T-Shirts as Cultural Memes
Obviously running a tshirt blog on geek related items I’ve seen my fair share of shirts that capture breaking news. Wired’s Snack Culture Blog describes things as succinctly as a bite sized bit of blog can:
…companies like CafePress, Spreadshirt.com, and Zazzle have turned your sister into a T-shirt designer by making production and distribution simple and cheap. Result: T-shirts can create cultural memes, not merely follow them.
Spontaneous T-shirts for Nintendo Wii accidents and SNL skits have turned your humble Fruit of the Loom into a form of micromedia. T-shirts today broadcast the news: Less than 24 hours after Dick Cheney shot a man in Texas, satirical T-shirt designs were uploaded to CafePress. They predict it too: The STEWART-COLBERT ‘08 T-shirt anticipates our boredom with an election cycle that has barely begun.
In an age of media saturation, T-shirts are a tight-knit nano-statement.
