Cool Hunting

Akomplice: Limousine Early Voting Party
Akomplice, the brainchild of two brothers in their early 20s from a tiny mountain townin the Colorado Rockies has made some strides since we last checked in with them in 2006. Brothers Mike and Patrick McCarney have recently entered the political fray with their Ballin' With Barack '08 t-shirts. The company is throwing a “early voting party” from 11am-6pm Thursday, 30 October 2008, in...

SanjayShirts
Express yourself with SanjayShirts, political and humorous tee shirts designed to reflect what's on your mind—whether it's how much you're not enjoying work or who should run our country come 4 November. We particularly enjoy the subtle endorsement of sporting a Abe Lincoln shirt. Run by Zazzle, you can pick your design and have it printed on any American Apparel shirt or hoodie and...

Pony Attack Tees and Totes
by Annie Dolmatch Playful T-shirt and tote-maker Pony Attack has just launched their own e-commerce site, letting Pony boys and gals get the goods from the comfort of their own homes. Highlights of the online lot include the Technicolor Dreamcat ($40) tee and a Bad Dream ($40) tee featuring badminton racket dream catchers that is pure genius. If the ease of shopping from your studio...

Imaginary Foundation Sublimation Tees
by Kyle SmallOver at The Imaginary Foundation, the mysterious "Director" and others have been experimenting with t-shirt styles for a while now and the Sublimation series is a new process that makes for super detailed imagery. Using dye-sublimation, the tees can be highly decorative and imaginative; talk about wearing art to its fullest extreme. And what really makes these shirts unique is the fabric:...

Little Zero T-Shirts
Steve MacDonald aka Steve Mac aka ramblinworker is one of my favorite artists, so I wasn't surprised to hear that the band Modest Mouse had asked to use a piece of his artwork for a t-shirt design. Steve asked his friend Matthew Davis, also an S.F.-based artist and skilled web designer, to join him in making shirts. Together the two created a top-selling Modest...

New Klaus Tees
Two years ago Klaus Industries proclaimed that 2006 was the new 1984. While the fledgling experiment of democracy is still fledgling, the Portland, Oregon-based company has expanded their line of irreverent and humorous wears. Aside from an update on that particularly ominous theme, these hand-dyed printed shirts extol the tough-guy Abe Lincoln and the need for some domestic humanitarian intervention. “Our shirts are intended...