dime-a-dozen design spooge

I don't know. It's a cross between those "tribal" tattoos, "flame" bowling shirts, and nu-metal album covers. Someone needs to cook up a website where people can automatically design these things, sort of like that presidential seal designer site from a couple of years ago. Then everyone can go crazy and we'll never have to see these things again, because nothing kills something off like a two week internet fad.

The second one is quite nice.

This is screamo's legacy.

what's the name of the clothing company that's big w/ MMA and XTREME sports right now?

Zab Judah wore their trunks this weekend, but the name escapes me

http://alejo31.pbwiki.com/f/metallica_-_load-front%5B1%5D.jpg

god, spooge is totally the right word. kinda hate this

http://www.afflictionclothing.com/

Not exactly a dime a dozen...

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/4710/picture1gm8.png

stop hating goths, we're runnin shit now anyway

heh, i figured this was all due to some new crop of design program plugins

seems like all the shirts at the stores right now are either plaid/striped 'vintage' shirts, or shit w/ these graphics or horrible stitched designs

Insofar as commercial graphics is concerned, these designs are good. I wouldn't buy a t-shirt with the skull on it, but some of the other designs at the site are good enough to wear. However, any designer who'd buy one of those "packs" deserves to be stripped of his Mac immediately.

This one is wearable:

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/7572/imageuploadimagesg8.jpg

i don't even use a Mac so i'm in the clear (xp)

Generally, though, the art there is just too blatantly commercial to be interesting.

Yeah, see, I'm kind of happy to see that chain stores have finally returned to selling print t-shirts that aren't all fake-distressed "old" or semi-ironic (high-school gym t-shirt, old Frosted Flakes ad only in Japanese, state tourism t-shirts, Atari, etc.), and I am cool with it when people can really pull off some of the bright-ass heavy neon print drapey t-shirts that are around these days (like that kind of Chicago rap-hister / electro look, neon print hoodies and skinny pants and giant near-flowing print t-shirts) -- but yeah, I feel like some stores have just jumped into insane crap with the print t-shirts, especially when it comes to this kind of super busy shadowed skulls-and-laurels "regalia" stuff. I was trying to grab a cheap non-sweaty t-shirt to change into at a Forever 21 the other day, and it was just piles of this stuff.

^^ mostly referring to the first image Tracer posted -- imagine shirts irregularly plastered with hundreds of those, displayed under hoodies that are the same, only color-reversed

Similar design from Upper Playground:

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7294/picture2at0.png

OMG libcrypt you get Abbott's Hero of August award for discovering those vector sets.

i would buy a So-Me vector set

Yeah, see, I'm kind of happy to see that chain stores have finally returned to selling print t-shirts that aren't all fake-distressed "old" or semi-ironic

Not so in the UK - right now there seems to be a rash of people walking around wearing football-ish T-shirts with <Japanese city name> <some number> printed on them. Like "KYOTO" with a huge "9" underneath it.

My Indian coworker has shirts like that, presumably from India, but they say 'flirty' type things. My favorite one says

HOT TIE

And he's quite fluent in English so I am surprised he hasn't realised this space inserted changes the phrases meaning somewhat?

Flirty things instead o a city or team name.

http://www.xtremecoutureclothingstore.com/store/images/xtc_main_banner.jpg

wtf "couture"

if this wuz france they could be sued for misuse of that word

Shit is useful as 'stay away' warnink.

WHAT do you think about Juicy's use of the word, elmo?

I think it's a reference to a UFC meathead.

It is the last name of Dainty Male Model #2. First name: Randy.

but the really sad sad thing is that i am currently working on BRANDING a line of shirts that have this sort of ATTITUDE

which would be very funny to me if it didn't directly involve my paycheck

There is nothing funny about labor in exchange for currency. ;_;

i think juicy 'couture' is also dumb, i mean unless those shitty terrycloth sweatsuits are hand-sewn

OTM!!!!! Thank you.

T/S: this vs. ed hardy bullshit

haha trick question

buh THIS bcz at least it isn't ALWAYS insultingly expensive. And I don't have to wear either of them.

I saw Ed Hardy cologne somewhere - does it smell like tattoo shop (disinfectant, cigarettes and maybe a hint of BO)?

there was like a fifteen minute window in the late-90s when Sailor Jerry and Von Dutch shit was cheap and kind of cool because they were cheap and selling just to Southern California nu-greasers (and people on the Internet).

Then something went horribly, horribly wrong.

maybe i should convince my boss to make the brand name "ANGRY RAPIST" because that's what i think dudes who wear this shit look like

gothic script logo, of course

fuck the boss, do that shit yourself

Does anything exist between vintage-ironic and Angry Rapist wear? Even in the $50-100 shirt area, it all looks the same, just 'nicer.'

yes. vintage rapist.

Angry Ironic - it says "I'm angry, but in an ironic way"

Ironic Angry: ironic, but in an angry way

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

angry rapist

elmo you are gold

Right now there seems to be a rash of people walking around wearing football-ish T-shirts with <Japanese city name> <some number> printed on them. Like "KYOTO" with a huge "9" underneath it.

This has been driving me insane. Usually the writing is in gold. I assume there's a v popular chain store that's putting this stuff out, and I just don't know what it is. It's annoying because I own an actual Japanese baseball jersey that I got in Chicago in.. er, 1995 I think, and now I don't want to wear it ever again. Looking back on it I should have bought up the shop's whole supply, they had like 200 of them for $3-5 each.

Although actually it doesn't seem like people want true vintage stuff along these lines - they want shit that's based on a vintage aesthetic but obviously new (and shiny!).

They're almost always Rorschach-like mirror images, too:

http://store.drumbum.com/media/drummer-tribal-t-shirt.jpg

It seems like this stuff comes from custom motorcycle and tattoo culture

http://www.teamhelluk.com/images/x21-blk%20rampage.jpg

http://www.everytshirt.com/images/products/Super_Hero_T-Shirts/small/Tribal-Superman-T-shirt.jpg

okay srsly what is the point of that ^^^^

*96 tears*

Custom motorcycle and tattoo culture are among the worst cultures I can conceive.

Yeah, see, it's that kind of back-shadowed type of grey-on-black thing behind the Superman logo, it seems to be on all types of things -- you'd think it was some kind of revolutionary new printing technique someone just invented and everyone's excited about now.

This fits, too:

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/5563/forumluciano2710ly6.jpg

(xpost) I think that part of the "excitement" for manufacturers is that even if a batch of shirts don't print properly, they can still be sold because they look "distressed"

symmetrical design = you only need to do half as much work

This has been driving me insane. Usually the writing is in gold. I assume there's a v popular chain store that's putting this stuff out, and I just don't know what it is. It's annoying because I own an actual Japanese baseball jersey that I got in Chicago in.. er, 1995 I think, and now I don't want to wear it ever again. Looking back on it I should have bought up the shop's whole supply, they had like 200 of them for $3-5 each.

Ragstock in Chicago still has all these down in the basement. Easily a couple hundred of them.

Hahahaha I think that's where I got them! Amazing!!

"Them" - I actually did get three, but gave two away. That is nuts. I may need to call in a favor or two from a Chicagoan I know..

It's like, combine this:

http://www.zonal.co.uk/news/newsarchive/assets/ministry.gif

with some tribal crap, repeat

It's for people who like Mindless Self Indulgence and shit like that.

kingkongvsgodzilla otm

http://www.coolfer.com/blog/blog/images/weezermakebelieve.jpg

there were t-shirts on sale in like H&M or something a few years back that were like football shirts w/ a number on the back w/ McQUEEN or MARLEY above or the surname of other similar "legends" and it probably had "LEGEND" printed on it somewhere too and yeah it had swirly meaningless designs on and they were probably printed over other designs or patterns and were probably faded and/or worn or had stitching all over all this stupid bullshit

i will reluctantly give an iota of credit to Affliction since they happen to have plenty of actual illustration in there designs, which at least takes some skill, rather than just copy-pasted vector motifs.

and for whatever it's worth, I don't really blame the people who wear this stuff (there's no accounting for taste, anyway) nor the designers who cobble this stuff together on deadline. it's the art directors who deserve the blame, no?

it's the parents

Was there one t-shirt company or design agency who kicked this off?

i think a lot of the aesthetic started w. custom decalwork on motorcycles - trickled outward to WWF & energy-drink stylez.

ugh, "their designs" xpost

you'd think it was some kind of revolutionary new printing technique someone just invented and everyone's excited about now

not exactly revolutionary but yea, there is a technological side to it. being able to charge a premium cost for a t-shirt means that using multiple types of inks (discharge inks + conventional plastisols) and other effects (flocking, metallic foil) on the same garment is no longer cost-prohibitive -- your production time slows way down but your profit margin expands because of the perceived value added. so yeah, justifying the exorbitant retail price with more complicated printing techniques is kinda backwards but i think it definitely is driving this aesthetic in the marketplace.

http://gomedia.us/arsenal/images/prev/gif/hooladanders3-prev.gif

ORLY?

Yeah. That's exactly it. I guess you take one of those, make it real big, then take one or two pieces of it and copy and paste again and again. Shove the little pieces around until they begin to resemble molted feathers or weird twig-polyps of the main shape. Take three days to do this part so that you can charge a lot. Then paste a large coat of arms, or a skull, or a beetle, or all three, in the middle. Then type something in a blackletter font at the bottom. Finally: PROFIT.

^^ tell me that pic is off the wall of a tattoo shop