Starting an online t-shirt business Before we rush into setting up a Shopify store for your ecommerce needs (our personal recommendation), we think it’s important to make sure you’re making the right business decisions when starting an online t-shirt business to save you money, time and wasted effort. Here are 7 tips you wish you knew before starting an online t-shirt business. Continue reading Starting an online t-shirt business
5 money saving hacks – How to start a clothing line I’m going to teach you the 5 most important money saving hacks i’ve learnt to reducing your screen printing production costs when learning how to start a clothing line or t-shirt business. These tips will enable you to make money so you can continue to do what you love best. How much money can you make? In our real world examples (found towards the bottom of this post) by simply following these five tips we doubled our profit from $6 a t-shirt to $12.16! Continue reading 5 money saving hacks – How to start a clothing line
26 of the best T-Shirt label Designs Hit a dead end? Looking for the perfect inspiration for your next t-shirt tag design? Finding the right inside t-shirt tag design is challenging. Not only is the inside tag designed to give your customer the essential information, it’s also an attention to detail that reflects who you are as a brand. To get you inspired or help you get over your annoying “designer’s block,” we have carefully curated a list of 26 outstanding t-shirt sizing and care tags. If you are looking for pre-made t-shirt tags, check out this download. Continue reading 26 of the best T-Shirt label Designs
Custom printed clothing size tags. Legal requirements, artwork templates & more. This is where clothing brands really set themselves apart from one another – in their attention to details. Most clothing companies will stand for something, whether that’s mass manufacturing, bespoke creations, limited editions, high end design or specific genre graphics, whatever it is, you can generally tell what kind of label it is by what kind of clothing size tags they use. Continue reading Custom printed clothing size tags.
9 Blank Ghosted Women’s Clothing Templates You’ll believe ghosts exist after seeing our photorealistic templates in action. How do we do it? Well, that’s a trade secret, but we can tell you that the process is tedious, time consuming and therefore absolutely worth it to make sure our blank t-shirt templates are the best in the biz. Continue reading 9 Blank Ghosted Women’s Clothing Templates
Color Blocking a Vector Clothing Mockup We were recently asked by a customer. “I’m using your Master Collection Pack and I can’t work out how to make the bottom half of a t-shirt a different colour to the top half. So for example, the bottom half camo and the top half black. Can you help?” Our support team quickly swung into action to explain how to create a half/half color blocking panel for the t-shirt design. We thought this would be a great opportunity to show everyone how to simulate color panels for any of our vector mockup templates. Let’s dive in! Continue reading Color Blocking a Vector Clothing Mockup
21 Must Have Handmade Fonts If you’re time poor but still need to inject some handmade typography into your design work, then having an assortment of well engineered handmade fonts at your disposal is a must. We believe there is nothing better than creating a full graphic design by hand, but if you must use preset fonts, here is a list of 21 must have handmade fonts for your design toolkit which we think are the best in class. Let us know which font is your favourite in the comments section below. Continue reading 21 Must Have Handmade Fonts
Top iOS Apps for Design Inspiration and E-commerce Entrepreneurs One of the best things we love about working in the creative industry is that it’s collaborative and evolving constantly. Creativity is such an abstract form of thinking, operating and producing. It can’t be limited and has the power to transcend social, emotional and cultural boundaries, to only name a few! We appreciate where creativity has taken mankind and to where it’s going and one of the things we appreciate most is that we now have more accessibility, platforms, technologies and devices to create, enhance, inspire, share, sell and have fun with than ever before. In this blog post we’ve compiled a list of our favourite apps that help us in practical and aesthetical ways – some simply are just for inspiration and fun, others are essential for helping us run a business and allow us to operate more smoothly. Continue reading Top iOS Apps for Design Inspiration and E-commerce Entrepreneurs
Creating an Underbase in Adobe Illustrator – Screen Printing 101 When printing light coloured inks directly onto dark coloured garments with opaque color inks, like plastisol inks, the colors lose their intensity. To get around this, it’s best practice to first print a layer of white ink, known as an underbase. The underbase is printed first then dried to the touch with a heat gun or flash-curing machine before the rest of the color screens are printed. By using this method the colours will hold their vibrancy. When screen printing multiple colors it can be very hard to align the print areas of each screen perfectly, even if the screens are aligned perfectly the white ink underbase can bleed a little, you would then see hints of white where there shouldn’t be. For this reason the underbase artwork is reduced in size slightly, this is called “choking” the artwork. Choking the underbase gives the screen-printer a little bit of room to completely hide the underbase so it’s invisible to the naked eye. Continue reading Creating an Underbase in Adobe Illustrator – Screen Printing 101
Flock Printing T-Shirts – A Graphic Designers Guide Did you know that some factories electrify t-shirts to create a flock t-shirt graphic? Me neither! There are three ways (that we know of) to produce a flock print on a t-shirt or garment. In this definitive designers guide to flock printing t-shirts we will go over the differences, art requirements, available colors and best practices for flock printing from a graphic/apparel designer’s point of view, but before that, what is flock or flocking? Continue reading Flock Printing T-Shirts – A Graphic Designers Guide
Polo Shirt Template for Photoshop Introducing the Men’s Polo Shirt Template for Photoshop Pack and the all new Women’s Ghosted Polo Shit Templates What better way to convince your clients that your’ve got the design skills required to produce their company branded polo, than with a Polo shirt mockup template that looks photo real, they’ll think it’s actually been printed already. Our PrePress Toolkit Photoshop Polo Shirt Mockup Templates Pack: the perfect addition to your mockup template arsenal. Both Men’s and Women’s template packs includes colorable buttons, sleeves, collar, plackets and sleeve hems. Multiple front, back and side and all new angled perspective ghosted templates. Here’s a run down on the top features included with our Photoshop Men’s Polo Shirt Mockup Template Pack: Continue reading Polo Shirt Template for Photoshop
Free Vector T-Shirt Mockup We are celebrating the release of The Ultimate Vector Mockup Pack and our NEW Master Collection with a free vector t-shirt mockup! Our brand new Vector Garment Master Collection Pack consists of 310+ high-end vector clothing mockup templates. Each mockup was meticulously designed to enhance and give body to the garment graphics. Continue reading Free Vector T-Shirt Mockup
