I thought that it would be fun if every Friday I posted a picture from Flickr that was tagged with the word ‘contrast’. This week I’ve picked this rather cool looking image of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco, which was described at the most beautiful bridge in the world this week on a Neatorama list.
[CC licensed photo by PhotoDu.de]
Whenever I get sent a package from a t-shirt label (and it happens a lot, I’m an addict!), I always like it when there is something else in the package besides ‘just’ the t-shirt. Sometimes it’s stickers, maybe a postcard, or possibly even a pin badge or two. I really like pin badges, they’re like bite-sized pieces of art, I’m slowly covering a piece of fabric with the myriad of pins I’ve received over the past couple of years, it looks pretty cool. Contrast must share my love of pin badges too, because whenever you make an order with them you’ll get a little freebie in your package.
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Free pins with every order is great and all, but you don’t make an order because of a couple of badges, you make an order because of the designs, so let’s take a closer look at one of Contrast’s designs.
I guess you could say that I’m a little late posting about this t-shirt, Winter is a rapidly turning into a memory for some of us, the daffodils are already blooming in my garden. But I guess you could also say that I’m really late in posting it, now that we’ve got global warming and a whole lot less snow falling to make the landscape look beautiful. I really like the design of this tee, the way that the print goes almost all the way from left to right helps it, giving the design more of a feeling of movement. The simple colour choice also helps to make it a bit more emotive (but not emo!) too.
Here’s a link to the t-shirt, and it’s available as a hoody too.
To me, at €75, this hoody is pretty good value for money, but obviously I wouldn’t say no to seeing that price dropped like bag of heavy groceries. How’s €59 for you? Good? Yeah, I thought you’d like that.
Check it out on the kinda-hidden, kinda-secret, specials page along with two other hoodies and jumper.
The reason why this blog has had a bit of a stop/start beginning to its life is because immediately after writing the first post, I went to Hong Kong for the week. I know that this isn’t a personal blog, but Hong Kong is such a city of contrasts that I thought I’d share a couple of pictures with you. Most of the contrasts I found were between the old and the new, the poor and the rich, the squalid and the gleaming. In Hong Kong no one seems to mind the juxtaposition of putting a giant steel-and-glass skyscraper next to a dirty crumbling block of apartments, and similarly, temples will often find themselves overshadowed by 20 storey apartment blocks. The biggest contrast of Hong Kong is that most people imagine it to be a teeming metropolis, and whilst the city on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon is a hive of activity, around 80% of the area is actually forest, an unexpected paradise for hikers and ramblers.
Ok, that’s enough about me, time to get back to real Contrast news!
You? Yeah, I thought you might!
You can get 20% off your order at the Contrast Shop. Just input the coupon code ‘summeriscoming‘ whilst you’re in the checkout and the discount will be applied automatically.
No word on when this code will stop working (if ever), but do you really want to risk it and miss out? So get to the store and buy, buy, buy!
Hi everyone, I’m Andy (you might recognise me from Hide Your Arms), and the aim of this blog is to keep you up to date with everything going at Contrastshop.
I’ll be letting you know about coupon codes, exclusive discounts, all the latest designs and releases, behind-the-scenes information, news from the t-shirt industry in general, and even a few things that don’t have anything to do with t-shirts at all!
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