Deloused-In-The-Comatorium
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go here ...it worked for me !!
http://www.stencilrevolution.com/ |
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webmasterauto
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Cafe Press is the bomb! Simple to start.
http://www.cafepress.com |
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JayEmmBee
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I work for a screenprinting and embroidery business so I hope the following information helps. Screenprinters will take you a lot more seriously if you go in knowing pretty much what you want and you've come prepared.
Try and have an idea of what exactly you want to print on before you go to a shop. (Baby tees, Sweatshirs, tee shirts, shooter shirts)
Start out simple. Don't try and do a bunch of different designs on a bunch of different styles and colors of shirts. Its expensive.
You want your desired print image to be atleast 350 DPI jpeg. Its even better if you have a Illustrator, Photoshop, or Corel Draw file that the screenprinter can work from.
The more shirts you do the less expensive its going to be per shirt.
The more colors are in your design the more its going to cost.
Printing on dark shirts cost more than light shirts because of the set up on the press.
Heat transfers are a less expensive way of getting your designs on a shirt but they look like they were cheap too. |
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Just a Girl
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It's so simple now! Check out http://www.CafePress.com , where you can upload images to shirts, and other items (cups, mousepads, stickers, etc). Plus, with the Internet and its level playing field, you can have your own 'store' and shop your ideas to major fashion labels.
Test your ideas on your friends, neighbors and co-workers, and see if you can get some buzz going! Also...check out http://www.neighborhoodies.com and email one of the owners, and they may be able to provide some advice.
Good Luck!
Desi :-) |
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Infilia
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You have to evaluate your strengths at first. Are you more of a designer, a marketer, a sales person? What do you usually enjoy doing more - creative stuff such as designing, or you like the business side such as managing business processes - finding vendors, printers, customers?
If you are alone, just like myself, then you should delegate tasks which you're not best doing on your own to people who can it better then you. For example, I am not a designer. That's why I find artists who make designs for my t-shirts, and I deal with other aspects, such as printing, sales, marketing etc - because these areas are more of my strengths then design.
PS You don't necessarily need any computer software if you are an artist. Best t-shirts are NOT made on computers. Best t-shirts are made in ink or watercolor or charcoal on paper, and then scanned. Only then they undergo some computer tweaking. But don't let computer be your main tool. |
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hott.dawg™
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You already have some great ideas from some very intelligent people. My only advise is to follow your dream and never look back.Best of Luck! |
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iluvant59
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A way that you can start is in your own home buy some computer imaging software and create your own logo and graphics maybe even go to your local craft store and grab a couple of things that can appy to clothing. After designing a few or more shirts give them out to your closest friends to wear out in public and you will start to notice people asking where they got their clothing from. im not sur if you are familiar with nigo the maker of bape clothing but that is how he got his start and now he is a multi-millionaire. Well good luck!!! |
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AJIMEENA
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I have a friend who started by designing with pencil an paper which moved to graphics on the computer then he took a bunch of t-shirts to the local print shop an b4 you know it half of his high school is wearing his shirts.......
he starts his internship at some company in the spring |
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Plumerias are from Hawaii!
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start by desiging a logo then make it into the computer but after that I'm not sure |
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coral_deolali
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there are some company manufacture fabric paints they may help you. |
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Maggie S
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well start out small design a few and see if your friends like them if they do keep goig on that road if they dont think of a differen theme and just keep trying until you hit it off |
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Des
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get a name for ur company |
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nabdullah2001
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First and foremost find out about copyrighting your designs so nobody will take them and any shirt styles you create as well to copyright the designs of those too. Get some t shirts and do a test line on them so you can see what you want to create and make sure that it's going to work before you officially release them to be sold. |
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sophieb
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not sure exactly what you're asking...but let me "try" to answer. go to sweatshirts.com or cafepress.com and you can design your own t-shirt and put it on a website (you pay for the website monthly). You can do "one" that way for yourself (or one for yourself to test what it would look like) or several and buy them and sell them offline with your design, or just advertise your website and people will buy them there. Those websites will advise you what type of picture is best to send them.
So you can take a picture of anything you want (within reason, and sensible) and put it on a t-shirt. You can draw a picture or a logo and put it on a t-shirt. You can take a picture of your pet, your school, your church, or anything interesting maybe that has to do with sports, or a funny saying, or a pet, or anything else you think will sell. Then all you have to do is advertise it. |
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High-strung Guitarist
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Buy a lot of blank white shirts from a clothing store and get a lot of those decorating pens and paints from an arts and crafts shop. |
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Jono
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try going to a site called spreadshirt.net or google spread shirt,it explains how to upload your images and you can select different types of prints and shirts etc to print on... |
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Brittney V
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Well, Office Max sells t-shirt design paper that, after you create your design on the computer, you print it out on the paper, and just iron it on to whatever shirt you want! It's about ten dollars for twenty sheets, and can be found in the printer paper asile. Good luck!! |
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phoenixheat
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The other answerers had really good ideas. Be sure to get any logo protected. I understand that a trademark covers that, in which case you should get a trademark attorney. I know the lady who started the "No Fear" t-shirt company. She started the business with a few thousand dollars and gave them to her friends, relatives, etc. Now she is worth many many millions. |
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cheer4life_babygurlii
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you an start by making shirts and maybe sell them on eBay...if people start to buy them and tell about your designs...who knowz one day i could be buyin shirst with your label in them |
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eddie_schaap
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Get some Tee shirts, screens and inks of various colours, then from your designs on the screens, transfer the prints onto shirts. |
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t
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First, get a list of ideas from people (depending on your originality) of what designs you would like to use. That in turn will give you ideas of what color shirts to put what on what. Next get a source of bulk t-shirts, they are the most in-expensive way of getting over on paying more than 1$ a shirt or something like that.Then get your info out there that your out here hustlin' shirts, (depending your area) like here in Jersey City graffiti art shirts are whats in with different characters being air brushed on be your own shameless plug, wear (advertise) what you design. |
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capollar
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I believe you can design tshirts using pencil & paper or computer design software |
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blazersand2000
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Using Cafepress.com, you can simply upload your design, preview the look of your t-shirt, then order it and have it mailed to you. Quick, easy, and not outrageously expensive to do! |
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Lily K
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go to miniclip.com and there should be a thing on the letf side about making ur own t- shirts. |
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bcb
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Design a design in any computer design program or microsoft word and get iron on paper and a shirt of your choice. Print design out and iron on and you have got your first t-shirt. |
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shlomogon
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Get a job with a silkscreen shop for a while.
Learn to use computer software.
Save money to start your own business.
Go for it. |
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krishna
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i think,u shuld go from scratch,like have some of ur or friends,USED t-shirts and the make them designed with styles u like.then show ur creativity to ur friends,peers and neighbours.ask if anyone is intrested.if yes,then sell them at cheapest prices.then makemoney and invest that money into t-shirt company.
best of luck. |
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LOST
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first make some design on drawing paper or in computer software |
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Orlando57
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assuming an arts class in the background or some drafting or other abilities you should try to find a silk screening course and or use fabric paiints at walmart or a craft store and look this up in a course guide or find like minded folks locally into art and also this type of design is there an art museum or gallery about they will know the local art scene and the folks around will know it |
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May I help You?
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Try designs on paper first.
The one you keep going back to is your best drawing.
Go to a craft store, and they also sell inexpensive t-shirts, and all of the equipment including certain "gel" just for t-shirts!
Creat away! |
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Da Austrian Oak
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If you want to start out small first, you can buy T-Shirt transfers. I used to work at Office Depot and they sold T-Shirt transfers. What you did was make your design, print it out in color or black and white, and then stick the transfer to the front or back of the T-Shirt and iron it on. I guess they were really called Iron-on T-Shirt transfers.
I have a few slogans of my own that I made up that I thought I could make a lot of money on if I put them on T-Shirts and bumper stickers, etc., but I realized that doing the work myself would be too much. You should get your images or slogans or whatever copyrighted first, I think, and then go to a T-Shirt company and try to sell your idea. They may want to buy the rights, but if you don't have them copyrighted, they might be malicious and sell your ideas after they have rejected your ideas.
Once, when I was browsing through the Internet, I found a web page called tshirtsfromhell.com or something. I don't know why it was called that. I guess it was just because they had a lot of T-Shirts with dirty jokes, etc., on them or something. But they said that if you submitted your slogan or whatever to them and they wanted it, they would send you $100 and one finished T-Shirt of your idea, but not give you a percentage of the sales. I thought about it, but then decided that I could make a lot more money on my own if I copyrighted my idea, like I said before, and got in business with a T-Shirt company to make a certain percent off what they made off the shirts. If they don't make anything, you don't make anything. No loss except whatever it costs to copyright something, and no gains. But, your losses would probably be much worse if you made 50 T-Shirts at home and then tried to sell them on your own. That could be tricky.
I haven't followed through with my ideas yet, but maybe some day. Good luck! |
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