Last Thursday on EastEnders, a handsome extra was spotted wearing our Soma Tee on the weird daytime gay engagement party scene.

Whatever you make of the tangled irony at work here, I’m sure you’ll agree that having a tiny part in one of the UK’s most iconic, beloved and mind numbing soap operas is pretty cool.

You can go watch it on iPlayer if you’re in the UK. But unless you have real Soma at hand I wouldn’t recommend it:

EastEnders on BBC iPlayer

We haven’t made the catwalks of Milan yet, but our friend Andrea Sclausero sent us these pages from the August 2011 Italian Glamour magazine, where he instructs readers on how to brew some gnarly looking beer, all whilst wearing a Deep One T.

Nice!

Here at The-Affair, we make original T-shirts inspired by cult literature. So as voracious readers in general, and fans of Kurt Vonnegut in particular, we were appalled to learn about the banning of ‘Slaughter House 5’ from your reading list and library.

We value the curious mind above all else, and we believe that intellectual variety is everyone’s inherent right. So we call upon you, students of Republic High, to protest this outrageous thought-policing. The narrow-minded lunacy behind your School Board’s decision to ban Vonnegut must be challenged, lest we slide ever closer to the totalitarian book-burning of Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’.

We beg you do not stand idly by and allow intellectual cowards to ban books simply because they don’t align with their bigoted world view.

We will help by donating ‘So It Goes’ T-shirts inspired by Vonnegut’s newly-banned classic. Do with it what you will, we only hope that “So It Goes” might become a popular refrain on campus. So if you attend Republic High and you want something to wear to your next English-lit class, simply e-mail us (sales [at] the-affair [dot] com) with your name, address, and grade level along with your size and whether you want the Mens or the Womens cut. We will not share your personal information with others.

We have twenty (20) T-shirts to donate right now, but after that we need help.

We promise to send two (2) free T-shirts to Republic students for every one (1) that we sell via the links below. And all profit will be donated to the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial LIbrary, to help them distribute more books and make Vonnegut the most widely read author in Missouri much to Associate Professor Wesley Scroggins’ chagrin.

Buy it now – ‘So It Goes’ – Mens.
Buy it now – ‘So It Goes’ – Womens.

Please help to spread the word, and together we can fight for free access to information.

Sincerely
The Co-Founders
The-Affair
Fashioned by Literature

I went to Dublin a few weeks ago. Here are a few photos.

About a month ago, when we should have been busy expanding our range, instead we took a week off and travelled up to Scotland, with the intent of smashing up a few whiskey distilleries. Here are a few photos from that trip.

If you can get past the annoying totally-out-of-place teenage girl narrator, then this Ritalin fuelled version of Lovecraft’s mesmerising The Call of Cthulhu should be fairly entertaining. But if not, we reckon our Strange Aeons tee does a much better job and without all those teenage ‘likes’…

via The Awesomer

It’s all change here at the-affair HQ. We’re busy putting the final touches on our new website, we’ve just taken delivery of some designs from our new factory in Portugal and with some luck you’ll all know about it by week’s end!

Some really exciting news – we’ve recently collaborated with the School of Turin on a men’s pendant, with the fruit of our labour dropping very soon. Watch this space!

That’s probably a little harsh, and not entirely accurate. Take one look at the threads above and you’ll see she’s more of an artist really. And true to Picasso’s central tenet that “good artists borrow, great artists steal”, Ms Eary has done some borrowing off of none other than yours truly it would seem.

So we’d just like to take this opportunity to gently remind Ms Eary, and the JC Report, that basing menswear on ‘books books books’ is actually not a new idea and that we’ve been doing it for the last 3 years.

Admittedly we live in the anti-haute couture world of the graphic tee, but theft is theft wherever it occurs, right batman? Anyway, Katie if you’re out there, let’s do it properly next time and collaborate :)

“For the purpose of appreciation and categorisation” is how the Book Cover Archive describes itself. And after a quick scan, we reckon that its a pretty damn accurate description, and we never complain about anything that does does what it says on the tin.

We often hear from customers that our designs would make great book covers. And although we don’t disagree, it is worth noting that we’re trying to do something different than simply re-create old covers. Instead of convincing you to buy a book, we’re in the business of helping you to start conversations based on books and ideas that you’re already invested in… You could also say we’re the small-talk short circuit you’ve always been looking for :)

Either way, seeing as though we’re on topic, what’s your favourite book cover? Drop them in the comments below…

“Show me your t-shirts and I’ll tell you who you are. Today’s t-shirts are projection screens for styles, thoughts, and attitudes; they are wearable calling cards.”

We couldn’t agree more, and are thrilled to have been included in the definitive guide to t-shirt culture, called Torso. Published by gestalten, it was compiled by Daniel Eckler, founder and editor-in-chief of Formatmag and one of our very first supporters.

It is out in August so get ready for a visual feast like no other…

Check it out – Brandon P from the Outside Royalty rocking ’42′ on their recent European Tour :)

Photo by Arno Paul

Dangerous Dave gets interviewed for a Computer Arts article on making money on the side during the recession. Ha! If only it was that easy! Everyone in their right mind knows that you don’t get into t-shirts for the money. We do it for the love baby :)

Anyway, they have some very nice words to say about us that we’d like to share with you so you can tweet our mothers about it:

“Having launched just two years ago, The Affair has become an iconic producer of limited-edition T-shirts in super-quick time.”

Read the article here