Tiny Trends, Part 5

The T-shirt Tuxedo

Scientists recently discovered that it is nearly impossible for college students to resist these T-shirts. Something to do with slowing breaking oneself into a suit and tie, even if it's just for special occasions. Luckily for you the fake clothes tag on Rumplo has a plethora of new Tux Tees of all colors and shapes. They work well for taking the real tux down a notch, too.

The Mustache

Fashion choice or cliche disguise? The mustache has a long past, peppered with instances of greatness and, well, jocular ridicule and a decade of almost complete absence. Lucky for you, you need not grow a mustache to take part in its resurgence, you can just wear one of many mustache tees.

Should This Trend Die?

We're not really into negative trends here at Rumplo HQ, but we can't help but wonder how long the legs on this meme will last. Any thoughts? Any chance anything new will come out of this form?

See an interesting T-shirt trend? let Rumplo know!

0 comments | Posted Sep 1, 2008

Graniph's Gold Standard

Yashka Steiner Takabatake Sereni
Kovala Rik Lee Osada

Graniph, the T-shirt powerhouse based in Japan, has long been on our list of favorite T-shirt shops (Yes, we keep a list. It's hidden away in my fridge). And we've always appreciated Graniph's persistence in trying to produce T-shirts that literally act as canvases for well known artists' illustrations, photos, etc., even if they sometimes miss the mark in mixing that popular art and the T-shirt's form perfectly. Long story short: When Graniph finished it's second annual International T-shirt Competition and the winning T-shirts went on sale we were stoked. And we are once again impressed by the breadth of art they've screened onto their tees, all from a great crew of up and coming artists. This is the kind of thing we always imagined big T-shirt shops would be doing and Graniph does it very well.

Browse Graniph's latest tees on Rumplo.

Also, we'd love to hear what you think about the Grahiph's latest tees, and about what art you think does or doesn't translates well onto T-shirts. Comment away!

1 comment | Posted Aug 12, 2008

Tiny Trends, Part 4

Random Stuff

We can imagine this trend going horribly wrong (think sporting equipment), but sometimes a bunch of differnet shapes, colors, and random stuff just works. Yes, there is also danger that a thousand designers will go around picking stuff up of the street and throwing it on a tee, eventually littering the world with a crowd of people with random stuff all over them. Please consider that before you design your next tee ;) More at the stuff tag on Rumplo.

Skulls

Skulls as pop art? Yep. Skulls as cute things? You bet. Skulls that make it easy to take yourself too seriously? Maybe. Skull fans have been around forever, so calling this a trend would be like calling death a trend, but these do seem pretty popular. More Skull Tees here.

Bears!

This one's an oldie but a goodie. People really, really love bears. All kinds. Doesn't matter. We got your cute bears and your angry bears and even your Environmentally conscious bears. More bear tees here. Rarwr!

See an interesting T-shirt trend? let us know.

0 comments | Posted Aug 7, 2008

Dave Decat's French Thugs

Dave Decat #3 Dave Decat #3 Dave Decat #2

An Interview with Dave Decat

Rumplo Mr. Decat, these T-shirts are amazing -- some of the best we've ever seen. Can you tell us the story behind these illustrations?

Dave Decat First of all thanx for the compliment!!!
The story is simple ... Lionel who's the boss of [SIXPACK] saw the portraits of french thugs I did a year ago on my MySpace page and asked me if I could do some more to print ... He loved the idea of french tattoos, which are very exotic by the way, even for french people. At first I wasn't that interested cauz I always wanted to print shirts on my own, but I checked SIXPACK's site and discovered that they had a lot of cool and well known illustrators and graphists .... so I told myself why not... they have a amazing stock and are very well distributed all over Europe and now a little bit in the states.

Rumplo Where does the man labeled "Child of Misfortune" (or "Enfant du Malheur") come from?

Dave Decat It's a traditional tattoo from the underworld ... mostly all of the tattoos I drew used to exist .. I just invented a few.

Rumplo Quite a few of the illustrations on your MySpace page include shady or criminal looking characters... What in particular interests you about these people?

Dave Decat I love those misfits... the scum of the earth deserves a little homage ... they're just the other side of the mirror, the real victims of society and they look so fucked up!!! That's why I like those dark figures.

Rumplo Do you plan on making more T-shirts? What do you think of the medium?

Dave Decat I already did three others (something different but in the same spirit) for SIXPACK and I'm working right now on three new ones!!! For those I'm totally changing the subject ... more of a freak show stuff I think.

Rumplo Thanks Dave!

Check out Dave's MySpace Page for more of his illustrations and (hopefully) news of his upcoming T-shirts.

0 comments | Posted Aug 5, 2008

Tiny Trends, Part 3

Re-purposed Classic Art

Warhol would have loved it, no doubt, but we'll have to guess at how Escher, Brockmann, and even Lichtenstein would have felt at the sight of these tees. Too bad T-shirts weren't in style back then, 40 years ago, or maybe we would know. Know of some classic art on a T-shirt? Post it to the classic art tag on Rumplo.

The 3D glasses effect

It is a cool effect, and a neat way to add color (blue and red that is) to a tee. Yep, it's the 3D effect.

OMG, HUGE TYPE!

People LOVE big type T-shirts. Check out how many faves these tees get. If there was ever a T-shirt trend this is it, the big mamma of trends.

See an interesting T-shirt trend? let us know.

2 comments | Posted Jul 23, 2008

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