If there’s any time to say out with old and in with the new, it’s midway through January. Australian T-shirt producers 2×4 T-shirts have taken cue and are slashing prices on their current crop of tops. The clearance sale features designs by talents like Emil Kozak, Jeff Canham and Noah Butkus, for the minuscule cost of $10 AUD. Time to toss those ‘08 shirts and and grab some discounted tops at the Wearewere.com.

Jeff Canham is a man of the surf and sand. Hailing from Hawaii, he has never been far from the placid waters of the Pacific. A frequent reader of Surfer Magazine growing up, he would later move to Orange County to serve as the publications art director. Canham has since relocated to San Francisco where the surfing’s a plenty and where he has more than enough of time to focus on making signs for his day job at the New Bohemia Sign Shop.

When he’s not hard at work designing standout signs for shops around town…he’s out hanging ten on the surf and when he’s not doing that he manages to work on his own brand of eye catching canvases that give a nod towards his experience catching waves. Keeping himself constantly immersed in the ways of the wave rider has no doubt influenced Canham’s aesthetic, as many of his creations are covered in terms and nautical images related to surf conditions. Hanging his astounding work in your home might just give you a taste of the West Coast in your home…but it may make you hesitant to brave the choppy waters of your own bathtub.

Talented Aussie designer Damien Aistrope has done it again with 2×4, a new line of seasonal, limited edition t-shirts. Currently in its first release, 2×4 works around the concept of four artists/designers creating two tees each, then releasing 200 of each of the eight resulting designs (2×4… get it?). Barely in to its first season, 2×4 can already count names like Emil Kozak, Adam Cruickshank, Jeff Canham, and Noah Butkus as collaborators, aong with Damien’s own influence in the design world, I’m sure that the line-up will be packed thick with role models as the years continue. Aside from the fact that one of these would make a very nice gift for yourself, I’d imagine the combination of scarcity/visual delectability would make a very nice gift for a design-freak friend, so head over and check out the goods!