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*sigh* I wish we could print animated gifs on shirts… Maybe next year.
FFFFOUND! | Rhizome | 3D ASCII Animated GIF from Japan.
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I love this set of images. Great design inspiration, and totally possible with the right file transparency setup with our new dark apparel.
Designspiration — tumblr_l6suinbal61qcxitu.jpg (500×700).
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By Skreened Intern: Cale LeRoy
Jeff Finley’s book, Threads Not Dead: The Designer’s Guide to the Apparel Industry, is an atlas to starting a graphic t-shirt company. The book maneuvers its way from what it means to truly be a designer, designing specifically for t-shirts, “going big-time”, and even what it means to be a household name. Through personal retellings of his own roots, company, and jobs, Finley helps the reader understand the details of owning and running an apparel company.
This book is obviously well designed, but it is also rich with practical take away tips that any designer could use. Threads Not Dead is a useful book for every design entrepreneur, even if they aren’t specifically apparel designers. Finley creates different numbered lists for different aspects of the process. Some of these lists include: “11 character traits for successful design,” “5 traits of a rock solid portfolio,” a “10 step design process,” and many others.
Another very helpful aspect is the resource links shared throughout the book. The knowledge that he shares is years and years of his experiences and learning. His advice is clean and well organized in addition to having wonderful graphics and images to go along with what is being discussed on the page.
The map that Finley has painted with this guide presents applicable steps of how to start your own business. Part information manual, and part design handbook, the book is a goal-inspiring preface to starting one’s own company.
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The north coast of Japan was hit by a horrible tsunami after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake that occurred 80 miles offshore. Now they are facing a potential catastrophe from damaged nuclear reactors. The people of Japan need global assistance in the face of this national crisis!
Skreened is donating $5 for every shirt sold from our Red Cross Relief for Japan Gallery! Raise awareness and funds to help the people of Japan by simply shopping from these hand-selected designs.
Many of our users have already stepped up and come together to give commissions earned from these sales! 
So, $5 from Skreened and up to $7 from the designer go directly to the American Red Cross in support of Japanese earthquake and tsunami victims! Wear your heart on your shirt and show your support for Japan!
No need for a new shirt? You can also text REDCROSS to 90999 to give $10 to the American Red Cross in support of the Japan earthquakes and Pacific tsunami, or go directly to the American Red Cross website to make your donation.
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There are two main things that comprise a design on a T-shirt: typography (aka fonts) and images. Both of these things can make or break your perfect joke. For font junkies, there are a million options – probably too many – and a whole load of them are free for use. If you ask a graphic designer which fonts are “good,” they’ll probably rattle off a very small list (definitely including Helvetica), but there are plenty of options for a T-shirt designer that are going for funny instead of high design. Many fonts speak volumes without saying a word, or without the addition of extra images. Typefaces can range from knock-offs of famous movie or album titles to type dripping with blood or riddled with bullet holes. The correct font choice can be your only T-shirt design choice, if you choose the right one.
In defense of graphic designers (and Helvetica), sometimes simple is best. If you have a quote or joke that is perfect, don’t mess it up by choosing a deliberately overwrought or forcibly funny font. Just let it be. If it’s as good as you think, it will speak for itself. Putting it in Comic Sans isn’t going to make it any funnier (in fact, it will probably make it sadder). Now, if you are working with a word or two, and use the Band Hero font to say “Cowbell Hero,” you win.
Images, either in color or in black and white, are a pretty straightforward way to add to the joke, and are often the whole joke itself. The same rules apply here: less is usually more, except when it isn’t. Go deep and show a detailed woodcut print of an iPhone 4, melding old art with new technology, or show 100 frames of your personal comic book on one panel that covers the shirt. The key is to use the design of the image, and the way it is drawn, rendered, or photographed, to enhance the funny and help tell your story.
In conclusion, be smart first, funny second. People will thank you for it.
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New Zip Hoodies for Autumn at Skreened
Newly available, Skreened now carries custom printable zip hoodies from American Apparel. The blended Flex Fleece is amazingly soft to the touch and they come in White, Mauve, Heather Grey, Slate and Sunshine!
Other Autumn Gear
Get geared up for football, campfires and crackling leaves with our long sleeve and long sleeve organic tees as well as pull-over hooded sweatshirts. All of them made in the USA by American Apparel.
New Ways to Get Skreened
We’ve added new checkout options at Skreened. Now you can pay with PayPal as well as use your Skreened Credit to get the goodies you’ve been craving.
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Hi Everyone.
Between Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10PM Eastern Daylight Time and Wednesday September 29, 2010 3AM Eastern Daylight Time, we will be perform general maintenance on our servers. We generally do not expect the downtime to exceed 15 minutes.
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