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…
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Celebrity Primates Rage Over “Rise of The Planet of the Apes”
The roaring success of “Rise of The Planet of the Apes” at the weekend Box Office prompted BlueCotton to contact a few celebrity primates for comment. “Rise of The Planet of the Apes” raked in $54 million this weekend, outpacing “Captain America: The First Avenger” and “The Smurfs.” While we were unable to reach Gargamel…
Cassette Tapes: The Zombie Media Format That Still Thrives on Threads
“Once upon a time there was something more powerful than Twitter, MySpace and Facebook combined. It was a platform that brought people together and allowed a you a chance to paint on a blank canvas with music. This, ladies and gentleman was the mixtape. For over 25s the mixtape was the status update of the…
The Top 10 Saturday Morning T-Shirts (That Might Turn Your Milk Pink)
Some things are just meant to go together. Ren and Stimpy, Batman and Robin, Bert and Ernie…so it goes for Saturday morning cartoons and breakfast cereal. Last week, I blogged about t-shirt designs inspired by firework labels. This week, I was inspired by Cheerios 70th birthday to bring you a visual smorgasbord of cereal t-shirts….
Put on Ground. Light Fuse. Get Away.
It’s only June, but I can already smell sulphur and gunpowder in the air. The hiss of fuses and the crackle of sparks push forward in memory. My fingers start to tingle. It’s almost the 4th of July. Just as kids dream of sugarplum fairies at Christmas, I dream of earth-shaking booms, neighbor-rousing whistles and…
Three Wolf BlueCotton Moon
Just the other day, Tom, our General Operations Manager, was seen wearing a new shirt he designed using our award winning Design Studio. Tom, of course, chose his favorite shirt, the American Apparel BB401, as the canvas for his Three Wolf BlueCotton Moon masterpiece. When asked about his new shirt, Tom simply listed the pros…