Comments on: Make it Look Like Affliction

By: David Silva

David Silva — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:51:50 +0000

good thoughts on designing something new as I think about my own clothing line.

By: web_design_missouri

web_design_missouri — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:25:45 +0000

What happened to wanting to innovate?

By: streetwear

streetwear — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:15:14 +0000

I love hand drawings and I really appreciate the efforts they put into every piece they do. I think you are a great artist too. You write your thoughts very well. Great post!

By: Designers’ Guide to the Apparel Printing Industry | GoMediaZine

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:30:43 +0000

[...] a fantastic three-part series full of experience & advice – we even showed you how to ‘Make it look like Affliction‘. And just in these last couple of months, we showed you how to make photorealistic mockups [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:27:29 +0000

As someone who has started in this industry many years ago as a designer, I can tell you it is not as easy as “hand drawing” something that looks like affliction. With that said, Affliction does not hand draw everything they output. As I have personally progressed in my field I now work in the private label aspect of fashion. I can tell you as far as production goes, to find a factory that will do the garment dying, which is essential to create the effect these shirts have, and the vast allotments of washes is far and in between. The reason a brand such as Affliction can do this is the Quantity of their orders placed within a factory. These applications have been around long before Affliction, mainly used on denim like Jordache’s early washes as good examples. I remember when Affliction was first at Magic, they were doing prints, as most start-ups, on AA blanks, printing from LA print shops, that didn’t even know what garment dying was. Working out of NYC I can also tell you the bigger PS’s over here didn’t ether like Pro Graphics for example. Beyond that, as a lot of you, I’m sure, I have my own personal stockade of graphics which includes some of GoMedia packs. Now to address the main point of this post, Graphical Design or Hand Drawn Illustration of T-shirt Apparel. For somehow to think that Hand Drawn is somehow superior to that of a fully trained Graphic Artist is not practical. A competent Graphic Designer can take something and make it their own no matter the source material. Basically what I am saying is the intial way of design is irrelevant as you could create the same thing with both techniques. It is how good you understand the production of the garment you are creating that really counts. There is nothing that makes me more upset when i get a really beautiful design with a TP that is just terribly lacking any foresight into apps or washes which doesn’t add anything to the “art” of the shirt. If you want to design a shirt or whatever like Affliction, my first suggestion would be to contact whoever hired you and get the production capabilities. Take in as much as you can from all production facilities, even from little experimental ones, which i might add, have the time to play with things you may never have known that you could do to a garment. I apologize for the long thread, I just hope that everyone realizes that the Art is not the only thing that is truly important, it is the quality of a TP and the knowledge of garment construction. Learning this will greatly improve your design capabilities. If nothing else it will impress you employer.

By: 15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry - 2 of 3 | GoMediaZine

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:30:06 +0000

[...] it is the client asking them to do this! Like I said in an older article, I get asked to “Make it look like Affliction” all the time. Don’t completely cave in to what clients ask for, you have to leave a [...]

By: Integral Apparel

Integral Apparel — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:39:47 +0000

I actually saw Jeff post a referral on the net about Shout Out Loud prints and what a great job they do their competitive prices. I got a great deal with them and I don’t have to get 100 prints to get the great prices. I might add, they said they can work with watercolor looks and different placement, by the shoulder, bottom hem, wrap arounds…

Check em out guys shoutoutloudprints.com, tell Integral Apparel sent ya.

By: Newbie Affliction Clothing, Need Florida Dye House Screen Printer - T-Shirt Forums

Sat, 10 May 2008 18:29:18 +0000

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By: Buzz

Buzz — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:38:43 +0000

Nice, google phrase including ‘like affliction’ got me here.

Nice article. Like Brooks above, I too am looking for a printer to do edge to edge and wrap around printing on quality tees and thermals here in the US. If Go Media now knows of a source, please share.

By: markov ginabot

markov ginabot — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:36:21 +0000

nice post!
thumbsup!