Monstar clothing has really cool designs there are urban and artsy but hip and upbeat. Very cool use of bright colors.

They have cool characters and they just aren’t one of those clothing companies that use there name in different fonts and call it a design. They actually do art.

Benny Gold is a San Francisco based designer and fine artist. He is best known for creating the original identity of Huf – San Francisco’s premiere sneaker and clothing boutique.

Benny started design in college and has been working professionally ever since. Everything you see on his blog is something he created. His blog is not a hype site.

He doesn’t post about the newest sneaker or t-shirt unless he designed it. He also throws some of his skateboarding and bicycle adventures in there. Check it out.

Abuze LDN are unlike many other brands because they actually produce their clothing themselves.

They are heavily influenced by London graffiti and the hip hop culture in general and produce alot of custom made limited edition pieces. Their latest range includes a design by infamous London graffiti legend Zomby and also a limited edition run collaboration tee with UK hip hop artist Jehst. Check out their all over prints onto sweats and caps. This company is definitely going places and worth checking out.

The Indie Clothing Blog is not only a fresh resource for those starting indie clothing companies, but it is also a great site for those looking for amazing indie brands to sport to their affairs.

Written by a true T-Shirt Entrepreneur, the Indie Clothing Blog offers trends, tips, howto’s and links to get you into the deepest pits of indie culture and know-how.

‘All the Cream, None of the Crop’
From Nylon Guys magazine:

“We don’t review things we haven’t seen, bought, or used, and we don’t hype things that we don’t love. We keep it honest and that’s why our readers trust us,” explains Garrett Shane Bryant, founder of CrownDozen.com.

Bryant and his team of writers - most of whom are friends from his rural Kentucky home - have generated a content-rich site, hellbent on discovering the newest and next in art and culture. CrownDozen.com features interviews with comic-makers, artists, and illustrators - among them husband-and-wife illustration team Kozyndan and illustrator/painter Jeff Soto - and offers product reviews, event updates, and “Twelves,” the site’s amusing cache of Top 12 lists.

“Not everyone can or will buy $400 trainers,” says Bryant. “We’re just normal folk into cool shit and we like to tell you about it.” True dat.

–Julie Gerstein for Nylon Magazine

Indigo Clothing is a UK-based brand that focuses on designing and manufacturing customized clothing and other products for their clients. Some of their services include screen printing, embroidery as well as promotional merchandise.

Although it considers itself as a small company, Indigo Clothing has a wide variety of clients. They range from big players like BBC and Kodak to smaller business clients who regularly order clothing in small quantities.

Indigo conducts almost all of its business online. From its real-time quotation system to ordering, interested businesses can do it at Indigo’s website. Doing this instead of keeping a shop helps them cut costs and maintain their excellent service. The materials they use are sourced directly from manufacturers thus keeping the prices low and reasonable.

The company’s website has a lot of great information that helps visitors find exactly what they are looking for. Things like the kind of work they do, their online catalogue, their portfolio, client list and the frequently-asked-questions (FAQs) can be easily found using the tabs just below the site’s banner.

Their informative website is complemented by their blog. Visitors can get the latest updates on the company and the people behind it with the help of this page. This is a very welcome feature on the site which makes it a dynamic one and the feeling that there are real people behind it, not a bunch of unnamed and faceless business people. There is also a link to the flickr page of the company’s founder, Alex Walker. This further adds a human dimension to what could have been just another website.

If you want to check out more of Indigo Clothing, check out their website at www.indigoclothing.com. Also check their blog at www.indigoclothing.com/blog for the latest news on Indigo and its team of very dedicated people.

Threadless is without a doubt one of the most well-known t-shirt brands today. It began in late 2000 by the two Jakes, Jake Nickell and Jacob DaHart after Jake Nickell won a t-shirt competition in London. What started out as a hobby has now become a massive success.

The way threadless works is that users submit their designs and other users can vote for them. The best designs then get the chance to be printed. The creator of the chosen design gets a cash prize along with a gift certificate so they can buy some of their own shirts. The designer’s name will also be mentioned on the site giving him/her proper credit.

They have a massive selection of tees on their site that are new, on sale and reprinted. Reprints are those shirts that get enough votes to get reprinted. However, only a few of tees are printed each time which makes them more exclusive.

Aside from the catalog, visitors can browse the t-shirts by size. From small to double-XL, visitors can find the design they like in a size that fits them. The categories are also divided among the kinds of tees. From guys shirts to hoodies and so on.

Visit the mother of all t-shirt stores at www.threadless.com.

Tcritic isn’t just another blog that talks about t-shirts until the topic goes stale. A twist to this blog that keeps it from becoming just another blog on the internet is its twisted sense of humor. A lot of the t-shirts featured there are so funny that visitors can’t help but want to get their hands on them.

Another example of the blog’s sense of humor is its page called Tshirt War. Everytime somebody visits its main page, two user submitted designs are randomly displayed. Visitors of the website can then vote which of the two they like most. Votes are continually compiled and tallied. The shirts with most wins are displayed on the ‘Winningest’
page while those with most losses go to the so-called ‘Losingest’
page. Statistics are displayed below the image of each shirt, including the total votes, number of wins and losses as well as its winning percentage.

Each blog entry is placed in its appropriate category. So if for example a visitor is more interested in finding reviews by category instead of the date it was posted, then it can make a particular kind of shirt easier to find. Categories range from the seemingly normal like the ‘Videogame T-shirts’ category to the ‘Best T-Shirt Ever.’
There is also a category called ‘Should be a T’ which highlights non-t-shirt designs that the author thinks should also be printed on t-shirts.

The blog is maintained by San Francisco based blogger Karl Long.
Needless to say, it’s his sense of humor that’s flooding the pages of the entire site. He even sometimes poses for a picture while wearing a t-shirt submitted to him.

All in all, the site successfully packs humor and great t-shirts in one. Not bad something that is supposed to be just a hobby. Check it at www.tcritic.com.

If you’re looking for great clothing, look no further than the fashion capital of the world, Paris, France. And if you’re looking for great t-shirts from this side of Europe, Dadawan is the brand to remember.

Dadawan is a Paris-based brand that was founded by four friends: David, Christophe, Herve and Paul. Its creation took half a year of brainstorming, exchanges of drafts and proposals among the four founders until it was finally created on March 2004, with David at the helm.

The brand sells a variety of products and is available to customers worldwide. From t-shirts, to trucker caps, to sneakers and stickers, Dadawan has tons load of them.

Although they have a store in Paris, that doesn’t mean that people from other countries won’t be able to avail of their products. They can do so through their online shop. The great thing about the shop is that they can choose from several modes of payment: by credit card, bank transfer and of course, PayPal. Having several payment options always means a good thing for online shoppers.

In addition to the varied modes of payment, another great thing about Dadawan’s online shop is that worldwide deliveries only take as quick as 3 days to a reasonable 2 weeks, depending on the destination. However, if a customer doesn’t like what he/she received, he/she can always ask for a replacement or a reimbursement. Talk about quality service!

Dadawan also has a t-shirt design contest wherein designers submit their works to the site and visitors can then vote which design they like best. The winning entry gets printed and the winning designer gets $170 for the first series of 50 pieces and $60 for each succeeding set, according to their website. Learn more everything about Dadawan by visiting their website at www.dadawan.com.

our motivation to launch born-clothing 2003 in cologne/germany was
after an odyssee for getting quality-shirts with fresh prints and fair
prices.

so we just decided to do those artworks by ourselves … after this decision there was a great resonance by our brotherhood/friends which is now extended to shops and design-agencies. there are also collabos with pixelkrieger from cologne and the first international collabo with retreat-brand from england. we are also start the band-support for the rockers of “nineteen reasons” from nuernberg/germany.

the question is what it’s all about? it’s about independence, personality and freedom expressed by the different styles in our collection. our style manifests itself in the expressions of personality. at the moment we are working on our online-shop. so if you like to order get in touch with us via email …

are there any plans for the future?
makin’ money! no, without kiddin’: satisfied faces on both sides and
hopefully further more great design-collabos with interesting people.