Designer T-Shirts - Your Own Personal Attire
May 1, 2008
There are T-Shirts and T-Shirts; funny t-shirts, cool t-shirts, those t-shirts and these t-shirts covering just about any subject on earth. But there is one t-shirt that is unique - and that is the “Designer” T-Shirt. Now, don’t for a moment think that these distinctive kind of t-shirts are a recent phenomenon. Thomas E. Dewey toyed with the “Dew-IT with Dewey” T-Shirt during his 1948 Presidential campaign and Dwight D. Eisenhower had the “I Like Ike” custom t-shirt with which he won the Presidency in 1952. These are designer t-shirts. T-shirts designed for a specific purpose at a specific time. They may have passed out of the memory of most people, but they served their purpose.
Designer t-shirts need not be limited for a specific purpose like the Dewey and Ike ones. They can be designed for almost anything. It could convey a message or may be something nonsensical. One can be designed and worn just for the heck of it. If you like it and you wear it, there cannot be any objection to it. There is no law to say that you may not do so.
The design of custom t-shirts can be said to be the offspring of one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration - to fall back on a saying attributed to Thomas Edison, the famous inventor. The idea for a particular t-shirt may spring suddenly into your mind, that’s inspiration; the rest is perspiration - hard work - hours and even days of trying to get the idea on to paper and create that perfect image. A twist of a use of a font, a color or shape.
As a novice in the making of a designer t-shirt, a person may be bombarded with a number of questions that may at first seem to be daunting. Doubts may rise up on your capability to come up with a fantastic design that will catch peoples eyes. These issues, though at first may seem insurmountable, have easy solutions.
Do I have an aptitude for drawing? Should I first learn how to draw? What are the principles of design? Where can I learn the basics of computer usage? What computer program should I use? Who is going to teach me to use these programs?
On the face of it, difficult issues. But not difficult enough to throw your idea to the winds. The answers are simple. Help is always available on the Internet. Umpteen number of programs are there to assist one to give a concrete shape to your ideas. Simple drawing programs like “Paint” can get you started off on the basics of computer aided drawing and design. As one progresses, one can migrate to more sophisticated programs like Adobe Illustrator etc. You might even discover that you had a latent talent for drawing.
Familiarizing yourself with the functions of these drawing programs is easy since all of them come inbuilt wit some sort of basic tutorials and online tutorials and discussion groups are just as plentiful and ready to help clear just about any doubt that you want to get cleared. A in-depth knowledge of the principles of design is not absolutely required. Even here help is available on the Internet. Once you get started the rest will come along and by some perspiration one could become an adept. But in case it happens that you just don’t have the aptitude, then there are always professionals to help you concretize your flash of inspiration.
What you do with the t-shirt that you have designed is your choice. You can keep it for your personal use. If you feel that you have to make a statement for people to know, be warned though - you might be misunderstood, get a number of them made and gift them to your relatives and friends. Designer t-shirts also make good corporate gifts and promotional tools.
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