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15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry - 3 of 3

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

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15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry - 3 of 3

In an effort to help further educate designers about things they should NOT be doing, here is the last installment of the popular 3-part Mistakes series. Part two talked about staying original, following directions, utilizing the medium to its fullest,…

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How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups

Thursday, August 7, 2008

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How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups

When designing for apparel, presentation of your proofs is very important. A detailed image of a piece simply will not suffice as an adequate proof. You want to hit the design home, and mocking it up on a t-shirt is…

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

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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

5 more mistakes make up part 2 of the 15 mistakes series. This article covers issues such as lack of originality, following directions, and other bonehead mistakes made by designers.

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Concentric Downpour wins Shirt of the Month

Friday, July 25, 2008

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Concentric Downpour wins Shirt of the Month

It’s been a few weeks now, but I’m extremely happy to say that my first DBH Submission, Concentric Downpour, has won shirt of the month for June on Design by Humans! A big thanks to everyone that voted, left a…

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15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry - 1 of 3

Thursday, July 24, 2008

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15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry - 1 of 3

Designers in the music and apparel industry are some of the most talented designers around. I’m willing to bet there isn’t a sector of graphic design that allows more creativity and more artistic freedom. Despite the amazing talent and style,…

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How to create realistic T-Shirt Mockups

Sunday, July 20, 2008

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How to create realistic T-Shirt Mockups

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57 Inspirational Sites from 7 Remarkable Apparel Designers

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

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57 Inspirational Sites from 7 Remarkable Apparel Designers

I gathered 7 of the top t-shirt designers today and asked each of them for a handful of sites they couldn’t live without; sites they surf for inspiration, design resources, advice, community, etc. I was surprised at what I found.…

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“Concentric Downpour” Printed on DBH

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

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“Concentric Downpour” Printed on DBH

Another Design by Humans winner for Go Media. I tweaked one of the pieces from the Concentric Series to work as a shirt design and it won shirt of the day. They did a great job with printing, and making…

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“Bold is Beautiful” shirt finally printed!

Friday, June 6, 2008

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“Bold is Beautiful” shirt finally printed!

I’m happy to finally be able to tell everyone that this shirt has been printed and is for sale! It couldn’t have come at a better time (on my 26th birthday!). I take my hat off to the people at…

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Vietnam Werewolf shirt printed huge

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

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Vietnam Werewolf shirt printed huge

Pat from Shout Out Loud Prints sent me over the first print of the Vietnam Werewolf shirt I designed. It looks great. He was able to print it huge like that. I’ll post more photos and give you all a link to…

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How to print giant designs onto shirts

Thursday, May 22, 2008

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How to print giant designs onto shirts

I thought this was pretty cool. For those of you who wonder how this kind of printing is done, here is a good example. Just get a machine like this! Demonstration video of the 12 color Workhorse Falcon E Duplex Automatic…

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Funkrush Shirt printed and up for sale

Saturday, May 17, 2008

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Funkrush Shirt printed and up for sale

Remember the Funkrush Tee that I designed a while back? Maybe a year ago? Well, they finally printed it and you can now purchase it from the Funkrush Store. The shirts ship from the UK.

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Shirts for Pyknic finally printed!

Monday, March 31, 2008

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Shirts for Pyknic finally printed!

Just wanted to share that the clothing company Pyknic, who hired us to design some shirts a few months ago finally has them available to purchase. Young Hollywood (designed by myself) Pyknichands (designed by Dave Tevenal) Both of these shirts are available…

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Prom Night

Monday, November 12, 2007

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Prom Night

This is a new shirt design that I did for some merch for a fairly popular screamy post-hardcore band. It was accepted and the design might actually see the cotton threads of a comfy shirt one day. Let’s hope that…

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Great site for Shirt Design Inspiration

Monday, October 8, 2007

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Great site for Shirt Design Inspiration

There’s a cool new site out there called Emptees that’s showcasing the art of t-shirt design. There doesn’t seem to be a commercial slant like Threadless, and it’s more of basically a hub for inspiration. Some great artists are posting their…

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Designing Ultra SceneXCore Apparel!

Monday, November 13, 2006

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Designing Ultra SceneXCore Apparel!

Introduction This is a tutorial or a simple “how-to” guide to help you with your design projects. This is not the end-all, be-all way of doing things. We will try to make what is normally a long and detailed process of…

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