Ok, so the actual title of the shirt is “kwaaaaaak”. I figured walkman speaking was a little more descriptive, so sue me (er, I don’t mean you, Sony). This pretty awesome line drawing shirt features an old Walkman popped open, showing the all too familiar sight of a cassette that has malfunctioned and whose tape has sprung a leak. In this case, however, said leak makes the resultant image look like a mouse, thus the kwaaaaaak. Funny old throwback shirt, throwback colors, sweet design. And once more for the fun of it.. kwaaaaaak. (Available at Design By Humans)
Crazy psychedelic dream kind of shirt. Obviously Pink Floyd inspired, but the rowboat floating out of the water into or over the rainbow is pretty wild. (Available at Design By Humans)
Bloody ninjas. Is there anything they can’t do? This DBH shirt has a ninja with a bloody sword assaulting the viewer. So, I am bound by ethics to post it. (Available at Design By Humans)
I’m not sure what swarms really look like real close up, but I imagine it’s at best a chaotic mess of violence and mob mentality. The swarm of bees on this shirt is a bit frightening, but in that good sort of way. Or at least in that I really like the design and wish to wear your swarm kind of way. (Available at Design By Humans)
I suppose this is more of a suicide flight than a free, divine, fun kind of flight, but I still think it’s a pretty image. Even if the man is about to plummet to his death, the city underground and the freedom (okay, so he seems a little free) he exhibits is pretty awesome.. if, sad. (Available at Design By Humans)
I know exactly what I like about this shirt. The image is cool, the way the astronaut is depicted in contrast, yadda yadda. What makes the shirt is the reflection in the spaceman’s helmet – seeing his partners in golf (it’s a foursome, right?), the flag.. that’s pretty awesome. (Available at Design By Humans)
Not a lot to say here, there is an astronaut zooming through the stars on a skateboard. I’ll repeat, spaceman skating on a skateboard. Yep. (Available at Design By Humans)
Pretty awesome stuff. I’ve never completely “understood” Charlie Brown, but he’s at very least a likable sad sack. I suppose this, the dark Charlie Brown, is the inverse of that, what with it’s reverse color shirt and skulls and such. Emo C. Brown? Actually, I guess the inverse of Chuck would be an extremely happy and self-confident guy. So really, this is just what he probably wears on weekends, or perhaps when he hits high school. Charlie Brown is already pretty dark, this just seems like what he’d wear when he starts buying his own clothes. (Available at Design By Humans)
The designer’s description of this shirt describes the depicted city as one inhabited by weird and curious creatures. Yep, that sounds about right. The creatures almost remind me of Where the Wild Things Are, giant monstrous benevolent curious beings. Pretty neat t-shirt you can get lost in, like an old Dr. Seuss drawing. (Available at Design By Humans)
I’ll be honest and admit I’m not entirely sure what I’m looking at. Like a shirt I just posted, I just think it looks awesome. The sea blue and yellow color scheme, the faded almost printed look, the industrial scene – it’s a cool looking t-shirt. Given the title of “fallen industry”, it’s perhaps meant to symbolize a lack of factory jobs? I don’t know, it looks cool and I would wear it. (Available at Design By Humans)
This is one of those t-shirts that kind of speaks for itself, no? If a deer or elk or caribou etc. were to happen to jump ever so high into the air in the middle of a thunderstorm, they might risk getting hit by lightning and having their antlers blown off. Or maybe, because of the snow, the deer’s antlers froze and they got stuck in the cloud and broke off? Perhaps this doesn’t speak for itself and I don’t even know what it’s trying to say. Either way, it’s a pretty sweet picture for the front of a t-shirt. That’s kind of all I need to know, anyway. (Available at Design By Humans)
I’m not sure exactly what this t-shirt reminds me of – The Old Man and the Sea, perhaps – but I like the shirt. A single man, battling against the aggressive ocean in his gondolier. (Available at Design By Humans)
I think this one pretty much speaks for itself. Awesome design, reminds me of a graffiti artist heading out to tag up the town with all of the color, the serious look on the man’s face, etc. The faces on the boom box’s speakers win the design, though. (Available at Design By Humans)
He did the Monster Mash (the monster mash!). I get that stuck in my head about once a month – often the mom from Freaks and Geeks singing it, in fact. Either way, let’s see what we have here. A mummy, Frankenstein, a merman, a skull, a vampire, a Jack-o-lantern, and hmm. I wonder if that last one is supposed to be a werewolf or if I’m looking at scales and not fur. Either way, a great Halloween t-shirt with the standard monsters – mashed up (yeah, I know, I’m sorry about that). (Available at Design By Humans)
Says the designer:
As the nerve gas permeated their skin and life grasped their torn bodies, the long lost love that was taken so abruptly many years ago was soon rekindled among the cold gravestones.
I love when the designers have good quotes. It does answer a couple (but not all) of the questions I have about love and zombies, though. Surely an educational (zombie) t-shirt if I have ever witnessed one.
(Available at Design By Humans)
As the designer says, everyone knows that kids love candy, but what happens when candy loves kids? I think of this like the discarded and unclaimed Halloween candy on November 1st forming up into a monster to avenge itself. In my house growing up, we just gnawed away at it. I had my stash of candy from trick or treating, and my parents had their stash of whatever was left over. I like this idea better, since it does, in fact, look kind of like the crappy candy that no kid really wants (though I’ll accept the argument that the monster kind of looks like it’s made of Sweet Tarts, which are awesome).(Available at Design By Humans)
A number of Halloween themed t-shirts coming up! Nothing like a good origin story, right? Here Dr. Frankenstein is catapulting his Frankenstein creation to life. It’s just like Darwin theorized.(Available at Design By Humans)
I’ve never been a paramilitary soldier, awaiting extraction. The only flares I’ve ever lit were the little road flares, and I’m pretty sure we didn’t really need them, and merely wanted to light the road flares. But I’m pretty sure that if I were a soldier, awaiting extraction, that I would absolutely love to have a strawberry popsicle to eat while I held up my smoke flare to signal the chopper coming to rescue me from enemy territory. Wouldn’t you? (Available at Design By Humans)
There was a discussion during the initial phase of this shirt about how it could never win – too many colors in a wraparound t-shirt, or something. I’m glad they figured out whatever they have to figure out, though. Rarely has an octopus shirt looked so colorful. (Available at Design By Human)
Not much to say about this one – helpless red riding hood off to visit her Grandma in the forest. The Brothers Grimm would have appreciated this one. I really like the single color isolation thing in general, and it fits really well with little red here. (Available at Design By Humans)
Update: If you’re into a more disturbed Red Riding Hood look, check out this alternative.
