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Teejunction in Japan

fletchy — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:24:08 +0000

Hey Tee-Junction, as some of you who read my personal blog may know – I get about a bit. No, not like that, I mean I like to travel! I’ve been living in New Zealand for the past year, which was somewhat of an accident following some months of travel in Asia. I’m now moving back to Germany, which is where I used to live and on the way I’m stopping in Japan for 10 days, I’m writing this post from my hotel lobby in Shinjuku, Tokyo which is where they filmed Lost in Translation.

I’ve always wanted to go to Japan, because I always thought it was as close to using the forward button on a time machine as possible, baring in mind we’re still a little behind sci-fi on those little beauties. Now I am here I’ve reformed my view on Japan being the technological future of all humanity, it’s more a weird, fun, little place where they’ve automated and developed technology that you absolutely don’t need, like the robo-potty toilet, humping dog usb sticks, automatic taxi doors, flashing video/neon signs.

Here is a video of my giving a tour round a capsule hotel:

Japanese Capsule Hotel Tour from adam fletcher on Vimeo.

It’s been a great 10 days or so for me and my girlfriend Annett who’ve wandered around the streets in a daze, rode bicycles in Kyoto, visited a love hotel in Osaka, found a shop where you can buy underwear pre-worn by japanese girls, been to the International Manga museum in Kyoto, visited a Christian and Mental Asylum themed bars in Tokyo and more that I’ve forgotten, but will be handily documented in my photos.

T-shirt wise, I’ve been a little disappointed. It seems the Japanese are going crazy for Western inspired streetwear/vintagewear. So there are loads of vintage, stores selling California surf style clothing, I’m sure there’s much more authentic Japanese shopping available and I plan to do some more tomorrow on our last day. There are also Japanese shops for well known international brands like X-large and Graniph (who wouldn’t let me take photos).

Here is a photo album of some of the clothing related images I’ve taken.

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Funkrush Review and 15% off Coupon Code

thunderfrogs — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:19:19 +0000

Andy from Thunderfrogs here again, this time with a real-life review of designer tee-store Funkrush. Funkrush is owned and operated by Pete Harrison (aka aeiko), a freelance graphic designer. He also operates SuperCombo, which specialises in geeky gaming tees and jewellery.

I love the “Happy Death Brigade” t-shirt, a collaboration between Funkrush and TADO – so much so that in January, I bought it! The cutesy oriental-style characters, inscrutable text, and emotional oscillation combine in a rich design that gives the impression of something being lost in translation.

The t-shirt is made out of a blend of 100% cotton and 100% funk – at least, that’s what the custom tag says. The use of an undercoat layer of white ink means that the coloured sections are extra bright and punchy. The t-shirt itself is very comfortable as despite the relatively thick plastisol ink, the printed area is not huge.

Revisiting the site last week I noticed the very reasonable price of the art prints. The one that caught my eye (and opened my wallet) was the 88 Ghosts print by Olly Moss. Yes, that Olly Moss. And that Olly Moss.

My fellow Tee-Junctioners Adam and Coty also took advantage of the 88 Ghosts for only £5, which I think represents fantastic value – that’s 17.6 ghosts per £1, or less than 6p per ghost! (Even less if you use the exclusive discount code at the bottom of this post!)

The promised ‘high-quality postage tube’ lived up to expectations, as the print soon arrived safe and sound. The titular apparitions are rendered in vivid colour, on a great quality glossy A3 print. Included are a bikini ghost, zombie ghost, y-front ghost, and many more!

I’ve only scratched the surface of the Funkrush store here, so check out the full collection which includes t-shirts, hoodies, prints, stickers, badges, and socks. Use the discount code TEEJUNCTION to save 15% on anything in store!

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Hey nature, why don’t you class things up a bit?

James F - T-Shirt Connoisseur — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:07:26 +0000

James from T-Shirt Connoisseur here. I’ve always been a fan of Amorphia Apparel, and although the FAQ is informative (not to mention hilarious) I have always wanted to know more about the man behind the shirts, Jeremy Kalgreen. Now I wonder no more:

_Q: Amorphia Apparel is 3 years old now, how has the project differed from what you set out to create?_

Honestly the whole thing was really just an accident, so I’d say compared to what I set out to do it is completely unrecognizable. Once upon a time I decided it would be a fun project to teach myself to silkscreen, that way I could just make my own shirts as one-offs and have a totally unique wardrobe.

I did a new batch of shirts once every nine months or so, but as it turned out I was pretty terrible at it. So when the time came around to do another batch I decided to look into the online printers I had heard about. All I wanted was a single shirt depicting a design of my own creation (printed competently) and suddenly there were services out there specializing in just that, hoo ray!

So I signed up with Spreadshirt, vectored up a few designs and prepared to place my order. As it happens, my car broke down the day before I was planning on placing my order, and since I was a broke art student at the time, it meant I wouldn’t be spending any money on shirts for a while. Originally I had my shop set to private, since I wasn’t intending to be a shirtsmith, but I figured it might be a month or two before I scrounged up enough cash to place my order so I figured I might as well set my shop to public and who knows I might sell a shirt or two in the meantime.

It turns out I had greatly underestimated the demand, and now designing shirts is how I make my living.

_Q: Who would win in a no-holds-barred drum solo contest: Godzilla or a T-Rex?_

No Holds Barred Drum Solo Battle Royale

Godzilla for sure, not that he’s necessarily a better drummer, but he is flanked by a dark cult of lawyers that will find some diabolical scheme to undermine our poor buddy T-Rex.
_Q: Have you ever been forced to take down any designs? Any regrets?_

Oh sure, it used to happen from time to time. When I first started out I would include more pop culture parody type stuff, and having seen so many other t-shirt purveyors do the same; I guess I just assumed it was covered by fair use. A number of corporations saw things a little differently, but luckily I wasn’t selling enough at the time for them to really bother coming after me so all I’ve ever gotten was an occasional C&D.

The above hinted at Godzilla playing the drums was the first one that got smacked down. The only one that stung was the fine folks at Merge records requested I remove the shirt I made to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Neutral Milk Hotel’s amazing “Aeroplane Over the Sea”. I made that particular shirt (featuring a stylized rendition of the recordplayer/plane seen here) because it gave me a way to evangelize for a band I love and because I had always simply really wanted that exact shirt, but unfortunately it doesn’t exist in any official capacity. When I make a shirt like that it’s not cash in on someone else’s work (in fact that kind of thing sells significantly worse than just a design I’d make normally) but as a love letter, you know? So it is sad to see a love letter met with the threat of legal action.

Alas.

_Q: What is your experience using a t-shirt fulfillment service? If you had to start again would you do screen printing instead?_

I love working with Spreadshirt. There is no way in hell I’d do it silkscreen if I had to do it over again. I want to do the fun part: designing shirts, building websites the creative stuff! I don’t want to have to deal with the boring stuff: billing, shipping, managing inventory and all that noise. But most importantly it leaves me with basically zero overhead and that zero overhead gives me absolute freedom to experiment.

I can make a new design and bring it to market and it doesn’t cost me a penny. If I was silkscreening I’d have to thrown money down up front to make the screens and to print my first batch. That means I’d have to be sure the design would sell, or else I risk losing my shirt. With Spreadshirt I’m free to just try things out, anything that pops into my head is fair game. The only rule is that it has to amuse me, if it does that then we are good to go. Even if it is a joke that only myself and probably two other people in the world might find funny then so be it, I’ll roll with it. If something doesn’t stick no worries. I guarantee you I wouldn’t be in this business today without that flexibility to experiment freely and find what really seems to work for me.

_Q: Can you tell us about your “Wear the Controversy” line? What inspired it? Has it caused any controversy?_

I think it was the Dover School District intelligent design court case that really got me rolling on the idea. When discussing the issue I kept finding myself saying arguing that “teaching the controversy” of evolution in schools is like teaching the ‘round earth’ controversy in science class. Sure there are people out there even today who devoutly and sincerely believe that that earth is flat and we should respect their nutty beliefs yadda, yadda, but that doesn’t change the fact that is an insurmountable scientific consensus on the issue. Sometimes I’d end up using different analogies then the Flat/Round earth ‘debate’ and after a while I realized collecting a bunch of these together could make an amusing line of shirts.

I think the only controversy it has actually caused is by people who didn’t get the joke. I’ve never gotten any angry letters from the pro-ID types, but I get a surprising amount from people who don’t realize the whole premise is sarcastic. I don’t really think we should teach about The Stork in sex ed class.

_Q: Have you ever walked down the street and seen a stranger wearing one of your designs?_

Indeed I have. The first guy was walking past my house while I was sitting on the porch and he was wearing a design I had been selling through Urban Outfitters at the time. His shirt had caught my eye and it took me a second to realize why, and by that time he was a half block away. Since it was the first time I spotted one of my shirts in the wild I jumped up and yelled ‘Hey! Dude! Hey!” He responded by scurrying off double time.

As a rule if I spot anyone about beautiful Columbus, Ohio wearing something of mine I’ll buy them a drink, so any of you kids out there frequent Hound Dogs be sure to wear your fine Amorphia designs.

_Q: What was your reaction to having your “We Can Live” t-shirt design show up on The IT Crowd?_

Relief. I had signed off on it a few months before hand so it wasn’t exactly a surprise, but I did the same thing for ‘The Big Bang Theory’ and after signing the contract I told everyone that one of my shirts were going to be on TV. Half my family watched every episode of the first season like an aerie of hawks, but alas they never ended up using it.

_Q: Can we get a sneak peak of some upcoming designs?_

As a matter of fact I do have a Super Secret Project X in the works, and I suppose an exclusive sneak preview would be in order. A little background: I was quite inebriated one evening after a night of gallivanting with some pals. Upon returning to my fireside I decided to play around with illustrator for a bit and I made the image you see here.

Sir Groundhog

For some reason this classy groundhog picture left my inebriated self endlessly amused; I don’t know if it was something about the expression on his face that still just cracks me up. So on the spot I decided to do a bunch of them: Critters in top hats and gloves wearing monocles.

This is a great example of what I was talking about earlier: being free to just fool around with designs. I’m used to having more ‘high concept’ lineups but even I don’t really know what the hell the points of these are. Hey nature, why don’t you class things up a bit? It might be my worst idea ever, but all I know is that it makes me laugh so I’m just going to run with it.

So in a few weeks SirCritter.com will be a full fledged member of the Amorphia family with a starting line-up of 15 new designs. Heck I’ll even throw in a jpeg of what’s probably my favorite one, Sir Jellyfish.

Sir Jelly Fish

_Q: What do you think is your most underrated tee?_

I’d have to go with Roach Celebration; it is one of my all time favorite designs, and it is a respectable seller but never quite top tier. I think it has it all, it’s a bit dark but lighthearted at the same time and the joke requires at least a little outside knowledge.

Roach Celebration

_Q: Why is a no-good, lazy former arts student so interested in science, anyway?_

Well I’m just a nerd at heart I guess. And I think the process between Art and Science is so strikingly similar I’m surprised there isn’t more overlap between people with a strong interest in both.

_Q: One last question, you have a respectable number of dinosaur and robot themed t-shirts; what is your take on this ?_

It’s like they extracted my dreams and posted them on the web.

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Exclusive 10% off Uneetee Discount Code

fletchy — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:13:46 +0000

Good news folks, after frequent requests the kind people at Uneetee have agreed to offer us all a tee-junction exclusive 10% off code.

Over the past year or so I’ve watched Uneetee grow from fledgling one design, one day contest into one of the strongest design contests out there. In terms of quality of output, design community and customer service they’d definitely be in my top 5 design contest sites, probably my top 3.

I haven’t written about them that much here on Tee-Junction, partly because there are plenty of other sites that already are (SOS covers them pretty much every day), so I’m pleased to have an opportunity to today.

1. About Uneetee

Uneetee have tried lots of novel concepts to sell shirts, which can be a little confusing at first, but I like the experimental nature of the site. They also very transparently reveal artist earnings which is really great. Uneetee means “One Tee”. The word “unee” is a play on the prefix “uni”, which means “one”.

I thought they used to do one day, one shirt but it now seems they are doing two a week announced every monday, one featured artist shirt and one vote winner. But I might have got that wrong, the site is not particularly clear. Unless on daily special the shirts are usually $18.99 or $19.99.

The prize for the weekly winner is a competitive $1500, as its a design contest of course you get to pick who that winner is by voting. Lets take a look at some recent winners:

2. Top 5 Uneetee T-shirts

Melting Freeze pops (left) and Redux (right). Bright, simple and if you spent as much of your childhood eating Mr Freeze icepops as I did, you’ll also have fillings and good memories of Ice Pops. Redux because its a beautiful illustration and I’m a Nipponophile (that a word?), I’ll be in Japan in just six weeks, woohoo!

The Predator (left) and Underwater Fight (right) are selected for similar reasons bold iconic design that stops you in your tracks. Which is exactly what good art should do.

I’ll always been a music junkie. Great music makes you feel alive like few other things can, well few other positive things anyway. Combine six strings, human creativity and more than a sprinkle of practice and perseverance and the most amazing things are created. Which is brilliantly depicted here in Music Tree. I love this shirt.

3. Uneetee special offers, money saving tips and 10% off Coupon Code

There are a few ways to save money when shopping at Uneetee.

Firstly you’ve got the Daily Insaneetee, one shirt, one day $10. They kindly display a timer on the site so you can see just how long you’ve got left. If you’re a 24 fan why not wait until you’ve only one minute remaining them race through checkout and see if you can make it in time!

Secondly there’s the $6 Mystery Shirt. This is just like buying a regular shirt only you’ve no idea what shirt will arrive, it my friend, will be a mystery. Some people like mystery’s, some people don’t, we all like $6 shirts. Feeling lucky punk?

Thirdly you’ve got our 10% off Uneetee Discount Code, yeah an exclusive Uneetee Coupon Code, finally! Just enter TeeJunc at checkout to save. You can’t use this on the $12 pre-sale or Insaneetee I’m afraid and its only good for one use. Not sure if you can get around that by opening up a new account, but I’m sure you wouldn’t be that sneaky anyway now would ya?

Link: Uneetee

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Christmas in July at Busted Tees – Busted Tees Coupon Code

fletchy — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:50:10 +0000

Christmas in July special at Busted Tees. A new shirt every day, makes 31 each available at pre-sale price for its first day. Plus tee-junctions exclusive 10% off coupon code!

A lot of new shirts coming your way in the christmas in july special. Each day the shirt goes up you can snag it for $13.99, or about $12.50 if you use our exclusive coupon code show below. Enjoy!

Some of our favourite shirts:

Current Busted Tees Coupons: Enter “tjunction” on checkout to save 10%

Current Busted Tees Sales: Introductory offer, each new shirt just $13.99 for one day.

More Busted Tees special offers, discount codes, bustedtees coupon codes coming soon here at tee-junction so stop and bookmark us to save.

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Anyone for Threadless Gift Vouchers?

fletchy — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:09:45 +0000

The sales on, summers coming, its Threadless – you know the drill. So you’ve 4 days left to stock up on new threads. If you want ever so slightly cheaper and you want to help fund a little bit of my travels around Asia (currently Vietnam). I’ll toast to you when i’m drinking $0.50 beer) then you can buy a gift voucher from me.

Heres the info:

$25 voucher for $20
$50 voucher for $40
$100 voucher for $78

Just mail me (adamdeletethispartfletcher) @ gmail.com or use the contact form.

Update 08.10.09 – I’m no longer in Vietnam, no longer drinking $0.50 beer but the Threadless sale is extended, gift vouchers still available!

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Spreadshirt Exclusive Discount Code, Spreadshirt Promotional Code for $3, £2, €3 off

fletchy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:14:21 +0000

Spreadshirt have now offered Tee-junction readers an exclusive $3, £2, €3 off code. Go create some unique clothing from the best design your own company.

Current Special Offers: None.

Current Coupon Codes:

SPREADTJUNCTION, $3 off a $10 minimum spend, £2 (€3) off a £7 (€10) for the EU. Valid until: 15/05/08

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About Spreadshirt: If you don’t know Spreadshirt they are an awesome apparel platform. You can design your own apparel from over 80 products. Buy it yourself, sell it in your own free shop or offer the design for everybody in the Spreadshirt marketplace. Buy quantities as low as one. The t-shirt creator tool is easy to use, with the most advanced features for a company in this area. Their flock and flex printing is long lasting and again superior in quality to their competition (disclaimer I used to work for them so i’m a touch biased).

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Save 15% at Choiceshirts with our Choiceshirts.com Coupon, Discount Code!

fletchy — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:07:11 +0000

Save 15% at Choiceshirts’ huge range of slogan and humour shirts! Another tjunction exclusive discount for you.

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You gotta be quick for this one, the 15% off runs on everything but only until the end of March. If its working out well for us and them, it’ll get extended

Current Coupons: csctjunction will save you 10%. Expires End of March

Current Sale: Many discounted shirts in the sale category from as little as $9.98 (before the 15%). Browse the sale section.

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About Choiceshirts:

Choiceshirts has something for everyone, a huge range from slogan based st patricks day fare, to Graphic shirts a little more artistic in style. If the hundred of shirts they don’t offer aren’t enough for you, you can use their Choicestudio and make your own.

They also have a free shipping special, when you order 3 or more shirts you get free US shipping. International shipping is a heavy $19.95 so your going to want to order big when you do order.

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21% off EVERYTHING at Vintage Vantage – Vintage Vantage Coupon Code, Discount Code!!

fletchy — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:53:33 +0000

Another exclusive code for you folks, the great guys at Vintage Vantage are offering you 21% off everything!

Brilliant, simple tongue in cheek humour is whats on offer at Vintage Vantage. You can find that humour across the sites, in the images, language and shirts. Its a seductive little cocktail.

All new shirts are $22.50, sale shirts for $10 but don’t forget you save another 21% on top of that with our exclusive discount code. We and VV really are too kind to you.

Here are some $10 ($8 after discount) sale shirts for you to look at:

Current Vintage Vantage Coupon Codes: Use TJUNCTION for 21% off. This code has no expiry date!

Current Vintage Vantage Sales: Yep, only the “biggest, baddest $10 retirement sale ever” all the shirts above are featured in it.

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Lintyfresh 20% off Coupon Code, Discount Code and Promotional Offers

fletchy — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:39:30 +0000

Save 20% on the excellent range of bitchin’ shirts at Linty Fresh with our Tjunction Coupon Code.

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Yep the kind people at Linty Fresh are offering an exclusive discount for the readers of Tjunction. Now you can save 20% on all their shirts and buttons. If you don’t know LintyFresh you can find out more about them and their shirts below:

Fish Etc ($16), Once Upon a War ($12) and Real Heroes ($12)

New shirts are $20, older shirts are $15 when not in a sale. So after the 20% thats $16 a new shirt and $12 for more established designs. They also sell button packs for the bargain price of$3, they look a little like the one below.

Current Linty Fresh Coupon Codes: Use LINTYJUNCTION for 20% off. This code has no expiry date!

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Current Linty Fresh Sales: None at present.

About Linty Fresh: Linty Fresh is a small one man operation designing, ordering, dispatching you name it, he does it. So support Linty Fresh and help out the little guy. Print runs are tiny (about 10 a shirt) so shirts are rare and you’re not like to run into someone else with the same design which happens at bigger sites like Threadless. Checkout is via paypal. Shipping prices are dependent on order size, so will reduce the more you buy. They also have a blog at linty-fresh.blogspot.com

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