410 BC Packaging.
Andy over at Hide Your Arms wrote this article about 410bc's new packaging. 410BC sent me a tee a little while back (which will likely be posted soon), and I loved the packaging that it [...]
Craft Show Tip: Peacocking
I just signed up for Renegade LA and SF today and was thinking about writing some articles about craft shows. If you haven't heard about Renegade, check them out. They have a couple around the [...]
Working with artists (from the artists perspective)
This article was on the suffoca blog and I thought it offered good insight into how a designer thinks. Working with clients is another side to my work, here’s a few handy tips i’v learnt [...]
Stop trying to do it all and delegate
When I started mediocore about 2 years ago I wanted to do everything. I wanted to design the shirts and website, screen print everything, and do all the marketing myself. This is how a lot [...]
Lowdtown is Closing Down – Clearance Sale
Ray at lowdtown has written some awesome articles for this site and I thought it was only right that I help him when he needs it. Here is his post he wrote This post has [...]
We are on Facebook!
I just signed up for a page at Facebook. I know I am behind the times but at least I am starting now. I think it will be a good way for store owners to [...]
Typography for t-shirt designs
Article by: Austin Martin I could go for days about typography. Typefaces, kerning, leading, tracking, etc., etc. I thought, "Hey! I’m sure most people don’t really know the basic fundamentals of typography!". This is not [...]
T-shirt design process – Greg Abbot
By Greg Abbot I get asked about my regular working process quite often so decided to post a basic overview for those who are interested. I produce my work in three stages. I use Corel [...]
Line Work for t-shirt designs
Written by: Sol Amstutz Here are a lot of ways an illustration can be ruined, and a big one is line work. The line work is almost like the skeleton of an illustration, because you [...]
How to connect multiple paypal emails – tutorial
Paypal has a lot of different options but it always seems like you will never use most of them and it is difficult to find the ones you want. Today I got a paypal payment [...]
Sometimes you don’t need Internet Marketing
I am fortunate enough to help a lot of clothing companies create awesome sites with my company Double Dragon Studios. While I am in there putting in all the code I also get a chance [...]
Coloring Tips for T-shirt Designs
Written by: Sol Amstutz Ah, coloring. It’s something every artist has loved since childhood, and some have grown to hate. Once again, like most things that are part of a greater whole, how you choose [...]
Pool Tradeshow Review
Ever since attending Agenda back in January, I knew that it was a must to exhibit at a tradeshow, so last week I exhibited at my first tradeshow - the Pool Tradeshow in hot [...]
Threadless Seminar
The founders of Threadless talk about their rise to awesomeness and a few other projects you might not have heard about. The real talk about threadless doesn't begin until halfway into the video. [...]
New Comment System + Feedback System
I decided to use Disqus which is a comment replacement system for Wordpress and other blogging platforms. In addition to all basic functionality, it is also well integrated with Facebook Connect and Twitter. I want [...]
Band T-shirt Tutorial
This article was originally posted on Go Media’s blog by Jeff Finley. The Project: You’re hired to create a “sick” t-shirt design for a major label Metal band. Their fans also listen to Metallica, Slayer, [...]
How to design a band tshirt tutorial
This was the first shirt tutorial I came across when I was starting out. Jeff Finley and Go media have written some really great articles but this is the one that initially made me researching [...]
How many shirts should I print?!
This question comes up a lot and I think it really needs an article about it. I remember printing my first shirt, live every week like it's shark week, and I was asking the same [...]
