Urban Outfitters’ Latest T-shirt Design Accidentally Promotes Gang Violence

What would you do if the media drew a correlation between your latest T-shirt promotion and an infamous Chicago gang symbol? Just ask Urban Outfitters.

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The 5 Best T-shirt Designs for Total Slackers

Equal parts ironic-mastery and legitimate design prowess, a great slacker tee is the perfect mix of beauty, minimalism, and eye-rolling laughter needed to say exactly what the wearer wants to communicate about his or herself. And since we’re all more or less in the business of perfect expression via T-shirt, I thought it might be cool and helpful and informative to look at some of the best slacker-esque designs out there floating around on the internet today.

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Crowdsource your Designs

Bloomberg Businessweek ran an interesting article a few days ago about the website Threadless and how they select which T-shirt designs to sell. I thought there were a couple ideas worth considering when working with promotional apparel.

If you’re not familiar with Threadless, the site mixes standard online retail T-shirt vending with American Idol-esque voting.

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