Teamliquid Tshirt Contest - Page 10

On June 18 2007 21:39 SiZ.FaNtAsY wrote:


I really really like this one

On June 19 2007 02:49 d4d wrote:
Repost of my post here cause it seem to still be useful. Even tho if it is supposed to be a cafepress product, then it goes down the crappy shirt line (bad printing). We have contact in california for silk printing at about 20$ a pop for 2 colors if my memory is good (with good quality color t-shirt included)

Many very good things in this thread so far.

I also want to ask again for an high res version of the sandlot logo. Cause I want to try myself at it...

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

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

On June 19 2007 05:21 KizZBG wrote:
Yep, I quite like that. Now if you can make all that in a transparent PNG 2000x200 with 200 DPI would be awesome.



When you start a new document change the resolution from 72 to 200.

Having high DPI is important for printing since that would effect the quality of the graphic.

To everyone, I found a nice little article explaining this clearly in detail. Click

On June 19 2007 11:45 mel_ee wrote:
mnm: http://www.cafepress.com/seanduffy.27618596

that shirt has some pretty colors (the pylon and the ultras on the back) its only 20 dollars!