can someone help me research for cheap internation sites which would allow users to buy shirts of their preference individually (rather than in bulk)?

Sawajiri

Austria417 Posts

June 15 2007 05:24 GMT

#165

As someone already suggested, cafepress.com could easily do some of these designs. Though their stuff is rather pricey, that would be an easy solution.

Jim

Sweden1965 Posts

June 15 2007 05:29 GMT

#166

I like that thx to shield battery. Still probably the funniest post on tl.net

Hurricane

United States3939 Posts

June 15 2007 05:38 GMT

#167

On June 13 2007 04:58 EvilTeletubby wrote:

I like this with a the back like this:

iloveBankai

Australia50 Posts

June 16 2007 08:45 GMT

#168

gogo cafepress.com

Kacas

Brazil3143 Posts

June 16 2007 10:22 GMT

#169

On June 14 2007 04:00 iloveBankai wrote:

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long time lurker
first time poster

omfg i would so buy that

i had to register to voice my interest

yay
favorite here too
just better resolutions
=)

Monoxide

Canada1190 Posts

June 16 2007 13:24 GMT

#170

On June 14 2007 04:00 iloveBankai wrote:

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long time lurker
first time poster

omfg i would so buy that

i had to register to voice my interest

i love this shirt.. i would pay for that

LordofAscension

United States589 Posts

June 16 2007 13:39 GMT

#171

Some of the designs in this thread are pretty good just be careful about copyrights (mostly Blizz material). I've run into the same problem designing SC:L shirts :p.

~LoA

ChaosKnight

United States819 Posts

June 16 2007 14:40 GMT

#172

I agree with all the other guys, the ideas are good and tl.net should have some merchandise. Cafepress.com has been brought up before, and I just want to do it again -- it's an easy way to bring some of these ideas to life.

Wonders

Australia753 Posts

June 16 2007 15:10 GMT

#173

Absolutely love the one with the sandlot logo.

mnm

United States4493 Posts

June 16 2007 15:57 GMT

#174

design contest coming up next week. more details to come (need to finalize specs). i like researching stuff before digging into things. feel free to start brainstorming.

iloveBankai

Australia50 Posts

June 16 2007 19:48 GMT

#175

On June 17 2007 00:57 mnm wrote:
design contest coming up next week. more details to come (need to finalize specs). i like researching stuff before digging into things. feel free to start brainstorming.

awesome!!

Excalibur_Z

United States12235 Posts

June 17 2007 00:00 GMT

#176

I think something of note regarding the Blizzard-related/TL-related shirts is that these shirts are not intended to make a profit. I think that's the key difference here between something like the old StarcraftGamers shirts (where they were intended to be purchased from that site and therefore the SG staff made money off them) and these new shirts. If someone creates a design using a copyrighted image without the intent of profiting from the owner's IP, it's not illegal. That means if you printed out a picture of a Battlecruiser or something and put it on a shirt, then have a t-shirt manufacturer make it and sell it to you, that is NOT the same as you then selling that shirt to others.

mnm

United States4493 Posts

June 17 2007 12:33 GMT

#177

http://help.cafepress.com/hc/s-74058960/cmd/kbresource/kb-9077080756877199955/view_question!PAGETYPE?sq=price&sf=101113&sg=1&st=316083&documentid=155021&action=view

If a product is not marked up from its base price, that sale can still be considered an infringement, even if you are buying the product yourself. Even if you post an image in your store and make no sales or earn no profits, you can still be held liable for the use of the image.

d4d

Switzerland1066 Posts

June 17 2007 21:31 GMT

#178

Okay, let me step in just a sec here, to let you share some pointers about making a good T-shirt.

Just so you know, EVERYTHING said on this thread about the 1st GG.net (starcraftgamers.com actually) t-shirt is full of it.
Blizzard never intended to sue, it's just that GG.net was afraid, like we are here now of copyright infringement. It was never created to make money out of it, it was sold at cost for friends of the game on the WCG 2004 site.

I designed it, Physician paid for it. We printed about 40 of them.

It was a one shot, but a particularly well done one...

Now, on to the t-shirt making skills you need.

There are many ways to print a shirt nowadays, most of them are crappy or expensive.
By crappy I mean glued to the shirt computer print, fading illustration color and so on.

We don't want a crappy shirt for TL, do we ?

What we want is silk screening. Silk screening is the most resistant and the best looking impression you can get on a shirt.
But there is a twist to silk screening.
You can only print plain colors. and few of them.

So while designing your t-shirt idea, you must focus on that.

Examples :

This was the design of the drone for the scg t-shirt, it was never done because it featured 4 colors, and was too expensive to produce.

Now this :

This is a great great design, but unfortunately, it would do for a crappy t-shirt.
Why ? Because silk screening is impossible with that much colors (or way to expensive).
So if we were to choose this design (or this, this, and this), we would be stuck with a great idea but a crappy shirt.

Think 2 colors, or 3 colors, including the t-shirt color (1 or 2 color for ink if you prefer)
Design like that are perfect (not in a matter of taste but in a practical way.) :

(well definitely not in a matter of taste for the latter)

Anyways, I hope you get my points folks. There is no need to get all worked up for a design that is only possible in our dreams. Think simple.

One more thing.

As I implied it earlier, on silk screening printed shirt, there is one "free" color. That is the actual shirt color. White is an easy choice, black is too.. But come on, folks are we followers or leaders?
Everyone does a black or a white t-shirt.... we want Burgundy, Royal Blue or Citrus Yellow.

Something that stand out and says, TEAM LIQUID IS REALLY GREAT.
We don't want your average middle ground sports club, black and red crappy slogan that end up on the bottom of your t-shirt pile, never to be wear anywhere but in gaming conventions full of nerd.

We want a t-shirt Rekrul can wear in an exquisite Vegas VIP lounge.
We want a t-shirt Mani can wear at work and still get proposed free sex by his female students. We want a t-shirt that could make CharlieMurphy look funny and bright.
We want a t-shirt that would make Stimey weep for his lost playground.
We want a t-shirt even Hot Bid could not find a joke about....
And finally, a t-shirt that would ADD to the coolness of PuertoRican.

That's all folks

Telemako

Spain1636 Posts

June 17 2007 21:57 GMT

#179

Ok, I might be dumb but I just realized that the grass in the horse is in fact sc units shadows and made me love it even more xD

And d4d has a strong point about the t-shirt issue