything, be it tees, sweats, hoodies, even cups and mouse-mats. But there’s a problem, rather a big problem in fact, and that is that the vast majority of people out there neither have the inclination or the time to both create and design their own t-shirts, they’d like to have some input, mixing like a DJ, rather than performing like a singer-songwriter. The truth is most people want to have a little fun, experience a more entertaining shopping experience, and as a result create and buy an original shirt they’d be proud to wear. Not spend hours on end scribbling out their ideas and hoping for the best.

This third way, an interactive t-shirt design and shopping experience without the tedium of using graphic design software, which is on offer at Nonsek.com. Their unique service, and I mean, there really is no other like it out there right now, draws on a vast resource of great t-shirt ideas, art by artists with a true sense of imagination, and lets you mix them up, again and again if needed, until you’ve created the perfect tee for that gig, club, vacation or simply to lounge around and impress the other half.

Nonsek offers a very simple navigational system, there’s a choice of artist channels, or for the more adventurous the Nonsek Machine which in essence remixes your favourite designs and artists into something truly special. This site offers a great opportunity for both t-shirt artists and fans to really have some fun, and don’t worry, you won’t be trawling through pages of junk (as you might at say Cafepress) to find something you like!

Instead of the usual Buy Tees review, I’m going to show you through the process of remixing your own tee at Nonsek, let’s get mashing! read more

T-Shirts For The Ego

admin    T-Shirt News     ego fashion, funny t shirts, myfaceshirt.com, one-off t-shirts, unique tees

Do you want to be instantly famous? Well then you’ll probably love MyFaceShirt.com! The world can be divided into three kinds of people, those who know they look great, those who think they look great, and those who know they don’t. Delusional or not you can always boost your ego, or at the very least provide all your friends with a big laugh by following the cue of Anthony Colarusso, the man behind MyFaceShirt who’s come up with the ridiculously funny idea of printing his his own face on every t-shirt he creates, well that’s how the plan started out, to make himself instantly famous by selling tees featuring his mugshot for the world to learn to love.

As reality set in it was soon obvious there were many other narcissists in the world who required the same treatment lavished upon them, and since 2006 MFS has been providing this crazy yet definitely unique service to the tee loving (and self-loving) public, the perfect product for every egotist in the world, rightly or not, if you believe you’re the most gorgeous human being on the planet then this unique label have just what you need.

So put that mirror down for a second and consider the alternative, MFS will for very reasonable price tag of $19.99 (pus $1.99 shipping) render your amazing features in a clean vector art style, print up your features on a high quality, fitted micro fibre shirt (available in sizes S to XL and colours white, sand or blue) and ship it out pronto for you to wear to your heart’s content. Just think every time you stop in front of a shop window to check your reflection, you’ll be treated with double the fun. What could be more pleasurable for the vain and self-adored than to wear what they know is the height of perfection and style, your face for all to see, and hopefully, if you’re very lucky, for all to admire! read more

Psyched Tees From Disturbia Clothing

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Disturbia, Disturbia Clothing, DisturbiaClothing.co.uk, Prodigy, UK t-shirts, art t-shirts, cool tees, edgy, political tees, punk t-shirts, rock, street, unique tees

First off I’m back, I’ve been to the back and beyond, I’m sunburned and peeling all over but all in all I feel fresh as a daisy so let’s get down to business and lay Disturbia Clothing on the Buy Tees couch and see what makes them and their legion of fans tick. If you’re already familiar with this edgy Brit label then you’re in good company. Check out this documentary of The Prodigy’s latest tour and you just might see Liam sporting one of their best-sellers, their Disco t-shirt.

I always feel right at home, culturally speaking, when I visit their site, everything from their products to the web design to their constantly updated left field blog shimmer with a slightly tongue-in-cheek British fervour for the hey days of punk. Their style spills right out onto their highly flamboyant illustrated t-shirt prints which are all highly recognisable as unique yet strangely familiar iconic pieces that make up their collection. Their ideas are their tour de force, some perhaps more obvious than others, but in a good way, in the way you might think ‘damn, I could have thought of that’ except you know you didn’t, and if you ever did, you know you’d never got around to creating them, because if you had I’d most likely be writing about your label right now :p

Their reputation has spread far and wide into the world of independent fashion retailing with 17 online stockists and what I guess must be another hundred or more stores selling their unique wares around the world. So if you like what you see then there’s no excuses when it comes to tracking down any of their infectiously irrational tees, hoodies and accessories (if you don’t order direct), besides which they have a handy mailing list so you can keep up to date with all their latest offerings no matter what corner of the world you may reside. So without further a due, rip a few holes in your best pair of jeans, stick a safety pin through your nose, kick the TV Screen, deface any image of royalty you may have lying around and get ready to enter the minds of Disturbia. read more

Nonoloa T-Shirts – International Art Meets Fashion

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Nonoloa.com, art platform, art shirts, artist collective, design, graphic tees, independent design, international design, nonoloa, unique fashion, unique tees

Nonoloa.com describe themselves as a ‘creative platform designing clothing from urban art’ – in other words they take from the streets, in this case the whole world of urban life, and transfer their unique art collection to a range of spectacular short and long-sleeved tees, polos, hoodies and sweatshirts. I recently visited their site for the first time and have to admit it is stunning in more ways than one. Apart from the beautiful and highly interactive design of the store, the products certainly do produce the wow factor, a very individualistic and inspiring range of t-shirts drew me in further

Enrique Flores, one of the people behind the Nonoloa label directed me towards Issuu.com which reveals more of the story and concept behind this avant-garde collective. Essentially they are as international as you can hope to find, their artists hark from every corner of the globe, ranging from as far and wide as Spain, the United Kingdom, Lebanon and even Tehran. I was astounded that a label could source so diverse a community of artists, each with their own pertinent input, both visually and conceptually, towards the Nonoloa platform. Incidentally some of their artists have even exhibited at the famed Tate Modern Gallery in Britain. You can see their works at Tate.org.uk.

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