2009-07-13T00:47:23-04:00 2009-03-30T15:45:19-04:00 1 2009-03-30T12:52:56-04:00 Up for voting at DBH: http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/50621 true 0 5 16182 506 Illegal Aliens 1490 1 2009-11-21T00:26:09-05:00 427 http://cache1.emptees.com/images/61452/Emptees.jpg 2009-08-23T02:25:45-04:00 2009-03-31T17:18:11-04:00 14 2009-03-30T06:54:07-04:00 March tee from <a href = "http://www.lintyfresh.com">Linty Fresh</a>. A collaboration between myself and <a href = "http://www.flickr.com/photos/theory_one/">Theory_one1</a>. true 0 52 16166 9590 The Petrol Kid 1490 2 2009-11-21T22:08:11-05:00 1018 http://cache1.emptees.com/images/61395/Emptees.jpg http://emptees.com/tees/16166-the-petrol-kid/buy 2009-11-14T04:15:03-05:00 2008-12-14T16:32:51-05:00 39 2008-12-10T19:40:17-05:00 Atop the slopes of Crystal Peak And near the wooded ring, They say there dwells a matted beast An awful, horrid thing. It sails atop a blood-red blade That slices as it goes They say it's looking for its prey (Some say for its foes) Some have said that it's a monster Born of different beasts One that flew and one that sauntered Both which liked to feast Some say once it was a man Who gradually was changed (Lurking snowpeaks without a plan Made him go deranged) But I'm the only one that knows The truth about the beast: He's just looking for powdery snow And it's there on Crystal Peak. Released on <a href = "http://www.lintyfresh.com">12/01/08 Printed on AA Asphalt for guys and gals. true 0 127 11257 6099 The Snurfing Iceman 1490 2 2008-12-14 2009-11-22T01:39:22-05:00 2579 http://cache1.emptees.com/images/43458/EmpteesYetti.jpg http://emptees.com/tees/11257-the-snurfing-iceman/buy 2009-11-17T00:56:47-05:00 2008-08-15T17:31:40-04:00 5 2008-08-05T00:46:34-04:00 一心一意 / 衣新衣异 This past weekend a Chinese friend helped me come up with a cool homonym that I plan on using on a shirt one day. When spoken (yi xin yi yi), it sounds like a phrase that means "intent, dedicated, focused, wholehearted", but when read, it means "new and unique clothes". Anyways, that's where the name of this shirt comes from. The actual design is for Woot. They didn't like the <a href = "http://emptees.com/tees/6278-blue-skies-don-t-mean-nothin">F-16-munching Cyclone</a>... But yeah, this one was a fun little experiment in halftones. Probably went overboard with it (I usually don't use them at all) Still, it's only 4 colors, so totally within their printing abilities. true 0 14 6680 6102 衣新衣异 1490 1 2009-11-22T02:03:14-05:00 10321 http://cache0.emptees.com/images/26513/EmpteesDragons.jpg 2009-07-30T17:47:04-04:00 2008-11-09T00:39:00-05:00 24 2008-07-23T01:08:28-04:00 A quick glance at the midday sky told the pilots everything they'd hoped; the breeze was gentle and the air clear. Had it not been for their roaring turbines charging for flight, they'd have even heard the song of a local flock of birds roosting in a tree just beyond the airstrip. It was, according to all available indicators, a perfect day for flying. Unfortunately, these indicators were not set to monitor the strange weather patterns brewing in Leesville, South Carolina, an hour west of the pilots' pleasant training spot. These anomalous conditions would eventually spawn a monstrous and deadly cyclone, which one local corn farmer would describe as doing more damage than "th' time ol' Manny McCann fell asleep on th'combine". And actually, the corn farmers had it easy; only the tip of the devilish cyclone's tail ever touched ground, and sparingly at that. The real damage was done thousands of feet into the sky, where the chaotic helix of writhing air devoured the crew of pilots, thrashing them in their cockpits before they could eject to safety. And as the last pilot, Chuck Spear, felt the air ripped from his lungs and watched his plane, Enora Ivy, peeled away like a banana skin, he thought to himself, "Well Ah'll be, blue skies don't mean nothin' no more..." _______________________________ This one was actually done for Woot. If it doesn't get accepted, though, it'll be in the LF Fall lineup. true 0 53 6278 6987 Blue Skies Don't Mean Nothin' 1490 1 2009-11-21T14:43:06-05:00 1592 http://cache0.emptees.com/images/24990/CloudMonsterEmptees.jpg 2009-10-11T18:33:01-04:00 2009-02-04T01:23:12-05:00 49 2008-06-29T00:02:20-04:00 Keith was always quiet Lurking about his home There was little else he'd ever do But lap his ice cream cone Some folks thought he couldn't speak, Some folks jeered and teased, But Keith only needed one short phrase: "I want more ice cream, please" Friends would ring the doorbell, "Keith, come out to play!" But through a screen Keith stared at them And lapped his cone away Eventually the friends gave up On strange Keith and his cone Eventually they found other games Keith was, at last, alone But one day in hot July Visitors arrived An alien race from another world called Elron Exus Prime They zapped the small town where Keith lived, His school and all his friends And when he was given the chance to live He just shrugged, "Depends." "Depends on what?!" the creatures asked Their black eyes gleaming wide "Tell me a bit about your spaceship, the things you have inside" And so the aliens listed things They'd captured from the earth From bugs and worms to cows and trains, Stacks of volume's worth But little Keith kept quiet, Nodding as they talked Waiting for a single item To decide to stay or walk And when they finally mentioned it, He cheered and bounced and ran For he could be happy anywhere With an ice cream cone in hand true 0 118 5574 11636 Keith the Quiet 1490 1 2008-07-02 2009-11-22T04:19:07-05:00 4144 http://cache1.emptees.com/images/22335/IceCreamconeEmptees 2009-08-23T20:10:23-04:00 2008-11-19T16:10:27-05:00 25 2008-04-14T22:36:30-04:00 This started last night just moving around this giant "f", slicing it and making faces out of the shapes. Initially I made it a goal to keep it to a single color (the grey), but at the last minute I made some changes so that the white could get incorporated as well. I also tried experimenting with simplifying the lines and shapes as much as possible. I still think it's a little more complex than it needs to be, but I'm hesitant to take it any farther. Maybe with the next piece. This is in line for a June release so check the shop then. true 0 53 3855 9277 F is for Fresh 1490 1 2009-11-20T11:37:06-05:00 1481 http://cache1.emptees.com/images/15543/EmpteesLetterTee.jpg 2009-09-05T22:20:24-04:00 2009-09-01T01:22:57-04:00 50 2008-03-30T23:18:15-04:00 Just a little pattern collab'ed between <a href = "http://emptees.com/people/3318-j3concepts">Jared</a> and myself. Not sure what we're gonna do with it yet. true 0 110 3466 8092 J3concepts + Linty Fresh Collaboration 1490 1 2008-04-01 2009-11-22T01:42:06-05:00 3312 http://cache0.emptees.com/images/14096/CollabEmptees.jpg 2009-11-21T00:06:46-05:00 2008-11-19T16:11:10-05:00 50 2008-02-22T00:15:11-05:00 Originally done as a black and white sharpie sketch for a snowboard I'm designing. Last night I went back with markers and added color and tonight I thought I'd try it out on a tee. true 0 197 2556 9277 Epidemic 1490 2 2008-02-24 2009-11-21T23:00:37-05:00 6915 http://cache0.emptees.com/images/10271/EpidemicEmptees.jpg http://emptees.com/tees/2556-epidemic/buy 2009-10-15T00:20:31-04:00 2008-09-15T19:05:29-04:00 15 2008-02-03T21:35:31-05:00 I've never had a child, but I kind of picture it as being as magical as when I opened the box that contained my first batch of tees. If memory serves me right, the first thing I did was scream like a schoolgirl and prance giddily around my living room. I next laid them all out on the carpet in my room and rolled around on them. The climax of my hysteria was throwing them at the ceiling fan. Like having a baby for sure! true 0 75 2109 8587 Once Upon A War 1490 2 2008-03-02 2009-11-21T19:47:38-05:00 2714 http://cache0.emptees.com/images/8457/EmpteesONCW.jpg http://emptees.com/tees/2109-once-upon-a-war/buy 2009-07-18T01:24:25-04:00 2008-02-23T14:45:32-05:00 37 2008-01-18T00:40:57-05:00 For the longest time I've kept this graveyard file where I lay unused vectors to rest once a design is completed and they haven't made the cut. Every once in awhile I open it up and sort through the pieces looking for something of use. Most times I end up just creating something new because the pieces are so random and awkward they don't get along with the other elements properly. Meanwhile, I've been checking out all these cool street artists on Flickr with their custom stickers and wishing I had the means to make my own [high quality] stickers. Anyway, you get where this is going: I finally dug out the idle graphics and made them into fake stickers on a tee... With a fake pair of scissors on the back... EDITED for color addition... true 0 44 1751 994 Sticker Tee 1490 2 2009-11-21T19:20:27-05:00 2525 http://cache0.emptees.com/images/10151/StickersColorEmptees.jpg http://emptees.com/tees/1751-sticker-tee/buy 2009-04-25T21:10:10-04:00 2008-01-14T08:20:11-05:00 16 2008-01-12T00:32:57-05:00 This was just one of those straight-outta-the-head designs. One morning there I was, brushing my teeth and blinking a stubbon contact into submission when suddenly WHAMMO: Zebra. Barcode. Bamboo. Do zebras even cohabitate with bamboo? Doubt it. Do the markings of a zebra, in turn, possess any relation to the stripes on a barcode? Visually, well sure, but functionally? Well, maybe, but that’s only according to some hippologists who beleive that zebras use these markings to recognize one another. (Much as a scanner uses barcodes to differentiate between products) Another theory is that the stripes serve as camoflauge, protecting against predators such as lions who are colorblind and unable to distinguish between a zebra’s black and white markings and tall blades of grass. But! This design does make up for its lack of depth with its cryptological message, burried deep in the soil beneath a rich fauna of numeric symbols. Mm! Fauna. No, but seriously, those numbers do actually have some significance, and it isn’t that hard to figure out. I mean, you shouldn’t have to like hijack a U-boat or anything. (A cellphone helps) true 0 27 1646 441 UPC 1490 2 2009-11-21T22:11:27-05:00 2155 http://cache1.emptees.com/images/6556/UPCemptees.jpg http://emptees.com/tees/1646-upc/buy 2009-04-04T22:13:02-04:00 2008-09-01T14:56:49-04:00 9 2008-01-11T00:26:49-05:00 This is one of those designs that has evolved a lot conceptually from the intial stages. In all honesty, I started this just because I wanted to make a design with some dead trees. I thought they looked pretty. But as I worked on it a story began to turn in my head. Suddenly there were sand dunes and clouds and stars. As it stands, I suppose this is now a statement about the fingerprint that we’ve left on the planet. It’s like one of those photographs of a peruvian with a llama and an mp3 player, or a sparsely-clad amazonian tying his sneakers. So here’s the latest of old meets new: a camel shepherd dealing with a sky stained by pollutants from a distant factory. But mostly it’s about the pretty dead trees. true 0 30 1618 5537 Nuclear Moonlight 1490 2 2009-11-18T15:50:20-05:00 1708 http://cache0.emptees.com/images/6445/NuclearMoonlightEmptees.jpg http://emptees.com/tees/1618-nuclear-moonlight/buy 2009-10-15T00:09:26-04:00 2008-12-06T16:09:11-05:00 34 2008-01-10T00:19:36-05:00 Morey Eel Book Soda Can Rings White Shark (on back) Golf Club Warsaw Grouper Key Sailfish Shoe Oarfish Bananas Octopus Ball Crab Hank with Chainsaw Pinfish Ace of Spades Catfish Tarpon Necktie Spot Fish Alcohol Blender Screwdriver Atlantic Bonito Sword Southern Flounder Alto Saxophone Blackfin Tuna Troll Cellphone Tire Spotted Eagle Ray Cherries Bluefin Tuna Sheepshead Envelope Kite Blue Marlin Sardine Tin Pineapple Companion Blue Runner Atlantic Spadefish Jellyfish Pineapple Atlantic Sharpnose Shark Cane Gulf Kingfish Creville Jack Hammer Scump License Plate Propeller Green Sea Turtle Lane Snapper Ladyfish Striped Bass Wide-Brimmed Hat Squid Dolphin Atlantic Croaker Sand Seatrout Gulf Menhaden Striped Mullet Human Bermuda Chub Musubi Silver Perch Gray Snapper Oh, and one of these things appears twice... true 0 89 1597 10210 Fish, Etc. 1490 2 2008-01-11 2009-11-22T03:44:34-05:00 3645 http://cache1.emptees.com/images/6372/FinaleWetEmptees.jpg http://emptees.com/tees/1597-fish-etc/buy 2009-05-06T11:50:07-04:00 2008-07-05T01:20:55-04:00 14 2008-01-04T21:11:44-05:00 There was nothing Mack Farelli despised quite so much as a Monday. He reserved a special loathing for that 24 hour period between his weekend and his Tuesday. This time, for him, was positively abysmal. The Monday that fell on the 3rd of January, 1955, wasn't particularly dissimilar to the ones that preceded it. Naturally, he'd stumbled over Rupert his bloodhound on his way out of bed, causing him to fill the air with profanity as his frantic landing foot careened into the nightstand. The toenail, notably, was nowhere to be found. And so, while clutching his mangled appendage and hopping in the shower, Mack contemplated extending his weekend in an effort to dodge this day; but a single, innocent bar of soap would spare him this decision, for this small, waxy sliver of deceit had craftily positioned itself out of his vision, directly behind him. At 7:35 Mack's neighbors heard a crash they would blame on another of his typical tantrums at the start of each week. It was, of course, no tantrum, but him thudding onto the shower floor to the introduction of the mischievous soap. He was thus whisked away to a realm of unconsciousness that would spare him the throbbing pain of a head wound that would eventually require 7 stitches. Ostensibly, this alternate reality would serve as a haven from the increasing unpleasantness of things, but sadly even his subconscious had no defense for those ruinous Mondays. Still, the dream began innocently enough, with Mack enjoying the simple serenity of his favorite diner with his strawberry pop and turkey sandwhich. And then the windows exploded. Yet another "coming soon" from Linty Fresh. true 0 28 1517 1490 Mack hated Mondays 1490 1 2009-11-21T12:12:18-05:00 1643 http://cache1.emptees.com/images/6015/MondaysEmptees.jpg 2009-07-10T18:58:23-04:00 2008-02-07T20:37:29-05:00 32 2008-01-01T01:03:25-05:00 This one's for the contest thingy (mentioned <a href = "http://emptees.com/posts/464-hugest-tee-designer-company-ever">here</a>) Not a whole lot to say about it, except that I think this is the first time I've tried blending these two styles (the streetsy cartoon feel + swirly vector stuff), so that was fun. I hope this contest is still on... true 0 55 1467 1490 In Dreams... 1490 2 2008-01-16 2009-11-22T03:30:22-05:00 2794 http://cache1.emptees.com/images/5858/InDreams2.jpg http://emptees.com/tees/1467-in-dreams/buy 2009-05-21T02:31:32-04:00 2008-02-20T15:39:17-05:00 17 2007-12-26T10:28:48-05:00 From <a href = "http://lintyfresh.com">Linty Fresh</a>... This shirt tells the tale of Niloofar, the son of a blacksmith in a the small village of Freshington, which lay to the East of Lintidor Woods. Ever eager to see his son continue his legacy of metalworking, Niloofar’s father had secretly crafted a sword for his boy. But Niloofar despised his father’s trade and angrily stormed away upon receiving the sword. Brooding atop a hill overlooking their small village, Niloofar soon fell into a deep sleep. The next morning he awoke to the footsteps of the Knights of Freshington, the town heroes. They dolefully explained that during the night the Dreaded Shadowslug had emerged ferociously from its home deep in the woods and had devastated their peaceful town. With this news Niloofar ran frantically home only to cofrim his worst fears – his family had been among those devoured by the monster. And so, with a vengeance burning red like the coals of his late father’s hearth, Niloofar slashed and charged fearlessly through Lintydor Woods. And the Great Shadowslug, with a belly still plump from its midnight feast, lay vulnerable to the young boy’s blade. As Niloofar erupted from the thicket, the monster squirmed like a massive yet feeble maggot lolling in the leaves, but to no avail. The beast had finally met its match&#8230; Guys on white American Apparel 100% cotton 2001 tees, Girls on lemon American Apparel 100% cotton 2102 Also available on American Apparel 100% cotton 2007 unisex white long-sleeve tees <a href = "http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/gameyy/Epic.jpg">Full design here</a> true 0 65 1426 2314 The Epic of Niloofar 1490 2 2008-01-04 2009-11-22T04:16:08-05:00 2525 http://cache0.emptees.com/images/5676/EPICemptee.jpg http://emptees.com/tees/1426-the-epic-of-niloofar/buy