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Peeking Inside The Threadless T-Shirt Book

By Tankboy in Arts & Entertainment on Oct 21, 2010 4:00PM

It's hard to believe Threadless has already been around for ten years, thus making the Chicago-based company a veritable institution of the design and marketing of a new kind of t-shirt. Crowd sourced limited runs of a truly innovative artistic bent have helped the company succeed and earn the cache it has in the creative community today. Jake Nickell has written a book tracing the companies history and praising many of the members of the artistic community that have been active in getting Threadless to the point its at today. We thoroughly enjoyed lingering through its pages, lushly illustrated with iconic t-shirt designs and peppered with Threadless history. The only thing that could make this book even better would be an accompanying re-release of all the t-shirt designs contained therein since we found ourselves downright coveting discontinued past classics!