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The Ed Hardy shirt is based on the fantasy designs of Don Ed Hardy, which features skulls, tigers, snakes and mermaids. This California tattoo artist has enjoyed worldwide acclaim for his technical ability and creative imagination that has transformed his designs into a complete fashion line manufactured by the famous designer Christian Audigier. Today, over 5,000 celebrities have indulged their love of tattoos through this wearable body art that satisfies the desire without sacrifice.

Don Ed Hardy’s career as a tattoo artist began in 1967 after he received a BFA degree from San Francisco Art Institute in printmaking. In the 70s and 80s, Don Ed Hardy lived in Japan and refined his skill with traditional tattoo masters.

With more than four decades of tattooing experience, Don Ed Hardy’s skillful experimentation is the reason why he has achieved legendary status and is often referred to as “the Godfather of the Modern Tattoo.” Over the years he has used art history to inspire his talent. He has masterfully combined icons from American, Japanese, and Cholo, cultures with surf, tattoo and hotrod designs to give his work a mesmerizing effect

Hardy signed a license agreement with Ku USA, Inc. in 2002 to manufacture a clothing line based on his art. Other major apparel makers began to show interest in his designs two years after the agreement was signed.

Christian Audigier was one of the fashion designers that were astounded by the imagery of Don Ed Hardy’s tattoo art themes such as “Love Kills Slowly.” Don Ed Hardy and Audigier signed a licensing agreement in 2004 that granted the designer exclusive rights to use his designs as the “Ed Hardy” brand. The street culture clothing line has virtually created a lifestyle couture since its beginning.

Today Christian Audigier lives in Los Angeles, but he was born in France in the southern city of Avignon. Before he created the Ed Hardy brand, he was Head Designer and marketing genius for Von Dutch Originals. Audigier is the person who promoted the imagery of Kustom Kulture artist Von Dutch to legendary status in the fashion map and had the celebrities in a mad dash to wear it. Audigier’s title: “The King of Jeans” comes from his success as a designer for companies such as; “American Outfitters,” “Diesel,” “Fiorucci” and “Levi’s.”

Audigier’s success is because of his love of the entertainer lifestyle and his charisma. This close relationship to the entertainment world is at the heart of his promotional method of marketing directly to a celebrity clientele.

In addition to the Ed Hardy shirt, the brand features a full line of clothing items and accessories for women and men. Audigier’ company Nervous Tattoo employs more than 45,000 people worldwide who produce six other clothing lines including: the new lines of “C-Bar-A”, “Chuck Boyd”, and “Paco Chicano” along with “Christian Audigier”, SMET”, “and Crystal Rock.”

Are you bored of wearing your shirt but cannot throw it away? Do you have several old shirts that you rarely wear? Maybe you have other shirts that have simply gone out of fashion and you do not use them. You should not continue keeping those old garments when you can use them to make something wearable. Tie-dye is a process of dyeing fabric by tying it up at various places with strings or rubber bands. Using this technique, you can convert your old shirt into a brand new tie-dye t-shirt.

If you are very creative, you can first design your shirt. It will help you in the tying process. Then you must select the colors you wish to see on your shirt. When it comes to tie dye you can let loose the designing genius in you. You can even buy plain white shirts from the various shops and department stores. You could also place an order online. However, nothing compares to creating your own tie-dye shirt. It will be like a great weekend activity and you can even include your kids to be a part of this activity.

Firstly, you must grab your old shirt (or a new if you wish to create on a new shirt), plastic bags, squeeze bottles, gloves, soda ash, rubber bands, fabric dye and a bucket. Except for the fabric dye, you will mostly get everything in your own house itself. You could do the entire process on your own or even buy tie-dye kits available in the market. These kits come with complete instructions that will guide you through the entire process.

Before beginning on the shirt, you can practice on some swatches of cloth. That will ensure you do not make mistakes and ruin your shirt. You will get various designs depending on where you knot the fabric or whether you squeeze it or fasten it like a robe. You can adopt various patterns. If you search on the Internet, there are sites that give you detailed procedure to get the different designs. You can even buy books. There are plenty of books available.

Let me explain how you can make your own tie-dye t-shirt in a few simple steps:

1. First, choose a 100% cotton or linen shirt, either your old shirt or a new if you wish. Wash it well.
2. Place this shirt on a flat table where you can work.
3. Knot the shirt at a few places or you can twist it and fasten with rubber bands or strings tightly.
4. Make the dye reading the instructions carefully. Either you can get ready tie-dye kits or you can source the dyes from the right place.
5. Dye the shirt by soaking for a minimum of twenty minutes.
6. Rinse the shirt in cold water.
7. Remove the knots and rinse the shirt again
8. Dry the shirt indoors, not in the sun.

People take pride in wearing their own tie-dye t-shirt. It is a fun activity and the shirt never goes out of fashion. So, what are you waiting for?

T-shirts are the best mediums to express who you really are. Whether you are young and flirty, dark and sassy, or just plain tough, designing the t-shirt and printing it will reveal what you really feel or think. For the geeky and the geek-at-heart, there are a few t-shirt printing artwork that just puts a big smile on one’s face. Here are the top ten t-shirt printing artwork for geeks.

There’s No Place Like 127.0.0.1
Any computer geek will immediately know what the text means. The IP address 127.0.0.1 is the standard IP for the local host. And the local host is usually called Home. So the text actually reads: “There’s no place like Home.”

Geek Love Poem
This shirt is actually sweet, if you think about it. But then, only geek girls would find the hex codes for colors sweet and romantic. The geeky love poem reads: “Roses are #FF0000; Violets are #0000FF; All My Base Are Belong To You.” The last line refers to an Internet Meme that spread in 2000 to 2002, originating from the opening cut scene of the 1991 European Sega Mega Drive version of the video game Zero Wing.

Steampunk designs
A geek will surely appreciate a steampunk design on t-shirts. Any artwork is good as long as the inside of an engine or clock is visible, complete with all the nuts and bolts. Steampunk refers to the style and art genres that meld the Victorian era inventions with modern technology. The steampunk science fiction and fantasy genres include the works of HG Wells and Jules Verne.

Shirt
The tags are the most common HTML elements recognized by geeks. Any self-respecting programmer and those who work for websites should know about these famous tags. Indicating a BODY by wearing a t-shirt printing the code for all to see is plain genius.

Geek Inside Maternity Shirt
This is one maternity shirt every geek girl expecting a mini-geek should wear. “Geek Inside” is a play of words on the famous “Intel Inside” slogan for the giant microchip company, Intel.

I Will Not Fix Your Computer
A common misconception of computer geeks is that all of them know how to fix a computer. One geek may know how, but not all. Besides, geeks can be fickle creatures. They may fix your computer if they like you very much. If not, then sorry, compadre!

PEBKAC
PEBKAC is a common acronym among System Admins. It actually stands for “Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair,” which refers to the common notion that computers are not the problem, but the users who are not sufficiently trained to use the machines.

There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don’t.
This one sentence can baffle most people who expect 10 to mean ten. In the world of computers, binary language is composed of only 1s and 0s. The sentence means there are only two types of people: one who understands binary and one who does not.

I failed the Turing test.
The Turing test refers to the theory that an Artificial Intelligence, commonly encountered in the form of a chat bot, can fool most people into thinking they are having a nice conversation with another human being. If you fail the Turing test, then you are definitely nearer to being stupid. Chat bots are very easy to detect, especially when they start telling you they do not understand a sentence that is fairly easy to understand.

Brain Loading… 45% Please Wait.
Wear this shirt when you are half-awake, or half-asleep. Either condition applies. Just like a loading icon flashing its progress, the Brain Loading shirt is cool for sleepwear. However, this kind of shirt is definitely not work wear, or your boss would think less of you.

Obviously, the geeky t-shirt printing artworks have been chosen based on their attractiveness to the author’s personal preferences. You may also have noticed that the interactive t-shirts and animated t-shirts were not included. The list simply focuses on designs that were applied through t-shirt printing methods. Batteries should not be included.