Sinfully Good Skull T-Shirt

I’l admit that I am not a big fan of skull t-shirts, the dearth of them on The T-Shirt Review is a testament to that fact. This t-shirt though blew me away. This design must have taken a lot of time. Even at a glance you can tell that it is special but when you really take a good look at it and understand the level of complexity and the intricacy you realize how truly impressive this t-shirt is.

The design comes from illustrator and tattoo artist Joby Cummings who kindly explained the design for the T-Shirt Review:

The 7sins shirt was an exercise in letter design conforming to the shape of a skull and making sure all of the words had symbolic placement in the geography of the design.

in the order of the placement..
greed, wrath: left brain, right brain respectively
sloth: in the forehead i always felt that to be the sleepy part of the head
envy: over the eyes leering vision
lust: eyes and nose sight and smell are very sexual
gluttony: mouth
pride: chin

Now that’s a big bowl of awesome. The design is also available as a print and for that he turned his design skills up a notch or three.

You can check out other examples from his nearly 20 years of doing illustrations as well as his tattoo work on jobycummings.com.

Review: T-Post

It’s been about six months since I made a tee post about err… T-Post. A few days ago they sent me a tee to review.  I don’t think too much has changed over their since then except for the addition of a few new tees including the latest one which is currently sitting on my desk. At first I didn’t really know what the design was, I suspected it was some type of cake but when you step back you can clearly see that it is a skull design. A pretty cool skull design at that.

The article on (the inside of) the t-shirt is about filesharing and the design of the skull is connected to the pirate imagery. Get it? It was designed by Siggi Eggertsson, who apparently gets around (as a designer) and his work has been part of everything from Dazed and Confused, Wallpaper, Wired Magazine (my personal favorite) and The New York Times, to numerous international music projects. Pretty high profile.

Let’s get back to the article on the inside of the t-shirt for a second. What is the point of it really? It’s on the inside and nobody can see it. Perhaps the guys at T-Post think that the news they are peddling is very important and that the t-shirt designs reflect the news and people will ask the wearer about them. The wearer need not worry about forgetting what it means because they can just whip it off when someone asks and read it. Or, they could just wear it inside out…

The tees cost 19  EURO  plus shipping and are paid for on a subscription basis. Just sign up with your credit card and they will charge your account every 6 weeks or so and send you a new topical tee. You can stop your subscription at any time by emailing them.