The global phenomenon that is T-Shirt company Threadless.com boasts worldwide sales of billions of tees since is first started up back in 2000. It has pioneered the business model for online selling through it community driven designs. The premise is simple; people submit designs, the 1m+ users to the site vote on them and the most popular are printed and sold. Over the past decade or so Threadless has amassed an enormous archive of very hip, very cool and very often entertaining designs that are unique to their brand. Threadless: Ten Years Of T-Shirts ($17) showcases 400 of the crマme de la crマme tees that have been created by their community, which acts as a virtual barometer of the evolution of design and art since 2000. A must have.
Hugh Hefner’s Playboy ($950) was originally released to coincide with the 60th anniversary of one of the world’s most famous magazines, this is a sumptuous 6 volume anthology which celebrates the sophistication, decadence and wait of both the original men’s magazine, and its flamboyant creator. It looks at both his career and his personal life, […]