Monthly Archives: May 2005

Kid Robot Stencil

By Jason Cosper | Published May 10, 2005

Whenever I make it down to Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade I always manage to make two stops: The Apple Store and Kid Robot. Now, while Kid Robot deals mostly in urban vinyl toys, they’ve still got a few choice tees squirreled away on a very unassuming rack. Last time we were there, the girlfriend [...]

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Hiragino Kaku Gothic

By Jason Cosper | Published May 9, 2005

The fine people at 70six inform us that Hiragino Kaku Gothic is the Helvetica of Japan. I’ll have to take their word for it though. Hell, most of the Japanese language and culture that I know comes from anime. I know, I know… Baka gaijin. So even though I couldn’t tell you what the shirt [...]

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Hang Tags – 05.09.05

By Jason Cosper | Published May 9, 2005

+ In lieu of real content, here are some designs we love that are currently scoring over at Threadless: What A Catch Tricks Are For Payback Cross War Mysterious Golf Circles Tameless + Chris Mitchell’s got a nice bit on bootleg t-shirts in Asia.

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Hang Tags – 05.05.05

By Jason Cosper | Published May 5, 2005

+ It looks like T-Shirt Hell has grown up a smidge and removed their “Worse Than Hell” section: I started this web site on my terms and will continue to run it as I see fit. Removing shirts that affect many people in a negative way is just not exciting to me anymore and that [...]

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Hang Tags – 05.04.05

By Jason Cosper | Published May 4, 2005

+ Herr Kottke points to the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the booming online t-shirt market. + Man… If I could comprehended Japanese, I’d do a proper post for this Jewish Star Wars riff in a fucking nanosecond. But I don’t, so I won’t. [via]

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Infocom

By Jason Cosper | Published May 3, 2005

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. > open mailbox Opening the mailbox reveals a package. > take package Taken. > examine package The package appears to be from Jinx, an online shop that deals in apparel and stickers. [...]

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Sketchy Squid

By Jason Cosper | Published May 3, 2005

Yeah, another squid shirt. I really like squid, alright? Besides, this design is rather nice. You see, I’m as much of a sucker for line art as I am for shirts with squids on them. I’m not so wild about the Gama-Go logomark, but the extra crisp line art and lovely detail is enough for [...]

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China Is For Lovers

By Jason Cosper | Published May 2, 2005

Normally I dislike the sort of shirts that are so ironic that it hurts – but there’s something about this tee that sort of makes me smile. Sure, it’s an ape on the 36 year old “Virginia Is For Lovers” slogan. And yeah, there are dozens of tees that do that sort of thing at [...]

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Hang Tags – 05.02.05

By Jason Cosper | Published May 2, 2005

+ Thought the iPod shuffle shirt looked wonky? Well, TuneWear looks much, much worse. [via] + Hey, budding designers… Friends of the High Line are having a t-shirt design contest. + We may not agree with their business practices, but American Apparel has some nifty softcore porn. You know, if you’re into that sort of [...]

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Commodore 64

By Jason Cosper | Published May 1, 2005

The folks at DISTRO.Y sent in a nice little letter asking us to check out their site – and I’m glad they did. While some of their designs are just okay, they really seem to shine when they play to people’s nostalgia. Take their Commodore 64 shirt for example… Anyone in their 20′s and 30′s [...]

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