Davis Square shirts?

[cos]

Years ago - I don't remember how long, but possibly 10 or even more - someone was selling Davis Square T-shirts at ArtBeat that were very simply blue like the background of the Davis Sq sign, with just the road-shape in white on the front, and nothing else. No words or labels or outline or anything. I got one and it's one of my favorite T-shirts.

I wish I'd gotten 2 or 3, but I've never seen them since. Several years at ArtBeat I've seen a different vendor selling Davis Square T-shirts based on that sign, but they have outlines and text and say "Davis Square", etc. I've had an eBay saved search for many years but all it ever turns up are "Mystic River" movie shirts.

Anyone seen the shirts I'm describing or know where to get them or perhaps want to create them anew?

Edit: wallastreet linked to https://davis.spreadshirt.com/ which is not exactly the same thing but quite close, and I'm going to get some of those!

Comments

[ron_newman]

would D-Squared or Magpie possibly have these?

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

I know they used to have the "Mr. Davis" t-shirt at D-Squared. Not sure if they still have it, but that's the first place I'd check.

You could also ask Thalia Tringo- according to the Somerville News, she was selling them at Midnight Madness http://www.thesomervillenews.com/archives/32891

[cos]

I don't know what "Mr. Davis" shirts are, but it certainly sounds like those are not the shirts I'm describing! :)

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. The "Mr. Davis" ones are the road sign turned into a face.

[cos]

No "perhaps", then - that's not the same shirt.

Hmm, was my description not clear enough? It sounds like you thought this might possibly be the shirt I described. Did you? If so, could you suggest an edit I could make to clarify?

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean, and I'd happily take one, too. As I've mentioned before, I really dislike DARBI's Mr. Davis (http://yourdavissquare.com/) logo and would like either your plain shirt, or one of the variations of the sign-with-street-names - any of the orientations would be fine.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

I don't think it was a matter of you not being clear. Ron suggested maybe D-Squared, secretlyironic did not say it was there, but merely confirmed they have another shirt with the davis square intersection on it, in the form of Mr. Davis, presumably to support that as a possible place.

[ron_newman]

The "edit" I suggest is to take a picture of your shirt and put that into your post (behind an lj-cut).

[littlecitynames.livejournal.com]

I know D-Squared has had quite a few different shirts with the road shape on them. Some have the face, some I know have the names of the roads, but there might have also been plain ones. I don't remember. Worth checking, or at least calling!

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

The common term people were using for the road sign some years back was "bugsplat", if that helps your Google searching any.

[kpht.livejournal.com]

doesn't someone on this community, maybe wallace_st, have it as their icon?

[cos]

Do you mean the sign, or the shirt I'm describing? I've definitely both seen the sign used as an icon and used it myself, but I don't remember seeing anyone have that shirt as their icon. If you've seen it and can find it, tell me.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

It should be quite easy to create it anew, but I don't have the gimp skills for it myself. Just take the image, turn the contrast all the way up and/or edit out the words, then send it to Zazzle.

[sjcap.livejournal.com]

The ones you are talking about (royal blue with a 1 color white Davis sign) I think were only sold by 1 itinerant vendor at ArtBeat years ago. You may want to ask the Arts Council. They probably have records of what vendors during what years were selling what, or they would at least remember who the guy was. And maybe have his contacts.

The Mr. Davis ones are the DARBI logo shirts. And the ones with the street names are usually the ones made by the Somerville Homeless Coalition and sold at Artbeat and a couple of shops in the Square.

[cos]

You may be referring to the shirt I've got. It's not royal blue, it's Davis Square sign blue, which has more white in it that royal blue - it's somewhere on the continuum between royal blue and sky blue. Also it doesn't exactly have the sign, because the real sign has both street names and a white outline and this has neither; on the other hand, it's not purely one-color since it does have a couple of red do not enter logs (though I wouldn't mind a similar shirt lacking those). However it might still be that that's what you meant.

I don't remember what year it was and what else, if anything, this guy was selling, but I'll see if they can figure it out from such vague information :) Although it sounds like, if that's true, whoever it was likely either isn't around anymore or has no more shirts to sell or probably both.

[ron_newman]

Since you have one of these T-shirts, can you post a photo of it here? That would clear up some of the confusion you're seeing in these replies.

[jenej.livejournal.com]

I know exactly the shirt you're talking about! Bought one a few (two or three) years ago at Magpie as a gift, but it was the wrong size and when we went to exchange it they had none left and I haven't seen them since. But maybe the owner of Magpie might recall where they got the shirts. Please post if you find one as you described, I still owe a properly sized one as a gift!

[wallacestreet.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's the original, but have a look at http://davis.spreadshirt.com/ ; is that what you're describing?

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

I think that fails the criteria of "No words or labels or outline or anything"...

[totient]

I have one of exactly the shirt cos has and it too is wearing out. The link you provided is exactly what I want in a replacement.

[cos]

It's not exactly the same but it's close enough that I want it. Thanks!

[xuth.livejournal.com]

It's not like that graphic without words or other logoing can be copyrighted or trademarked. Make your own and put it up on spreadshirt or somewhere similar.