I’ve started blogging for a really great local Tshirt company called Edgi. Needing to research for that blog gives me a great excuse to read a lot of fashion and t-shirt news. Doing so led me to a post from Cool Hunting which I thought might interest other writers. It’s about a T-shirt company called Out of Print that uses old and out-of-print books as the inspiration for its designs.
The designs themselves are cool and the tees make great conversation starters. After all, people are going to have something to say when they see you sporting a vintage edition of Lolita or some other classic novel that they’ve read (or think they should).
More importantly, however, the T-shirt company is a partner to a company called Books in Africa which aims to bring books to areas of the world where it’s not easy to find them. Imagine not being able to go to your local library to pick up a read. People in other parts of the world don’t have that luxury and this organization tries to help. For every t-shirt that is bought, a donation goes to Books in Africa. Definitely a cool idea.
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