Nice work. What do you use to create your designs? Randonly thought of a tag line for another "wordy" tee, feel free to use - Ride On, Ride Strong. One on the front, one on the back.
Thanks mate. I use Adobe Illustrator. Some designs I created myself. Others, I sketch the concept and share with an old friend who does some graphic design work and he gives me a few options. Thanks for the tag line. RIDE is a great idea...used a lot more than CYCLING for those in the community. Only challenge is that RIDE can refer to other sports so need to be clever with the design. Cheers!
Unless your target audience largely consists of teens, I don't think that printing using other colors than white or black matters too much. I don't find it easy to pull off printing those colors on anything that's not white or black (I consider stuff like heather gray and anthracite as white and black respectively). Mid 20s are times when people (especially men) start considering colorful and complicated prints childish and refraining from wearing those. If your main demographic is 25-34 years old, I'd suggest opting for colors and designs that mix and match well with jeans/canvas trousers/linen pants and sneakers (I, for myself, wear those types of t-shirts only on casual outfits and the grand majority of my casual outfits are composed that way). One more important factor is that the fall-winter season is coming up and t-shirts will most likely get layered with pullovers, chord shirts and hoodies, which increases the number of colors in a single outfit and the more colors an outfit has, the harder it is to pull off. Under these circumstances, my humble recommendation would be to keep colors minimal and strictly neutral as well as to limit the designs to relatively small and simplistic. I'd focus on the mid chest area as back designs or crest designs will be minimally visible. One design that I'd opt for is some smokey, misty, batique-like single color half tone design that says something about how rain never keeps the person from riding, maybe even a pun about braking being significantly harder on rainy roads.
Hi Kemal. Wow, some amazing insight you've shared there. Thank you. My target market is 75% male and 35-55 with medium to high income- I think you're right - clean, classy designs are the way forward. Luckily that suits my printing capabilities right now!
Nice work. What do you use to create your designs? Randonly thought of a tag line for another "wordy" tee, feel free to use - Ride On, Ride Strong. One on the front, one on the back.
Thanks mate. I use Adobe Illustrator. Some designs I created myself. Others, I sketch the concept and share with an old friend who does some graphic design work and he gives me a few options.
Thanks for the tag line. RIDE is a great idea...used a lot more than CYCLING for those in the community. Only challenge is that RIDE can refer to other sports so need to be clever with the design. Cheers!
Unless your target audience largely consists of teens, I don't think that printing using other colors than white or black matters too much. I don't find it easy to pull off printing those colors on anything that's not white or black (I consider stuff like heather gray and anthracite as white and black respectively).
Mid 20s are times when people (especially men) start considering colorful and complicated prints childish and refraining from wearing those. If your main demographic is 25-34 years old, I'd suggest opting for colors and designs that mix and match well with jeans/canvas trousers/linen pants and sneakers (I, for myself, wear those types of t-shirts only on casual outfits and the grand majority of my casual outfits are composed that way).
One more important factor is that the fall-winter season is coming up and t-shirts will most likely get layered with pullovers, chord shirts and hoodies, which increases the number of colors in a single outfit and the more colors an outfit has, the harder it is to pull off.
Under these circumstances, my humble recommendation would be to keep colors minimal and strictly neutral as well as to limit the designs to relatively small and simplistic. I'd focus on the mid chest area as back designs or crest designs will be minimally visible. One design that I'd opt for is some smokey, misty, batique-like single color half tone design that says something about how rain never keeps the person from riding, maybe even a pun about braking being significantly harder on rainy roads.
Hi Kemal. Wow, some amazing insight you've shared there. Thank you.
My target market is 75% male and 35-55 with medium to high income- I think you're right - clean, classy designs are the way forward. Luckily that suits my printing capabilities right now!