Take a custom printing company, throw in a love for vintage, and you get this (and a bunch’o other) cool retro tees.

$20.00 + shipping at Shirt Industries

The newest player in the online t-shirt competition marketplace is Ink-Hound. Launched on November 11th, they have a great starting line up of designs from artists like a_mar_illo, Wotto, and Mathiole.

How does it work?

Artists submit hat and shirt designs

, the community votes and provides feedback, and every 2-3 days a new hat and tee is chosen to be printed and put up for sale. Only one tee and one hat are available at a time. And they’re limited edition - once sold out, they’re gone forever.

What’s different about Ink-Hound?

• Fitted style hats in addition to t-shirts.
• Only one user-submitted and community-chosen hat and shirt design for sale at a time.
• Artists get $2 per item sold with no limit and their design rights back at the end of the selling period.
• Clean printing techniques with organic inks and offering organic tee options. Also, a portion of each sale will go to charity.
• Offers a wide variety of apparel options: fitted hats, mens and womens fitted tees, traditional fit tees, mens and womens organic tees, long sleeve tees, and hoodies.

What do we think?

The concept behind the site is solid and it looks like a good alternative (or complement?) to the Teefury system.

We dig the size of the artist cut and the fact that they keep rights to their design after the initial sale. The fact that a portion of the sales goes to charity is just a bonus.

Right now our biggest complaint is the look and feel of the site. While functional, it’s lacking some of the polish that other recently launched sites have had right out of the gate.

The previews of the designs are jaggy and hard to make out on all except for the design details page, the graphic elements of the site lack a unified style or color scheme, and many of the peripheral pages feel unfinished (the FAQ still has [insert link here] messages).

We’re willing to give them the benefit of the doubt though, and we’re pretty sure they’ll be polishing the site up as they get further into launch.

Goodies for the first week

To celebrate the launch, they’ll be selling everything half off for the first week. A tee design by a_mar_illo is selling for $6, and a fitted hat design by Mathiole is selling for $8.

Go check them out.

Cool t-shirt from one of PCTs advertisers. We usually try to write something funny to go with each t-shirt, but sometimes you just don’t need to improve on what’s already there:

“This elusive species of monkey is found only on a tiny little island known as England. Instead of poo, it throws around big fancy words like, ‘nowst available inth doth ladies sizeries!’”

$14.00 + free shipping at Psycho Reindeer

via NorthTemple

“Added the “tees” descriptor (no, this doesn’t mean a foray into a plethora of goods, just an indicator for new people) and updated the “Nude No More” text using a slightly vertically stretched version of Archer, which we’ll be using as our official font - replacing Apex Serif in the coming version of Threadless.”

@ flickr

Holycool is giving away a free t-shirt from Rhetoric T-shirts, a new company with designs from international artists.

Check the site to learn more about this new clothing line and to get all the details on how you can win! (Last day to enter: Sunday, November 16th)