Our friends at Beautiful Decay just released their Spring 09 line of t-shirts, some shown above. Tons of great stuff and plenty of awesome weather here in NYC to wear them (damn, it’s hot here!). The new season features iconic graphics from artists like Jesse Auersalo, and the psychedelic visions of Oliver Hibert. We dig, get ehm while it’s hot!

Beautiful/Decay’s apparel side is all grown up and has its own site. BeautifulDecayApparel.com keeps you posted on upcoming releases, media freebies, and news about the B/D apparel artists. One of the sweetest new features is the regularly updated blog that provides sneak peaks at new gear, events, and everything happening with the brand. We were kind of hoping for an improved B/D experience; a way to get a little more insight into their artists. Now that it’s been done, we can turn our hoping energy to the economy.

 Being the best dressed in your social circle comes at a cost. Your friends may dig your street style, but what they don’t know is your chic character isn’t at odds with what’s in your wallet. JackThreads has gone a long way towards solving that problem. Set to launch some big brands in the next few weeks, the online shopping community offers up apparel from some of the freshest urban brands around. Once you join, you’ll have access to items from Creative Recreation, Mishka, and Beautiful Decay, amongst others at sample sale prices. There’s more goodness and glamour where that came from. JackThreads will soon be offering more pleasantly priced goods from the likes of 3sixteen, Clae Footwear, and GRN Apple Tree amongst the already plentiful array of prominent, low price streetwear. Sign up now and keep more cash in your flow.

Never one to take a rest on cutting edge art, Beautiful Decay’s online store now features a new line of tees in a spectrum of vibrant colors. They’re certainly not for the wallflowers. The collaboration with apparel designers and graphic visionaries, the Imaginary Foundation are sure to spice up your closet more than buying another solid-color shirt from American Apparel will.
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From the brilliant minds that brought you the design mag Beautiful/Decay comes Something In the Universe (SITU), an agency that will tackle creative services, brand strategy, and marketing. In addition to working on the mag, they’ve also helped out The Shins, Toyota, and the MTV Movie Awards, but from what we gather, you can hire them for a little guidance even if you’re not (yet) a household name.

From past experience, we can tell you that the folks at Beautiful/Decay have a handle on all things hip and maybe even all things hop (hop is the new hip…you heard it here first) before they happen. Our last glance at their page basically revealed what tees we'd be sporting this spring, Seeing as we consider you our best buds, we thought we'd pass along a friendly fashion tip by pointing you towards the latest threads designed by OUTLAW Print Co., available in the Beautiful/Decay web store. The Philadelphia based company's line of sweet spring shirts are printed on ultra-soft American apparel shirts and adorned with dope designs such as Stay Weird and Anonymous Fury. However, unleashing your fury anonymously this spring might be a bit tough since everyone will be know you as the dude or dudette with the sweet shirts.

We've been fans of the apparel by Beautiful/Decay from the get-go as evidenced by our frequent updates on their work. Since we adore their goods so much we see no reason to stop singing their praises, especially not this Holiday season. Their choice Holiday apparel line is ripe for gift giving as their killer new collection of hoodies and t-shirts features seriously sick designs from emerging and established artists alike, turning the simplest of attire into an utterly wearable canvas.

Shelta’s Ntrl Tiny Bubble Tee: Read JS Review | Buy It ($84, Shown as 1)

Swedish designers always do it better, right? Ultra comfy, designed by Swedish brand Ntrl Tlnt (Natural Talent). You can thank the weakness of the dollar for the price conversion on this puppy!

Chuck Anderson’s No Pattern T-Shirt: Read JS Review | Buy It ($24, Shown as 2)

Who doesn’t love Chucky? What happens when the No-Pattern legend does a t-shirt, well, duh, it’s good. Kinda-funky design printed on AAA fabric, worldwide shipping is $10 from an international designer of mystery.

You Are So Last Year: Read JS Review | Buy It ($25, Shown as 3 and 4)

Pretty much every t-shirt YASLY drops is worth owning, from the Monster Eyballz T-shirt to washed out Aztec Patterns. Always limited edition, always soft, always classic.

Beautiful Decay Winter 2007: Read JS Review | Buy It ($27, Not Shown)

One of the softest-wear-for-your-money t-shirts on the market, the Winter 2007 Beautiful Decay Line is incredible to look at (they’re like works of art), incredible to wear, and damned near impossible to get when the line sells out. Get yours quick, they will be gone fast.

Hecklewood’s Teenage Wasteland: Read JS Review | Buy It ($32, Shown as 5 and 8)

Hecklewood is our favorite up-and-coming line– we call them the Portland bad-asses, the little t-shirt line that could. We’ve been long time lovers as they’re always on top of the best fabrics and most ingenious printing methods. This new winter ‘Teenage Wasteland‘ line is too much, we had to choose two pictures to share!

Monsieur T Winter 2007: Read JS Review | Buy It ($28, Shown as 6)

An oldie, a goodie, who doesn’t love funny French-guy living in Oregon t-shirt humor? Designs are always creative and quirky, I’m a big fan.

Star Electric Eighty Eight: Read JS Review | Buy It ($28, Shown as 7)

Arguably one of the most impressive new lines I’ve seen in a very long time, point blank, SEEE.us is going places. Go, indulge, the selection is incredible. The Jane Fonda t-shirt is just too much!

Momimomi’s TEaA Party Subscription: Read JS Review | Buy It ($120-$360, Not Shown)

A JS mainstay, a family affair, an always-in-the-ring for top 5 anything t-shirt related, Momimomi reigns supreme. Best gift of the season? Give yourself or a loved one a subscription to the Momimomi TEeA party, a limited edition supremely soft t-shirt every month. Just awesome.

Are you ready for the JS08 Gift Guide? If you are, that’s a shame; we’re actually not doing one this year — we’re going to do even better. Over the next month you’re going to see itemized lists, broken down into separate categories for your easy perusal, and all you’ll need to do to get to those posts is hit the “gifts” tag at the bottom of any of them. If you have any suggestions for a list, feel free to hit us up at feedback at josh spear dot com. If you’re staying in today (instead of braving the malls and stores), we salute your intelligence. If not, try not to get arrested. Happy holidays!

If Steve Nishimoto — Nish, to the design community — is as driven by change and culture as he claims, then today's inspiration must be in no meager supply. The designer just returned from his first trip abroad, where a last minute tag-along to the Tokyo premiere of Mash landed the seasoned artist in the same country from which his relatives emigrated four generations ago.

Not to say that that inspiration has ever been elusive to this sponge of a visionary — a long list of clients, including Burton, Uniqlo, MTV, and Beautiful Decay seems to prove the opposite — but if the 4,000 pictures Nish took during his travels serve their purpose, then we will surely see trails of his trip across the ocean in his work to come.

We caught up with the freshly de-planed New Yorker to chat about the past, present and future, and were left with three things: an itch to doodle, an itch to travel, and a new sense of what it truly means to marry art with life.

Joshspear.com: Tell us about your background…

Nish: I’m 100% American Japanese (fourth generation), born and raised in Chicago. I've been living in New York for the past six or seven years, and was bi-coastal with San Francisco for one or two of those. I've been a skateboarder for as long I can remember, I enjoy riding a fixed gear around the city, and I have been full time freelance for the past 3 or 4 years. I survive on coffee with milk (soy if possible), no sugar, please. READ MORE…

Good news for Triko fans: The Fall 2007 collection is now up for grabs at their online store. The bottoms are good, the tops are better, and the hoodies – which by some act of God, have remained, for the most part, blessedly untouched by current industry trends- are classically Hector Estrada, designed with soulful creativity, not hype, in mind. Overall, Fall 2007 makes another bangin’ success of a season for Triko, and will soon be followed by next months Holiday 2007. If you’re desperate for a look-ahead, a video of the holiday shoot, shot in Brooklyn by the illustrious Fubz of Beautiful/Decay, can be found here — but those in search of a quicker fix can just cast their gaze upon this crispy trench coat. I’m thinking, yummy.

Beautiful/Decay has a fresh new face. Your favorite go-to for all things inspired, B/D recently opted to become new. Having entirely revitalized its site, B/D has managed to surpass itself as the unsurpassable portal for art. It’s still the same amazing hit up for those who want a handle on the up-and-coming creative, but now it’s a little more hands-on. Public Feed, the popular post-able forum for readers’ content, is still alive and well. Added to that interactivity is an Events section: a space for you to post your creative goings-on (gallery openings, concerts, fashion shows, and so on). And take a gander at the Gallery Guide, a comprehensive listing of the globe’s best galleries and art spaces. Wowsa! With its revamp, Beautiful/Decay continues to expose its readers to all manner of otherwise unfound creative flow. The result: the rendering of its reputation as untouchable; it remains the resource for curators, collectors, designers, musicians, and artists alike. Take a stroll because there’s so much more.

This world is a funny place, and sometimes the people with the funniest names make the most serious sh*t. Take Dust La Rock; we’ve written about his work with Beautiful/Decay and oneonenine before, but we’ve never taken the time to tell you to go to see his full repertoire until today. His new website went public this morning, and it’s a great place to delve deeper into Dust’s (Mr. La Rock’s?) catalog, and to learn a little more about him. (His real name is Joshua Prince, he was born in California and he now lives in Brooklyn. Yes, Brooklyn. Surprise.)

Who’s the star of the show here? Maybe Dust’s website for the Googly Eye Cru or his business cards for Oxy Cottontail…but I don’t like to play favorites with art, so hop on over yourself and have a look. Five minutes out of your day to discover a young graphic designer? Couldn’t hurt.

Last year we told you about the launch of Beautiful/Decay t-shirts. Now they’re launching a new catalogue, and we think so much of it we felt we had to direct you over there. What you won’t find among the Beautiful/Decay catalogue is cliché. There are 179 men’s t-shirts up (to go along with women’s clothing and accessories), and I am amazed at how each of them manages to surprise me, even if only in some small way. There’s the strange, the vaguely political, and the shirt that looks like you passed out and your drunk buddies took out the sharpies and went to work. The nice thing about the new catalogue is that it makes all the various B/D lines easy to find and sift through, so finding a new shirt on your computer screen is as easy as finding one on the rack.

The guys at Beautiful Decay recently introduced four more artist series t-shirts from folks like Jesse Ledoux, Aaron Nobile, Dust La Rock and Jan Kallwejt. My favorites are LeDoux’s “Giant Hand” (left), Noble’s comic book like “Calliph” (middle) and Kallwejt’s “Lung Music” (right)– a shirt that features a musical take on the human internal organ system. As always they’re custom-cut, custom-dyed and printed on super soft 100% cotton t-shirts. Pop by their online store to order while they last!

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Ashkahn just launched his new online studio called Don’t Stop. Through his new site, Ashkahn will continue to wow the masses with his experimental and utterly unique visuals for music packaging, merchandise branding, posters and identity. I also learned through his blog that he just contributed some illustrations to the new issues of Beautiful/Decay and BPM. From the looks of it, Ashkahn has been a busy guy– a great thing to see from a young designer. Keep up the hard work!