Andre from A Better Tomorrow got in touch to let me know about a couple of new tees that won their design competition. The one in the top picture of this post is called ‘Night of the Dead’ (way to keep it festive ABT!) and is firmly planted in the burgeoning niche of ’80s puke horror’, a genre that I must thank Alex from Dance Party Massacre for coining, though he’ll get pretty pissed if you lump his tees in with them. The tee marks the first time that ABT have used waterbased ink on their tees, so this will probably be one of their softest tees yet.

The lower tee is by that most excellent stalwart of tee design competitions, Sven Palmowski, or a.mar.illo if you want to get all ‘aka’ about this. The tee is a pretty clever take on 50s B-Movies, except for instead of thinly-guised metaphors about Communists invading the US, he’s tackling the much more dangerous, and surely much more real, threat of giant fruits laying waste to the Earth.

Close ups in the gallery.

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Two of the most prolific t-shirt design competition winners, rather predictably, have both won at another design competition, although both the tees are a bit of a departure from their usual styles, but I guess that when you’re submitting a design to a site called Badashell things are going to change a bit.

Throughout the holiday season all tees at Badashell at just $14.95, which ain’t half bad.

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Ink Hound are now into the 4th week of their beta phase and things are still going swimmingly. This weeks hat is by a.mar.illo (Sven Palmowski) and the tee is by FreshFauxx. Tees $12, hats $16, hoodies $30, and as usual you have until Sunday night to place an order.

Check out the hat and a close up of the tee in the gallery.

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Are you aware of this? There are t-shirt websites where people submit their ‘designs’ and then there is a ‘competition’ in which people vote, and the winners have their design produced, gaining fame and fortune in the process? Crazy, I can’t believe no one thought of it before.

Ink Hound set themselves apart in a number of ways. They offer fitted hats as well as t-shirts (I’m sure there’s a hat design competition out there, anyone remember it?). A new design goes on sale every 2-3 days, the artist earns $2 per sale, and once it has sold out, its gone, and the rights to the artwork go back to the designer. They’re using organic soy-based inks and organic tees too. Ink Hound seem to be ticking all the boxes don’t they? Oh, and they give a portion of each sale to charity too.

Ink Hound

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Enclothe released four new designs (well, three new and one reworking of a classic) a couple of days ago, one of which, the green one, Digfoot, was created by Sven Pamlowski, known to many as a.mar.illo. All four tees are pretty cool, not following any specific kind of theme or style, which is something I like about Enclothe, they print what they like, not what they think will sell well… although chances are these will sell well anyway!

Enclothe

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Wooshka have been doing pre-releases of new designs recently, allowing members to get the jump on the public for fresh tees, and get a pretty nifty discount at the same time. This tee, for example is $14 on pre-order, and will got up to its normal price of $20 at some point in the future (I’m not sure when the pre-order period ends). Pretty nice tee too, and yet another print for design competition regular Sven Palmowski (also known as a.mar.illo).

Costiness=$14 (for now) Pre-order it here

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Jenny doesn’t look particularly pirate-y to me, but that doesn’t stop me from liking this design by Sven Palmovski (aka a.mar.illo), if you don’t recognise the name, then you’ll probably recognise some of his designs from the myriad of t-shirt design competitions, keep an eye out and you’ll see him popping up rather often. Oh, and is it just me, or would this look really cool as a print?Costiness=€16 Link

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