Ten T-shirt design tips: how to create, design and produce killer tees

Photo of female model wearing a T-shirt with design of skeletal hand making the peace sign.
(Image credit: Ian Dooley via Unsplash)

With our top t-shirt design tips, you'll be able to turn your ideas into wearable reality. Whether you're an illustrator, graphic designer or typographer, putting your designs onto T-shirts can be both a source of fun and potentially a money-spinner – but the process can be daunting if you're new to it.

We've teamed up with design expert Mike Ng, Head of Brand and Creative at Love2shop, to bring you some top T-shirt design tips, from what to consider with the design itself to the practicalities of printing your designs onto T-shirts.

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Jon Stapley
Freelance writer

Jon is a freelance writer and journalist who covers photography, art, technology, and the intersection of all three. When he's not scouting out news on the latest gadgets, he likes to play around with film cameras that were manufactured before he was born. To that end, he never goes anywhere without his Olympus XA2, loaded with a fresh roll of Kodak (Gold 200 is the best, since you asked). Jon is a regular contributor to Creative Bloq, and has also written for in Digital Camera World, Black + White Photography Magazine, Photomonitor, Outdoor Photography, Shortlist and probably a few others he's forgetting.

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