TEES book (who’s in it?)

Hey buddies -

So, Laurence King Publishing, who brought you the books 100% Cotton, 200% Cotton, and 300% Cotton, are putting out a new book called TEES. It’s another book featuring tee designers, and should be out by next Spring.

Anyway, I’m going to be in it. While uploading stuff to their FTP for my photo spreads, I noticed two other Emptees names - I don’t wanna steal their thunder, so I thought I’d ask: Who else got in the book?

I’m sure there are plenty of other Emptees kids that will be in it - they only just recently told people if they got in or not.

When I started, one of the first books that got me really into tee design was 200% Cotton, and I told myself that I’d be in a similar book someday. So, hooray for me, I can check that one off the list.

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   herman said 2 months ago

   congrats seibei!

   I’m going to rock your zombie tee on halloween. People at the office will be jealous.

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   kyleisez said 2 months ago

   I wish I was lucky enough

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   Jon Kruse said 2 months ago

   What do you think is the best book, 100 200 or 300% cotton?

   I’ve seen them on amazon but wasn’t sure if they were any good.

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   RikkiB said 2 months ago

   I’ve got 200%, it put me on to many artists I’d not heard of before... good stuffs.

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   Boycott Christian HC said 2 months ago

   Congrats!

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   seibei said 2 months ago

   Jon Kruse said: What do you think is the best book, 100 200 or 300% cotton? I’ve seen them on amazon but wasn’t sure if they were any good.

   200% is my favorite, followed by 300%. 100% is good but it’s pretty dated and the authors didn’t really seem to hit their stride until 200%.

   The books are a little all over the place - SquidFire was featured in 300%, but, there are tons of lines that have made a bigger impact that haven’t, like Johnny Cupcakes or MISHKA or Monsieur T or Goodie (but maybe they’ll be in this one?). No Star was in one of them, I’m pretty sure.

   Anyway, I dunno if this post will get enough attention, but regardless of what you think of me, the other (at least) two Emptees kids that are in it are pretty well-regarded here. Hopefully it will be an interesting read, and someone who’s just starting out will see my work and say, "Jesus, if that asshole can do it, certainly I can."

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   DCAY said 2 months ago

   is dobi one? would make sense.

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   seibei said 2 months ago

   I think Fullbleed was in one of those books already - he isn’t either of the Emptees kids I saw on the FTP, though.

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   skullface said 2 months ago

   Goodie should be! shit is huuuge (:

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    seibei said 2 months ago

    the good companies they’ve left out could fill a couple more books, and they’ve included some ehhhhh ones in the past, but I guess it’s a matter of taste.

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    dobi said 2 months ago

    DCAY said: is dobi one? would make sense.

    never heard of it, was I in a book?

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    seibei said 2 months ago

    I guess if you haven’t heard of it, maybe not? I coulda sworn that Fullbleed was in 200% Cotton or 300% Cotton, but you’d probably be the final authority on whether you were in a book or not.

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    skullface said 2 months ago

    and congrats to you, Mr. Seibei!

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    Moss said 2 months ago

    I was invited ages ago (I even sent mockups for when they were pitching the book to the publishers), but I haven’t heard back yet.

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    sockmonkee said 2 months ago

    im in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......

    woo

    this will be my 2nd book im in

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    steven said 2 months ago

    ditto moss

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    Moss said 2 months ago

    Sounds like we got the cold shoulder!

    :)

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    seibei said 2 months ago

    Moss said: Sounds like we got the cold shoulder! :)

    whaaaaaaaat? If you haven’t heard back, hit them up. They told me the selection took longer than they thought (a few weeks longer actually, I was sure I’d been rejected), so maybe they forgot to get back to you?

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    Moss said 2 months ago

    No worries man, they probably just didn’t like my stuff enough for the project.

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    sockmonkee said 2 months ago

    im glad you started this post...i was wondering who else is apart it

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    a killer wombat said 2 months ago

    ... I want to be in a book one day, that would be bad ass. And congrats to both of you dudes, totally deserve it.

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    Moss said 2 months ago

    Oh and I was in 300% too so I think I’ll be ok.

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    seibei said 2 months ago

    Moss said: Oh and I was in 300% too so I think I’ll be ok.

    Oh rad! I haven’t looked through it in a long time (I think an artist I knew borrowed it, and then I moved 400 miles away and forgot to get it back); I’ll have to check that out.

    thanks for the love, guys.

    sockmonkee said: im glad you started this post...i was wondering who else is apart it

    Yeah, now that we’ve got access to the FTP it’s interesting to see who else is in. Honestly, I haven’t heard of most of them, but the stuff I’ve Google’d looks promising.

    I just emailed the other Emptees cat I saw on there to see if he wanted to pop in and say "HEY GUYS I’M IN THE BOOK TOO".

    ...and just got an autoreply from his email saying he’ll be away for a week or so.

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    Survival said 2 months ago

    sockmonkee said: im in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!....... woo this will be my 2nd book im in

    you were one of my first guesses.
    congrats man!

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    sockmonkee said 2 months ago

    seibei said:

    Moss said: Oh and I was in 300% too so I think I’ll be ok.

    Oh rad! I haven’t looked through it in a long time (I think an artist I knew borrowed it, and then I moved 400 miles away and forgot to get it back); I’ll have to check that out.

    thanks for the love, guys.

    sockmonkee said: im glad you started this post...i was wondering who else is apart it

    Yeah, now that we’ve got access to the FTP it’s interesting to see who else is in. Honestly, I haven’t heard of most of them, but the stuff I’ve Google’d looks promising.

    I just emailed the other Emptees cat I saw on there to see if he wanted to pop in and say "HEY GUYS I’M IN THE BOOK TOO".

    ...and just got an autoreply from his email saying he’ll be away for a week or so.

    yeah, im interested to see if there are any more from emptees

    Survival said:

    sockmonkee said: im in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!....... woo this will be my 2nd book im in

    you were one of my first guesses.
    congrats man!

    thanks survival!

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    herman said 2 months ago

    Still waiting for a couple of hi-res pictures.

    So far I have purchased 2 tee books. 100% Cotton and T-Shirt Factory. They’re both pretty good.

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    collisiontheory said 2 months ago

    Congrats seibei! How did you find out about the submitting art for the book? I’m on Laurence King’s Pattern book but didn’t know about the shirt book. Too bad.. really would’ve wanted to get on that one.

    For the guys who want to get on books. Just email the big publishers and they usually need artists to regularly submit for their upcoming book titles. Check out these guys. I’ve been invited/featured in some books by these publishers:

    Hong Kong
    http://www.victionary.com

    Germany
    http://www.gestalten.com/

    UK
    http://www.laurenceking.co.uk

    Spain
    http://www.maomaopublications.com/

    I’ve also been on a couple of the Semi-Permanent books. They have regular artist submissions.

    Australia/New Zealand
    http://www.semipermanent.com

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    Ameeee said 2 months ago

    collisiontheory said: Congrats seibei! How did you find out about the submitting art for the book? I’m on Laurence King’s Pattern book but didn’t know about the shirt book. Too bad.. really would’ve wanted to get on that one. For the guys who want to get on books. Just email the big publishers and they usually need artists to regularly submit for their upcoming book titles. Check out these guys. I’ve been invited/featured in some books by these publishers: Hong Kong http://www.victionary.com Germany http://www.gestalten.com/ UK http://www.laurenceking.co.uk Spain http://www.maomaopublications.com/ I’ve also been on a couple of the Semi-Permanent books. They have regular artist submissions. Australia/New Zealand http://www.semipermanent.com

    Which semi permanent? going through my books now!

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    seibei said 2 months ago

    oh wow, thanks AJ!

    the illustration/design duo MAKI (they’ve done a shirt for Go Ape, stuff for Threadless, shirt.woot, books, etc) contacted me sometime over the summer about submitting to the book.

    No idea where they saw my stuff; I assumed they had just picked out people they like from Emptees or maybe Rumplo, but whoooo knows.

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    hideyourarms said 2 months ago

    Have any of you guys been in "T: The Journal of T-shirt culture" yet?

    If you haven’t heard of it, T is a magazine all about tees that is released every 6 months, its pretty cool, though I’m a little faux-pissed that they keep neglecting to put HYA into their website section when they’ve listed a lot of other tee blogs that are waaaay smaller than HYA.

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    seibei said about 1 month ago

    I just got an email from another Emptee’r that is in the book, and he said it’s totally cool for me to mention that he’s in it (he just got back from his honeymoon and won’t be back on here for a few):

    Jeff Finley.

    Anyway, that’s pretty rad.

    Also, has anyone ever read Street T? There’s a nice picture of Olly Moss in the Threadless section. I feel like that book’s a little hit or miss on the companies it features, but it does a good job of getting a very international cross-section.

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    Moss said about 1 month ago

    Street T? Eh? What’s this about me?

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    seibei said about 1 month ago

    Moss said: Street T? Eh? What’s this about me?

    There’s a nice feature on Threadless, and there is a two page spread with loads of model shots from the site, including one of you...lemme run and grab the book...it’s a brown shirt with ghosts or something on it and you look like you’re dancing with a plastic bag?

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    Moss said about 1 month ago

    Oh haha. That’ll be Simon Noynay’s select. I look like a skeleton in that photo.

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    justgeoff said about 1 month ago

    I would have no business being in that book! haha

    Congrats seibei and Finley. Can’t wait to check it out!

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    herman said about 1 month ago

    Nice, Freshfauxx is in it.

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    Moss said about 1 month ago

    Just got word today. I am in the book, but they were happy enough with the spreads I originally sent them that they didn’t need any new work.

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    sockmonkee said about 1 month ago

    how much longer until we know all know who’s in it?

    so far...

    Seibei
    Moss
    Freshfauxx
    Jeff Finley
    and, me

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    seibei said about 1 month ago

    fucking SICK. I’d like to see some more emptee’rs in there, but I’m stoked that it’s all designers I really like, and then somehow I slipped in.

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    gameyy said about 1 month ago

    Oh man, I’m stoked for you dudes! It’d be sweet to be in a book one day!

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    Go Ape Shirts said about 1 month ago

    i hope a go ape tee made it in there!!

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    Jon Kruse said about 1 month ago

    Go Ape Shirts said: i hope a go ape tee made it in there!!

    wouldn’t they have to get a hold of you to publish your work?

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    Go Ape Shirts said about 1 month ago

    maybe. they’re going through the artists

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    edgillustrator said about 1 month ago

    kyleisez said: I wish I was lucky enough

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    Moss said about 1 month ago

    There are 3 go ape tees in my spread, I think.

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