Community | November 01, 2007 | 13 comments

The future of news is... t-shirts?

source: http://www.theshirtproject.org/shirts/trouble_in_myanmar/

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Check out this infographic explainer of the crisis in Burma... printed on a stylish cranberry American Apparel tee.

It's the second in a series of shirts produced in rapid response to what's happening in the world. You can buy them individually, or subscribe, like a weird wearable magazine.

I sort of love it.
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13 comments // The future of news is... t-shirts?

  • Aligirl
  • Uckfay
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      Uckfay  

    • Kudos, fashion should simply split and then devour its young. Maybe then, we'd all be better off, because the fact remains: fashion is a run-away lunacy that is fed by exubrance.

    • 4 years ago
  • tpalmer
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      tpalmer  
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    • Great find Robin. Love it. Beautiful. Move over offbeat vintage shirts .

      However while I do like the Burma shirt I must say I much prefer the layout/composition/color/information of the New York City Midtown Steam Explosion shirts. Actually... I'm ordering one now.

    • 4 years ago
  • katevalentine
  • Uckfay
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      Uckfay  

    • I agree, I think it's a good start. Once you get the knowledge out there, people will begin to react. Fashion could take a turn for the better. Just imagine if every article of clotheing that you bought went to a good cause? The idea sends pleasure chills up and down my spine. It's revolutionary.

    • 4 years ago
  • matt_fisher
  • platkat
  • Robijnson
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      Robijnson  

    • Whether or not the person wearing the shirt actually cares about the cause may not always be important. They might still be raising awareness, turning minds, and unknowingly starting things in motion

    • 4 years ago
  • sloan
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      sloan  

    • I had the same feeling, but one thing that makes me like this shirt a lot more than some others is that it contains actual information, not just a broad exhortation. I actually wish they'd started with something less "flashy" (the federal budget? something about Homeland Security spending?) rather than Burma.

      But if we think about t-shirts as a form of media -- which is becoming a reasonable concept, I think -- then why not use them to inform as well as amuse?

    • 4 years ago
  • joshuaheller
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      joshuaheller  
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    • I've seen a lot of cool looking Save Darfur shirts. But I think that they become fashion statements and not necessarily effective tools to end oppression.

      I wonder if putting provocative news stories on t-shirts, will bring these issues closer to home, or distance us from them by making them fashion.

      What do you think?

    • 4 years ago
  • beachbound
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      beachbound  

    • That's awsome. I was moved by hearing the monks protest. Now there is a peacefull movement! And violently distrupted by the police? Wow.

    • 4 years ago
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