I never saw this one coming. And it’s not really going anywhere. But I have a shop. I have items for sale. I have a whopping seven t-shirts for sale at cogdog’s tees.
And I do not make a bloody cent of profit. I am aiming to show I have zero business savvy, not a shred of an instinct to make a buck.
These are made purely for me, but since a vast number of people (okay like three) asked. I set my shop up on threadless.com. It is set up so any profits on an order are donated to charity. Each has a small story.
Get Federated
This first T made was printed at a local shop in Moose Jaw, to where for my Gasta Talk at OER24 in Cork. Ireland. Had to wear it for the talk.
Looks like I already posted a launch of the shop. Profits go to World Central Kitchen and Rain Forest Trust.
Cog.Dog Official
The second T put to use the design made custom for me by Bryan Mathers. I don’t have one but Terry Greene seems to wear one a lot. The logo is a bit oversized, I am an amateur designer
The vast profits go to World Wildlife Fund and Doctors Without Borders.
For Those About to Write Tags (we salute you)
I can’t remember where I needed it, but sometime in the mid 2010s I went looking for an image to represent HTML, and fell in love with one on a t-shirt from a company named The Refinery. I stretched the rules of image reuse to feel like if I bought a shirt it was okay to re-use the logo. The shits is so worn out I decided to recreate it- pretty easy to do once I found The Squealer font.
Any sales profits goes to Defenders of Wildlife.
Poststructural Club
C’mon, are there rules? I remixed the Fight Club poster into pne for Poststructural Club when my wife Cori was preparing a seminar talk on Poststructuralism. For the title part, I found a Fight This font that captured the spirit of the film and made it easy to slap into a short design.
Sales margins goes to the International Association for Suicide Prevention.
Want to be in the club? The first rule of Post Structural T-Shirt club is click away.
What the Foucault?
In one of our conversations over her readings of Foucault, I made a WTF joke for Cori. She laughed. So with a little bit of text editing Photoshop, it’s another shirt on the block.
All proceeds benefit the American Association of People with Disabilities.
Want to where some WTF(oucault) style? Order it now.
Let’s Share What We Know: World Wide Web 1993
This one is by Mastodon accident. I read references that the original motto of the World Wide Web project at CERN was “Let’s Share What We Know.” My initial web searches only mentioned it without source. After asking abut it lazwweb style @ricmac shared a link with the source image, a very low quality GIF. He replied with a wish for a t-shirt, so…. I redid the text as close as I could to the original and cleaned some scraggly edges on the Ws.
Proceeds go to the Voices of the Children that supports Ukrainian children suffering under war conditions.
ai;dr
I can take no credit. It all goes to Eric Likeness @carpetbomberz who posted it. There is some more credit found in an article from Futurism. I merely took the letters and plopped it in Photoshop, I cant claim a thing except wearing it now.
The thousands of sales (hah) will benefit the It Gets Better project (and we hope “it” does).
I have heard comment that Threadless doees not ship to all countries, sorry, they do not cover the globe. But I am also not really doing a business here, so if a design really captures your eye (I am as the Brits say, gobsmacked). I will share all the designs here as PNGs.
Do with them what you want, including ignoring. Download the files for
- Get Federated (PNG)
- HTML ACDC style (PNG)
- Poststructural Club (PNG)
- Let’s Share What we Know (WWW 1993) (PNG)
- What the Foucault (PNG)
- ai;dr (PNG)
That’s my t-shirt empire, it’s vast 😉
