Plane crashes aren’t often uplifting occurrences — unless Tom Hanks and a volleyball are involved — but minus all of the carnage, there is a certain beauty that comes through in the mangled chaos of wreckage. Scott Teplin’s Flight 704 shirt design manages to cut through the discord of aviation-related accidents to find an aesthetic happy place where artistry lives amongst the twisted scraps of metal and seat upholstery on an asphalt colored American Apparel tee. And if you have trouble reconciling something as horrible as an airliner colliding with the ground with personal style, just know that purchasing this shirt at designgive allows you to donate a portion of the proceeds to a charity of your choosing.

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Designgive is a group of designers who’ve assembled to both showcase their work on fabric and kick some funds to some important charities. At this point, the featured designers include Brooke Nunez, Si Scott, Paul Macgregor, Scott Bartlett, Kronk, and the Spear Collective’s own Jeremy Somers. Each design is available in either guys or gals t-shirts ($15), long-sleeved tees ($18), or hoodies ($25). Several of my favorites are only available for pre-order May 14th through the 25th, so you’ll need to act quickly. When you check out with your merchandise, you can designate which charity you want to support. Your donation is included in the price, and is $1 for tees, $2 for long sleeves, and $3 for hoodies. Also, if you’re a designer and want to get involved with this project, you can fill out an application here. It’d be great to see this group grow in size to be able to more effectively fulfill its mission: design for a worthy cause.