Conclave T-Shirts

[Brother_Brimstone]

Well, it looks like interest is insufficient to make this worth the effort, at least for now. I'm afraid I'm gonna knock this idea on the head, at least until we get an opportunity where a decent number of people will be able to get in on it.

[RobSkib]

Darn. How many would qualify for a sufficient number?

[Brother_Brimstone]

It's not an exact thing, but maybe if we got about 10 people together it would be better. my main worry is for us, the orderers, as the fewer people order, the higher the cost will be per person.

[Cortez]

The summer is probably not a good time to organise something like this. Too many other things going on like the Olympics and holidays.

I would suggest you talk to people at the conclave event next week maybe even bring some order forms and try and get us all to open our wallets.

[Kaled]

I was thinking, how about putting these on something like Cafe Press so people can order whatever merchandise they want. (Not that I have any idea about how to do that, but I thought I'd throw the idea out there in case someone else has done something like this in the past.)

[MarcoSkoll]

That's certainly possible, but I'd prefer to make the PNG versions available for that.
JPG was a specific request (for some reason) here, but I think Cafe Press will handle transparencies. And that will look a lot more professional than printing a black background onto a black shirt. (The blacks won't be quite the same shade, or even the same finish.)

I can also run up a bigger version of my own take on a site emblem...



... if people are interested. I think it'd work quite well to go on the breast, rather than using the same designs front and back.

[Brother_Brimstone]

Just to generate a bit more interest in the one-day possibility of this, I attended a t-shirt printing tech demo today with my girlfriend and her family and they asked for an example image to demonstrate a shirt-making method with. They asked for a vector, so thinking on my feet, I gave them Marco's (I hope you don't mind - don't worry, it's not being used for any commercial purposes, it was just a tech demo).

This was the resut:



Which I will be proudly wearing to the next Clave event I attend. I know that wasn't the design everyone agreed to, I once again have to stress that this t-shirt was made as a demo of a printing method, but i think it looks damn good. What it does show us is that Marco's design is workable and damn good looking, although the guy running the printng stuff said that the design might be a bit too complicated for a small breast logo with this method (athough there are other methods possible if people wanna press for that).

[MarcoSkoll]

to quote the printer's email:
"we will require better artwork than that what you have sent as it is not suitable for printing purposes."

although the guy running the printing stuff said that the design might be a bit too complicated for a small breast logo

"This one's too low quality"
"This one's too detailed"

Just can't please shirt printers, can you?

If we are looking for a simpler design to print smaller, I had just above mentioned the possibility of doing higher res version of the "Thrice barred C":
It might well be what I went with for the front if I caved into having one printed for myself instead of waiting for a run to be done.

[Brother_Brimstone]

to quote the printer's email:
"we will require better artwork than that what you have sent as it is not suitable for printing purposes."

although the guy running the printing stuff said that the design might be a bit too complicated for a small breast logo

"This one's too low quality"
"This one's too detailed"

Just can't please shirt printers, can you?

Well to be fair, there are two mitigating factors:

1) the printer today is different to the printer last time
2) this one is only too detailed to make small *by this particular method*.

Without going into excessive detail, I saw two different ways of printing today. The first, as you see above is one-colour and auto-cut and heat pressed onto a shirt. It's also subsequently the cheapest method by far. The other method is literally printing the image onto special transfer paper and then heat pressing.

One thing I was considering was that the method above need not necessarily be in white. Could be new-clave red or old-clave green. To do that design with a name and a www.the-conclave.co.uk on the back would be very easily acheivable.

Still,  remains somewhat in the air at the moment, because I still don't know what, if any, printing gear might be purchased by my girlfriend's parents.

[MarcoSkoll]

1) the printer today is different to the printer last time

I guessed that from context. I was being, as one might say, silly.

[Brother_Brimstone]

Haha, well to be fair, I could understand it being frustrating. Still, the vector you made is amazing, I'm so impressed with this t-shirt, so all credit to you. Also, because of its relative intricacy, it gave us the chance to see the limits of the medium of the first kind of 'printing' (which is more like cutting).

I genuinely think that the chest logo like that with a conclave web address and name on the back would be a cool minimalist design, and certainly the cheapest option fo a tee.

Still, as I say, it's all dependent on what my girlfriend's parents decide to do (which I obviously don't have a say in :p ), but that photo was my roundabout way of showing that I haven't forgotten about this project, and I'm trying to make it happen as much as I can

[MarcoSkoll]

Well... it's not really a vector. I think I do have a freeware vector editor somewhere, but that was just drawing at really high res in Photoshop.

[greenstuff_gav]

I genuinely think that the chest logo like that with a conclave web address and name on the back would be a cool minimalist design, and certainly the cheapest option fo a tee.

the problem being, of course, is people need to add name badges; hence having the logo on the back (i like the large ][ symbol now i've seen it ) and the name on the breast

[Van Helser]

That looks good.

I assume that it's much cheaper to produce identical t shirts rather than ones with an individual's name on it as well as that design?  If there was a white box on the front, we could always add our own names in permanent marker.

Ruaridh

[Keravin]

If the design Brother Brimstone went with was the t shirt I'd probably get one.  I hate designs on the back and little chest logos, but something like that with a strong design on the front I'd go for.