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Qwitter - T-Shirt by Warren Hart
Everyone’s obsessed by Twitter at the moment, and whether you’re into it or not, this is design by Warren Hart is a rather fun statement to make.
There’s nothing like a cross for an eye to convey ‘dead’, and this little birdy’s gone up to the social network in the sky.
See Warren’s other designs on Redbubble
Times New Roman and Helvetica Envy - Font T-Shirts
Helvetica punches above its weight for a simple rounded sans-serif font.
Arial (originally Sonoran Sans Serif) was made popular by Microsoft through packaging with Windows, and is often seen as a ubiquitous equivalent to Helvetica.
‘Equivalent’ is rather a subjective word in this case and for some it’s easy to spot the differences between the fonts. Arial could be said to have ‘Helvetica envy’.
Meanwhile poor old ‘Times New Roman’ is now languishing into relative obscurity based more on the fact it’s an older style serif font. The ‘new’ is therefore something that people now gloss over (new in 1931).
These two designs are just a small celebration of how the world loves Helvetica.
Home Improvement - MC Escher T-Shirt by Zomboy
MC Escher is an inspiration to countless creative people, partly for the genius in the detail, but also for the mathematical somersaults your mind does when you look at one of his images.
Zomboy produces some amazing designs, and this Escher ‘Relativity’ inspired vector shirt is also a stroke of genius. The limited colours just bring out the detail amazingly well, with the shapes and angles being pixel perfect.
The added bonus with this design is that each decorator is painting with revolutionary transparent paint, so choose your shirt colour (from the 20+ colours in the Redbubble pallette) and that’s what colour they’ll be painting. You’ll be a designer too!
Star Trek Reboot - T-Shirt
Remakes, sequels and prequels are out. Reboots are in.
The new Star Trek movie has a whole new cast and a whole new feel.
It’s just lucky your favourite vulcan was around to issue the three fingered salute to reboot the franchise.
Clone stamped and walking the cash tightrope - T-Shirt
Ever feel like you’re one of the crowd?
This shirt came from an idea of using the Photoshop Clone Stamp tool to make a pattern on a shirt.
It soon turned into a bit more of a social statement where the ‘dollar-chasing’ clones are walking an uphill tightrope on their quest for fulfillment, while down below are people enjoying a more simple existence.
The clone stamp may reappear in a slightly more ‘fun’ design in the future.
Gone Phishin' T-Shirt by Matt Simner
This is officially the first picture I’ve got of someone (other than me) wearing one of my shirts – so many thanks to Wil for making and sharing his rather excellent purchase. Never trust an IT student 
Sounds Like Traffic - T-Shirt by Diesel Laws
Diesel Laws is going places
The quality, inventiveness, and uniqueness of the designs really sets the brand apart from the crowd.
Now concentrating on audio-inspired shirts, Diesel’s found another great concept here and made it their own, with the trademark logo on the green light.
The colours, shapes and subject just make this shirt rock!
Check out their great range of shirts at diesellaws.com
To keep up with Redbubble’s most recent visual changes I updated my collection of Redbubble GreaseMonkey scripts.
More info on my RB journal
Spitfire vs BF-109 - T-Shirt by Matt Simner
The Supermarine Spitfire is a legend of British military aviation.
This particular one won out over the closely matched Messerschmitt BF-109 and is on its way back to Blighty.
In reality the skill and bravery of pilots on both sides eclipsed the performance and technical differences between their aircraft.
This shirt’s for people who like to remember why they existed, or just appreciate beautiful engineering.
