We're stoked to be working with Neighbours in producing an Exclusive range of apparell. Neighbours is a real institution around the world, and it only seemed right that we make their t-shirts. Check them out!

David and Rob used to go to Papatoetoe High together, and we're pretty stoked to say we're now stocking t-shirts and jumpers for NZ's most talented artist. With the Exclusive David Dallas “The Rose Tint” Range, each t-shirt comes with a free copy of David Dallas x Forty-One – Purple Tinted.

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With Mother's Day coming up, we thought it would be a good idea to make a video to celebrate Mums and all the eccentricitues. check it out. OH, and big ups to Willy for making it. He's a highly talented film director with small thighs. Let us know if you want his contact details. He'd prefer to field enquiries about his production rather than thighs, but he's down for whatever.

Mum’s are pretty awesome, and we think this year they deserve more than the scented candles, soaps and moisturisers that you get her most years. That’s why we’ve been working with artist Greg Straight on a collection of kiwiana inspired cushions drawing on some of his popular icons used in his limited edition fine art prints and images of Aotearoa.

These cushions are a new, higher quality fabric than our previous offering. The prints are now double sided, and we’ve sourced a new inner that will make your dreams far more peaceful than if you’d had cheese for dessert.

Greg Straight is an artist and graphic designer living in Auckland. He has worked with lots of clients over the past few years and his fine art prints are stocked nationwide in galleries & design stores. He has worked in the field of visual arts for over a decade now and has the flexibility of a number of key styles. Watch him on facebook.

It's all coming back now innit. Now we've got the tees.

We've got some BellyFul tea towels that we think your Mum might like for Mother's Day this year. 100% of  profits goes to these guys over at Bellyful, they need it. BUY THEM HERE.

Bellyful provide meals for families with newborn babies and families who are struggling with illness. Bellyful is a national not-for-profit organisation helping mums around New Zealand when they need it most – at dinner-time. Their team of volunteers (generally also mums) deliver frozen and precooked meals to families with newborns and families struggling with illness. Thanks to their supporters, their service is free. They know how hard those first few months with a newborn can be; The odd meal or two can be a real sanity-saver! www.bellyful.org.nz

Guaranteed Christmas Delivery cut off was yesterday. It was an intense day in the warehouse; really intense. But we got it all done (high stress = high performance), and if you ordered before 3pm – you should be sweet for Christmas.

If you still haven’t got all your Christmas shopping done - and you’re in Auckland - you should pop down to our showroom. We’ve got all sorts of stocking fillers besides the staple t-shirt; The NZ Artist Series, tea towels, cushions, Longest Drink Cup Sets & Height Charts, and a whole bowl of free Minties.

So come on down – 302b Great North Rd. BONUS. The store is open till 9pm tonight. It’s better than the mall; there are no jerks at our shop, and no douche car-parking wardens telling you where to park. We’ll be open tomorrow (24^th) too, but only till 6pm.

Not in Auckland? Can’t make it to the showroom? We’re still sending orders out today – Rob’s out there printing like a madman – and while it’s not guaranteed shipping, you should still be sweet. Most of our orders have had next day delivery from shipping date; so it’s probably a pretty fair bet that you’ll still get your order in time if you make one today. Make one.

You should also – if you’re not already – follow our facebook and twitter pages. We’re doing a whole bunch of giveaways in store that we’ll be announcing via face and twit. Moist.

This Christmas we released the Mr Vintage NZ Artist Series Range. The first range included the works of two artists; Shane Hansen and Brad Novak.

The Mr Vintage NZ Artist Series is a range of premium designs. We’ve collaborated with our favourite NZ Artists to showcase their works on the canvas of the t-shirt. The NZ Artist Series designs are strictly limited edition, with only 50 of each t-shirt produced. Each garment is individually numbered, carrying the artists’ signature.  The NZ Artist Series is packaged in custom made personalised wooden gift boxes. A lot of love went in to making this NZ Artist Series Range.

We're really happy with how it turned out. You should have a geez.

They're great presents for Christmas, so yeah.

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Shane Hansen: Shane Hansen likes a strong, clean line. He has drawn constantly for as long as he can remember, but has never indulged in intricate doodles dredged up from the dark recesses of the mind. Instead, his creations spring from a world of bold colours and optimistic clarity, a pop-art invitation to a feel-good New-Zealand celebration. http://shanehansen.co.nz/

Brad Novak: Born in Auckland in 1976 with Croatian heritage Brad Novak is a professional painter and printmaker represented by dealer galleries around New Zealand.  His work can be described as pop art with a strong NZ influence, reflecting the diverse iconography of Aotearoa. http://www.bradnovak.vc.net.nz/

It’s seems like we're dropping shit all the time these days lol but we’ve got a new range in Whitcoulls. I still pinch myself when I see Mr Vintage stuff in Whitcoulls; it’s cool because Whitcoulls is a big time store, I think there’s even one in Timaru – I had a school trip there once and I remember a creepy man outside the Whitcoulls asking us “you feeling the cold here boys? I can make you warmer”... hence my warm affinity with the franchise.

We’ve expanded our range in a big way this time. Last week you might have sat there at your desk wishing that your Holden car branded mug had something cooler on it like a jandal or a tiki. We’ve pulled a few strings so that if you go down to Whitcoulls you can purchase yourself a Mr Vintage coffee mug that carries such an image. It just made sense. Same deal with the photo albums, good way to spice up your old wedding album – Mr Vintage photo album. And coasters, well you can rest your mug on there so it don’t stain the oak.

In the next range we’re going to make some male G-Thong underpants that are especially for tanning up so you look like a great sexy latin man. Hayden requested them; he’s already shaved his leg hair, as the sun wasn’t getting a glimpse of the flesh through the thick curls covering it. The G-Thong will have the longest drink in town on its head.

Had to make sure I spelt stationery right. Last time I spelt it stationary implying that the range was not moving. Luckily I made this super clever gag hoping that the stationery range isn’t in fact stationary lol. Anyway, check the new photo albums, coasters, note pads and mugs.

p.s. A bit late I know, but I’ve jut got on the lol buzz so I’m making up for lost time by trying to use lol at least 3 times each blog post. Just if you were wondering about the lolzfest back there.

You’ve probably seen it by now – but the Auckland City Mission have an awesome campaign running at the moment that we’re proud to be supporting.

The Auckland City Mission think it’s pretty stink how people in poverty suffer. They dedicate their lives to it. They also think it’s super stink how much more people suffer when it’s freezing cold in Winter.They’ve dedicated this week to really helping out people suffering this Winter. ASB have come to the party in a big way, contributing $40,000 cold hard cash (lol) to the Auckland City Mission.

The money’s in the safe; the safe’s in the ice - You can free the safe. Simply txt 305 with your initials and your choice of FIRE, STEAM, OR WATER to melt the safe. then watch it at www.icemission.co.nz We’ve done it, and it’s wicked fun. Here’s a screen shot of our effort. It only came up with MR but, MRV didn’t fit. I’m an idiot.

Do it. It's good and will make you feel a little bit warm and fuzzy inside.

Big ups to all the dudes on twitter helping out too. @Giapo, @UrgentCouriers, @ASBBank, @VodafoneNZ etc… goooood shiiiitttt.

oh and buy the t-shirt too.

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The crafty cats over at www.MusicHy.pe have done it again. You might have seen their Mint Chicks USB they did a while back, which was sweet. Well... now they've managed to get the top 12 emerging NZ Indie artists together to make one sweet little mix tape. Packaged on this nifty little cassette USB, we're lucky enough to have 2 to give away.

We've decided to make it easy for you, just buy one of these NZ Indie Mix Tape t-shirts that you would've bought anyway - and the first two to purchase them will get themselves a Mix Tape USB. If you missed out on winning one, you can just buy it here.

In a bid to out-indie Fran, two of my three flatmates are actually featured on this compilation. the other one has a grammy nomination. nbd. no big deal.

Smokefreerockquest is something of an institution in New Zealand these days. Since 1989, the nationwide youth event has been helping young musicians realise their ability, and at the same time encourage their peers to support 100% NZ Music.

You only have to look at the list of successful bands that have been brought through the ‘rockquest system’ currently in the NZ Music scene. Check it out: Evermore, Die!Die!Die!, the Datsuns, Brooke Fraser, Anika Moa, Cut off your Hands, Flight of the Conchords, The Electric Confectionaires, Elemeno P, So So Modern, Midnight Youth, Bang!Bang!Eche! Steriogram, Lady Hawke, Minuit, Fat Freddys Drop, Aaradhna, Atlas, The Feelers, The Blackseeds, Nesian Mystic, Bic Runga, The Have, Fur Patrol, Liam Finn, Pine, King Kapisi, and The Checks. Impressive.

So yeah, the 2010 programme has kicked off and if you want a piece just click fru to their site here. or check out the dates listed below. OH YEAH - and BUY the tees here.

Dates:

AUCKLAND CENTRAL Final - Sat 22nd May

AUCKLAND EAST Final - Sat 19th June

AUCKLAND WEST Final - Fri 28th May

BAY OF PLENTY Final - Fri 25th June

CANTERBURY Finals - Fri 11th June & Sat 12th June

CENTRAL OTAGO (WANAKA/QUEENSTOWN) Final - Sat 24th July

EAST COAST Final - Sat 19th June

HAWKES BAY Final - Sat 29th May

MANAWATU Final - Sat 12th June

MANUKAU Final - Fri 11th June

NELSON/MARLBOROUGH Final - Sat 26th June

NORTHLAND Final - Fri 2nd July

NORTH SHORE Final - Fri 4th June

OTAGO Final - Sat 29th May

ROTORUA Final - Sat 26th June

SOUTHLAND Final - Fri 28th May

TARANAKI Final - Sat 26th June

TIMARU Final - Sat 19th June

WANGANUI Final - Fri 25th June

WAIKATO Final - Sat 12th June

WAIRARAPA Final - Sat 24th July

WELLINGTON inc. HUTT Final - Fri 2nd July

WEST COAST Final - Fri 18th June

You know you've made it when celebrities of the caliber of Steven Seagal and Diamond Dallas Page are photographed with some of your apparel. It's even more impressive when you realise that these celebrities are at the peak of their careers.

If you know Andy Shackleton, you know that he's in to his action movies. And you can't really be in to your action movies unless you have a deep appreciation for Steven Seagal and his entire works. So it was with great joy we learnt that Steve had been gifted a KNZB bag by our mate Ben. Everyone at Mr Vintage, well the guys here at least, have all been big wrestling fans at one point or another and we were just delighted to see old DDP still looking in tip-top shape. I love the Diamond Cutter.