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Top Tee! Threadless’ “Monkey Business” Tshirt

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by The Hunter.

The amazing designer Alex Solis aka alexmdc strikes again with another amazing Threadless winning design called “Monkey Business”! I have previously interviewed Alex and featured other awesome designs by him including “Battle of the Giants“.

"Monkey Business" by Alex Solis from Threadless

This design nets itself a Tee Hunter “Top Tee” plaudit!

You can grab a “Monkey Business” tshirt for $20 and the quike frankly, stunning hoodie version for $40 from Threadless right now in men’s and women’s sizes.

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Glow-In-The-Dark Alice In Wonderland Tshirt

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by The Hunter.

Designkins has released an awesome Glow-In-The-Dark Alice In Wonderland tshirt featuring the awesome Cheshire Cat…and when the lights go out? His grin and eyes glow bright and proud thanks to the glow-in-the-dark inks used in the printing process!

Alice In Wonderland tshirt from Designkins!

This is a must for Alice fans and especially those who have seen Tim Burton’s awesome 2010 take on this classic story!

Tshirts are available for guys and girls for $20 and printed on the finest American Apparel tshirts!

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“Ah Ha!” Bag Of Bees brand are “Not Squares”

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by The Hunter.

Check out the marvellous Not Squares and Ah Ha! tshirts from Belfast, Ireland based brand Bag Of Bees! Bag of Bees is a group of designerds with a love for all things tee. “We’d been stalking the internet for ages looking for lovely tees with nice stuff printed on them when we realised that we should be doing it ourselves. So we named the site after one of our pet dogs (who’s as mad as a Bag of Bees) and started scribbling,” say the guys behind this.

'Not Squares' tshirt from Bag of Bees

'Ah Ha!' tshirt from Bag of Bees

These tshirts are available from Bag Of Bees priced at £18 / $26.92 with free UK delivery.

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Top Tee! “I’m Rad to the Power of Sick” Tshirt from INK Clothing

Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by The Hunter.

This has to be my favourite design of 2010 (so far!)! “I’m Rad to the Power of Sick” by the stunningly original Greg Abbot is super clean, fun and totally awesome.

"I'm Rad to the Power of Sick!" Tshirt

This design and a whole bunch more will be available via INK Clothing in their 4th line; due for release in the very near future! Nets itself an extremely well deserved “Top Tee!” plaudit!

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Tee Hunter Interviews Submit and Remix Curator Dan Mumford

Posted on 22. Feb, 2010 by The Hunter.

Submit and Remix is a new artist focused clothing brand aimed at giving exposure to exciting designers and illustrators from around the world. It has been created by the people involved with Atticus, Lowlife and Wornby Clothing, and has the well known artist Dan Mumford looking after it’s creative direction. “The aim is to create something that is a labour of love and fun, but is overall driven by a desire to help support young artists” says Dan.

Submit & Remix

The brand will release series in drops of four tees. Each series will see two artists selected to design a tee, and they will then “remix” the other artists design, giving us 4 unique designs. Over time, the brand will be introducing new themes and ideas into the series to further expand on the depth of project and buck the trends and status quo of the current fashion world.

The first series features tees designed by Keaton Henson (who recently designed a range for Topshop as well as Urban Outfitters) and US designer Horsebites from the Black Axe (who has worked with bands such as Fall Out Boy and The Sex Pistols, as well as brands such as Pyknic and Rockett). Future artists lined up to be involved will include the (quite frankly) awesome Greg Abbot, amazingly dark Godmachine, Chrissie Abbot and Dan Mumford himself.

Tee Hunter spoke to Dan about his new brand to find out a little more about the concept and the future of Submit and Remix!

Horsebites' Design

TH: Please tell us your background and how it led you to where you are now?
DM: I am a Illustrator working freelance amongst the music industry mainly, i went to University in Brighton and now live in London.

TH: What inspired the idea and formation of S&R?
DM: It was born from a love of all the different artists work that are found on bands tee-shirts or cds, and wanting to give them the recognition they dont always get.

Keaton's Design

TH: What did you hope to bring to the table that was fresh and new?
DM: More than anything S&R is about the artists and their work, that and the fact we are getting them to work with each other with the remix aspect, in a way its getting the artists to look at work in another way.

TH: How often will you be releasing remixes and can you give us an idea of some possible future artists you will be involving?
DM: We aim to release every couple of months with 4 tee’s, for the first few series at least. After that we may make it more tees per series or more frequent, at this point we are just working that out. Future artists are looking very exciting, but we would like to keep them under wraps for now!

Keaton's remix of Horsebites' design

TH: Can artists approach you to contribute or will it be invite only?
DM: Artists are more than welcome to send their portfolios over for us to have a look at, we are always looking for new artists.

TH: Will you be releasing your remixes in lines or will it be regular individual releases?
DM: Each series has 2 artists, with 4 tees in total at the moment, we dont plan to release anything individually at the moment!

Horsebites' remix of Keaton's design

TH: Which is your favourite of the current tshirts and why?
DM: It has to be Keatons remix tee (pictured above), all that bright pink blows my mind, and the print came out spectacular, so thats probably my favourite at the moment!

TH: What are your hopes for this new brand in 2010?
DM: For it to continue doing well and get a lot more amazing tee’s out there.

Head over to www.submitandremix.com for more info and to buy these tshirts! Each is priced at £24.99 each.

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Top Tee! The Audition “Stunt Man” Merch Tshirt

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by The Hunter.

Jamers has to be one of the most iconic and talented modern music merch designers out there right now! His style is bold, bright and extremely aestheticly pleasing. One of his latest creations is “Stunt Man” for the rock/punk band The Audition. Check out their new track ‘You Ruined This’ here - really great song! This tshirt grabs itself a Tee Hunter ‘Top Tee’ award for beaing highly wearable and a lot of fun!

The Audition - "Stunt Man" Tshirt

You can grab this tshirt as part of a pre-order package with the bands brand new album right here

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Made With Awesome “Adopt A Pinata” Tshirt & Valentines Sale!

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by The Hunter.

Roni & Evan are having a Valentines inspired sale over at www.madewithawesome.com where you can get the awesome tshirt below and numerous other classics, including this teehunter.com favourite we featured previously.

Made With Awesome!

The “Sweetheart Sale” runs until Feb 12th (8pm EST). Tees $16 - Posters $10 - Hoodies - $40 - Totes $5.

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Journey inspired “Don’t Stop Believing” Tshirt

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by The Hunter.

Regal Clothing just released a load of new tshirt based awesomeness! Including this slick blue Journey inspired tshirt “Don’t Stop Believing“. You love the song, now share the love!

"Don't Stop Believing" - Journey inspired tshirt

Available from Regal Clothing priced £17.50 - IHEARTREGAL gets you 10% off at checkout!

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SUTSU’s *Limited Edition* Tetris Inspired “X Reef” Tshirt

Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by The Hunter.

SUTSU “X Reef” tshirt! 50 Tshirt limited edition run of this beautiful, bold and blocky (Tetris inspired?!) shirt. 100% organic cotton and equally awesome!

SUTSU - "X Reef" Tshirt (Limited Edition!)

If you pre-order now at £20 you will recieve the shirt on 5th Feb 2010.

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Tee Hunter Interviews Brandon Grbach, Creative Director of Dead Bury Dead Clothing!

Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by The Hunter.

Whilst Tee Hunter has covered this brand before, I would love to formally introduce Dead Bury Dead (DBD), an awesome state-side clothing brand with fresh, clean designs that are bold yet never over the top. These awesome designs can be attributed to Brandon Grbach, the DBD creative director! His company has a wonderful staffing set up that consists of either close friends or family where everyone brings an awesome talent to the table. I predict really big things for this brand in the next year or so and after reading this interview I conducted with Brandon recently - so will you!

Dead Bury Dead Clothing

Tee Hunter: Brandon, please explain your background and how it lead you to Dead Bury Dead?
Brandon: Well, I never imagined I’d be the creative director for Dead Bury Dead. I was finishing up my senior year of college and I realized that my entire life after I graduate would be pretty predictable. So I dropped out one class shy of my Bachelors degree and decided to start my own business and live my life. So here I am almost five years later and I’m having the time of my life.

Tee Hunter: How many people are behind the brand and what are your roles?
Brandon: As of right now there are five main people behind Dead Bury Dead (pictured below). I am the Creative Director its my job to oversee everything that we produce. I personally create and design everything. My wife, Carolyn is our finance manager. My brother, Austin handles direct sales and all of our wholesale accounts. Daniel is our production manager and screenprinter. His brother, Joseph heads up our interactive department which takes care of our website and internet presence.

The Dead Bury Dead Family!

Tee Hunter: What inspired you to start a clothing brand?
Brandon: I was working at a skate shop and we sold a lot of the big name brands in skate and streetwear. The more I sold their merchandise the more I felt it didn’t have any heart. It seemed like they put very little consideration into the art and the garment itself. I thought we could do better.

Tee Hunter: What do you think you DBD brings to the table that isn’t already available?
Brandon: I think Dead Bury Dead brings back the old school business model that a family runs a business together and produces a unique good. We don’t hire out anyone to design our products; we don’t hire anyone to print them, therefore you’re getting our product that we made personally. I think it’s something that has been lost and been overlooked in this industry.

"Kill Your Idols" Tshirt

Tee Hunter: How do you get inspired to design your clothing?
Brandon: I really just pull from what’s going on in my life and what I want to say at that moment. Music, skateboarding, film, and my family all play a huge role in how I process things and in turn it’s evident in our designs.

Tee Hunter: What are your designer’s tools of the trade?
Brandon: I pretty much use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop for 99% of everything we do.

Tee Hunter: What have your found to be the best way of reaching and interacting with your customers?
Brandon: I love going to shows and meeting people at our merch table. It’s nice to meet our customers face to face and have them see our products and feel the fabric and ask questions on what the ideas are behind the designs.

"China White" Hoodie

Tee Hunter: Please tell me your coolest moment with DBD and also your lowest and bleakest moment - and what you learned from them?
Brandon: My coolest moment with Dead Bury Dead is when we had our first big release party. I was so nervous because we had it during Halloween weekend and it was so cold. We had a great venue, a DJ and tons of food and drinks and two bands performing that night. So needless to say there had been tons of time and money spent on this release. But, it turned out to be one of the coldest nights and I started to fear that no one would come because of the terrible weather. It was about 20 minutes until we opened and there were only a handful of people in line. But when the time came to open the doors, the line was long and the place was packed out and we sold almost every tee for the release. It was so gratifying to know that kids were willing to come out and stand in the cold and support my brand. It was amazing.

"'87" Tshirt

Tee Hunter: Can you tell me your favorite DBD t-shirt and why?
Brandon: I really love our 87 t-shirt (pictured above). It was our first big hit and has become somewhat of an iconic design. It seems that the 87 is what everyone associates us with, because its certainty our best selling tee still.

Tee Hunter: What are your plans for the future of the brand?
Brandon: In March, we are launching our new “Never Die Easy” campaign. It will feature four new tees and a film to coincide with the launch. There is already a ton of buzz around the launch, so I can promise that 2010 will be epic.

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Blink 182 Release Charity Tshirt! (100% Profits To Haiti Earthquake)

Posted on 15. Jan, 2010 by The Hunter.

Blink 182 are reaching out to help Haitians in the wake of Tuesday’s devastating 7.0 scale earthquake. The band has released an exclusive Haiti Charity T-shirt, with 100% proceeds from sales going to the Red Cross. It is a classic, fun and cartoony piece of Blink 182 merchandise and it is going to a good cause so go and grab one!

Blink 182 Charity Tshirt

Each shirt is $15 and is only available on the band’s official online store.

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Top Tee! Limited Edition 100 Piece Teen Wolf Movie Tribute Tshirt + Free Movie Poster!

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by The Hunter.

Who doesn’t love a bit of the radical 80’s classic Teen Wolf?

Teen Wolf Tshirt

Well luckily for all of us that share a deep love for hirsute basketball players with fangs - Suck! Clothing have hit the mark with their stylish tribute tshirt to the 80’s classic! It is Limited Edition (100 shirts) and comes with a free movie poster!

How can this not get a Tee Hunter “Top Tee” plaudit?! It is the very rare appearance of an un-geeky truly wearable movie inspired tshirt! Stiles would definately have been selling this off his Wolfmania merch stand!

You can grab this tshirt for €25.00 from the Suck! store!

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Top Tee! “Fungus Man!” by Andrew Groves for Threadless Select!

Posted on 10. Jan, 2010 by The Hunter.

Congratulations to Andrew Groves for his awesome design “Fungus Man”! It’s the chosen winner of Society6 and the Select Series first ever collaborative competition. Society6 is a place for artists to promote each others’ work and collaborate with brands to create and sell collectible art. This picks up a Tee Hunter !Top Tee plaudit for it’s crisp design and great use of space and colour. Beautiful.

"Fungus Man!" from Threadless

"Fungus Man!" Tshirt from Threadless

You can grab this shirt for guys and girls over at Threadless in their “Select” section for $25.

(Thank you for anyone who buys anything through Threadless and uses my Street Team link. Means i can get a little cottony rewards for blogging now and again!)

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Introducing A Truly DIY Clothing Start-Up: Pirate Bath!

Posted on 10. Jan, 2010 by The Hunter.

Tee Hunter loves to support tshirt designers and brands of ALL sizes! I was quite taken with this recent submission from 18 year old Jodi Sagorin who has been making shirts for herself for as long as she can remember, but recently “there has been a high demand for the ones I wear so I started Pirate Bath Clothing. I have simple designs that are really fun and make a statement. I have a website up: www.piratebath.com Also, I hand paint all my shirts in my garage at the moment!” Jodi raised funding through Kickstarter to help create more of her tshirts which you can order here!

Pirate Bath Tshirts!

What is a “Pirate Bath”??

The process of washing just the arm pit area and the private area with a wash cloth or handful of water. People will ask you to define a pirate bath, the easy definition is “pits and privates”

You can grab these super simple and totally awesome shirts for only $12 from www.piratebath.com

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Grizzly “Freakshow” tshirt from The Horror Project

Posted on 09. Jan, 2010 by The Hunter.

The Horror Project is such a sick brand - they may not have many tshirts in their line - but the handful available are totally awesome, super edgy and pull no punches. Check out “Freakshow” below as a prime example.

"Freakshow" Tshirt from The Horror Project

You can buy this tshirt for $20 in the usual guys sizes from here!

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Elvis Tribute! Goodie Two Sleeves 30% Off Discount Coupon!

Posted on 09. Jan, 2010 by The Hunter.

Goodie Two Sleeves are celebrating The King’s 75th birthday in style with a 30% off weekend sale!

Long Live The King! 30% Dicsount!

Tee Hunter recommends the awesome “Monsters Need Love Too” girls tshirt!

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Every Time I Die Guitarist Jordan Buckley Designs Signature Series Tshirt

Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by The Hunter.

Draw Ltd! has just released their newest t-shirt design! It was brought to the world by the guitarist for hardcore band Every Time I Die, Jordan Buckley. “Buckley has done illustrations for multiple bands, clothing companies and individuals and we’ve been lucky enough to get a few from him!” say Draw Ltd!

Draw Ltd Signature Series

Jordan Buckley "Pumpkin" '09 Tshirt

They call this t-shirt Jordan Buckley Pumpkin ‘09, and they’re extremely limited so get them while you can (sizes for girls and guys!).

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Tee Hunter Favourite - DCMA “Embraced” Tshirt - Now On Sale!

Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by The Hunter.

One of Tee Hunter’s favourite DCMA shirts, ever. Now reduced to only from $25.99 to $19.99 in all sizes! If you don’t own one of these stunners then now is the time to rectify this situation!

DCMA "Embraced" Tshirt

Grab it direct from DCMA here!

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Tee Hunter Interviews “Most Improved Brand 2009″ Seventh.Ink

Posted on 07. Jan, 2010 by The Hunter.

Tee Hunter recently spoke with Matthew Johnson of Seventh.Ink for two reasons! First: he is one of the nicest guys making tshirts right now! Second: Matthew has used the latter half of 2009 to make Seventh.Ink the most improved independent tshirt brand of the year! It was cool before and headed up by a passionate dude, but now the shirts coming out of this brand are totally sick! Tee Hunter wanted to find out just what happened!

Seventh.Ink

TH: Your brand has come a long way in 2009! What led to such a profound increase in design quality not only aesthetically but creatively too?
MJ: Thanks, I appreciate that comment! 2009 was a great year for the Seventh.Ink brand because I took it a step or two further with more involved designs. This led to a strong response from a lot of people, and it only fueled the fire and pushed me further along.

The shirt that really helped my brand break through was the Night of the Living Bread design, which came out at the end of September. I really loved the idea, and I put it up as a pre-sale on my site. Within a week the pre-sale had already sold out and I had to reorder! I realized then that a strong combination of wit and tasty illustration was what really made this shirt stand out from the rest of my catalog. I then took that combination and applied it to my Tyrannosaurus Rockstar and Last One Standing designs, which have done really well.

Night Of The Living Bread

TH: What inspired the latest run of tshirt designs?
MJ: The Night of the Living Bread design was something I actually thought of just after Halloween in 2008, so it was tough to wait the entire year for Halloween to come around again. After that shirt was so successful, I starting thinking outside the box a bit more and came up with Tyrannosaurus Rockstar as a fun play on words. I’ve always loved dinosaurs (who doesn’t?), so I had spent a bit of time trying to come up with a nifty design to pay tribute to our fossilized friends. It seemed that music and dinosaurs should mix, and the design “evolved” from that. Get it?

The Last One Standing actually came about from a dream I had one night about snowman having an epic snowball fight atop a mountain. I woke up the next day, left the computer off for about 4 hours, and put my dream into the illustration that eventually became the final design. The best thing about The Last One Standing is all of the fan photos that I’ve been getting in the Seventh.Ink Flickr group. It’s fun to see how people are enjoying the design, that’s what it’s all about for me.

Last Man Standing

TH: Have you begun to use different techniques and tools to create your designs?
MJ: I’ve been playing with digital inking lately, but I still find that I prefer penciling and inking my designs by hand. I’m toying with the idea of printing with different types of inks (metallic, perhaps), so that could be an addition to my design/technique arsenal.

TH: What are your greatest sources of inspiration - other designers? Artists or something else?
MJ: I’m inspired by just about everything out there. I spend a great deal of time following a variety of clothing and illustration artists, but I can’t say that they alone influence my designs. I’m constantly jotting down mental notes of ideas that I think would make great shirt designs. I have more ideas than time, so right now I’m focusing on choosing the very best to push to print. The biggest question I’m constantly asking myself is would other people wear this design? It’s a bit tricky sometimes to guess which types of designs will sell, so I really have to get feedback from friends and family before printing anything. Otherwise, I could end up with a closet full of the same shirts, similar to Nickelodeon’s Doug! In this respect, you could say that my friends and family provide some inspiration as well.

Tyrannosaurus Rockstar

TH: Where do you see your brand going in 2010 - do you have any specific goals/hopes or plans?
MJ: I’m very happy with the success that my brand had in 2009, and I’m hoping that 2010 will be even more successful. With this week’s launch of the Seventh.Ink Blog, I feel that I’m already starting the year off on the right foot. The blog will be a great way for fans of the brand to read up on news and upcoming products, as well as contests and sales. Beyond that, I’m hoping that by the end of 2010 I will have successfully launched Version 3 of the Seventh.Ink website, launched at least two solid lines of great designs, and will also have more than just t-shirts in my catalog. I have quite a few ideas in the works, so I’m really looking forward to a lot of great possibilities with the Seventh.Ink brand.

Here’s to another great year, cheers!

Big thank you to Matthew for his time and be sure to check out the continued awesomeness of Seventh.Ink

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Get Loud & Lairy W/ “Insatiable” Tshirt from Lowdtown!

Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by The Hunter.

This tshirt is sick, it is rare to see a giant print working this well but Ray over at Lowdtown has nailed it and this tshirt is literally screaming to be worn!

"Insatiable" Tshirt from Lowdtown!

You can grab this for $18 from Lowdtown in sizes for dudes and chicks. Let the good times roll.

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Available Now! “Merci Beaucoup” Cookies-n-Cream and SKWAK Collaboration Collection

Posted on 03. Jan, 2010 by The Hunter.

The new collection “Merci Beaucoup” which is a collaboration between Cookies-n-Cream and SKWAK is now available. The collection consists of 4 different t-shirts: King’s Crest, Maniac Kito, Funky World and Brainiac tee. The tshirts looks great and SKWAK really is a one-of-a-kind designer!

Funky World

King's Crest

Maniac Kito

Brainiac

You can check out the shirts here and purchase the shirts here for $35 bucks a pop!

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“Pull My Fin(ger)” & “OK!” from One Man Brand: Holebrain!

Posted on 30. Dec, 2009 by The Hunter.

Check out Holebrain! Awesome UK brand based near Bristol in the S/W which is vaguely near Tee Hunter! The brand is bright and bold and above all else - fun! It is designer/screen -printer Will’s baby and he has some great looking shirts in his line! The ones pictured below are “Pull My Fin(ger)” & “OK!” - Will does every ounce of the work himself so you are getting a truly great product that has been hand printed and lovingly designed.

"Pull My Fin(ger)" & "OK!" from Holebrain

These tshirts are for girls and guys and are currently on sale at only £9.35 and you can get 2x for £17 at the moment too! Go here and spend spend spend!

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Top Tee! Ghetto Love Tshirt from Dead Bury Dead

Posted on 26. Dec, 2009 by The Hunter.

Dead Bury Dead is a great new emergind brand that I wanted to give a mention on here! The tshirt pictured is Ghetto Love from their current line and I absolutely love it! It is super simple, great colour tshirt with swooping, stylised typography. Winner! Grabs a Tee Hunter Top Tee award for being sublime.

Ghetto Love Tshirt from Dead Bury Dead

The best news is in 2010 they will be shipping internationally so that the world can get hot and sexy by wearing their threads. Better still…Look out for an interview with brand owner Brandon appearing on teehunter.com very soon!

You can grab this tshirt from here priced at $21.99

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“Cosmonaut” tshirt from Design By Humans (Features Smoking Space Monkey!)

Posted on 19. Dec, 2009 by The Hunter.

Check out this winning entry on designbyhumans.com by TheMightytiki called Cosmonaut. Awesome, grizzly monkey wrapped up in a red russian rev. style package!

The artists says “Did it during a thunderstorm while checking out old russian propaganda. Glad my computer didn’t blow up and glad I kept the art.”

"Cosmonaut" Tshirt

Available from designbyhumans now priced at $15

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Top Tee! Havok Clothing’s “Scream” Tshirt

Posted on 13. Dec, 2009 by The Hunter.

Designed by the awesome Godmachine this tshirt has it all - great colours, excellent detail and looks rad on a black shirt. Get’s a Top Tee award from Tee Hunter!

"Scream" Tshirt from Havok Clothing

You can also grab it in white and silver as well but to be honest, something is lost in the translation with these colour options and the black version is where the magic is!

"Scream" Tshirt from Havok Clothing

Available from Havok Clothing for $24

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