Design a Boards.ie T-Shirt!

Dav

Hello all,

We're teaming up with Qwertee to put out an official Boards.ie t-shirt in time for Christmas and we want one of our members to design it. So we'd like you to get your art caps on and put together a t-shirt that you think best describes Boards.ie.

There are some guidelines for the picture which Robert from Qwertee has provided (and he'll be paying attention to this thread to answer any questions).

Qwertee: Robert wrote:

Guidelines for creating a mockup for the Boards/Qwertee T-Shirt Design

How Screen Printing Works:

You can have a read of this basic introduction here: http://tinyurl.com/csn6x7 What you need to remember is that Screen Printing works by using blocks of colour, each colour is put down as a separate layer. So your design can only contain up to 5 or 6 solid colours. Something like a photo wont work, it has too many colours, shades etc. When we go to print the winning design we'll need the artwork to be in Vector (AI, EPS) format or Photoshop (PSD) with the different colours separated. You can have a look at some of the previous tees printed on Qwertee for examples of the type of designs that are well suited to screen printing: http://www.qwertee.com/product/view/recent/

Basic Rules:
In general designs are limited to 5 colours on dark shirts and 6 colours on light shirts (not including the shirt colour itself) and a maximum print size of 40 x 30cm ( 15.75 x 12 inches). We are not able to do all over prints or front and back prints. Please see the guideline pic for how big the maximum print size can be on a shirt.

In order to see what your design will look like when printed on a tee we'd ask you to create a mockup, this is just like what you see on the Qwertee homepage every day (that's right it's not an actual photo of the model in that day's shirt, it's a clever mockup of how the design will look when printed!)

The easiest way to create a mockup is using http://www.shirtmockup.com/. Just enter your shirt colour using the hex codes below to match our available tees:

• Black: #000000
• White: #FFFFFF
• Grey: #4e4949
• Navy: #011d38
• Royal Blue: #006caa
• Light Blue: #a6cae8
• Red: #bc2525
• Green:#688e47
• Brown: #563c2f

Then drop on your design and create the mockup!

Alternatively if you have Photoshop you can use our mockup kit (with instructions attached) to create a slightly more pro looking version.

Hope this helps!

So we have 1 week to get a design ready and picked, the winner will be picked by Nicola, Niamh and I here in the office. 1st place will get a lifetime subscription to Boards as well as 5 of the winning t-shirt to keep or give as gifts, or whatever, it'll be up to you. We'll also be randomly awarding subscriptions to people who's submissions either made us laugh a lot or we thought were really cool.

The winning t-shirt will be on sale for one week only (at Qwertee's usual super cheap €10 + €1.50 postage) and €1 from each t-shirt sold will go towards this year's Santa Strike Force fund.

Best of luck everyone!

BobbyPropane

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Berlin at night

Sounds fun. I'll give it a go.

zuroph

Star Lord

im invisible

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RidleyRider

Just a quickie...

DinnyMc

Got bored. Not the best at editing :P

deconduo

Something like this maybe?





Might refine the text on the second one a bit later, when its not 4am :P

MadsL

Isn't the point of Qwertee that the users upvote the Tshirt?

Why not pick 3 and let boardsies upvote the winner?

Cookie_Monster

The cycling jersey would look equally as good as a normal tshirt

0ph0rce0

I'd wear a tshirt but not with boards.ie written all over it.

Keep it simple, Simple is key

Elbow

0ph0rce0

And One More


Again Pretty simple but says it all

tallaghtmick

tallaghtmick

BUBBLE WRAP

EDIT:Fixed.

Its Behind You!

I cant do all that computer graphic design, but the sorta message I'd be putting out on a T-shirt would be:


There aint no way
I'm letting anyone know that
I use Boards.ie

PrzemoF

shofukan

Pilotdude5

finality

the_freaky_one

jefflynne

Blingin'.

moss.ie

RoundyMooney

Some wonderful designs here.

Why is the tee only on sale for one week, though?

im invisible

i have plenty of ideas for boards t-shirts, but not the expertise in photoshop, can i post up a few ideas and maybe someone can refine them, or take inspiration from them.
for example my previous post in the thread,

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turn it upside down, move the brackets closer together, maybe re-position the eyes a little, i wouldn't wear a t-shirt with boards.ie on it, but i might wear one of those

Andy!!

What is a 'subscription' to boards?

Big Nasty

Voila! :pac:

chavezychavez

You can't see the last part as the resolution is too low, but it says 2.71828183

Qwertee: Robert

RoundyMooney wrote: »

Some wonderful designs here.

Why is the tee only on sale for one week, though?

It's the way we sell shirts, we'll just have it on way for the week, then print and post all the orders. By doing this we can keep the cost down so you get your tee for cheaper!

Some very nice designs so far! Just to say giant all over prints are not possible, nor are ones on the sleeves, back etc.

Keep them coming:)

El Guapo!

Crudely done, but you get the jist of it! :pac:

El Guapo!

Dav

Just a quick addition, you'll see the official Boards.ie logos on this thread.

Subscribers get benefits like a custom avatars, tag-lines and super sweet red stars under their name. They also get to switch off banner ads.

phasers

I'll take my prize in the form of coke and hookers

Charlie-Bravo

The slogan has gotta be this:

The Guvnor

Qwertee: Robert wrote: »

Some very nice designs so far! Just to say giant all over prints are not possible, nor are ones on the sleeves, back etc.

Keep them coming:)

Why is that? Is it just from a cost perspective?

DYLF

Heres a black and white version of this.

DYLF

Bit of Dav...

.Henry Sellers.

The Boards.ie keyboard Warrior.

tallaghtmick

phasers wrote: »

I'll take my prize in the form of coke and hookers

You will be hearing from my lawyers!

Dav

Dav wrote: »

Just a quick addition, you'll see the official Boards.ie logos on this thread.

Subscribers get benefits like a custom avatars, tag-lines and super sweet red stars under their name. They also get to switch off banner ads.

So I couldn't figure out which logo to use, so I used them all :pac:

PrzemoF

Dades

Boards... Cloud... Internet... geddit? :pac:

Qwertee: Robert

The Guvnor wrote: »

Why is that? Is it just from a cost perspective?

Basically yes. If you want to do a true all over print you actually have to print the material before even making the t-shirt, which is complicated/expensive.

Same thing with printing on sleeves etc, if it's slower to do it costs more:)

Thanks!

Dav

That's great, I can send this to my mother (who despite being reasonably net savvy, has no idea what my job entails) and say "look, I must be doing something right, people want to put me on a t-shirt!"

The Guvnor

Thanks Rob!

Go Qwertee 63k likes on FB.

Mucho impressed.

What has been the most popular t-shirt so far and do you think a boards.ie one can top that?

I have to say some of the boards.ie t's so far look very good.

Qwertee: Robert

Qwertee: Robert wrote: »

Basically yes. If you want to do a true all over print you actually have to print the material before even making the t-shirt, which is complicated/expensive.

Same thing with printing on sleeves etc, if it's slower to do it costs more:)

Thanks!

I never realized there was a Qwertee rep on here! Going to take the opportunity to say that I absolutely adore your website and it is going to leave me a very, very, very poor man.

Kat1170

My attempt :)

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Ken.

Dean09 wrote: »

Crudely done, but you get the jist of it! :pac:

These, But make the eye holes see through. Boards lingerie for the ladies. I've just doubled sales.