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New BME swag

Written by

Shannon Larratt

I don’t normally promote specific BMEshop products here because, well, it’s kind of tacky to blogspam your own swag, but I really like the way these last two shirts turned out. First is a redraw of the old “Dr. BME” logo by me, and we’ve put it on long-sleeves with a please-don’t-sue-us-Red-Cross arm print… As modeled by tcie (and you can click on either of them to go to their BMEshop page):

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Next is the BME Aotearoa design, drawn by iam:original_sly (and prepared for printing by Jasonthe29th) to celebrate his local heritage.

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Comments

11 responses to “New BME swag”

  1. Frester Avatar
    Frester

    I’d rather have the Dr. BME as a t-shirt, but that’s just me.

  2. PiercingBunny Avatar
    PiercingBunny

    I love the new shirts!!

  3. EvilSleepy Avatar
    EvilSleepy

    Gah… I just ordered a bunch of shirts the other day too, now I wish I got one of those Aotearoa shirts too. I don’t like long sleeve shirts.

  4. EvilSleepy Avatar
    EvilSleepy

    Eh… I mention the long sleeves because I really like the redraw of the Dr BME and Id buy a shortsleeve version in a second. Also, Id like to see more work shirts, I already own all of the current designs. Anyway, good job they look great.

  5. king zombie Avatar
    king zombie

    i want that fuckin aotearoa shirt!!! such a cool design

  6. modifiedcanadian Avatar
    modifiedcanadian

    Is it just me, or does she look like Ellie from Degrassi?

  7. jacques Avatar
    jacques

    Go Nz…..fuck yeah love the t-shirt.
    Go bme you good thing

  8. tame Avatar
    tame

    Go Jon go!

  9. mung Avatar
    mung

    mean maori mean!

  10. Itai Avatar
    Itai

    Your model IS beautiful, but i’m wondering why you didn’t pick one with more mods 😛

  11. pwapwap Avatar
    pwapwap

    Not to sure I like to use of the word aotearoa by people overseas.

    No offence but it reminds me of the following news story.
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10359703

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