It’s been a wild and intense 6 months since we launched this affair. In that time, we’ve been boring countless people at dinner parties with tales of our exploits, as well as posting our tees off to exotic and unexpected destinations.

Tempers were frayed, sanity was threatened, calls from friends and concerned family members went unanswered and ignored. Many late nights, cups of tea and cigarettes later, we’ve arrived back from the printers with our second humble offering. Like that difficult-second-album, we deliberated, mused and mulled over the themes and artwork for an unnecessarily long time.

Continuing to turn to literature for inspiration, we took ideas from William Gibson’s techno-nerd-cyber-punk novel ‘Neuromancer’ as well as developing a rather clever interpretation of a quote by every MBA’s favourite intellectual, Niccolo Machiavelli.

Apple fanboys pony up, cause we’re officially the very first t-shirt brand with a mobile store, accessible through everyone’s favourite gadget. That’s right, our awesome Flash website is now available on the iPhone. That’s right fanboys, you heard right – FLASH ON THE IPHONE!

So how did we achieve this little bit of tech-magic I hear you ask? Well, to start you’re going to need the VNSea client released recently, and obviously have a VNSea server running on some other broadband computer. Oh, and its a tad on the slow side too. But hey, that’s the price for being on the cutting edge.

Thanks to Kamil, our resident Flash guru :)

Last week we were up at 5th Column with Spike printing our 3x new shirts. We’re calling these ‘batch.02′ and they’ll be dropping early feb, along with 2x hoodies in different colourways.

Its certainly been an interesting process the second-time around. With strong demand for the previous 2x designs, and Miniluv in general, we easily could’ve played it safe and released another Orwell ministry. In fact tonnes of crew keep telling us that’s what we should do next.

But we both felt that doing something different was what would be best for the brand. Now we’re not promising that we will (or we won’t) be releasing another ministry design in the future. It’s just that it didn’t feel like now was the right time. After all, there’d be nothing worse than being known as the guys “who do the Orwell shirts”.

So anyway enjoy these 2 teaser videos, where you’ll get a glimpse of the new designs. And as always, please let us know what you think in the comments below!!!

We’ve recently changed printers to 5th column. If you’re in London then you’ll probably already know them. If you’re not and you fancy getting some shirts printed in the UK I can highly recommend them.

They’ve been nothing but helpful, and best of all their quote came in substantially cheaper than our last printers, and without all the screaming :)

We’ve finally got around to that new thing all the cool kids are doing, and are now the proud parents of a facebook page. Go and check it out. Even better, become a fan and you’ll make our hearts swell with pride.

We’re also testing the waters of advertising on the Facebook behemoth. If you’ve tagged “George Orwell” or “Jesus Christ” in your profile, you might even get to see one. Which I guess is not much point considering that if you’re reading this you already know about us, but hey, if you do we’re interested in knowing what you think…

Just a quick note to wish you a very Merry Xmas and all the best for 2008 – especially those that have bought our first batch of shirts.

We’ve been blown away by the whole experience of starting our own brand. We’ve started well, but this is only the beginning. We’re going to have for a massive 2008, and to start it off on the right note, we’ve got 3x fresh new designs dropping in late January. So be sure to check back ;)

Big shout out to Sichi and the B2 store on Brick Lane for being the first crew to stock us!

If you’re in London, make sure to drop in and say hi… It’s underneath the Bodhi Gallery, just opposite the (in)famous Beigel shop.

emptees is a new t-shirt community which is really worth checking out. Not only does it have shitloads of new shirts to drool over every day, but it actually encourages discussion / an open-source approach to sharing each other’s experiences of both designing and selling t-shirts the world over.

We’re really excited to welcome Lynn Chinnock to our team. This is mainly because her main job is to make us famous (and then rich, in that order). But apart from that, she’s a lovely girl and she’d almost certainly wear a moustache if she were a man. That makes her cool. What makes us cool is that when we say “Can you speak to our publicist about that?” we’re not bullshitting :)

Intelligent men and women of the world! After 3 months of free shipping, its (unfortunately) time we return to normal. So from now on it’ll be £3 to anywhere in the world per shirt.

It’s been a delightfully dubby week over here at Affair HQ. I’ve been working insomniac hours of late, with Linton Kwesi Johnson, King Tubby, Trinity and the new Salmonella Dub album all on rotation. A repeat offender has been ‘North Bronx 1980’, a downloadable mix by the consistently excellent Dr Auratheft.

It’s one for the witching hour, deep dub goodness to keep your head nodding until one eye closes. Go check it out, and the rest of his other mixes, the guy has introduced me to some fantastic music over the years. Good shit.

Check out this article in the guardian, entitled “Conflict between religions threatens future of the world, Muslim leaders tell Pope”.

“Muslims and Christians together make up well over half of the world’s population. Without peace and justice between these two religious communities, there can be no meaningful peace in the world. The future of the world depends on peace between Muslims and Christians.”

As you can tell by our ‘Muslim Jesus’ tee, its fairly obvious we agree. Religious intolerance itself is inexplicable, and is unfortunately compounded by the fact that it was historically viable to go to war over ideology.

Anyone got the Pope’s address? We might just send him one… :)

It seems that those red commie thugs at the Communications Workers Union have announced a strike starting today until next Tuesday 9th. This means that anyone who ordered a tee in the last couple of days will probably experience a delay in shipment. Also severly affected will be ‘vulnerable members of society’ such as dole bludgers and pensioners. More info here

– UPDATE –
Thankfully the Royal Mail is back in action (more or less), so if you’re still waiting for your tee, its definitely on its way. Thanks for your patience