OUGD504: Design For Print & Web Design Development - T-shirts
by Roxxie Blackham on Monday 30 December 2013
As part of my thank-you pack, I have decided to include a t-shirt that has been screen printed and dyed.
I thought that tie-dye would be a fun and creative way of producing colour t-shirts that the customers will enjoy wearing, rather than a blank top with some text on it!
I also thought that the tops could be dip dyed, so that there is space for the design to be printed onto without obscuring the design or words.
I thought that the best way of adding design to the t-shirts, would be to add the Kew Gardens logo onto the front of the top, and then put some sort of design on the back (all screen printed).
I came up with a few little mock-ups on Illustrator and Photoshop to see how it could look before printing..
It was hard to tell what the t-shirts would look like when you couldn't see an actual t-shirt!
I think that the logos will work well on the front of the t-shirts, as there are a lot of t-shirts out there already with a logo on the left hand side of the top. It will also keep the front of the top more simple and aesthetically pleasing.
I think the next step will be to tie-dye the t-shirts, take pictures of them and then try photoshopping different designs onto them to see how my final designs will actually look!
I'm going to produce 3 thank-you packs for 3 different plant species, so will dye 3 t-shirts to create 3 unique tops.
