Vote Glennz
One of my favourite sites - Glennz - is playing with us by putting a stack of great designs on a vote page. I’m tempted to vote for most of them. You can’t beat a good Lego joke. If you don’t vote for that - vote for the Moon Lander one. Or the pants circus. Or Roboblob. Or wind farmer.
In all seriousness. If you are thinking of starting a funny tshirt site - don’t look at this - unless your sketchbook is jam packed with genius you will come away disheartened and depressed.
free cd and a panda suit
If you had to pick a bear to be a zombie in a movie - I think you’d pick a giant panda. They look cute, you’ve been TOLD that they’d rip your arm off, but you don’t quite believe it. With a grizzly you’re already terrified, but with a panda you’d be tempted to give it a hug - unless it was a lumbering zombie.
Anyway - that’s not the point. The point is that this shirt has a zombie panda on it. And that you get a free compilation CD if you buy one. And like every other teeco in our recessionary Zombpressionary times there is a discount during february - 25%.
It says sold out, but the whole sie is saying sold out so I’m assuming its a glitch - if it’s not then demand they reprint!
Now this is a NewZealand teeco - so you need to know how much a shirt costs. $56NZ is about $30US or £21UK or 23EURO. Oh - and $10NZ goes to wwf to try to save the pandas - and it’s printed on organic cotton. Ethically scary panda saving tshirts!
Luckily, zombpressions drop consumption, which lowers the financial benefit of destroying habitats, which saves the panda. Those bankers were doing it for the love of the panda guys! Give a banker a hug!
Sausage rolls
Ok. So I’m not 100% sure about the euphemistic power of the words ’sausage rolls’ and take this shirt absolutely literally because it comes from Aberdeen, Scotland. It already says ’sex and drugs’ so the scope for euphemistic flexibility is limited. I’m pretty sure it actually means a sausage pastry.
If you’ve ever been to Aberdeen you’ll know that in addition to claiming to be the oil capital of Europe, it also has reasonable claim to be the sausage roll capital of Europe. Not on quality grounds - far from it - but on grounds of consumption. In the early naughties the fine Aberdonians decided that the rowie / buttery was an inappropriate breakfast snack due to its high fat and salt content (quick recipe - one cup salt, one cup lard, one cup butter, half cup flour, water to mix = rowie mix).
So they replaced it with sausage rolls. Every morning across Aberdeenshire white vans approach newsagents, the youngest passenger jumps out and says “2 suns, a star, 2 rowies and 4 sausage rolls”*. If they smoke they also get some smokes. But this is new healthy Aberdeen we’re talking about - so only about 80% of them smoke.
Anyway - sweet shirt from Regal clothing in Aberdeen.
* these numbers will vary depending on number of people in the van.
T-shirt chart for December 2008
The last OMG teeco chart of the year, and an interesting one. We deliberately kept it back a couple of days so we’d catch all the blogging about Black Friday sales - and BOY did it make a difference. Threadless off the top spot and 20 new entries in the top 50. There are about 100 extra teecos covered by the full chart this month - which is amazing (well, I think it’s pretty amazing!). Well done to Linty Fresh - obviously working the PR magic with the highest new entry!
As a reminder, this chart monitors all the tshirt blogs and watches which sites they link to from their homepage posts.
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designbyhumans.com - lafraise.com
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threadless.com - store.glennz.com
- store.mediocoreclothing.com
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lintyfresh.com - printliberation.com
- a-better-tomorrow.com
- shirtcity.com
- redbubble.com
- karmaloop.com
- chopshopstore.com
- johnnycupcakes.com
- store.cottonfactory.com
- jinx.com
- shirt.woot.com
- goapeshirts.com
- uneetee.com
- negrete.co.uk
- defunkd.com
- streetwear-websites.com
- origin68.com
- nostarclothing.com
- torsopants.com
- concretehermit.com
- tanktheory.com
- robitstudios.com
- controversy.wearscience.com
- amorphia-apparel.com
- crazydogtshirts.com
- vintagevantage.com
- endangeredwear.com
- ilovewaterloo.com
- nodiktat.com
- indigoclothing.com
- wordans.com
- tenbills.com
- yesnomaybe.co.uk
- limitees.com
- teetonic.com
- splitreason.com
- seibei.com
- wearscience.com
- tenbills.com
- humanempire.com
- tshirthell.com
- bangbangt-shirts.com
- goodietwosleeves.com
- artifexshirts.com
- clear-cut-case.de
For the data geeks out there mintelligence made one change to the chart algorithm for us this month - removing more paid / affiliate / streetteam style links from the counts. This hit Threadless pretty hard - as they appear in most blogger sidebars with a streetteam tag. But I think this makes for a more interesting chart, actually reflecting the coverage new tees get, rather than the baseline popularity of a site.
I’d love to know if you have a gut feel that a teeco got more coverage than is apparent from the chart - so I can better check the results.
uk cafe press opens
Now cafe press shops suck. This I know. But if you live in the UK they have always sucked even MORE because the postage would cost you more than the shirts, and then the nice gentlemen at customs and excise would charge you £30 import duty on a $10 tshirt. Then DHL or whoever the carrier is will charge you an extra £5 for touching the package, £5 for delivering it, and an extra 15% just for fun. That $12 funny Obama shirt ends up costing you more than a small car. So joy - you can now buy cafepress stuff in the UK without all that extra stuff.
Oh - and the code I chopped is DEMINT1 - Oh 2 - and if you know of a good cafepress shop let me know. I wouldn’t want to continue condemning them without due cause.
skyscape wonderland
Winter (apologies southern hemispherians) is upon us and my neck hurts. During the day I’m staring upwards at the geese in their odd scrappy V shapes sqwaking their way across the sky. At night I’m staring upwards trying to remember how to spell “pleidies”, and trying find Jupiter.
This tee from medicated clothing (really sweet little indie tee website) might replace the night time part of that pretty nicely. If you live in the city head out into the sticks this weekend and stare skywards. It’s fun once you get over the freezingness. Honest! Wear more than just a t-shirt though!
If you are planning a trip to view the stars, take some friends and some nice malt whisky in a tiny hip flask and make sure you look up the difference between shooting stars and satellites because it’s wrong to wish on space hardware.
Top 50 Tshirt Companies
An update to the OMGTees Tshirt company charts! The new chart is based on the stuff linked from the current homepage of every tee blog out there right now. The November 2008 teeco chart:
- http://www.threadless.com
- http://www.designbyhumans.com
- http://www.lafraise.com
- http://printliberation.com
- http://www.shirtcity.com
- http://www.goapeshirts.com
- http://www.tanktheory.com
- http://www.etsy.com
- http://store.glennz.com
- http://www.vintagevantage.com
- http://www.monsieurt.net
- http://www.origin68.com
- http://shirt.woot.com
- http://www.ilovewaterloo.com
- http://www.tshirthell.com
- http://www.karmaloop.com
- http://www.wooshka.com
- http://www.torsopants.com
- http://www.oddica.com
- http://www.redbubble.com
- http://www.imaginaryfoundation.com
- http://www.seibei.com
- http://www.negrete.co.uk
- http://shop.ugmonk.com
- http://www.uneetee.com
- http://www.mediocoreclothing.com
- http://www.rockawaybear.com
- http://www.graniph.com
- http://www.akumuink.com
- http://www.aliveshirts.com
- http://www.lazyoaf.co.uk
- http://www.chopshopstore.com
- http://www.nodiktat.com
- http://www.a-better-tomorrow.com
- http://www.crazydogtshirts.com
- http://www.fantasticbonanza.com
- http://www.indiemerchstore.com
- http://www.tolkymonkys.com
- http://www.indigoclothing.com
- http://www.clear-cut-case.de
- http://store.cottonfactory.com
- http://www.teefury.com
- http://www.concretehermit.com
- http://www.teetonic.com
- http://endangeredwear.com
- http://www.dadawan.com
- http://www.robitstudios.com
- http://allmightys.com
- http://www.quixotic-clothing.com
- http://www.noisebot.com
another bike tee
Anyone who reads this blog regularly will know I have a thing for bike tees. The future WILL be pedal powered, and won’t have four wheels.
This is a nice take on the bike geek / history thing. Artevist is an interesting site - ethical behavior coming out of their ears!
This one is a bit TOO green for me personally - probably more appropriate for kids.
410 BC
Pure teecos will always be my favourites - but despite doing hoodies and boards and stuff - 410BC are worth a post.
Have a rummage around and see what you can find. It might have been my Google browser, but the site kicked me around a bit from time to time - taking me home instead of to a tee. Stick with it though!
univers-al approval
Ho ho ho. Such a word play wonder huh! I missed this shirt when it came out - I think - but have to post it now. Love the type designs coming from TypographyShop. There are a number of similar designs around - but you know how every other mp3 player just looks a bit rough around the edges because of the iPod? Same here. If you need a type tee - get this one.
tee feeds
If you haven’t already added teefeeds.com to your daily web wanderings - do so.
Before my recent vacation from posting on OMGTees the OMG feed was featured on teefeeds, but (quite rightly) it was dropped for inactivity.While it was there traffic was reasonable - so I know the site has a decent following.
Now that we’re back firing on all cylinders though hopefully it won’t be too long until we make a return. It’s a great place to quickly read a stack of tee sites without the headache of managing your own RSS reader. Think of it as a popurls for tees.
I like the approach - it feeds you the headlines, and even the start of the post, but you have to visit the site itself to see the shirts.
Teeco chart last call
The final teeco chart of the year will be published in the next week or so - but there is still time to make sure you are included.
The chart works with a HUGE database of blog posts, news items, and general web goodies (even some tweets) to guage the hotness of tshirt companies. But if we don’t have you on the list you can’t appear in the chart because we can’t recognise you when people talk about you.
Comment below, or email chart@omgtees.com with your details and we’ll add you to the list. Be quick!
rhetorically speaking
These are some nice shirts - but you have to visit rhetoric just for the homepage. You know that rant I had earlier (apologies - I had drunk a LOT of coffee) about site design. This is how to do it right. The shop and the homepage just WORK without either feeling compromised.
Guys gun shirt, and girls credit card shirt - which is all the more appropriate now that we are in recession and all!
kiss kiss
OK - 2 things with this shirt fight the other. Metallic print - kiss graphic - black cotton. I still have a deep deep connection between iron maiden and black shirts. The metallic and the kiss just JAR with that image so much. So much that it’s pretty enjoyable. Torso Clothing.
web design rant time
OK, so this is a little unfair on modernamusement.com because I really like a lot of their stuff. But I’ve been catching up woth a lot of teecos today and BOY does this annoy me.
Here is what you see as you move through their site:
Nice clean homepage, bold type, clear links
Large full-screen photography, same big type
Nice full screen swipe effect to another big shot
oh.
You see the problem? After that promising, interesting, creative start - we drop to a pretty basic, plain, boring old same old same old shopping cart.
I know ecommerce can be tough to balance - ease of use and creativity are possible, but not always together, and certainly not cheaply. But. When the start is so strong, to drop into a pretty dull cart is a disappointment.
It also lets down the teeco as many people will follow a link like this one and hop straight into the store - bypassing the ‘good stuff’.
I want to emphasise - nothing personal at modern amusement here, they do some nice stuff, and the intro minisite is great. I just wish it had carried on to the cart itself. It would make tee shopping so much more fun!
rant over!
3 letter word
Not four letter - which is bad - three letter words - which is usually good. I love the concept of the site - the site itself is a little hard to get to grips with - and could use some easier options to buy the big hitters like ‘duh’, ‘doh’ and ‘meh’. One of my favourite tees ever was the thinkgeek ‘meh’.
According to Jen and John at 3 letter - “With 1,238 official English 3letterwords to choose from and limitless rkn and acronym options, 3letterworders can be as obvious, subtle, naughty, ironic, playful, clever, simple or subversive as they want to be. Each word is given meaning by its owner, and thus, each tee is completely unique.”
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