Here at You Design It we appreciate good t-shirt art. That’s why we wanted to take a moment to give a shout out to one of the best designers in the industry - Jimiyo, and help support his t-shirt print effort.
Jimiyo has an extensive and impressive portfolio of work and he is one of the top designers over at Design By Humans. He has a real knack for capturing the beauty and elegance in any rendering he makes. His work usually features dark, mystical, satirical, or just plain off the wall designs, but it is consistently strong. Check out this popular and colorful design he created for Design By Humans:

One of the reasons we wanted to spotlight Jimiyo, apart from his amazing talent and dedication to creative design, is because he currently has a new project in the works. He’s created an excellent design featuring the adage “Eat, Drink, Be Merry” and he’s looking for pre-orders to help fund the printing of the shirt! Check out this great design:

So what can you do to help support this artist and snag one of these awesome shirts for yourself? Simple, you can make a $20 pre-order donation to the fundraising event via paypal. Jimiyo is using tough concept of pre-order donations to help offset the costs of manufacturing the shirts and to generally gauge interest. Here’s how it works. The goal of the t-shirt fundraising event is to raise $881 in free pledges by August 30th. As of this writing he has currently secured $160 in pledges. If he reaches the goal of $881 he will email you to find out your size then ship out the shirts by the tentative target date of September 8th. If he does not reach the goal of $881 then your $20 pledge will not be drafted and you’re not out anything (except for missing the opportunity to own a terrific shirt that is).

Help support this terrific artist and his dedication to great design!

At You Design It, we do have a design studio where you can create your t-shirts all online.  But that isn’t the only way to get screen printed tee shirts from us.  A lot of the t-shirt printing that we do comes from graphic designers uploading their artwork to us.  This can be just as fun for us, as it is easy for them, because we love to see the high quality t-shirt designs that they can produce.

A few of the graphic designers that do business with us come back regularly, because they have clients that need shirts or they are designing stuff for their own line.  We are able to have a really good relationship, because we can give them suggestions and they can make changes on their artwork as needed.  It is also much easier for us to push the envelope.  When we have graphic designers who are willing to give us the blank canvas for printing their artwork on.

This was the case for this next design, because it is one that is right up our alley.  A few things that we want you to notice is the amount of colors, the brightness of the colors, and the location of the print on the t-shirt.  Here’s the design:

We had a great time with this one, because we were printing it on black t-shirts and still needed the colors to pop off really vibrant.  One of the main things that we did to create the brighter colors was to print a white under base underneath the artwork.  We love the final result and will let you be the judge as well:

We did a t-shirt printing job not too long ago that was a lot of fun and looked great.  But there is much more to the story and we would like to share that with you.  We were contacted by a very talented graphic designer named Kerstin Vogdes and she was concerned that some T-shirt artwork she had designed for a client was not possible.  Her concern was the design on the side of the tee shirts may not be printable because of its size and location.  When she described it on the phone, we thought there might be a possibility.  So we ask her to e-mail us a mockup of the t-shirt design.  Here is what she sent us:

When we saw it, we couldn’t wait to do it.  Kerstin was kind enough to give us the job and magic was made. The shirts came out exactly as planned, and the rest was history.  Because we were so thankful of getting to do the print job, and we were so impressed with Kerstin’s work, we asked if we could feature her on this blog and show some more of her graphic designing skills.  She kindly obliged, and here are some images of her work:

If you are looking for some custom artwork or are in need of some very talented graphic designing, you can contact Kerstin via her website at:

http://www.kvdesign.net