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Twin Horizon

Twin Horizon is unique, inspiring, and striking creative collective house born from the minds of an independent group of designers and artists with members here in Shanghai.

Ivan Belcic (Shanghai) and Clem Balanoff (Buenos Aires) met in Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where their collaborations began. With their own line of hand-printed t-shirts coming, Twin Horizon has released their look book of their first line of shirts, featuring designs inspired by some charming local rock bands. 

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Lord of the Rings Tee, Instant Halloween Costume

Some people accomplish stunning execution of engineering and creativity in the pursuit of an amazing Halloween T-shirt costume: cinema-grade fake armor, extra arms that actually move, that whole shower-curtain apparatus. Well, some just don’t need the hassle of some complex clothes but also don’t want people at the Halloween party making fun of them for not dressing in costume. 

Multi-Cultural tee shirt Label with promise to ‘Wow’

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I have some reasons to call Carte Postale as a multi-cultural tee shirt label. First, the name Carte Postale is actually French for Postcard, while it’s actually run by duo Hakim Philip who is originally from Monaco (but lived 10 years in Japan before moving to Singapore) and Singaporean-based Artist / Designer Anwar Rafiee.

Secondly, with duo language website (English & French) and international pop-culture design like Sesame Street Thriller (awesome for Halloween!) and Mummy’s Dummy and another that touches the heart of third world countries like Re: Draw Afrika, it tries to conquer the make the mark in international scene. I believe that its Debut collection can give you some ideas of diversity in Carte Postale’s imagination.

Carte Postale: Website / Facebook / Twitter

T-Shirt Blogs Round Up: The Halloween Special Edition

Blake is a contributing blogger from You Design It, an apparel printing company that focuses on custom hoodies. This post has been edited by Rangga.

When it came time to sit down and create another t-shirt blog round-up, there was no better theme for this week than Halloween. The rules were simple. Every t-shirt blog that that used Halloween in the title of their post or the theme was centered on Halloween, they made the round-up. Trick or treat folks!

Rangga’s note: Now  tell me, what scary-go-funny tee did you wear during last Halloween week?

Jordan Buckley’s Pumpkin ’09: Halloween Pumpkin gets Drawn!

Drawing is a lovely activity. Everyone is doing it — from little kids, art students to experienced artists and professionals (like architects and engineers) — either when we need to get serious works done or doing something fun like sketches in the margins of their notebooks just to kill some times.

tee t-shirt pumpkins halloween scary Jordan Buckley clothing art artist drawingHowever,a clothing label like Draw Ltd. takes drawing-awesomeness to the next level. From its perspective, all drawings are art and thus all of them should get their moment in the sun. It’s certainly true that drawing, being less polished than most modern-digital art, can be incredibly remarkable (when artists’ magic hands involved!). Because they weren’t just meant for public’s viewing pleasure, they exhibit a freedom that other art can’t match.

Draw Ltd.’s monster-themed collection is proving that drawing can hold their own on a t-shirt. After introduced previous collection Monster Clusterf**k, Lenny and Carrotman (now out of stock) — its newest t-shirt (conceptualized and created) by Jordan Buckley shows us that even sketches can get a lot of mileage out with right dose of coloring.

But maybe… it’s because Mr. Buckley, who is also the guitarist for hardcore band Every Time I Die, is not one-time doodler. Buckley has done illustrations for multiple bands, clothing companies and individuals and we’ve been lucky enough to get a few from him. I’d love to call this t-shirt Jordan Buckley’s Pumpkin ’09 ($20) which look like a great tee to scare your friends this Halloween.

T-Shirt Blogs Round Up: Halloween Tees, How to Recycle Your T-sirts, NIWL’s Dead, and More

Blake is a contributing blogger from You Design It, a company that specializes in custom t-shirt printing. This post has been edited by Rangga.

It’s that time again where we scour the t-shirt blogosphere for the articles that we think deserve a second look. Hopefully for some of you, it will be the first time you have seen them. For the ones you have seen before, take another look….there’s inspiration in these posts:

  • tee zombie bros halloween t-shirt apparel monster101 October T-Shirts (Halloween, Monsters, Zombies and Ghouls) by Coty Gonzales
    Lists are great, especially when they are 101 items long. With Halloween coming up, this is one t-shirt list that you have to see. Coty goes all out when he creates a list and this is a great example.
  • Threadless and Tate Modern Museum by Color Overload
    Threadless has teamed up with a major art museum out of the UK, Tate Modern Museum. This means good/big things for all the t-shirt designers out there. This is one contest that you don’t want to miss.
  • how-to-recycle-your-t-shirt- craft crafting tee knit art fashion How To Recycle Your Old T-Shirts from Hide Your Arms
    We all have too many t-shirts in our closets. Wait, can you really have too many t-shirts? Either way, here’s a great article on what you can do with your t-shirts when it’s time for them to retire.
  • To Share or Not to Share, That is the Question by Freelance Switch
    This blog post from Freelance Switch is not solely focused on t-shirts. In fact, it doesn’t mention T-shirts at all. The reason I included it though is because it has an overabundance of information that we all can learn from in the t-shirt industry. We’ve all had questions related to copyrights, and this is a great resource for answers.
  • johnny cupcakes inc 500 tee t-shirt apparel clothing men streetwearJohnny Cupcakes Makes the Inc. 500 List via The T Addict
    Yes, you read that title right. Johnny Cupcakes made in the Inc. 500 with over $3 million in revenue in 2008. As many of you know, Johnny cupcakes started out as a small indie t-shirt brand like many featured on Cottonable. Very inspiring stuff here!
  • Weekly Feature – Rise Laboratories via Pop Culture Tees
    This is a great little interview by the Pop Culture crew with newly launched Rise Laboratories. The Rise website is fantastic and the shirts don’t disappoint either.
  • Goodbye by Never In Wonderland
    Never In Wonderland recently announced that they are shutting down. This was a great brand that received a lot of traction. It is sad to see them go, but we wish them the best of luck in the future.
  • shirtfight streetwear tee apparel men artisticShirt Fight Over But Not Out from The T-Shirt Review
    Rude Retro covers the transition of Shirt Fight as they go from a design competition to a clothing line. See his thoughts and see what conclusion you come to.
  • The Three Wolf Moon Goes Primetime by Me :) at Thunderfrogs
    Thunderfrogs has been chronicling the story about the Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt for quite some time. It has been a top-ten selling apparel item at Amazon and now has even made it on the hit TV sitcom The Office. Read more about it at Thunderfrogs.
  • Rangga’s comment: read also my take on this funny tee