Shirt Designs

There is a new school being built and Im going to it And there aren’t any seniors or juniors. Since the senior class always makes class t shirts we wanted to make t shirts to kinda make fun of the fact that we don’t have seniors. Any ideas?
Ex. Front: Got seniors?
Back: We don’t.

What’s wrong with your idea? I like it. You could also do something about senioritis coming early…now the sophomores will be getting it! Sophomoritis?

Or can you at least give me a link with some helpful information? I’ll reward 10 points to the first one with helpful information.

Its been awhile but I know Vans, No Fear, etc. used to accept submissions for Tshirt designs and paid 200-300 per. if they liked em. But its been awhile..

But go check out istockphoto.com and see whats selling. Anybody can sell their art and photos. I’m a designer and we buy illustrations off there all the time. Its basically high-quality clip art. Like if I need an illustration of an apple and orange, its cheaper to pay 5 bucks that spend an hour or so drawing it myself.

I recommend you learn Illustrator if you don’t already. The good part is if people dig your stuff, you can sell it again and again.

I have a WHITE t-shirt and i am looking for a jpeg to stamp the image to the shirt(design cannot have much white or it wont show)
i want a small design, where should it go?, I want some thing in style, something Hip hop, like an enlarged logo

http://www.designashirt.com/gallery.asp **

I already design, produce and sell my tshirt designs using cafepress and mysoti, and promote on facebook n myspace, but i want to start aprocahing big companys like Criminal damage, attitude clothing etc with the aim of selling on my designs to them, eg free lance design for their products, how do i do this, how do they source new designs etc.

Afraid you have to go to them
That means selling or salesmanship
In effect you have to learn to sell (not easy) or hire a salesman
Cold selling of an unknown product is possibly one of the most soul destroying jobs going & finding a salesman may not be easy
I wish you luck I admire anyone who tries to make a go of things
So refreshing after reading so much about unemployment & benefits

i’m designing hoodies for my team so i need a software that’s easy to use. (: theres so many versions of photoshop and i don’t know which one to use. suggestions please?

Photoshop Elements 7 is a good place to get started (plus you can buy it for less than $100). You can also download a trial of it at adobe.com

I own a screen printing company, and I have a couple of AWESOME artists that can work with you to put your ideas on cotton! Shoot me an email, we can talk.

matthew@digitalmayheminc.com
http://www.digitalmayheminc.com

There’s some guy on ebay selling designs on t-shirt transfers for like $5. They are designs of like video games like a resident evil picture that is clearly from the box minus the words. Is that legal or would it be like copyrighted or something? I was wondering because I had once wanted to sell those but figured it was illegal.
Also, do you know if it’s illegal to draw a picture of a trademarked design and sell it?

It is illegal if you do not have express permission to do so. You can obtain licensing rights to reproduce logos, covers, etc., but it can be very expensive.

Hello yahooers! okay. i am having a problem. I want to have a part in my high school student council. Currently, we are trying to design our shirts. What are some designs that i should throw out? (Note: I am the only boy in the student council) I just feel nervous about my current design and that the girls will not like the idea and just try to pick something they like

If you want to have your design pass the scrutiny, come up with two. Make the first one so appalling that your second one–the one you really want to pass–will look awesome by comparison.

I suggest for your first one, put a couple Care-Bears surrounded by Tulips with, of course, the Student Council Name above it.

For the second, I would play it safe and just try some big block letters–arched…throw in a star burst in the background.

http://www.rivalart.com/
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Besides these three, are there others out there that would do what I want it to do? I have also heard of Paint.net & Gimp. And have heard alot of good about Gimp. I am looking for something to download for free. Money is tight at my house.

I suggest Adobe Illustrator

I’m starting a t-shirt business with my own designs, comprised of 150-300dpi photographic collages. Some designs are full color and others black/white positives with a single color tone. I intend to print them on black and dark color garments.

Here’s a picture for reference – http://yfrog.com/31samplafmdesignsj

Which method should I use, heat transfer or silk screen?

appreciate any help, thx
sublimation?

Silk screening will provide the most durable images. A good silk screened image may out last the shirt, itself.

Yes, it’s a lot of work to produce the screens and do the actual printing yourself, but that’s why designers tend to hire out the actuall printing to a professional shirt printer. The costs tend to be nearly cancelled out, the greater the volume of shirts ordered.

For smaller runs, of, say one to twenty shirts, the heat transfers may be more economical, and well within the capabilities of a designer’s home studio. Just be aware that those buyers who recognize quality will also know a heat transfer from a silk screen and will only be willing to pay a correspondingly lower price per shirt.

Interestingly, people, even conniseurs, are willing to pay the highest prices for custom airbrushed shirts, even though airbrushed designs are about the most fragile and ephemeral of wearable images. But then, they are paying for one of a kind, original artwork and not some mass produced images.

Quality is hard to define.