David Gheorghita // creat!ve.thoughts » Inspiration

35 Best T-Shirt Designs You’ve Ever Seen (+resources)

david — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:05:18 +0000

I want to showcase below the best T-Shirt designs i’ve seen on various tee design sites. Not all of the tees below are available for sale, some of them are just submissions to contests over various T-Shirt printing sites and some of them are out of stock. Check them out and tell us which ones are your favourites by leaving a comment. You will also find at the end of this post some links to T-shirt design resources. Enjoy!

I. Splatter, watercolor & vector tee design.

1. colorblind

2. Tawdry Hepburn

3. Booyah!

4. Tears Fall Upon

5. Bold is Beautiful

6. Agent Skully

7. Iron Fist – Life at Sea

8. Quicksilver

9. Music in my Head

10. When Panda’s Attack

11. My City Song

12. Gather Ye Rosebuds

13. Mountain Attack

14. Beauty Before Death

15. Coexistence

16. Long journey

17. Kill Monotony

18. The Dark Side of the Mystery

19. SOS strawberry flavour

20. .:FIERCE IDEOLOGY:.

21. Ekadanta

22. Goddess of Abduction

23. unity through art

24. Know Looking Back

25. The not so Saintly Sebastian

…and two of my t-shirt designs (not printed) submitted to designbyhumans. Maybe they don’t match with the blog post title but i’m gonna show them to you anyway :)

26. Mutatio Mentis

27. Seagull

II. Type Tee Design

28. Keep Reading

29. . . .and then I woke up.

30. 26 + 74 = One Hundred

31. lowercase

32. Math problem

33. Sans Serif (Black)

34. Ampersand Pattern

35. Huge Type Looks Sweet (White)

III. T-Shirt design resources & articles:

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Bak issue 14

david — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:46:25 +0000

Here you can download for free the latest issue of BAK magazine, one of my favourite design magazines. The theme of the issue is “two”, check it out and if you don’w have the previous issues you can download them all for free.

March Wallpapers via Smashing Magazine

david — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:20:25 +0000

if you want some new wallpapers for your desktop check out Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009 via Smashing Magazine. There are some great inspiring works over there [mine included:P]. Enjoy!

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WOW magazine: issue 4

david — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:59:40 +0000

Here you can download for free the latest issue of WOW magazine. Showcasing best artwork in vector, vexel, digital photo manipulation, photography, urban art, illustration, digital painting and more, WOW is a great source of inspiration for designers. The other issues are also available for free download mac & pc version.

Inspiration: Creative Advertising

david — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:27:47 +0000

Advertising Agency: JWT, Chile
Creative Directors: Matías Lecaros, Sergio Rosati
Art Director / Copywriter: Matías Lecaros
Illustrators / Photographers: Cristian Gastelo, Boris Berstel, Astro Image Creators

Advertising Agency: Saatchi&Saatchi Simko, Geneva, Switzerland
Creative Director: Olivier Girard
Art Director: Nicolas Poulain
Copywriter: Jean-Michel Larsen
Body painter: Guido Daniele

“Come see nature in it’s full. No cages. All fun.” Advertising Agency: DDB Brazil

Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt/ Alster, Hamburg, Germany
Creative Directors: Thim Wagner, Daniel Frericks
Art Director: Florian Zwinge
Copywriters: Caroline Schubiger, Ramin Schmiedekampf
Illustrator: Florian Zwinge
Account Managers: Alexandra Beck, Julia Krömker
Published: December 2007

Advertising Agency: BBDO, Düsseldorf, Germany
Executive Creative Directors: Veiko Hille, Sebastian Hardieck, Toygar Bazarkaya
Art Director: Michael Plückhahn
Copywriter: Christopher Neumann
Production: Stefan Kranefeld Imaging

Advertising Agency: Trigger, Calgary, Canada
Creative Director: Patrick Doyle
Art Director: Joel Arbez
Copywriter: David Delibato
Photographer:Jean Perron
Released: December 2006

Advertising Agency: Mudra, India
Creative Directors: Sanjay Daiv, Jagdish Acharya
Art Director: Saurabh Doke
Copywriter: Sumitra Sengupta
Photographers: Paul, Amol Nanal

Advertising Agency: KNSK, Hamburg
Copywriters: Niels Holle, Berend Brudgam
Art Directors: Tim Krink, Oliver Fermer

Advertising Agency: Young & Rubicam, Canada
Creative Director: Ginst Bruveris
Art Director: Rick Gallinger
Photographer: Hasnain Dattu
Production Company: Sugarmama Productions
Published: June 2007

Advertising Agency: BBDO, Bangkok, Thailand
Creative Director/Copywriter: Aussanee Aksornnukul
Art Director: Badin Limaponvanich
Illustrator: Omni vision
Photographer: Cobis

Agency: Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis, USA
Creative Director: Hans Hansen
Copywriter: Eric Sorensen
Art Director: Brock Davis
Photographer: Keith Hall, Dave Rowland, Madison Ford

via AdsOfTheWorld.com

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inspiration: 1000 record covers by michael ochs

david — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:16:55 +0000

Just got this book and there are some great record covers in it. The book it a big source of inspiration and contains the best covers from the 1960s until the 1990s. Thanks Liviu for this wonderful gift.

101 Stunning Business Card Designs

david — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:36:17 +0000

I found these images via Flickr, Behance and various business card design showcase sites. If you own copyrights and do not agree with a certain image being shown here please contact me and I will remove it. The purpose of this post is to get people inspired by these absolutely amazing images and ideas. Enjoy!

www.dieseldesign.com

Design by www.aloofdesign.com

design by jason santa maria

design by www.duffy.com

By Sven Giesen

by Justin Anonuevo

design by Jenni Mattson www.jenimattson.com/

design by laurie demartino www.lauriedemartinodesign.com

design by Elevator

design by David Gheorghita

design by david blank www.letseatgrass.com/

design by www.sagmeister.com

design by itomi

hk design by www.designguys.com
angryporcupine design by www.angryporcupine.com

www.thielendesigns.com

Design by www.theconsult.com

[not flopped. It is the back of the card]

Design by Lee Misenhlemer

Design by www.underlinestudio.com

Design by www.parentdesign.co.uk

Design by Kinetik

design by www.athreedesign.com

deisgn by www.immaginato.com

design by francesca pasini www.naifpanicscares.it

Design by Nothing: Something: NY www.nothingsomething.com

Design by Murillo Design, Roland Murillo www.murillodesign.com

Design by: Yves Faes-Dupont www.kiokarma.com

Design by Mine www.minesf.com

www.fifthfloorgallery.com designed by Robert Apodaca

Design by Work Labs www.worklabs.com

design by www.malotaprojects.com

design by laurie demartino wwww.lauriedemartinodesign.com

design by www.hammerpress.net

design by emmi salonen www.emmi.co.uk

www.space150.com

design by becky tesch www.mymishmosh.com

design by luke dorny flickr.com/photos/luxuryluke/

design by www.itomi.it

design by www.annmimikim.com/

Design by Robinsson Cravents.

Design by www.redcircleagency.com

design by di depux

www.thebiggie.com

…and we want to end this post really optimistic so:

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amazing video: manchester orchestra

david — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:17:17 +0000

this could be the best music video i have ever seen. amazing editing, awesome visual effects and production. stunning. really! amazing job guys!

Manchester Orchestra
“I can barely breathe”

Design + Direction:
Clay Lipsky & Jason Bognacki
(aka DestroyRockMusic)
destroyrockmusic.com

Shot with RED ONE camera red.com

helvetica: creative typography

david — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:21:02 +0000

check this beauty out:

there’s a tutorial [PDF] if you want to know how to do it. Found it via ilovetypography.com.

Photoshop: as real as it gets.

david — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:09:08 +0000

via flickr.

agency : Bates141 Jakarta
creative director : Hendra Lesmono
art director : Andreas Junus & Irawandhani Kamarga
copywriter : Darrick Subrata
account executive : Nitya Priyahita
photgrapher : Anton Ismael