The House T-shirt Awards

Oh, selecting a house t-shirt...few activities can so effectively divide a House while trying to bring it together. It's nearly the peak of shirt season, so we would like to share our picks of the winners and losers so far:

The Jerry Bruckheimer Award for "Same S***, Different Day"

This has to go to Dunster, which picked a tweaked Coke logo over a fairly inspired "The Office" shirt (Dunster Mifflin). C'mon, guys—as one poster said:

Word to that. Granted, the writer actually was supporting a different shirt, but criticism is a universal language (more of that after the jump).

The Van Gogh Award for Tortured Artistry and Self-Loathing

The Winthrop House shirt, which features a "Lion King" inspired play on words ("Oh I just can't wait...to move in") is pretty weak. What makes it even more weak is that the artist who made it thinks it's weak.

That's right, the designer of the t-shirt—who also happens to be Crimson Business Manager, and claims the idea was his roommate's—voted against his own shirt, and was heard expressing sentiments too vulgar for print upon learning of his victory in the design derby.

That's how you know your t-shirt is really bad—when the guy who designed it thinks it is. It's almost meta.

The Beatrix Potter Award for Impressive, if Childish, Illustration

This is probably the coolest design from an artistic perspective ("Where the Wild Things Are"), but we don't really see the Mather connection. Last we heard, the Wild Things (roaches, obvi) made their home mostly in Lowell and Winthrop. Maybe those stalwart creatures have finally found a way to live in solid concrete.

Mather, surprisingly, has so much house spirit that residents are clamoring for prints of the runners-up—including one celebrating "34 years of Soviet Bloc Housing" in "Mathergrad." Rock on, Commies.