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Thoughts on some tees

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cdip
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whatcha think?




Apr 21 2015 9:52PM
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Apr 21 2015 9:56PM
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rballs_
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No.
Apr 21 2015 10:33PM
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cdip
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I thought they were dope. He said they weren't for skiers but I thought I'd give him some opinions anyway.
Apr 21 2015 11:11PM
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-Dan
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Center chest logos on shirts suck 90% of the time. The exception is if you've got your brand established within your target market and the logo has a meaning to people or it represents what they want to represent. Don't start a t-shirt company with a chest print logo.
Apr 22 2015 5:07AM
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NewEscuelers
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The shirts should be on fire. Like all the time. That'd be dope
Apr 22 2015 10:09AM
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Apr 22 2015 1:33PM
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last_tango
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Make a water repellent flannel. I'm a flannel whore and that's what I'm wearing instead of tall tees on the slopes.
Apr 22 2015 1:51PM
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SKI.ING
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Those first designs in the OP, RVCA already has down pat, so take a loot at them to make yours at least a little different.
Apr 22 2015 2:27PM
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chemiskier
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SKI.INGThose first designs in the OP, RVCA already has down pat, so take a loot at them to make yours at least a little different.


Was about to post this. RVCA has been killin the game with that logo for quite some time. No offense, but your letters sort of screwed you over with creativity because chances are, RVCA has already done what you will come up with again and again. Good luck OP.
Apr 22 2015 3:19PM
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onLINE
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Looks like a V and an A combined and turned 90 degrees.

Would not buy.
Apr 22 2015 3:28PM
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cdip
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SKI.INGThose first designs in the OP, RVCA already has down pat, so take a loot at them to make yours at least a little different.


Ill let him know. Thanks for the input everything counts.
Apr 22 2015 3:58PM
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AlfredHitchCAULK
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It be cooler if it stood for something like vector asylum and was turned to the side but right now it makes no sense
Apr 22 2015 5:12PM
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gnarballsianm
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TallxTCenter chest logos on shirts suck 90% of the time. The exception is if you've got your brand established within your target market and the logo has a meaning to people or it represents what they want to represent. Don't start a t-shirt company with a chest print logo.


This is a very interesting thought, I gotta say that that idea makes sense, but really how will you establish a brand following and target market without a definable logo that people can easily spot and identify?

As a designer and maker of t's for sgattire, I think that a balance between graphic and simple should be found, like not all t designs should be crazy wack designs that are artistic master pieces, don't get me wrong, I love those but simple ones like the above can also be found aesthetically pleasing.
Apr 22 2015 6:05PM
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-Dan
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gnarballsianmThis is a very interesting thought, I gotta say that that idea makes sense, but really how will you establish a brand following and target market without a definable logo that people can easily spot and identify?

As a designer and maker of t's for sgattire, I think that a balance between graphic and simple should be found, like not all t designs should be crazy wack designs that are artistic master pieces, don't get me wrong, I love those but simple ones like the above can also be found aesthetically pleasing.


Its really easy to put your logo elsewhere on a shirt besides the center chest. Hem labels, back prints, sizing tags or prints. Then outside of the shirts you produce you can have your logo present in marketing efforts on social media, in videos, posters, banners or whatever.

No one here is revolutionizing the t-shirt, and chances are you just printed your logo on a blank shirt you got from a wholesaler, therefore the only right you have to increase the price of that shirt is from selling the "art" that you put on it. Logos aren't worth shit until you have more than 10 friends that wanna buy your shirt just because they know you. So put some art on the shirt, for the people that don't know you. Give them a chance to find out what you are about, not just what logo you are associating with your brand.
Apr 22 2015 6:38PM
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Mr.noodle
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Make some cool designs or prints and then when your company gets well known then start making logo shirts
Just my input but I think that's a smarter rout because that will mean nothing to the people seeing it
Apr 22 2015 8:42PM
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theabortionator
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So you made a thread about the new threads you want to sell and then a thread to direct people to the thread where you show people the threads you have for sale?
Apr 23 2015 2:29AM
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pattyeiks
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I don't get it
Apr 23 2015 9:53PM
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gnarballsianm
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TallxTIts really easy to put your logo elsewhere on a shirt besides the center chest. Hem labels, back prints, sizing tags or prints. Then outside of the shirts you produce you can have your logo present in marketing efforts on social media, in videos, posters, banners or whatever.

No one here is revolutionizing the t-shirt, and chances are you just printed your logo on a blank shirt you got from a wholesaler, therefore the only right you have to increase the price of that shirt is from selling the "art" that you put on it. Logos aren't worth shit until you have more than 10 friends that wanna buy your shirt just because they know you. So put some art on the shirt, for the people that don't know you. Give them a chance to find out what you are about, not just what logo you are associating with your brand.


Thats a very good point, the first t's we ever produced were just our orginal logo, which was terrible, on four different color choices, that was when we thought it would be more cost effective to go through a wholesale second party local seattle screenprint company, but it wasn't. Today we are screenprinting our designs, which is much more satisfactory. I will keep your advice in mind when i get to designing more. i totally agree about the hem labels and what not, glad to learn some from potential customers, how did you start?
Apr 24 2015 3:20PM
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-Dan
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gnarballsianmThats a very good point, the first t's we ever produced were just our orginal logo, which was terrible, on four different color choices, that was when we thought it would be more cost effective to go through a wholesale second party local seattle screenprint company, but it wasn't. Today we are screenprinting our designs, which is much more satisfactory. I will keep your advice in mind when i get to designing more. i totally agree about the hem labels and what not, glad to learn some from potential customers, how did you start?


I started with spray paint, an oversized logo stencil. a tall-t from a corner store in Albany, and the storage room of my college dorm. Here is an FB album with pictures of how the first time I made shirts.

https://www.facebook.com/skiingraspberrycorduroy/media_set?set=a.1299980784670.45652.1384920029&type=1


To anyone:
Everyone needs to start somewhere. If you are making shirts to make money then stop and get a job instead, but if your reasons are based in passion and that translates to a cotton garment somehow then keep goinh. It can be a lot of fun.
Apr 25 2015 12:10PM
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gnarballsianm
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TallxTI started with spray paint, an oversized logo stencil. a tall-t from a corner store in Albany, and the storage room of my college dorm. Here is an FB album with pictures of how the first time I made shirts.

https://www.facebook.com/skiingraspberrycorduroy/media_set?set=a.1299980784670.45652.1384920029&type=1


To anyone:
Everyone needs to start somewhere. If you are making shirts to make money then stop and get a job instead, but if your reasons are based in passion and that translates to a cotton garment somehow then keep goinh. It can be a lot of fun.


Thats so rad haha, gotta love those first ghetto rigs, when we originally tried screens we used old picture frames and plain white under shirts and whatever clean and quality shirts we could find at thrift stores haha

Totally agree with you there, my schools art program lets me do design work and sketches that I will then take to the screen, it is really cool to be able to make a unique style of art work.
Apr 28 2015 12:54AM
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