T-Shirt Designs with Famous Writers

We'd like to begin this week's post by wishing a happy birthday to Dorothy Parker. This witty writer and poet was born on August 22nd, 1893. She's best remembered for such phrases as "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" and "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force". Any writer who made the Hollywood black list is A-okay in our book. So happy birthday, Dorothy. We've designed a t-shirt in your honor.

We've also designed a new George Orwell t-shirt which we think is quite striking. It has clean simple lines and a bold typeface befitting the author of "1984". We hope you like it.

And no, we're not afraid of Virginia Woolf, but we are a little bit intimidated. Did you see Nicole Kidman playing her in "The Hours" with the putty on her nose? What a great performance. We're not sure that our t-shirt does Ms. Woolf justice, but we'll let you be the judge.

Lastly, we have a new Franz Kafka t-shirt. Franz worked hard at an insurance company by day and did his writing at night. Perhaps that is why it is so dark. Most of his work was published posthumously. We just wanted to let him know that he hasn't been forgotten.

As always, click on the picture to see a larger version. Click on the link to go directly to our Zazzle shop.


See Parker T-Shirt

See Orwell T-Shirt

See Woolf T-Shirt

See Kafka T-Shirt

Salute to Science

We here at Words Plus Paper have always felt that science and art are more alike than they are different. Indeed, some of our favorite historical figures are scientists such as Darwin, Faraday, Einstein, Newton, Aristotle, Turing... we could go on and on.

We have a great respect for these pioneers who proposed new ideas about reality. It's not difficult to understand Bohr's theory of atomic structure, but we never would have thought of it ourselves. On the other hand, we read Brian Greene's "The Fabric of the Cosmos" and we're not sure that we want to delve any deeper into string theory because that stuff is just really weird.

Still, this week we have decided to salute these heroic figures with a series of science-themed t-shirts, great for geeks, nerds and the educated layman. In particular, we're paying homage to the fields of astronomy, archaeology, biochemistry and physics.

We hope you enjoy these designs. Click on the picture for a larger version. Click on the name to link directly to our Zazzle-powered sister shop, Rising Tide Tees.


See Milky Way Shirt

See Trilobites Rock Shirt

Funny Chinese Character Shirts

After years of procrastinating, we finally learned how to type Chinese characters on our computer. We don't know why we didn't do it sooner, although, admittedly, it's a pretty simple process these days. Take a look at our Squidoo lens if you want to find out how to do it.

Below are a couple of our first efforts. These are some phrases that we thought would like good written in Chinese. They're a little offbeat which is the way we like it.

Click on the picture for a larger version. You can find these and other great designs at our Zazzle shop, Beijing Central.


See Drink More Green Tea Shirt

See I Can Fly Shirt