Tee shirt Design Blog: monster

Monster 3D. Bite this Cute Creature!

Meet Catherine Mc Daid, seamstress that love animals and quirky things, and Jason Ruddy, a writer and illustrator from Buckinghamshire that love to draw weird and wonderful things, and like to write stories for children.

Together they collaborate under the name of Monster Riot to make some delightful illustrations and handmade creature in order to conquer the world. One of their uber-cool T-shirt featuring , cinema-goers, happy-tralala Monster in his 3D spectacles. Gotta bite this cute creature first before they bites you!

The Shadow Puppet, Adaptations of the Classic Indonesian Epics: Mahabharata & Ramayana

The Shadow Puppet is a clothing brand that was created in September 2009 that features visions and images of Indonesia’s culture and folklore to inspire and motivate people to love their own culture. Just like wayang, standard modern daily Javanese and Indonesian vocabulary of shadow puppet, (wayang is most often associated with the puppet itself or the whole puppet theatre performance), most of the shadow puppet designs are adaptations of the classic Indonesian epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

Nerd Monster from The Secret Base in Ohio, Columbus

Do you ever know a very intelligent individual with a low profile? Or a super smart person with credentials to prove it but doesn’t give the impression of a ridiculously smart human being? Well, we called it Nerd Monster, especially if s/he only has one eye but ridiculously huge brain-juice.

Battle of the Depths: Megalodon x Leviathan

Battle of the Depths came forth from wanting to design an elaborately detailed tee shirt depicting an epic battle between Megalodon and Leviathan. Megalodon is a prehistoric Shark which is regarded as one of the largest and most powerful vertebrate creatures to have lived. Leviathan is a giant biblical sea creature mentioned in the books of Job, Isaiah, and Psalms, which is also known as one of the Seven princes of Hell- Envy.

Buy: Battle of the Depths T-shirt ($20)/ Horizon Clothing / Facebook / Twitter

Monsters Everywhere!

If you’ve been around the art t-shirt scene for a while, then you’ll know that Craig Watkins (Wotto) is a pro at putting doodles on a tee. Now these aren’t your ordinary cruddy doodles on scrap pieces of paper (what mine are like). Instead, they are characters full of life and personality. Each one is different from the next, and the possibilities are endless for Wotto and his creature creations. For the next 3 days, Tilteed is showing off some of Wotto’s fine monster making skills by featuring a super limited edition design called Monsterous ($12). Tilteed, monster, Wotto, Craig Watkins, doodle

What I especially love about Wotto’s doodle-riffic designs is the fun that I have picking out a few favorite characters. One of my favorites in this illustration is the little ghost near the bottom left corner. He looks so curious with his little top hat and well-groomed mustache. I also like the monster in the top right corner because he reminds me of the many hipsters that I see roaming around Portland, OR.

Monsterous ($12) is now available for purchase for the next three days at Tilteed. Act fast, because these monsters will run off to an unknown destination at Noon Pacific Time on Thursday, September 23, never to return again. Now’s your chance to have some monsters in your closet. Don’t worry, they won’t bite!

This T-shirts Wants You to Focus on Creativity, not Confusion

Have you stop your activities for a moment and think about life? Oh… you’re too busy to do that! Most people would answer the same. That’s why this t-shirt from Here It Self would remind you to feel Life Itself. The t-shirt, priced at only $19, try to tell you something about Life: “Birth, followed by random moments of creativity and constant confusion. A losing battle.

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Let’s focus on the creativity and not the confusion. The color is nice, blue and white, remind me of ‘Blue Screen’ situation on my PC when something bad happened.

I also love this Strange Aquatic tee ($24). It’s a design by Eric Fan aka opifan64 of Canada. Printed on our very-own itself white basic t-shirt with water-based inks. Ultra soft, 4 color print. It’s a perfect fit, comfy & wide neck, thin neck rib, non-irritant, printed label. The printed aquatic art is very nice!

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Itself is a group of creative individuals searching for the perfect fit for everyday clothes… while collaborating with up-and-coming designers from around the world for limited edition designs. Check out more new stuff from Itself tees here. After buying their tee, you can also submit your photo using your new Itself t-shirt to get more coins & free stuff! That would be exciting.

*don’t miss their recent special offer: FREE Shipping on orders over $60!

Edgy and Contemporary T-shirt Designs by MonsterThreads

I always easily fall in love with full illustration t-shirts, and these tees from MonsterThreads, that offers not only full illustration but also edgy style, has won my attention immediately. Check out this cute tee shirt with big Owl in boxer illustration. You’ll like it for the concept, for the perfect illustration, good colors, and nice 100% cotton tee.

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Who knew! MonsterThreads is build from the collaboration of international illustrators and designers such as g.s.f. (a colab based in Bangkok), Nicolas Gouny (France guy), Jacqueline Pytyck (based in Canada) and Raquel Aparicio (Spain). Monsterthreads pay no attention to trends, focusing instead on mixing fun and sophistication to constantly create exciting and original collections, season after season. Good job guys!

Another great t-shirt by MonsterThreads is Ace. It’s like putting the Ace card in a t-shirt, only, using the more contemporary illustration style. The result is a very sophisticated and unique t-shirt to wear!

My favorite from all of MonsterThreads t-shirts is Hanging Thing. Basically a different point of view of designing a tee. The illustration is actually drawn to ‘hang’ around the t-shirt neck line. That’s awesome!

Monsterthreads is also producing a range of high quality apparel including tee shirts, singlets and hoodies. Which one you like best?

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:

101 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 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 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.
Shirt 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

The Return of the Tolky Monkys Kingdom, for your Huge Sale!

Here’s the latest news from the Madrid, Spain-based clothing label — the kingdom of all fun, one-of-a-kind characters — Tolky Monkys: huge sale is happening at its online store, giving in Cottonable readers discounts up to 50% off on all items from boys and girls T-shirts, polo shirts, and even hoodies (except posters and metro-wallets). Just use this magic words (coupon code) when you check out: RECOTTONABLE and mighty 50% discount is yours. But be quick, first this coupon expires on October 1st, 2009; and second, only the first 5 readers will take advantage of it.

Tolky Monkys — run by trio Hernán Carpintero, Paco Pereira (the graphic artist), and Néstor Tejero — is a big believer of a world where ideas come to life in the form of strange beings. These guys imagine and experimentally create (draw) weird creatures… and once conceived, they produce their own stories and experience their own adventures. A monsters collection? You can’t miss Tolky Monkys tee shirt collection!