We are excited to announce that our exclusive 2012 collection has arrived and is ready for order! Featuring designs by Gordon Hull, founder of fashion/design collective Surface to Air, Manifest Destiny is sure to please! The collection includes designs for artists Major Lazer, Washed Out, The Rapture, The Jesus and Mary Chain, T. Rex, Wooden Shjips, and Real Estate. Printed on 100% organic cotton and treated with a special wash, this collection has that extra soft feel of your favorite vintage tee. We’re certain you’ll never want to take them off! Each design is extremely limited and has been printed fewer than 300 times. Make sure you don’t miss out and order yours here today!

SSD X BITNB

Blood is the New Black is an LA based T-shirt line that displays the work of emerging artists, designers and photographers. We have curated a series for their holiday collection titled Genrefication. The Collection features four designers &  six original designs, with each design representing an homage to a specific musical genre of the artists’ choice.

Nick Zinner

Witchhouse

Southside Chicago Soul

Nick Zinner is a founding member of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Head Wound City, as well as an accomplished photographer with 3 books released to date. He resides in New York City.

Hisham Bharoocha

Pysch Rock

Death Metal

Hisham Akira Bharoocha is an artist currently based in Brooklyn, New York. He concentrates on creating music for his bands Soft Circle and the Boredoms, visual art, and photography.

EE Storey

Protest Folk

EE Storey (born in NY, 1981) is an independent Montreal-based art director, graphic designer and illustrator. Storey and her company, Storey Elementary, work with a variety of clients and collaborators, varying from bands and record labels to community organizations and social justice campaigns.

Rob Carmichael

Krautrock

Rob Carmichael is a graphic designer based in Brooklyn, where he founded SEEN, an independent art direction and graphic design studio. SEEN designs a wide variety of material for clients in the music, publishing, film, and cultural spheres. His work at SEEN is realized in various mediums: packaging, books, posters, clothing, identities, and websites.

On the horizon:

We will have a table at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival on Sunday Dec. 3rd! Come by for special Posters, Limited Edition Tees and Books. Check out the list of exhibitors here: http://www.comicsandgraphicsfest.com/

Also check out the Musician As Designer series Tees, all on sale for just $20! The next releases are in progress and we’ll be sure to keep you posted!

The SSD 2012 collection is almost finished! New Tees from bands like T. Rex, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Major Lazer, Washed Out, The Rapture and more. Stay tuned as more details are coming soon.

Here’s wishing you a healthy and happy Thanksgiving, wherever you may be!

Fall is just around the corner and we can kick it off with Justin Pearson’s book + flexi “How to Lose Friends and Irritate People.” Only 1000 of these will be made and they’ll be shipping the end of September. The book comes in the form of two novellas and two flexi discs with tracks from Justin’s band All Leather. Head over to shop where you can sample one of the tracks and place a pre-order.

The cold weather will be here soon so stay warm with one of our hoodies or pullovers. We’re running low on some of our favorites so be sure to grab one before they’re gone. We have just a few Vinyl is Forever 05 pullovers in Medium left and our HEALTH crew neck pullover in Small is almost sold out. There are less than 5 Battles and No Age hoodies in medium left, which are both 70% off.

The Road to Rock coloring book is now available in all its 12×12 inch glory. These black and white pages are just begging to be colored! Your kids (or you- let’s be honest) will be busy for hours coloring your way through the rise of Jet Vegas to fame and stardom. Break out the crayons and order your copy here. If crayons aren’t totally your thing, we have a beautiful iPad app in the works. The app will have the entire story as well as multiple options for coloring. We’ll keep you posted on the app once we have a release date.

We’ve broken ground on the new collection, which will be designed by Gordon Hull, creative director and founder of the brand Surface to Air. Surface to Air just opened their NYC flagship store last week so be sure to check it out.

We took a bit of a summer hiatus on the Musician as Designer series but stay tuned for the next installments.