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15 Awesome T-shirt Websites For Geeks

Us geeks love our T-shirts. Creative and nerdy ways to tell others what computer we use, what presidential candidate we support and what decade we were born – rock!

Apple - The First 30 Years

Here’s my pick of 15 awesome websites of T-shirts that tell others how geeky cool we are.

1. Bad Designer Threads

Bad Designer Threads

2. Insanely Great Tees

Insanely Great Tees

3. The Mozilla Store

The Mozilla Store

4. Threadless

Threadless

5. Cosmic Soda

Cosmic Soda

6. Oddica

Oddica

7. Cult Classic Ts

Cult Classic Ts

8. Type Tees

Type Tees

9. Busted Tees

Busted Tees

10. Dirty Coast

Dirty Coast

11. Cafe Press

Cafe Press

12. Base Acid

Base Acid

13. Red Is White

Red Is White

14. One Horse Shy

One Horse Shy

15. Tee And Toast

Tee And Toast

Show us your tees

Have a few geek shirts? Show us what you have. Head over to the ‘Geek Shirt’ Flickr group and post your photos of you and your favorite shirt. Let me know of any other cool T-shirt websites so I can check them out.

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Written by Lee Munroe.

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  1. Aaron Irizarry says:

    Great List Thanks!
    Great to see my boys from Clear get a couple sites up there

  2. Kyle Boyd says:

    Sweet, good to see threadless listed, a regular haunt of mine…

  3. Garth says:

    Thanks for including us in your list (bdthreads, rediswhite). It’s an honor to be in such high company :)

  4. Chris says:

    <3 Threadless

    Need to get me one of those Obama T-Shirts…Oh and a Mug

    Nice Post Lee

  5. Claire says:

    That is a great list lee! thank you for adding us too it!
    we have a fab geek tee just about to come out sometime this week – it’s a bit like a xmas woolie jumper, so keep an eye out!

    laugh | smile | dance | sing | hug | be happy!
    (and enjoy a nice cuppa)

  6. Paul says:

    Hi Lee,

    We posted something similar last week. Must be something in the air…

    http://blog.webdistortion.com/2008/11/06/16-creative-shop-designs-for-tee-shirt-lovers/

  7. Rizzo says:

    With any luck, I will be on your list next year!

    That “Apple – the first 30 years” shirt is tremendous

  8. Paddy says:

    Another great list.

    You should should check out http://pleasedress.me Great for searching for geeky tshirts. I’m wearing one today that simply says ‘meh’.

    :)

  9. Lee says:

    @Paul: Must be tee season. I’m glad there’s only a couple overlap (and I didn’t just list 15 of your 16). Everyone else check out Paul’s post.

    @Rizzo: Nice site, http://www.rizzotees.com/

  10. SF says:

    I love kuel tees myself. There are several small indy sites that are great places to look at.
    These two are a must see if you like geeky, clever and nerdy tees. : )

    Buzzy Multimedia&Think Geek

  11. ian says:

    Aww man i can’t believe that you left out the totally !@$%&#*-up and awesome
    http://www.hungout.com/

  12. Tim says:

    We’re geared towards music, bands, and rockers, but we definitely have some geeky shirts as well. (The Death Star!!!! or the Chainsaw Killer Bunny T-Shirt)

    Check em out!

  13. Emil says:

    Hey – http://www.tenbills.com sells $10 t-shirts. Many are super geeky :)

  14. Dimitris Koutsomitsos says:

    WOW Dude! Cosmic List!!!
    Thank you so much from CosmicSoda.com for including us in your list!!!

    Cheers,
    Dimitris.
    CosmicSoda.com

  15. Harris says:

    Hi,
    This is what i’m really searching for a long time. Thanks for providing those.

  16. Libbatron says:

    Great list – I dig threadless – also worth checking out is http://www.chimpogo.com – cool new site

  17. Tony says:

    No.7 FTW!

    My collection of robot/techno culture tshirts are feeling a little lonely outside of this particular circle.

    http://cuppa-t-shirts.co.nz/

    Come revel in our dopeness!

  18. Mags says:

    Great list!

    Like SF above, I also highly recommend ThinkGeek.

    And I shamelessly endorse our own site for some interesting t-shirt concepts: I Wasn’t There :)

  19. Jeff says:

    Love the list, thanks!

    I would also like to recommend our own shop, Geek Bouteek, as an excellent source for geeky tees.

  20. Teevotee says:

    Awesome list. Will take me a while to go through.

  21. Mike says:

    Thanks for the list.

    We check out these sites as well, but don’t hesitate to check us out as well if you ever have a group event you need tees for as well! Custom T-Shirt Design Site

  22. james says:

    Artists and Tshirt Enthusiasts If your interested in some awesome art on tshirts be sure to check out the tshirt competition @ http://www.badashellclothing.com plus they got a ton of
    Awesome Shirt Designs
    Wouldn’t hurt to pay http://www.emptees.com a visit either to see some real crazy stuff.

  23. Catherine Jacob says:

    Great list! a favourite site for tees at the minute for me is http://www.artybuzz.com – some pretty cool designs on there

  24. Luke Price says:

    We have a new site for geek tees, returnvoid.co.uk launched in Jan to cater mainly for the UK market; although we seem to be selling more t-shirts inetrnationally… such is life.

  25. Chris says:

    You forgot http://www.geekestees.com!!

  26. Jimbo says:

    Great List.

    I came across Loaded Tees http://www.loadedtees.com They have funny and movie t shirts, as well as some funny anti-obama shirts :)