Semi Permanent is coming to Portland in March. Semi Permanent is a huge design conference that started in 2003 in Sydney, Australia and has since spead around the globe, from New York to London to Hong Kong and now the Pacific Northwest.

We have been long time (online penpal) friends of Andrew Johnstone, co-founder of Semi Permanent and the art and design blogwww.designiskinky.net.  In fact, we credit much of the success and recognition of the Tank Theory brand in Australia and abroad to the hype generated by Andrew and Design is Kinky.

Well we are happy to finally have met Andrew in person, as he's spending some time in Portland surrounding the event. After all the help he has given to spread the gospel of Tank Theory abroad, we thought it only fair to help him out while in our town. What way best to help out?  Tshirts of course!  Zach volunteered to cook up some character work to embellish the Semi Permanent logo for volunteers at the event both here and in LA next.  He worked on a couple different versions and I think the the winner turned out to be the simplest.. The linework masked into the Semi Permanent logo.. classic black and white.

Oh and for those in the Northwest, some info about the event below:
http://www.semipermanent.com/event_portland_2013 

To celebrate the launch of our new tshirts, we are having a party at our new space called Good Trade.. an open studio and art/tshirt party.  

Featuring some of Portland's most talented visual artists, music by Old Friend, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, and DJ Grimm, buy 1 get one free tshirt deals by Tank Theory and compadres, the Googly Eye Cru.  Plus, there will be art, prints, accessories and more in our Art Rack zone with swingin deals by amazing Portland people.

Anyone in the Portland area should come by and Get Happy!  
6pm - 12am this Saturday, June 9th.
Get Happy Studios, 2119 N. Kerby Ave Ste. C21 Portland, OR 97227.

The new line by Tank Theory, The Weirding Way, has finally dropped!  Grab the first offerings now on the site.

View the lookbook for the Weirding Way season here!

We held a photoshoot for the new Tank Theory spring/summer line that is dropping now at tanktheory.com.  We had a fun shoot at Zach's new studio space which is huge and amazing! Afterwards, we headed outside to the alley for a bootleg bbq that involved drinking, skating, and watching a solar eclipse.  Enjoy the new releases and keep your eyes peeled to the site for new tees dropping monthly.. 

We are getting samples of the new tshirt line as we speak! We'll be releasing 3-4 each month starting June 1, so keep those eyes peeled.. Below is a sneek peak of one of the new designs.. the Tank Theory Black Ops!

This is old news, but news that had never been posted here, so we're posting it now. A friend from Australia (he's slobbering the bottom image) forwarded these pictures of our art director Zach that he captured at a huge event in Australia on Cockatoo Island called Outpost at the end of last year.  Zach was featured on a larger than life poster in a side event thrown by T-world magazine called "Next - The Future of Tshirt Graphics". Zach was asked about the future of tshirt graphics and they displayed his words prominent!

NEXT: The future of T-shirt graphics from T-world on Vimeo.

It's amazing what you find scouring the internet.  Just now I found 9 Tank Theory tshirts I never knew existed!  Hmmm.. have you seen these?

Welcome to the new online face of Tank Theory!  We have redesigned and streamlined our website to reflect a new era in graphic tees.  We stripped down the number of pages on the site, eliminated all the image pop ups, increased the image sizes across the board and generally simplified the site as our own aesthetic has become a bit more simplified. You might also notice a couple big changes to our new site. We have done away with the Tshirt of the Month club, an idea we pioneered from the beginning but from which we could never quite keep up with or update frequently enough. Considering the idea has since spread and some of our predecessors have done it better than we ever have, we decided to scrap it. Also absent is the Artist Society section.  Not that we have done away with working with some of the most talented artists out there today. We certainly are going to continue in that tradition. To simplify though, we've consolidated the Artist Society tees into the basic, all encompassing, Tshirts section.