tokidoki onesies

Tokidoki, for the uninitiated, is the artwork and merchandise of one of my favourite illustrators Simone Legno. As if tokidoki's normal human sized stuff wasn't cool enough - there are now rediculously cute products available for tiny sized humans. Adorable.

Naive: Giving it all Away

Naive have some really nice shirts, and best of all they fall in to the "affordable" category (my favourite). Being nice kids they donate a bit of money from each sale to assorted charities. At the moment if you buy any of their shirts you will also get free access to download some tunes from bands that you may or may not like. These include Anberlin, Sherwood and bunch of others that are on Naive's sponsorship roster. Looks like Hydro 74 has been helping them out with some of their newer stuff too.

Cupcakes anyone?

Sweet stuff (of the tshirt variety) can be found at Johnny Cupcakes. I particularly like their attention to detail with stuff like back prints and cool tags making the whole experience a little bit nicer. They have just recently released some new designs and as if that isn't enough they also have belts, bags, bling and undies for sale too.

Justice D.A.N.C.E.

Ok, yes this video is a couple of months old, but this blog is new, and I just had to put up the clip (despite the fact that I'm not a fan of video posts) from French duo Justice - it's like porn for tshirt freaks... And if you were wondering the artist responsible for all the amazing designs is So Me, the art director at Ed Banger records, whom Justice is signed to.

designgive: cause for design

Designgive is a great new site that gives designers an oppurtunity to promote their work and contribute to charities as well. Some great designers are on the initial roster including Brooke Nunez, Scott Bartlett, Sauerkids and Si Scott (who seems to be doing everything at the moment).

If you buy one of the shirts, long sleeve ts, or a hoody are able to choose from a list of charities and a donation from each purchase will be made on your behalf. Additionally, if you are a designer you can get involved in the project too. Oh, the prices are good too.

Seen at: joshspear.com

Limited Shirts from Hydro 74

Hydro 74 (aka Joshua Smith) has long been one of my favourite illustrators/designers. Print, apparel, illustration, exhibitions, typography - he can do it all. His work has adorned tshirts from labels including Etnies, Emerica, Vans, Quicksilver, Rip Curl, Split and Burton Snowboards to name just a few, but these brand new Hydro 74 shirts are some of the sweetest yet. If you want to get your hands on one of these, you better email Joshua and pre-order now, he's only printing a limited run and they are sure to go fast.

Update 16.06.07: These shirts can now be puchased here

Welcome to Death By Tshirt

Hello and welcome. I'm sure that you are aware that there are many tshirt blogs already out there, but for me all of these have lacked... something. Or perhaps they haven't lacked anything, but instead have crammed their pages full of every tshirt under the sun. That's where death by tshirt aims to be different! As a lover of design and illustration and tshirts, I will be bringing you the best the art and design world has to offer - in tshirt format. No crappy slogans. No witty, yet ugly ideas. No "great idea but you'd have to kill me to get that shirt on my body" shirts. I think you get the idea. Only outstanding tshirts that look great and that I actually like. I hope you like them too.