In one of my previous posts, I compiled a list of 20 Awesome Pop-Culture Mashup T-Shirt Designs. In that post, one of featured designs was a mashup of the iconic “Calvin & Hobbes” wagon image (see right) and “Star Wars.” It featured Han Solo and Chewbacca in a toy Millennium Falcon in the drawing style…
Author: Michael Dunn
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Tees in the News for the Last Week of August 2011
JC Penny Pulls “Sassy” Tee for Tween Girls Yesterday, the women-focused entertainment blog, The Frisky, posted a brief piece calling out retailer JC Penny on a shirt targeting young girls. The shirt was printed with the statement, “I’m too pretty to do homework, so my brother has to do it for me.” Jessica Wakeman, the…
Designosaurus Rex: Dinos in the BlueCotton Design Studio
Twenty-one years ago tomorrow, on August 12, 1990, Susan Hendrickson made an amazing discovery. In a cliff face near Faith, South Dakota, Hendrickson found what would turn out to be the largest Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton in known existence. Eventually named “Sue”–after its discoverer–the skeleton was very well-preserved and over 90 percent complete. By now you…
“The Move” Could Let You Wear Your iPhone or iPod Touch
Would you like to wear your iPhone? No, I don’t mean storing it in one of those dorktastic belt-clip cases or wearing it as a lanyard. I literally mean wear it–embedded in your clothing! Well, a new prototype iPhone case/holder known simply as “The Move” could allow you to do just that. “The Move” is…
Brand Your Custom T-Shirts with DIY Fabric Labels [Video]
If you’re not one of them yourself, you may not know that many of our customers at BlueCotton aspire to create their own branded clothing lines. Using our one-of-a-kind design studio, several clients create entire collections of designs as a start to their very own brand of unique t-shirts. If you’re one of those people,…
20 Things You Never Knew About T-shirts [Infographic]
(Update 2/15/2016: Inspired by this infographic, we’ve written a more in-depth post covering 55 facts you probably never knew about t-shirts that you can read here.) Infographics have easily become one of my favorite things on the Internet. When done right, they can be an effective and elegant way to display a set of information….