Roll out the red dash mats and pop open a fresh bottle of 10W30, because the freshest blipshift tees are struttin' their stuff in celebration of the many awesome artists and idea guys n' gals behind them. Looking back at the hundreds of awesome tees that hit the spotlight this year, these are the works of art that scored the Golden Torso.
The Stage 2 Award
Design Most likely to return in 2018
Surf Sun & Stance
by Micheal Castiglione
Runners Up
Sideways & Smiling - Tayden Castiglione
Hipster - 4tich
The +5HP Award
Tee most likely to be made a sticker
Tune It Out
by Ian Jennings
Runners Up
To Spec - Antonio Smith
I Feel Good - team blipshift
The "It Belongs in a Museum" Award
Best Selling Poster
Trackson Pollock
by Bomdesignz
Runners Up
Hipster - 4tich
Own The Night - Jack Yu
The "Start 'Em Young" Award
Best Selling Kids Tee
Surf Sun & Stance
by Micheal Castiglione
Runners Up
Trackson Pollock - Bomdesignz
RTSY - Anthony McClinton
Popular designs by color
Black is back as the most torso-adorning color of the year! So does this mean black shirts sell more? Well, correlation doesn't equal causation and all that, and we'll still select tee shades based on that the needs of that specific design. Of course, it never hurts to consider when picking a color scheme!
The Einstein Award
Most Successful Idea Submission
Gunnitt
Idea by Matthew McCarthy
Runners Up
Motorologist - Jason Koscho
Combustamove - Kathy Helmetag
The Bestomod Award
Best selling design resto-mod
Don't Skip II
by Richard Caminita
Runners Up
Get Skidward II - Dane Arnold
First Responder IV - Chad Seip
62
New artists featured
80
Most submissions by one submitter
The "Closet Stuffer" Award
Prolific new artist
André Shikay
Runners Up
Jeff Dworin
Scott McGillivray
The "Michelshirtelo" Award
Most fruitful artist
Anthony McClinton
Runners Up
Dino Pros
Micheal Castiglione
1000+
Number of submissions
27%
Odds of being accepted
The "Still Got It"
Award
Biggest Hit By BS
Au Naturel
by team blipshift
Runners Up
Be Prepared
Meddling Kids
The "And on that bombshell" Award
Biggest Bomb By BS
Motown Vettcords
by team blipshift
Runners Up
Tri Downforce
Lucy In The Sky With Diffs
The "Life Imitates Art" Award
Creative Use of BS
It's tough choosing the single coolest way that you strutted your BS stuff this year. Whether it was Skepple Inc wrapping an R32 in the same livery as our "Fuzzball" design, Matthew Litke hacking his 'dub dashboard with "Dash Lit Like A", or an entire Chumpcar team coordinating their racecar and uniforms with "The Swarm", you, wearer of torso-covering awesomeness, showed us how you most definitely Apex Everything!
In Memory of...
designs that we weren't able to print
And now a moment of silence to remember the great concepts that didn't make the shirt jump for one reason or another.
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