Good little collaboration between California skateboard legend Buddy Carr and New York based graphic designer Antonio Carusone. A Skateboard and T-shirt combo. Limited to 100 pieces. Looks fun, thanks Anthony!

Some great t-shirts by Robatabrand. And as a bonus to Josh Spear readers, enter “JOSHSPEAR” at check out to get 10% off! Thanks Mark!

Fourth is King brings you comfortable quality t-shirts with special attention to design details. The 3 shirts currently available are Brainstorm (love that), Peace Out and One if by Land, Two if by Sea. Good work guys and congrats on the launch!

More than 100 million sharks are killed annually for their fins. Enter PangeaSeed, a Tokyo-based grassroots organization to raise awareness on the plight of sharks around the world. PangeaSeed’s mission is to create an open dialogue with the global community on the need to preserve and protect sharks and their habitat. They are doing this through volunteer activism, art, film, music and photography. Recently, they collaborated with several artists on a series of exclusive T-shirts. With prices ranging from $25-$55 (plus international shipping), keep in mind you’re not just buying another shirt: this time you’re making a donation to saving sharks and keeping PangeaSeed “trucking along.”

For all my college dropouts, graduates, post-graduates, and/or pals who didn’t go to University at all but want that collegiate looking t-shirt, sweatshirt, or hoodie. Remember these? I Don’t Go To University: They’re back! Available in red, grey, and blue. Hat tip to the beautiful Greta Eagan for finding them! Now get back to work, you slackers.

What are your plans this Saturday? If you’re a fan of MWM like we are, then they should include seeing some new work at the Chorus Gallery in Somerville, MA. On tap is his signature canvas work, a small series of prints, and a new collaboration with Open and Traitor Cycles that consists of of five hand-painted frames, a cycling cap and t-shirt. The opening reception is this Saturday at 8 p.m., and in case you can’t get there, it will be on display until Sept. 8.

Nine out of ten music nerds agree, Warp Records is king. Since its inception and initial release in 1989, the label that defined intelligent electronic music has witnessed a wave of advancement in sound production, a rode it all the way to July of 09, marking twenty years of great tracks, cutting edge producers, and (more recently) experimental bands. Titled Warp20, the anniversary is being celebrated with a number of shows featuring acts like !!! and Battles, as well as a really dope T-shirt and a box set chronicling the history of Warp. There’s a whole lot going on with this label right now, and it’s spanning continents. Check out the site for full details.

No, these are not wooden handlebar mustaches. They’re bad ass handcrafted wooden handlebars for bikes. Check out more at Workerman and buy them on Etsy. (He also seems to make some great t-shirts).

Nice work by graphic designer and illustrator Adam Cruickshank. Especially a fan of all his t-shirt work. There are a few of my favorites after the jump. Check him out.

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Sad part? It’s probably true. From Formula Werks for $25.

Of all the wacky cross-culture mash-ups that come out of Japan, this one gets serious chutzpah points: Phenomenon paired seminal post-punk band, Public Image Limited, with animated feline time-traveler, Doraemon on two new T-shirts. The graphic mixes PiL’s logo with a more subtle reference to the cat’s colors, whiskers and collar. Of course if it takes you a minute to make the connection, Phenomenon sends it home by titling the shirt Pilemon. I think it’s both brilliant and bizarre to pay combined homage to an important band that released its greatest hits (so far) album in 1990 and an anime icon who fell into the shadow of Sanrio, but it does beg three questions: 1) Precisely how many people listen to post-punk and watch anime? 2) Why now? And 3) How quickly is John Lydon going to call his lawyer about this? Looks like white is already sold out. Black is available here.

Nice shirts from a small Australian brand called Junior Massive. Above is Eclipse, Tetris and Ascii Text Lips. Available in both guys and girls cuts.

The economic climate has given designers good reason to be concerned, but kudos to San Francisco’s snarky Headline Shirts for bringing smiles to T-shirt buyers’ faces in the best way they know how–cotton and cartoons. With 20 top end menswear stores predicted to be out of business by the end of the year, Chris Gorog, the founder of Headline’s parent brand Revel Industries, says T’s have been the most recession-proof of his three lines (which include the mid-market menswear line REVL and the top-end Gythamander, whose silk neckwear is worth saving up for). The American-made shirts, which include “Party like it’s 1929″ in Dirty Dancing-inspired font, are sold everywhere from Canada to Japan and printed with eco-friendly inks. A series of “I heart NY” shirts include a nod to the Cold War with “I (hammer and sickle) the 80s” and “I (bike tire where stolen frame once was) SF,” which is being introduced in a new local line out today. How’s that for intelligently inspired apparel?

Obsessed with scoring t-shirts at Threadless before they’re chosen to be made, manufactured, and put on your closet shelf? Check out this new Power Score feature from our pals Jeff and Jake– you can score with the keyboard which means ultra-fast t-shirt scanning and commenting. Love it. Click here to view a video all about it.

All this chatter of Mos Def and his album on a t-shirt makes us happy. Music Tee’s we spotted last week are coming out in full force. My next question is simple though: What stops people from taking a camera phone picture of the download code on the t-shirt without purchasing it? Similar to the days kids used to bring razor-blades into the record store and slide out the CD quick and undetected. I hope we don’t ever have t-shirts locked up behind security as records and other hard media (DVD’s etc) have now.  I’m excited to watch for sales figures of the Mos Def T-shirt ($40) to see if it has legs.