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In an ongoing effort to secure Democratic hopeful Barack Obama’s presidential bid, Upper Playground and Digital Gravel, the premier online store for urban apparel brands, have partnered to produce a limited-edition line of Obama t-shirts featuring selective artwork from the Upper Playground x Barack Obama print series.

The Upper Playground x Digital Gravel t-shirt collaboration is part of an ongoing series from Upper Playground of artist collaborations in support of Obama’s presidential campaign. Upper Playground has endorsed Obama’s campaign by creating prints featuring artwork from David Choe, Grotesk, Justin Bua, The Date Farmers, Munk One, Ron English, Alex Pardee, Morning Breath, Mac, Sam Flores and Mear One, in addition to printing t-shirts with Shepard Fairey’s Obama graphics to help support the campaign. Upper
Playground was also instrumental in providing artwork for the Manifest Hope Gallery exhibition in Denver, Colorado that coincided with the Democratic National Convention last month.

The Obama graphic t-shirts will showcase the sold out poster designs created by The Date Farmers, Munk One, Sam Flores, Alex Pardee, Grotesk, Morning Breath, and Ron English via Upper Playground. Under 300 t-shirts were made for each graphic, and the retail price for each t-shirt is $20. All t-shirts are available in men’s and women’s sizes. The new merchandise is available exclusively at DigitalGravel.com.

The Fall 2008 “Natural Order” collection from Us vs. Them hits stores in October. You’ll find big print political and street themes on their tees.  Accompanying the tees are Fitted Caps from Elm Company and those will have three different designs.  via HighSnobiety

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Today at Crooks & Castles 8021 Flagship store will be the first drop of their Fall Collection. dropping the first installment of the Fall Collection tomorrow. Check out more of the preview shots after the jump! We hear that they are moving towards a higher end look and feel of their pieces and two new store locations are coming (San Francisco & Las Vegas)…

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Beginning on Thursday, August 14th , the pop up space will be transformed into a tribute to film legends Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as part of their upcoming feature film from Overture Films titled Righteous Kill. SA Studios Global, the creative agency of Oriol and Cartoon, was selected to create the film’s iconic poster, in addition to managing the street marketing for the movie. The pop up space will become the exclusive promotional headquarters for Righteous Kill and feature a tribute to the film’s stars. Highlights of the space include a customized movie poster wall of all of De Niro and Pacino’s films and plasma screens throughout the room showcasing Oriol and Cartoon’s favorite scenes from Pacino and De Niro’s film repertoire.

In celebration of the film, SA Studios Global has also collaborated with Upper Playground to create limited edition Righteous Kill apparel that will be distributed to key influencers in a variety of markets.

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Moving beyond the past season’s tees and fitteds, the One People Project Fall 2008 collection introduces cut & sew and fleece goods.  Colors are along neutral tones with the use of burgundy, grey and brown.  If you liked their fitteds, there is more New Eras this season as well.  via HighSnobiety

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When the Hundreds’ 5TH pop-up shop/gallery stocked one of the racks entirely dedicated to vintage The Hundreds t-shirts from the past 5 years.  This will be your chance to catch up on the vintage designs for those that just jumped on the Hundreds fanwagon.  Unfortunately, you’ll have to be in Los Angeles to pick up these goods.

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