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Rare Craft Beers

In the spirit of our new CRAFT BEER T-SHIRT, we’ve compiled a list of our Top 12 Pretentious Craft Beers. Bonus points if you can tell which one of these we made up! (Hint: It’s all of them.)

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  1. Celebate Steampunk’s Pissed Off Porter
  2. Horatio Mantitty’s Oatmeal Cheddarbiscuit Stout
  3. Slobberin’ Moose’s Odious Musk Brown Ale
  4. Boring Todd’s Unremarkable Amber
  5. Room Temperature Brewery’s Pisswater Pilsner
  6. Pale Dale’s Snail Mail Pale Ale
  7. Laughing Monk’s Rogue Mole Hair Weizenbock
  8. Wheaty Pete’s “Will Fuck for Wheat” Hefeweizen
  9. Funky Rasta’s Jerk Chicken & Hemp Oil Rye Ale
  10. Stumptown’s Homicidal Elf Winter Ale
  11. Hoppy Toad Brewer’s Reserve Beard Yeast Bourbon Doppelboch
  12. Maltese Falcon’s Objectively Unpalatable Sour Ale

If you like what you see here, go check out our new CRAFT BEER T-SHIRT at Headline! It’s barrel-aged (or something), with notes of oatmeal and seaweed. Mmmmmmmm!

And So Begins… “The Pumpkining.”

Brace yourselves. For today marks the first day of fall. And that can only mean one thing… “The Pumpkining” hath begun.

Yes. It is officially “pumpkin spiced” season. It spreads like a virus, starting with lattes and cheesecakes, then quickly infecting all manner of consumer products. Chewing gum. Beer. Hummus. Motor oil. “The Pumpkining” cannot be reasoned with. It does not obey the rules of common sense. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it will not rest until every soul has surrendered to its gourdly grip!

Take heed, fellow citizens! For if we do not act now, this could be our future…

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This might be hard for you kids to believe, but before the minivan came along and ruined everything, vans were actually pretty awesome. Lately we’ve been fixated on the “shaggin’ wagons” of the 70s and 80s. (Yes, vans actually used to get you laid.) And we’ve channeled all that obsession into our latest tee, “Van Life.” Come check it out: http://www.headlineshirts.net/van-life-t-shirt.html

The National Park Service officially turns 100 today! Check out this amazing photo essay by Roger Minick of sightseers at national parks during the late 70s and 80s. It’s a pretty awesome and amusing time capsule, and it’s seriously making us want to bust out the cutoff jean shorts and hit the road. (Fair warning!) 

Cutting Room Floor: Socks That Didn’t Make It

With every production run there are casualties. Some ideas get to the design phase, only to have the plug pulled on them for one reason or another. (Usually a very good reason.) Here are three examples from our new round of socks: “Smoking Cats,” “Eggplants & Peaches,” and “Eagles & Beer Cans.” What do you think, did we make a mistake? Should we have gone through with any of these? Or are they better left to rot in the design graveyard? Let us know!

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Socks for Cinephiles!

We just dumped a veritable Category 5 Sock Storm on our online store. (And they’re all Buy 2, Get 1 Free today, so head over there now!) Part of our huge dump (huh huh) includes this series of designs inspired by some comedy and action classics.

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We’ve noticed a surge in coffee tees lately. Which is great. We love coffee and we have made our share of coffee tees. But does it seem like they’re getting angrier? And, I dunno… less grammatical? “OK, BUT FIRST COFFEE” is funny. We’re down with...

We’ve noticed a surge in coffee tees lately. Which is great. We love coffee and we have made our share of coffee tees. But does it seem like they’re getting angrier? And, I dunno… less grammatical? “OK, BUT FIRST COFFEE” is funny. We’re down with that one. But does anyone really go around wearing a “COFFEE. BLACK. NOW!” t-shirt? Like, they actually go into a coffee shop wearing that? And if so, have they ever had their preferred scalding hot beverage thrown directly in their face? Not saying they deserve that, but it seems like some low-hanging fruit on the ol’ karma tree. Come on, people, use your words! And, you know, be nice.

Maybe we’re turning into crazy old cat ladies. Last month we released “Pulp Felines” and “Catpetite for Destruction.” And just when we thought we were done, two words popped into our heads. “Cat. Sabbath.” Oh, shit! How do you not make that into a...

Maybe we’re turning into crazy old cat ladies. Last month we released “Pulp Felines” and “Catpetite for Destruction.” And just when we thought we were done, two words popped into our heads. “Cat. Sabbath. Oh, shit! How do you not make that into a t-shirt? You can’t! You can’t not make that into a t-shirt. OK, we’re starting to confuse ourselves with the double negatives, so we’ll just leave it at that. We hope you enjoy! Leave a comment and let us know what you think. 

The NASA space probe Juno reached Jupiter’s orbit on July 4, exactly one second off schedule. That night, we also released our new “Science” design – an homage to one of the great advocates for space exploration. We’d like to say that we timed this...

The NASA space probe Juno reached Jupiter’s orbit on July 4, exactly one second off schedule. That night, we also released our new “Science” design – an homage to one of the great advocates for space exploration. We’d like to say that we timed this release with NASA-like precision. Truthfully… it was dumb luck. But what the hell – we’ll take it!

What does Captain Ahab look like? That was our first question when we started designing our new t-shirt. Depictions of the captain from Moby Dick have been all over the place. So we started with a few sketches of our own, ranging from grizzled pipe...

What does Captain Ahab look like? That was our first question when we started designing our new t-shirt. Depictions of the captain from Moby Dick have been all over the place. So we started with a few sketches of our own, ranging from grizzled pipe smoking seadog to bushy non-pipe smoking seadog. (And we managed to throw a droopy Mark Twain lookalike in there.) Ultimately we opted for a much simpler and stylized look. Sometimes less is more. Even for Captain Ahab.