10 Alternative Mickey Mouse T-Shirts

It took me a while to collect all these Mickey Mouse t-shirts, so long in fact that by the time I get around to posting them some of them are no longer for sale. Anyway, there are still quite a few Mickey Mouse t-shirts that we can actually get excited about.

1. Bukowski at T-Post – OK, so this tee is no longer for sale but I think it is the perfect start to a list of alternative Mickey Mouse T-Shirts.

2. Cute Killer by Gprod at laFraise – Mickey and a few other cute characters get what some may say was coming to them.

3. Crossbones at Badstarz – Well, Mickey is surely no stranger to pirates.

4. AV Mouse at Springleap – As much as I dislike the folks at Springleap I have to admit that this is one of the best alternative Mickey Mouse tees I have ever seen.

5. Mouse at Disturbia – Disturbia just loves Mickey Mouse. This one is a pretty disturbing image in a totally cool way.

6. Mickey at Disturbia – Walt Disney –> Want Disturbia…get it?

7. Fallout at Disturbia – He’s barely recognizable but Mickey is in there.

8. Playmouse at Yes No Maybe – I don’t know how this could happen but…

9. Micky Freak at Coontak – The things people do to poor Mickey Mouse.

10. The Real Mouse Tee at Another Enemy – Mickey has an evil side.

You can also get some pretty awesome officially sanctioned Mickey Mouse tees in the Bloc28 Series. Check out Addict.co.uk.

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.

Magazine in a Shirt

I read a press release about this and it said it was the “world’s first magazine on a shirt” but as the magazine is printed on the inside of the shirt I think that it is more appropriate to say that it is in rather than on the shirt. To be honest, when I saw the title I expected much more from the shirt. I expected something like the ever changing newspapers that were in Minority Report. I know. Stupid me. Oh well, I can still dream. I had just read about Hewlett Packard’s MagCloud too which is like a Cafepress for magazines and I was thinking; magazines are really hot now. Anyway. Just to be clear from the beginning, the t-shirts in this store are not magazines in any traditional sense. In fact they may not be a magazine in any sense of the word but they do bear some similarities. You can subscribe to them. I was going to say that there are articles written on them but I am not sure that that is true. A similarity. It is possible that there is only one article written on each shirt. Article on a shirt doesn’t have the same ring to it though.

Anyway, one of these shirts is produced by T-Post every six weeks and delivered to your door anywhere in the world for €26 including shipping. I think the whole magazine thing is just a gimmick but they have been getting good press and have even been mentioned in magazines like Esquire and Elle. Of course The T-Shirt Review is their biggest coup yet.

Their web site is pretty sweet. I love the minimalism. You can also browse past issues. And if you want you can play a game of spot the camel toe. Trust me there is one major camel toe in there. It nearly sucked my monitor into it. Oh and they have a few nice tees too. Issue 18, as seen below is my favorite. Problem is though, you can’t get back issues.

They are based in Sweden so I guess they ship from there and they print on American Apparel t-shirts.