The Shop
Global T-shirt Culture is a thing. We know this, because on a daily basis we help shape it. Our tees are legendary, as is our store, and if you haven’t been you should pop past some time and take a gander at some of the best tees produced and sold in South Africa.
Tshirt Terrorist HQ
15 4th Avenue
Parkhurst
Johannesburg
Bookmark it. As far as Iconic T-shirt Stores of the World go, Tshirt Terrorist Parkhurst ranks up there. We stock our own brand, call it the House brand if you will, as well as guest labels, and smaller, independent designers whose work we treasure, waiting to be discovered. Calling all T-shirt aficionados, where ever in the world you might be. Next time you travel through Johannesburg, look us up and we’ll hook you up with epic tees.
The Evolution
FROM FRINGE CLOTHING LABEL AND CULTURE JAM SYNDICATE TO POP CULTURE ICON AND SOCIAL AGITATOR
What is “culture jamming” and why is it important?
Culture jamming (sometimes guerrilla communication) is a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including (but not limited to) corporate advertising. Src: Wikipedia
(One of) the problems with modern society is we’re being fed a lot of BS – we’re manipulated and controlled by large organisations to think and act (and dress) in a certain way. Massive campaigns are launched by multi-national concerns to push our invisible buttons and manoeuvre us in the interests of profit. We’ve become digits along somebody’s bottom line. For all the obvious reasons, this is just not on.
At Tshirt Terrorist, when we started out, we sought to challenge the notion that we’re manipulable, that our needs, wants and desires are meat processed and generic. It was important to us, urgent even, that we present our customers with an image of themselves that wasn’t mass made and media-marketed. We began by jamming popular brands and corporate identities, as others have done before us. It became a springboard to our political and social statement tees, hard hitting and uninhibited satirical designs that riled various people and organisations, before settling into our current role as pop culture specialists and social commentators, going on the well supported assumption that if it’s out there, it’s ours to do with as we please. Companies that populate our lives with their messages have to realise that these messages eventually become our own. That by placing them in the broader domain, they are shared and therefore publicly owned. Thanks to our partners, you can find online to suit every preference and budget, from budget to top-of-the-range super stylish models.
What we’ve achieved along the way is creating a design style that is tailor made f