Funny Internet Shirts
A good t-shirt design must be immediately recognisable from a distance. Think about some retro t-shirts and consider why they are so popular. It is usually down to their simplicity or maybe their pop-culture references which echo in the heart of everyone that sees it. Think about your target audience and what they would like to say about themselves through your t-shirt. A band t-shirt for example must keep in touch with the style of music and give the wearer something about the band to shout about. Album covers or band logos are good options.
Next, is editing. After you have copied the designs you want from any websites you have chosen you can now resize the design depending on how big you desire. If there are more spaces available you can even add quotes and later on you can play with the mixture of different colors. But others just want to draw or create their very own design. Through this, they are free to express what they feel and exhibit their talent.
The newest method of t-shirt printing is the Direct to Garment (DTG) method. This method is similar to screen printing but uses industrial quality inkjet. Because the use of this method is new, it has become the most talked about method at t-shirt printing trade shows.
A little bit of research:Reading a little on the internet about T shirt designs will be very helpful. You will get to know about colour schemes, different kind of inks etc..
Another method is Direct To Garment (DTG) printing. This is a method of running the actual shirt through a printer which prints the image on to the shirt just as a standard in home ink jet printer would print out a document from your computer. There has been some talk in the design community of the ink drying or clumping up in these machines, but I have seen the work they do and it looks great and feels great on the shirt. This is a higher end option at this time with some printers going for around $25,000. You could get a used on for around $16,000, but it would take a lot of shirts to pay off that large of an investment.
Some of the newer companies now use digital printing for custom t-shirts. To do this, thy use a transfer paper with the design and it is pressed on to the t-shirt to transfer the design with the use of a pressing machine. Since there are many colors around, the shirts also have different requirements. For example, there are white shirts and those with lighter fabrics while there are also darker fabrics. These two types of fabrics should be printed on differently.
To make sure that the images you source on the Internet are big enough to fill your T-shirt design, on the Google Images search results page click '+' next to 'Show Options' at the top left hand side below the Google Logo. This opens a menu of filtering options on the left, choose 'Large' in the size section. Now Google will only show you the large images.
