Printed T-shirts

Beautiful printed t-shirts keep rolling off the Creativity On press. This time it's a big order for our friends at Valley Health and Postal Employees Credit Union.

The direct to garment printing method makes it particularly easy to convert your art into shirts whether it's black on color or full color on a lighter fabric. You may have some great art on your computer that would make a great shirt for your business, team, or club.

Direct to garment printed tees

On the work table today are dozens and dozens of printed shirts. In this case the art was created in grayscale and printed on beautiful blue shirts.

Unlike screen printing, there is no rubbery feel to the printed image. The ink is sprayed on through inkjet technology, then heat-pressed to bond the ink to the fabric. The result is that when you rub your hand over the printed image, you feel nothing but shirt. And you can wash it repeatedly without worry about it racking or peeling.

When printing in black or dark grays, you can print on most colors and still show a sharp blended image. This is a very popular look today!

Law of Attraction shirts

Do you resonate with the law of attraction? Do you believe that you create your reality through how you construct your life in your mind?

At Creativity On, we totally support positive thinking. We want to see more of it in the world to counteract the relentless negativity streaming out of the mass media.

As you already know, t-shirts provide a great opportunity for social interaction. Put an intriguing message on a shirt and chances are good that you'll attract comments. And that means the opportunity for social interaction.

Social interaction is one of the best ways for watching the law of attraction in action. When you are attuned to how the Universe/God/human psychology works (use whatever terminology you are comfortable with here), you'll notice that answers often come out of nowhere, from a friend of a friend, or through what a stranger tells you.

If something you have written on a shirt opens a great new doorway for you, isn't that a good thing? If you want to attract something into your life (new clients, new romance, new experiences), put it on a shirt! See what happens.

We are more than happy to work with you to create shirts for yourself, your group, or your business. Any of the designs that we post on our blog can be tweaked and personalized so that you get exactly what you want. The text can be in a different color or be in black but printed on a different color. We could add graphics or other text.

Original personalized shirts start at just $17.99 + shipping. Call for pricing on quantities.

PS. Scroll down on this blog for details on our free shirt giveaway! There is still time to enter.

Friday is t-shirt day (at least today)

This t-shirt project is a particularly satisfying one for Josh. Many of the projects that we get are based on the finished art that the client provides. We make the t-shirts, but we so not make the art.

In the case of this shirt, I made the art. The project began when Windermere Pacific West Properties contacted me one afternoon to work on a real estate presentation. I went out early the next morning to capture some photos of the new 295 Church Street Condominium project. The weather was overcast and Windermere needed photos the next day.

When you can't control the weather or the lighting, the next best thing is to find a creative way to work with what you've got to tell the story. And for me the story was that this new condo complex had a fabulous front/back yard--Pringle Creek Park in downtown Salem. It reminded me of when I lived in San Francisco and my yard across the street was Golden Gate Park.

With that in mind I looked for a way to convey the relationship between the park and the building. I found a very nice shot using Pringle Creek as the "front yard" foreground. My friends at Windermere liked the shot so much they made it the centerpiece of the presentation.

When the idea of t-shirts came up several weeks later, I had taken many more real estate photos of the complex in different weather and lighting conditions. I had even re-taken the photo above with blue sky in the background. Ironically blue sky changes the intensity of light and overcast skies provide a nice diffused light. The Windermere people poured through a bunch of my photos and kept coming back to this one as the one they wanted for the t-shirt.

We decided to create an artistic effect rather than print the unaltered photo. The photo looks great on a computer screen or on a high resolution print-out on photo paper. Yet t-shirts are porous and some of the subtle shifts in color, particularly on the building through the trees, got muted on fabric. The artistic rendition popped more and also added to the emotional appeal that the photo generated.

What the photo of the shirt here on this blog doesn't show well is the amazing detail in the print on fabric. Maybe soon you'll notice one walking around town and can see for yourself.

For more info on the 295 Church Street Condominiums, visit their website.

On Thursday's Work Table

Today we are printing 185 shirts for the All Saints Lutheran Pre-School in New Mexico! Since the shirts are blue, it presents a good opportunity to show how the background color affects the printed color in direct to garment printing. It's something like printing on blue paper on your home inkjet printer; the ink mixes with the color of the fabric.

To design for DTG printing, we print a color chart on the same fabric we are going to print shirts on. Using a color chart lets you re-color the graphic if you want to tweak the color combination. For example, the color yellow printed on a blue shirt yields a shade of green. Using the color chart you could see a whole range of colors as they appear on blue, so if you wanted to make a change you could.

On this particular order we are printing a full logo on the back and a pocket-sized logo on the front.

If you are in the market for t-shirts in large quantities, please check with us about wholesale pricing.