Designing, advertising and branding isn’t limited to just posters, banners, hoardings and TV ads. A great design will always be great be it on the street somewhere or on a t-shirt. T-Shirts are a great way to show off and do promotion. There was a time when only cotton shirt was being used, with t-shirts being mostly used as an undergarment. T-Shirts were always worn inside another shirt. T-Shirts have become trendy today, however, and various types of t-shirts are being manufactured, especially 100% cotton and heavy-weight t-shirts. Designers around the world seek for inspiration and t-shirts surely provide loads of it. T-Shirt designs give a lot of flexibility to designers to try out various different things.
T-Shirts could be designed for many reasons, one of course is to sell them, another is to promote a company or to spread social awareness. Even many NGO’s go for t-shirt designs to spread some kind of message. For example in India Being Human organization has gone for t-shirts to attract a lot of buys and in turn use that money for the needy. Before designing a t-shirt you need to know what concept you are going for. You need to know the purpose of the design, the market, etc. You need to know what color your t-shirt needs to be and on that basis your design would change.
As for some tips on t-shirt designing try to use PMS colors and try to use vector of all the graphic elements. It takes a great deal of time and effort to get the perfect design, you need to be patient and be ready to rework on your piece. Also, try to use humor at some points. Humor makes for a great attraction to buyers. In this post we are publishing 40 Cool and Creative Graphic T-Shirt Designs for your inspiration. Hope these might help you to create something unusual and unique.
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