Top 10 T-Shirt Design Ideas

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A lot of times our graphic artist and myself get stuck in a rut. The design ideas just will not come out. What to do then? Well even the greatest artist of all time needed a little inspiration.

It really helps to look at other peoples work to see if you can clear the mind and let some fresh design ideas start to flow out of your brain. In my personal quest to overcome this creative block I have collected a Top 10 list of design ideas that gave me a little inspiration.

Top 10 T-Shirt Design Ideas

10. This year our Field Day t-shirts were printed with a pretty unique design. We did a play on the video game Guitar Hero. The shirts read Field Day Hero instead. We used the same guitar hero type style so it would look authentic. Our customer actually brought this idea to use.

9. A couple of years ago we did a design that said Enjoy Being Catholic. Now what made this so unique was that it was also a play on another popular slogan. Can you guess what it was? That's right. Enjoy Coca Cola. Again we used a font that was very similar the Coca Colas font face.

8. Family Reunion t-shirts are very popular and one of the most unique design ideas that I've come across had an Old West feel to it. The print was a WANTED poster on the front of the shirt and it said WANTED Razso Family Members, $ Big Reward $. All this was done in the Old West style font. Pretty cool!

7. Pub Crawls have become quite popular now days. One of our employees (female no doubt) was instructed to find some ideas that we could use. She came across design idea that read "Go Big or Go Home". The design had a giant beer mug on the shirt with the word wrapped around it. The stood out from everything else on the shirt. Underneath the mug it said "size really does matter". Funny I thought, especially coming from a female employee.

6. With the popularity of Fastpitch Softball on the rise there have been some real cool designs flowing out of peoples mind. One of the one that I came across and thought was really wild was a softball that looked like it was thrown so hard that it went right through the persons chest. Around the image it said "Yeah I throw like a girl". Have you ever seen some of these girls throw a softball? Pretty scary!

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5. Class Reunions are another popular category in the t-shirt printing business. On design that I ran across that gave me a little chuckle was one that said that "Tonight we're going to party like it's 1969" Is that a Prince song except that they changed the date. Now I ain't no spring chicken but I kind of doubt that the class of 69' is still partying. I know my party days are way behind me. Just sort of funny.

4. Ok here is another one. Have you ever seen the t-shirts that say I'm with stupid and it has an arrow pointing to the person they are walking with. Well' I would walk on the other side. Anyway this design said "I'm with him" on the front of the t shirt. On the back of the shirt it had an arrow that was pointing to the sky. I don't know if that was original but I have never seen it and I thought it was pretty creative thinking. If we could all learn to walk with him!

3. Another Class t-shirt that I found humorous was a Class of 2004 design. All the front said was Class of 2004 but on the back it had a picture of an old west style jail and it read 'Time Served"! Pretty funny. You know that's how it felt. Uh that's right, until you hit the real world.

2. It always helps to try to use a catchy phrase to make your t-shirts be a little unique. A simple design that I ran across on a t-shirts was one from the Drama theatre, it had the popular drama mask on the front because you know the drama theatre is a bit on the serious side but on the back the shirt said "What's life without Drama". Now that's a way to lighten up the serious side of things. That was a good touch!

1. This may not be a great t-shirt design but I thought it was a great name for a hair business. I guess it depends on how you look at it though. The name of the business was Scissorhands Salon. Now that is a little scary. It made a great t-shirt print. I don't know how there business is doing.

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