The trend of T-shirt design isn’t new, but it surely isn’t going to die anytime soon. In fact, T-shirt design has become an industry in itself, serving people around the globe with stunning custom Tees.
Many designers have found their calling in T-shirt designing and have made their names in the market such as the skilled designer at SOYU, Mike Ng. Regardless of the popularity of this emerging trend, designing impress t-shirts that can draw customers can be a bit daunting.
At QousQazah, we’ve designed a plethora of incredible custom t-shirts and we can confidently say what works and what doesn’t when it comes to t-shirt designs. Allow us to share a few insights with you.
Consider Who Are You Designing For
First and foremost thing is to consider your audience. If it is for the male audience, its color, design pattern and even the illustration would differ from that of the female t-shirt designs. Likewise, if it is for the kids, it’d have design patterns like teddy-bears, dinky-cars, etc, which won’t work on t-shirts that are designed for adults.
Be the First to Know the Trends
Trends are not always reliable to follow because they tend to change with time. However, what you can get from those trends is inspiration, and it is what that can help you spearhead your industry. Inspirations give birth to creativity, and creativity leads to uniqueness and uniqueness is what people prefer. So, follow trends but use them only for inspiration to design something new.
Use Humor in a Clever Manner
Humor is good, because who wouldn’t want a good laugh every now and then. However, taking the shackle off the humor, especially on t-shirt designs, could cost you a great design. Use humor only if you are skilled in it because a second-rate humor would sound cheap.
Minimalism always Works like a Charm
Some designers take great pride in designing complex artworks. All their focus is on the fine points of the design and not the message it is conveying or the interest of the audience for whom it is being designed. So, what works best across the board? Miminalism, aka simplicity! Try it yourself and see the difference.
Keep in mind You’re Designing for Tees
Tshirt designs are way different than digital or print (paper) design. After all, you’re not designing the art for a paper or a digital medium but actual fabric. So, before finalizing the design for a t-shirt, first try it out on some samples to see how it fares.