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IN light of the recent and not-so-recent interest in showing and making tee shirt designs on 12stone, here's a BRAND SPANKING NEW place to get on with the T SHIRT MADNESS.

Enjoy!

I'm currently working on a submit-a-design-for-our-shirts type of site for a client (there's no voting on designs though and the shirts will be available in stores as well as on line). Anyway, I'll post a link to it when it's live if there's any parties interested in checking it out for possible submissions.

I don't know if this is good, bad or average but here's their compensation schedule:

Compensation Schedule:
First design selected: base compensation, equal to 16% of the net profits from sales of products bearing the first design, up to a maximum compensation amount of $3000 US. Each subsequent design selected: one additional percentage point will be added to the base compensation for each subsequent design, to a maximum percentage of 26%. The maximum compensation amount per design is $3000 US.

For example, the third design selected will earn two additional percentage points, resulting in 18% of the net profits from sales of the third design. Sales of the first design will continue to be compensated at 16%.

Doran, sounds fantastic! Your % points seem quite nice, however, the question at hand is, what is the going price for your average tee? Flat pricing? or dependant on the complexity?
I take it they will be silk screens... however what about extra stitching? gromets? snaps? patches?



Let me know...




And for the rest of you cats... I'll have a few new designs up tomorrowish...

Hey Flip... I don't know what their pricing structure is going to be like yet but I'll let you know when they pass that on to me.

Your stuff is tight... I'm sure you'd have no trouble getting it picked up at any number of these types of sites.

The best part I find about designing clothing is that I'm doing it for me... there's not client there holding me back -- I can do what ever the fuck I want with it. The end result is some rocking shit -- IMHO.


The main reason I haven't submitted any of my shirts to places yet is the fact that I want to be able to include those sorts of things that make them a cut above your average printed Tee -- stitching, grommets, snaps, et cetera.


Threadless would be a good place for me market some of my simpiler stuff... but I'm not sure what the compensation is and what not... and they don't let me do my extra shit.




My panties are all wet with anticipation of hearing from you.

well, as soon as i get some new shit done, i'll get posting it up for y'all to take the piss out of.

Well I've finally finished my whole template package for shirts.
You've got Short Sleeve, Double Sleeve, and Long Sleeve all available in Crew Neck, V-Neck, and Collared variaions. The colours are easily changeable with the vector editing software of your choosing. I've also included a few extras -- Simple Pocket, Pointed Pocket, Buttoned/Snapped Pocket, and a Row-O-Buttons. They're in their own file just waiting to be placed.

I intend to make a few more extras such as shoulder pockets, epaulettes, et cetera.


For now here's a preview of what is in the package:



And here is the package:
HOT XXX VECTOR SHIRT TEMPLATE PORN (1.74MB - Adobe Illustrator CS Format)



Happy shirt making!

awesome template flip. i'm going to use it.

Originally posted by: possak
awesome template flip. i'm going to use it.

"That melon is for display purposes ONLY, sir."

"Don't you have a REGULAR melon?"

"It's total gridlock man!"

awesome flip, i'll be using that too!

ok, i banged some very quick stuff together and stuck it up on my blog for people to vote on. used flips templates for this, ace!

then people voted.

then i made the acetates and did a little print run of a modified version of one of the most popular voted designs as a bit of a test.

then i took a really shitty pic of the print with my camera phone and blogged it.

i'm pleased because i've never printed before and i'm like a kid with a new toy.

So did I make this stinky thread for nothing? Make with the shirts!

Originally posted by: arigato
So did I make this stinky thread for nothing? Make with the shirts!

HEY r_d's BOSS, LET UP AND GIVE HIM TIME TO PRINT SHIRTS. ARI DIDN'T MAKE THIS THREAD STICKY FOR NO REASON!
d'you think he heard?

What's the best way for a n00b to do this, DIY iron on, or outsource the printing?

depends on the quality and longevity of the product you want.

flip has got some great results with transfers. i have no idea how they hold up in the wash.

i screen print. purely because i enjoy the challenge and the act.

outsourcing is FUCKING EXPENSIVE for short runs and complex prints. generally speaking.

Flip, what's you're recommendation on the best type of transfer?

i think he was using avery dark t shirt transfers with good results.

Generally I have been using Avery's Iron-On Transfers for Dark Shirts.

Rather than printing them in reverse, laying them down, ironing and peeling off the backing like old transfers, you print them right side up in as is style. You peel off the transfer like a sticker that doesn't actually stick, lay it on the shirt, place a piece of waxish/tissue paper stuff they give you over it, and iron.

The ironing method is something you'll figure out based on your iron and the materials you're using... but it only took 2 or 3 shirts before I got a pretty good sense of things...


As for life of them I've found that if you was them inside out, cold/cold, tumble dry (no heat) for 30 minutes, and then hang them up they last pretty damn well. The ones that I did tumble dry with heat got a little bit wrinkly... And my oldest shirt (about 6 months and 20+ washes) is getting a little cracked, but not too bad really -- And I put it in the heat like 3 or 4 times accidently.



I find right after you make it if wash right away -- tumble and then hang dry a little bit will peel... but you just lay over the tissue paper stuff, and do a few touchups... puts the final stay on it then.





I do want to get into the silk screening stuff, but I haven't had the time nor the cash to get things rolling... I did some silkscreen prints years ago... so it shouldn't be too tough... I just haven't had the time to make any shirts lately as I've been so damn busy...