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.

Each week we’ll comb through Rumplo’s pages and pages of of kitchy, artistic, and often hilarious tees, to bring you our picks. We’ve had a kind of a Tyler Durden week, which is to say we “wanted to destroy something beautiful.” Here are a couple that meet our killer criteria:

Scrap Metal: This is what would have happened to R2 had he gone with Luke to rescue Leia. That Death Star trash compactor isn’t very forgiving.

Chainsaw Killer Bunny: Did you know that if given the chance, carrots would kill you and everyone you loved? I don’t call this rabbit a murderer, we call him a hero.

Surf’s Up Dudes: What would happen if Dr. Strangelove met Johnny Utah from Point Break? This shirt.

Noah Butkus: Our old friend Noah Butkus puts his hooded killer on full display. This masked man clearly loves his work.

Since writer Matthew Newton is of a like artistic mind, so we thought it might be nice to give a little exposure to his column called Made You Look. Newton, besides living in Pennsylvania, and according to his bio, owns some choice speed metal and hip-hop cassette tapes, brings up-and-coming artists from around the world (like Grotesk and Wilfrid Wood) to the fore in this series of profiles. His latest is an interview with Noah Butkus, a snowboard graphics designer and professed comic book junkie who splintered off to pursue a passion for drawing melting skulls and eviscerated masked men. Newton seems to have a good eye for what’s hot, so we’d recommend keeping a browser tab open for him.

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!