New Tees and Free Shipping at Threadless today

If you have been following @RudeRetro on Twitter you will already know about the free shipping at Threadless but I am here telling you again that this is a one day deal so if you are thinking of taking advantage of the offer stop thinking and start doing.

Of course, as this is Monday, there is also a new selection of tees on sale and two of them in particular caught my attention. This first one is by Matheus Lopes Castro aka Mathiole, who has been doing very well on the t-shirt contest sites over the last few weeks. It is just a cool tee.

The second is They’re Real by Jean Salamin. It is an awesome Space Invaders t-shirt and very Threadless. I think it will become a Threadless classic. When I saw the title of the piece though I was sure it would have something to do with boobs. That is the age we live in. This is a first print for okbelzoreil aka jean salamin at Threadless.

Two Wins for Mathiole at Threadless

Matheus Lopes aka Mathiole has had a lucky week. Well, as they say, you make your own luck and he does. His designs are top notch and it is no surprise to see one of them printed at the big t-shirt competition sites like Threadless or Design by Humans but to have two tees printed at the same time at the same site is a bit of a surprise and a very nice Christmas bonus for him. Both tees are included in the sale too and are available for $15 until Wednesday (tomorrow?).

Both of the designs clearly show that this artist thinks outside of the box. Not only do I like the tees, I think that they are something that I could wear. Yes, the fact is that a lot of the t-shirts reviewed here, even the ones I like, are not always something that I would wear myself. Of course a part of that is becuse I am in my thirties and don’t want to wear something too flashy. Anyway click on the tees images to see them at Threadless.

New Threadless Tees Answer Questions

Well, it is Monday which means that Threadless have released new t-shirts but it is Cyber Monday and maybe that is why they released 12 new tees (15 if you count Type Tees and Select). There are several very cool t-shirts this time round but I will only mention two. The first one is a very clever design called Don’t Trust In Cute Bunnies by Matheus Lopes Castro aka Mathiole. This shirt uses amazing UV ink, that becomes visible in direct sunlight. Elements of the the design may not be visible indoors. Go outside to check it out! This would have been perfect for the post I wrote before about bloody cute animals.

The next one I chose because it is a very clever take on the “Which came first; the chicken or the egg?” conundrum. OK, so this design fails to answer the question but it is cute. It is Photo Finish by Neil Gregory.

The good news is that the Threadless sale is still going on and you can even get discounts on some, if not all, of the new t-shirts.

DBH10K 5th Place

Well, my favorite DBH10K entry placed 5 in the competition so I am a little disappointed for Mathiole but fortunately the t-shirt is going to be printed and he will be rewarded for his entry. There are four t-shirts left in the running and the runners up will be announced each day for the next few days. Mathiole’s t-shirt is already on sale for those who want to wear what in my opinion is the best t-shirt to come out of Design by Humans in a long time.

Final 5 at DBH10K

Design by Humans have shortlisted 5 designs for the DBH10K t-shirt design competition. The winner will receive a whopping $10,000 and I am happy to say that all three that I voted for out of the 10 made it through to the final. Of the five I just voted for one design: Mathiole’s Sea Sick Symphony. Voting ends soon though so make your voice heard.

And then there were 10

Design by Humans have announced the ten finalists in their DBH10K competition where the winner will receive $10,000. Niiiiice. I like. So head over there and vote for your favorites. I have. Well, I voted for three of them. I do have one favorite though. It’s Sea Sick Symphony by Mathiole. It is a great piece that looks like a watercolor that was painted in the sixties and left in a basement for years. And I mean that in a good way.

The other designs are really good too but the standard was very high so I can only imagine the difficulty of selecting 10 from the 500 or so entries.