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UPDATE: This was scheduled to post this morning and didn’t go off somehow. However, since we’re on a regular 1st of every month new shirt schedule, the changeover will still happen at 12:01 am, September 1st. (Even though I’ll probably catch hell for it.)

We’re getting all philosophical on ya’ll for September. Ben Chlapek is back. He’s done two of my favorite designs that have sold on the site in the past, both “RIAA RIP” and “Delayed Travels.”

This one’s is the first text-based design we’ve had in a long time and it’s going to help people everywhere emote, I just know it.

Ben is a freelance illustrator, designer, and printer. You can catch up with him on his personal site at NeverSleeping.com, his MySpace, or his Flickr account. You can also find his hand-screened posters for sale at .

As always… this is also your last chance to score “Of Two Minds” currently for sale on the home page. Once this one goes up at 12:01 am, October 1st; “Of Two Minds” goes into the archives forever.

If you like this design, let us know in the comments. If you hate it, tell us why. The more feedback we get, the better.

Cherry Bomb T-shirt

Metaphorical linguistics get in a head-on collision with pixel art as pseudo-fractal art rides shotgun! Yeah yeah, that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue I know, but it does make for a bomb-blast of cherry goodness across your chest. So what are you waiting for? It goes on sale on July 1st at midnight US CST. (GMT -6) There no artist to credit on this one-it was done in-house, so I hope you like it.

Due to the nature of this shirt’s design, I’m attaching two more photos so you can get the effect from different distances…

Cherry Bomb Sizes

Extreme close-up on the artwork from the bottom right of the bomb:

Cherry Bomb Close-up

Of course, this means it’s your last chance to get a print of “Creative on Amber” currently on our home page before it goes into the archive forever on July 1st. As always, if you like this design, let us know in the comments. If you hate it, tell us why. The more feedback we get, the better.

This day in 200nipples history 100% awesome covered in awesome-sauce with a warm awesome center…

At around 6am this morning our hosting company, Dreamhost, borked our site. It was down for the following 9 hours until just a few minutes ago. This is such perfect timing, let me count the ways…

1. A went out today, because we have a new t-shirt going on sale tonight at midnight. This service has over 1700+ subscribers and our traffic on new shirt notice days is always order of magnitude higher than normal. (About 7k hits vs. 200-500) So all those folks got to see a big fat blank page for the last 9 hours.
2. The new shirt notice that went out was the first one we’ve had in over a month, almost 7 weeks, actually, because we just changed our release schedule to the 1st of every month instead of every 4 weeks.
3. It’s also the first new shirt notice we’ve had go out since we got covered in the local news paper, which gave us a huge traffic spike and had 100+ new subscribers to the new shirt notice service..

Brilliant. Smashing, really.

Yes, I’m passing the buck to my hosting company by publicly bitching. I could pony up more cash and buy better hosting, but honestly Dreamhost is down rarely. Like maybe once every 6 months and it usually never lasts more then a few minutes. It’s just that their timing was extraordinarily crappy this go-round.

Thanks for your patience. We’re all clear now. So cheers and buy the new design because it’s rad. Not as rad as this, but rad none the less.

Democrazy - For Dreaming T-shirt

o0OdemocrazyO0o is a killer New Zealand designer with a penchant for fantastic doodles with lots of great detail. He’s done this design especially for 200nipples and I’m pretty excited about it. I always try to pick art that I’d want to wear and this one is definitely in that category. In his own words:

o0OdemocrazyO0o is a Graphic Artist with a day job in Graphic Design. Scribbling artwork onto T-Shirts, Skateboards and Canvas have become his creative therapy outlet…

His family resides in Aotearoa (new Zealand) and is just surviving this years winter (not to mention snowtrolls)… brrr

He has a love for creating in lots of mediums with a love of music, animation, computer art and smell creation. He has a lovely family that don’t hit him much….

A big shout out to the 200 Nipple Clan for letting me run amok…

“Creative on Amber” has tons of neat little details, so I’m attaching a detail shot below. This shirt will go on sale at 12:00am on June 1st, 2009 on the home page. This is also the start of our new scheduling. Instead of every 4 weeks, we’re now featuring a new shirt on the 1st of every month. (If that’s too hard to remember, just .)

You can catch up with o0OdemocrazyO0o and see more of his illustrations at his Deviant Art profile page. And I think it’s rather fitting that he currently has this written in the questionnaire section of his Deviant Art profile:

Skin of choice: I’ve always like the skin on my nipples…

The fates obviously meant for him to have artwork featured with us at some point. Here’s that detail shot I promised you:

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I wish I had a real ice-cream fetching robot… *sigh*

Of course, this all means it’s your last chance to get the design currently on our home page before it goes into the archive forever. As always, if you like this design, let us know in the comments. If you hate it, tell us why. The more feedback we get, the better.

Hey gang, those of you who read the blog and post comments regularly probably already know, but we’re going to a new shirt release shcedule. We were doing a new shirt release every four weeks there for a while, but as of June 1st we’ll be releasing a new shirt on the first of every month. The four weeks thing was goofy and presented a moving target date-wise, so this sits with my mild OCD of wanting everything nice and neat OCD much better.

The will still work the same way. Those who’ve signed up will receive an email with a preview of the new shirt design 24 hours before it goes on sale. Hit that link at the beginning of this paragraph to sign up.

Canary Yellow by Alice

Our next design for sale is Canary Yellow by …

I was born in Kent and grew up around Sevenoaks. After studying Graphic Design at school, I decided to move on to sculpture for University. I graduated from the University of Hertfordshire with a 1st class BA in Model Design in 2005. Not having much else to do, I stayed on for a further 2 years to complete an MA in the same subject (The University still won’t give me my certificate because they say I owe them money, so I don’t know what I got for that.) I worked as a sculptor for a product-design consultancy in Windsor for most of 2006, but was forced out of sculpting by all the adverse reactions I was having to the poisonous chemicals used in action-figures. Thus, I returned to my first love; drawing. I’ve taken the long way around, but…well, actually I can’t say it’s been ‘fun’. It has been informative, and I’ve met some unforgettable people along the way…and a few other ‘people I’d like to forget’. I currently work full-time for a design consultancy in London, where I provide concept art (London 2012 Olympic Planning Commitee), storyboards (Muller, Wrigley’s) and Logo designs (Pepsi Max).

You can learn more about Alice and see more of her work at . I’m pretty excited about this tee. To me, it’s kind of an unsettling combination of something dark with something that’s delicate; pretty and deranged. It goes on sale tonight at midnight.

If you like this design, let us know in the comments. If you hate it, tell us why. The more feedback we get, the better.

UPDATE: As requested, I’m posting a deatil shot of this design. (There will also be a detail shot on the hoe page as usual when it goes on sale.) Click the pic for a larger version.

Canary Yellow by Alice - Detail

Tea-Shirt - Limited Edition T-Shirt by Kelvin Mason

We’re pleased to have our next shirt designed by Kelvin Mason of SubtopiaStudios.com. (Check out his “Spaceman” exhibition it’s absolutely badass.)

Kelvin Mason is an artist/designer/professor who lives in the Chicago suburbs. He studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and worked designing t-shirts for a local company before venturing out on his own to found the short-lived company Black Current T-shirt Design. Going back to school, he studied printmaking at University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, and then printmaking and digital art The University of Arizona in Tucson. Since that time, he has worked for several multimedia companies and then took a job teaching at West Virginia Wesleyan College where he eventually became Chair of the Department of Art. Recently he relocated to Chicago where he now teaches interactive media studies and printmaking at North Central College and holds the position of Associate Professor of Art. Most of his spare time is now devoted to designing video games. He has no cats.

He’s got talent to spare and when he contacted us with his “Tea-Shirt” design, I jumped at the chance.

Tea-Shirt by Kelvin Mason - Detail

“Tea-Shirt” goes on sale tonight at midnight (CST). (As always, this means it’s your last chance to get our current design, “Diamond Chasers” before it enters the archives and the screens are destroyed, never to be printed again.)

If you like this design, let us know in the comments. If you hate it, tell us why. The more feedback we get, the better.

200 Nipples limited Edition T-Shirt - In Self Defense

Our next design “In Self Defense” is by Jason Spencer of St. Louis, MO. You can see more of his work at Killernapkins.com. (Mildly NSFW)

Jason Spencer produces work out of his brain based in St Louis, USA. His biggest inspirations come from his childhood watching ninja turtles, Ren and Stimpey, Doom, Mortal Kombat and more…all having some influence over his style today.

After graduating from Flo-Valley with his AFA, Jason now spends his time experimenting with many different mediums to help develop his diffinative style. Mostly though his work utilises oils on canvas with the sporadic appearances from house paint and acrylics, the mediums it seems often mimic his subject matter- mixed, matched and juxtaposed…but beautifully dark.

Jason’s work is all about provoking a response, be it from his KFC deformities, the pile of dead babies or his sculptures of ball like bodyless teeth, and sometimes, just stealing a good old laugh from us.

Recently, Jason has moved into digital work and mainly the popular t-shirt market. His love of different mediums and perverse style has translated well to this market and he has gained some notoriety from it.

“In Self Defense” will be on sale tonight at midnight.

If you like this design, let us know in the comments. If you hate it, tell us why. The more feedback we get, the better.

Be Still My Beating Heart

The next limited edition t-shirt for sale on 200nipples.com is “Be Still My Beating Heart” by Nick Steimling. Nick creates some really edgy and graphic art (this piece looks like a Family Circus panel after flipping through ) that is bursting with amazing detail and vibrant color. And we’re glad to have him for this next run.

“Hey, what’s your shirt mean?”
“It means that when it comes to art, blurring the line between how we think about things and how they actually are in reality is a good thing.”
“Wow, that’s cool, I’m really jealous.”
“Yeah, you look really jealous.”

This will be on sale tonight at midnight.

(This also means it’s your last chance to score your one-of-a-kind print of “3d Samurai.” As always, when this new one goes on sale, that one comes down.)

If you like this design, let us know in the comments. If you hate it, tell us why. The more feedback we get, the better.

“3D Samurai” by Brooklyn Hurst will be for sale on the home page starting at Midnight (US CST) Tonight.

“Hey, what’s your shirt mean?”
“It means that if you had stupid looking glasses on you could see that what appears to be normal cotton fabric actually cages a warrior’s soul.”
“Wow, that’s cool, I’m really jealous.”
“Yeah, you look really jealous.”

Enjoy!

(This also means it’s your last chance to score your one-of-a-kind print of “Intrusion.” As always, when this new one goes on sale, that one comes down.)

If you like this design, let us know in the comments. If you hate it, tell us why. The more feedback we get, the better.