Rohdesign Weblog: T-Shirts

Here you'll find all posts file under the T-Shirts category.

February 4, 2009

Winterblast 2009 T-Shirt Design

I've just received a box of freshly printed t-shirts I've designed for Winterblast, our church youth group's yearly winter retreat. As with the 2008 t-shirt design, I'd like to share a little more about the design process along with imagery of the final design.

Maintaining the Winterblast Identity

Since 2007, I've been working with a few constant specifications when designing the Winterblast t-shirt — a solid color, long sleeve shirt, white ink on the front only and a stylized wintertime animal in the artwork.

For the 2007 design I created a snow monster with two broom ball sticks on a navy shirt to start this series. In 2008, I chose a polar bear with a winter hat and sunglasses on a forest green shirt.

For 2009 I selected a penguin on a snowboard as the cold-weather animal to stylize for the shirt design.

Sketching the Snowboarding Penguin

With that general direction in mind, and the word FOLLOW as the 2009 theme, I began sketching ideas of penguins on snowboards, flipping over the typography:

Tom the youth pastor wanted simplify the FOLLOW type so the double LLs wouldn't tuck together, and we both agreed that having the FOLLOW type tilting downhill (rather than uphill) with the penguin grabbing air over the type worked best.

Color Mockup

Next, I prepared a color mockup for Tom in Adobe Illustrator, to show how the design would appear on an indigo blue long-sleeved t-shirt: The font used for FOLLOW was based on Oxide Solid Light, with the strokes of the letters bolded manually, a customized W to match the style I wanted to see, and a custom explanation point added to round out the typographic details.

Tom liked this look and shirt color, so I sent shirt sizes and final artwork to MJM Screen Print & Embroidery Studio in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin for final printing.

Finished Design

The final, finished design turned out great, and I especially love the indigo blue shirt color, which fits in well compared to the shirts from 2007 and 2008:

Once again, the shirts turned out well, thanks to the great work by MJM on printing. I'm looking forward to handing these out to our students at Winterblast this weekend.

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September 26, 2008

BarCampMilwaukee3 T-Shirts are Done!

Last night I picked up 4 boxes of beautiful, charcoal gray t-shirts for BarCampMilwaukee3! Here are shots of the actual shirt, hot off the presses:

Note that I've had my friend Brian Artka add his name, Twitter handle and tags to his shirt, so I could demonstrate how the shirt will work at BarCampMilwaukee3.

The idea is to create space in the design for each attendee to add a name, Twitter or Identi.ca handle and 5 tags to represent what they're interested in with a permanent marker. Each shirt becomes unique and personal, while also embedding key information to encourage strangers to say hello and start discussions.

I'll be picking up a bunch of colorful permanent Sharpie markers next week, which I'l spread out on a table for BarCampMilwaukee3 attendees to customize. I can't wait to see how the concept works at the event!

My favorite neighborhood screen print and embroidery shop, MJM Ventures, did a stellar job with my design once again. Thanks guys!

Get a free shirt while they last!

How? Sign up and attend BarCampMilwaukee3, October 4-5, 2008 at Bucketworks, 1340 North 6th Street, just north of Downtown Milwaukee (map).

Go Sign up today!

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September 15, 2008

BarCampMilwaukee3 Final T-Shirt Design

After receiving not a single entry in the BarCampMilwaukee3 T-Shirt design contest, I decided late last week that I ought to come up with a design for the shirt, and quick.

Below is the final BarCampMilwaukee3 T-Shirt design for 2008:

How did I Get Here?

The deadline for ordering shirts and submitting some art was looming, and there were no submissions to the contest to speak of. It was last week Thursday when I opened my sketchbook and started to doodle. What came out in rough form was a design vaguely similar to the design above.

I wanted something a bit organic, fun and round. I remembered that Pete Prodoehl had "tagging" space on name tags at the first BarCampMilwaukee in 2006. I took his idea a step further by embedding the tagging spaces right in the shirt design.

At the Web414 meeting that evening, I saw Jordan Arentsen wearing a charcoal gray t-shirt from a recent Adobe AIR event, and loved how the shirt looked. I checked his tag (with his permission) and found it was a Gildan Ultra Cotton, the same shirt I've been using with all of my projects for the last few years. Excellent!

Design Iteration v1.0

When I got home, I was wired from the Web414 meeting, so I began working with the sketch I had, and generated a v1 design iteration. I quite liked the feel of this first iteration — the rounded shapes and tags, white backing color and the use of the BarCampMilwaukee icon on the back.

As I look back, James Carlson gave me some inspiration with a Wiki character he's sprayed on a large sheet of paper and showed at the Web414 meeting. It had eyes on stalks, which influenced my decision to add similar circles/eyes on stalks to the t-shirt design.

However, I wasn't sure of the dark blue color, and decided to sleep on the design until Friday.

Design Iteration v1.1

In the morning, I had the idea to try another color. Since the BarCampMilwaukee logo takes inspiration from the Milwaukee Brewers Blue & Gold colors, why not try a retro 1980s Brewers medium blue?

That's what I did, and I really loved the feel against the white and the charcoal gray shirt material.

I also wanted to describe the idea visually to the BarCamp core team, so on the v1.1 iteration, I added some sample texts in the balloons for my name, Twitter handle and 5 tags that represented my interests.

Design Iteration v1.2: Final

Feedback from Web414 and BarCampMilwaukee people was very positive this weekend, so tonight I've finalized the EPS art for t-shirt printer, complete with the sponsor list for BarCampMilwaukee3.

Thanks to everyone who helped with this project, especially Pete! I will follow-up when the shirt goes to print with photos of the shirts hot off the presses.

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September 3, 2008

BarCampMilwaukee3 T-Shirt Design Contest

Calling all designers! we've just kicked off a contest to design this year's BarCampMilwaukee3 t-shirt! Submit your design and get recognition and 2 free shirts shipped directly to you.

BarCampMilwaukee3 T-Shirt Design Contest page

Design Requirements:
• Must have the BarCampMilwaukee3 logo on the front and back, and the logo should be readable (i.e. No ultra-tiny logos to simply meet the specs). Here is the logo for your reference:

In color:

In Black & White:

In Black & White Reversed:

Download the EPS outlined logos in color and B&W, zipped (389k) compatible with Adobe Illustrator:

http://www.rohdesign.com/bcmke3/bcmke3-logo-Logo.eps.zip

• The t-shirt will be dark gray or black.

• Two colors max, with one color being white. The second color will print on top of the white on a dark shirt. Using only white in the design is OK.

• Design space is 12" x 12" max (no wraparounds, etc.) front and back.

• The design should capture the idea of sharing, learning, community, equality, technology — along those lines.

• The back must include sponsor names as listed on the site at http://barcampmilwaukee.com/sponsors. A list will probably work the best, but hey, if you have a crazy cool idea, just make sure all sponsors are listed and are treated equally on the back design (i.e. Don't make some sponsor names huge and others tiny — all sponsors are equal partners).

Here's a sample of the BarcampMilwaukee2 sponsor area on the back of the shirt from last year:

• Do not use copyrighted images in your design.

• T-Shirt designs must be your own work and not copied from someone else.

• Samples of last year's shirt designs for a starting point:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/1331040068
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/1343016695
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/1403125149
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/1404091242
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/1468555199

• Deadline for submitted design ideas is Friday, September 12, 2008 at Midnight Central Daylight Time, submitted to Mike Rohde

• The contest is open to any designer who wishes to submit a design, whether local to the Milwaukee area or anywhere in the world.

• The winning shirt design will be announced on the BarCampMilwaukee site on September 15th, 2008.

• All submissions will be posted on the BarCampMilwaukee.com site with the option for comments by the public, for input.

• The final decision on the winning shirt design will be based on comments by those who view and vote on the designs, and selected by the organizing committee of BarCampMilwaukee.

• We reserve the right to make technical adjustments needed to print the winning design on a t-shirt.

• Winner receives 2 final printed T-Shirts in whatever size they wish, shipped to them directly.

Questions? Leave a comment below.

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February 5, 2008

Winterblast 2008 T-Shirt Design

For the past several years, I've had the great opportunity to design t-shirt graphics for Winterblast, our church youth group's annual winter retreat.

For 2007, I created a snow monster for the shirt design, and loved how the white ink on navy blue long-sleeve t-shirts turned out. For 2008, I chose a stylized white polar bear design, on forest green long-sleeve t-shirts.

Designing the Polar Bear
To create the stylized polar bear illustration, I used image searches to locate a few reference photos, to help me establish correct proportions and shapes in my memory. Using this reference, I created a front-view polar bear in Adobe Illustrator. No sketches were necessary, as the bear idea had formed in my head by this point.

After several design iterations, I decided to add a pair of black 1960s sunglasses, a winter cap, and enclosed the polar bear within a circular shape.

I explored various type treatments for Winterblast '08, settling on a combo of Helvetica Bold and Medium. The rounded rectangle shape around the type suggests a highway sign — as our group typically has a long road trip North to the retreat.

Printing the Shirts
Once the art was complete, I took my final files to MJM Screen Print & Embroidery Studio in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. MJM provided great screen printing and superb service, turning these Winterblast t-shirts around quickly, and with great quality.

Here are a few photos of the finished t-shirts:

I think these shirts turned out very well. I can't wait to pass these bad boys out to the 50 students and leaders going to Winterblast 2008!

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October 1, 2007

BarCampMilwaukee2 Shirts: To the Printer

This afternoon, I took the final BarcampMilwaukee2 T-Shirt art, sizes and specs to MJM Ventures. 290 shirts are now in production, with delivery of the shirts set for Thursday October 11th.

After 12:00 today, I closed the window for new BarCamp registrants to gurantee their shirt sizes. I had to deliver the information and art today, so MJM could make the October 11th delivery deadline. That's the way it goes.

Registranst will still have shots at shirts, as I have about 75 extra shirts ordered for walk ups, to be given given out on a first-come, first serve basis.

Final Artwork
Here are snapshots of the final front and back artwork:

T-Shirt Front: Navy blue and rich gold.

T-Shirt Back: Solid Navy blue logo and sponsor names in the shape on an X.

Thank You!
Thanks go to Jen Anne for her wonderful illustrations, MJM for shirt selection and production, Pete Prodoehl (A.K.A. ChaosLord) for advice and information from last year's shirts and Blake Hall for all of his help creating t-shirt lists in Drupal.

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September 22, 2007

BarCamp Milwaukee 2 T-Shirt Mockup

Yesterday I visited MJM Ventures, the company who is printing our BarCamp Milwaukee 2 T-Shirts. They kindly got a sample of a Gildan Sand colored shirt, so I could see the color and create a mockup.

Wow! What a perfect color! It's neutral with a hint of warmth and light enough to work with out dark gold and navy blue colors.

Today I created a quick ink-jet iron-on mockup of the BarCamp shirt, to figure out the correct size of the imprint and to make sure the colors would look good on the shirt's surface. I'e done many ink-jet iron ons before and they are a great way to envision shirt designs or make custom shirts.

I think the emblem is going to be enlarged a tad, and then I need to find a good Pantone gold that's not too greenish. For whatever reason, the dark gold we had been using has a tendency to go toward the green, when I want it to stay warm and rich.

Next week, the art gets finalized along with the sponsor list.

To secure one of the t-shirts, you must register to attend BarCamp Milwaukee 2 before Wednesday the 26th, when the art goes to the printer!

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May 1, 2007

Espresso Powered T-Shirt: Printed Sample & Notes

Today I received a copy of the black Espresso Powered T-Shirt I designed at GoodStorm and WOW! did it turn out well!

You can see me holding my son Nathan, wearing the new t-shirt. The red object in Nathan's hand is a petal from a tulip he picked from mom's garden. :-)

I was quite impressed with the print quality on black — the whites are bright and crisp, brown colors are rich and strong and there's even a nice, subtle speckling of the gradated tones in the artwork. Very nice.

I chose the heavyweight shirt and the quality is good. It's a nice cotton fabric, in a rich coal black.

Emblem Detail
Below I've posted a close-up shot of the emblem on the shirt, so you can see the print quality with a little more detail. Click the image below to see a larger version.

GoodStorm uses a digital printing method to create these shirts, with very good results. Now I wonder if complex shirt graphics might be better reproduced with digital printing than with traditional screen-printing.

If you like what you see, pick up your own Espresso Powered T-Shirt in one of three colors: black, pebble or white.

Espresso Powered T-Shirts
Espresso Powered Black T-Shirt: $12 + Shipping
Espresso Powered Pebble T-Shirt: $11 + Shipping
Espresso Powered White T-Shirt: $10 + Shipping
GoodStorm Rohdesign T-Shirt Store

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April 13, 2006

An Interview with Marc Scheff of GoodStorm.com

Last month I was turned on to GoodStorm, an online t-shirt service that allows regular people like me to create and sell T-Shirt designs, by Chris Messina.

I'd been concerned by the high base prices of CafePress shirts and wondered if any other sites were competing with them, so Chris' tip was perfectly timed.

Through Chris I was connected to Marc Scheff, the Creative Director at GoodStorm, so I requested an interview. Marc has graciously agreed, so I'm pleased to present his interview on the Rohdesign Weblog:

Mike: Marc, thanks for taking the time to be interviewed for the Rohdesign Weblog. I have a few questions about GoodStorm, to help those interested in starting an online T-Shirt store more information about your services. I've came across GoodStorm from a tip by Chris Messina, but hadn't heard of your service before. How long has GoodStorm been around, and how it was started?

Marc: We started GoodStorm in October of 2005, and launched in January of this year (2006). We started with the vision of empowering socially progressive organizations, non-profits, and artists to generate higher income from e-commerce sales and use the increased profit to support their causes. Goodstorm was co-founded by Yobie Benhamin and Andy Rappaport. We develop and provide free tools, technologies and social-networking functionality for sellers to create online stores to market print-on-demand apparel and merchandise with their brand through GoodStorm.com.

Mike: Where are the GoodStorm offices located, and what's the work environment like there?

Marc: We're in Potrero Hill in San Francisco. We refurbished an old planning office and recycled all the materials to make desks and tables. We're a small team, and you'll see people cracking jokes as often as you see us running to handle the ever-increasing workload. It's not unusual for someone to bring in a snack for others to share, or pass around a cool article or design from the web.

Mike: How is GoodStorm able to offer its store owners 70% of the profit on shirts, when sites like CafePress seem to have such high base markups?

Marc: We're scaling GoodStorm to support hundreds of thousands of organizations and individuals.. Non-profits, progressive groups, artists, and musicians make more money with us. That's why we call it “Capitalism Done Right.” It gives everyone a chance to take part in a thriving progressive community that challenges the status quo. People will come through because they get to create a better world through supporting their causes. it's time for a change in thinking about what's fair, and GoodStorm is positioned to facilitate this shift, and sustainably do so on a large scale.

Mike: Can you share any stories about T-Shirt shops in the GoodStorm network that have become popular and profitable?

Marc: Sure thing. There are a lot of these stories because we help good people open up an e-Commerce store almost instantly. All you need is a design.

The NY America is a good example of an established organization using GoodStorm. They launched The Bring Them Home Now Concert for Peace featuring Michael Stipe, Rufus Wainright, Chuck D. and others. Cindy Sheehan was also there. We helped them set up a Bring Them Home Now Store almost overnight which has generated tens of thousands of dollars for their cause through sales of branded T-shirts, peace stamps and others merchandise. 

We also have mom-and-pop shops, or father-son shops like deadbeatdesigns. This team put up a handful of pretty clean designs on our site and enjoyed a few days to a week on our front page. They also marketed their store by putting up ads in local online dailies and bulletin boards like Craigslist.

What makes a store work are good designs and strong, sustained marketing. When an organization markets themselves in a few really basic ways, they make money.

Mike: GoodStorm's tagline is "Capitalism Done Right" — can you explain in a little more detail what you mean by that statement?

Marc: We're turning Capitalism, as a concept, on its head. Capitalism as we know it rewards the rich and punishes the poor. The few prosper on the backs of the many. Why should you have to pay, or give away your profits when you're doing the work to build your brand?

Just like deadbeatdesigns, we think you can do a lot with a little, and we're proving it with our model. In English, if you design the shirt and sell it on GoodStorm, we give you a big payoff, and we only keep a little so we can keep offering this service.

We're dropping the barriers to entry so that progressive individuals and organizations can get into the billion dollar e-commerce game. We don't charge a thing for our services, our wholesale prices are low, and we share profit equitably. This model is working, and our stores are doing well.

Mike: As a designer, I find your service is very designer-friendly. Does GoodStorm have some hidden history working with designers, or are designers just one of the markets you intend to serve?

Marc: No secret here. I got involved with GoodStorm in the first place for two reasons: I'm an artist and love working in community. I was happy doing concept art for film and games, web design is something I'd been doing for over ten years, and I've been working with and supporting various communities in different ways in the more recent past. I felt, and feel very lucky to be able to do these things that I truly love doing.

I saw that building GoodStorm would be a way to contribute back and give other people the same opportunity. I love getting artists and designers involved and we're also working with non-profits and progressive groups. As an artist, I know that designers struggle with funding in many of the same ways that non-profits and progressive groups do. I tell people that we work with and empower the underdog, and it's true.

Mike: What are some of your favorite stores in the GoodStorm network?

Marc: Ah, my favorites are the designers. I spend some time each day looking at new stores, new designs, and showing off to the GoodStorm team or my friends and family what people have created on our site. For example, there's this great little shop called Rohdesign...

Mike: Can you tell the readers why they might want to consider creating a store at GoodStorm?

Marc: Sure. There are so many reasons to set up a store at GoodStorm, and the main thing is that you make more money with us than if you went somewhere else and we're real friendly.

GoodStorm provides you with free e-commerce and networking tools so that you can open your own branded online store, sell apparel featuring your designs, and network with a community of people who appreciate your creative work. You can get set up almost instantly, GoodStorm is easy and fun, and you don't have to pay anything or buy anything.

Once you have a design (at 300dpi, saved in transparent PNG format...), you can upload it and have it printed on a wide selection of truly reasonably-priced, great quality t-shirts. We print your shirts on-demand. The best part is, we also do all the work — the inventory, shipping, fulfillment, everything. All you do is contribute your great designs and market your store.

You can create shirts for yourself, your friends, your family, your sports team, your school, your knitting group, your bowling team, your non-profit, your presidential campaign, really anything you want. You can use also GoodStorm to raise funds for a cause, yours or someone else's.

Mike: Any other thoughts about GoodStorm you might like to share, that I may not have mentioned?

Marc: Join the fun at GoodStorm and spread the beauty of your designs with hundreds of thousands of potential customers. We welcome more progressive organizations and individuals, artists, designers, bands, musicians, and do-gooders to benefit from our service.

Mike: Thanks again for the opportunity to interview you.

Marc: My pleasure, Mike. Thanks for taking the time with me.

If you have an inkling to create some t-shirts, check out GoodStorm!

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March 20, 2006

New T-Shirts at GoodStorm.com

This weekend, Chris Messina Director of Experience and Open Source Ambassador at Flock left a comment on the weblog, suggesting I check out the T-Shirt service GoodStorm.com, so I did. Wow! I was impressed with the site and many options available, particularly 3 levels of shirt quality, multiple shirt colors and lower base prices than Cafe Press. Chris even has his own store for FactoryCity and Flock!

I spent a little time over the weekend creating 9 new T-Shirts in a new GoodStorm Rohdesign T-Shirt Store, which I'd like to share. While the site has some quirks, the flexibility, options and GoodStorm's commitment to decent shirt manufacture is very encouraging.

Old-School PDA T-Shirts
Of course, I've ported the More RAM Than Apollo Thirteen shirts to the new site, as well as a new version of the same Pilot 1000 graphic with the text "I Sync Therefore I Am" on the PDA screen. I've reduced the image of the PDA. I'm debating 2-sided shirts for these, with either a large PDA graphic for the back or some other text there. But for now I like the small graphic on the front.

Espresso Powered T-Shirts
For the coffee lovers, I've created 2 shirts with an updated "Espresso Powered" graphic, with deep, rich browns and warm caramel colors, in a 1940s style oval shape. I had a blast creating this graphic, playing with colors, fonts and style, and am very pleased with how it's turned out. This graphic is available as a front-only graphic, or as a 2 sided shirt with a large graphic on the back.

Moleskine Sketch T-Shirts
The latest line to emerge on GoodStorm make use of several Moleskine Sketches I've done that have been featured here on the weblog. Each sketch has been wrapped in a Moleskine-inspired, rounded edge box with warm creme colored background (just like the sketchbook). I decided to create 5 T-Shirts featuring sketches, including Caribou Faces and Hey Beer Man! in vertical formats, Madison Cafe, Bluegrass Band and Underworld / Brazilian Groove in horizontal formats.

Best of all, GoodStorm shirts actually cost less than those at Cafe Press. GoodStorm's shipping is limited to the US at the moment. Still, I think it's an excellent service. i invite you to stop by the new store and check out the designs — and let me know your thoughts.

NOTE: International readers interested in "I Sync Therefore I Am" shirts can check out a batch I've setup a Cafe Press (which does international shipping).

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March 16, 2006

T-Shirt: More RAM Than Apollo Thirteen

Tonight, I finalized a t-shirt design I'd thought of about a year ago, featuring a super-stylized illustration of an old Pilot 1000 with humorous sayings on the screen in an old-school bit-mapped font.

For the first shirt in this line, I've chosen the saying "More RAM Than Apollo Thirteen" because the humorous reality of that phrase has always made me smile. Yes, it is actually true — Apollo Thirteen only had 32k onboard RAM, while the Pilot 1000 had 128k. Amazing stuff.

I enjoyed creating the stylized art in Adobe Illustrator, trying to find a balance between realism and easy recognition of the PDA, while still maintaining a pop-art feel. I wanted to experiment with rounded edges and very flat details. I chose to make it more stylized than detailed on purpose.

One of the ideas I've had with this shirt design is to create several funny bit-mapped text statements on the PDA screen, appealing to old-time Palm users. My buddy, Michael Ashby, an old-school Palm fan, helped me come up with a few ideas to consider:

1996 WAS A FINE YEAR FOR PDAs

HARD RESET. DANG IT!

PARTY LIKE IT'S 1996

I SYNC THEREFORE I AM

SPEED LIMIT 8MHz

Any you like? Have any ideas? I'd love to hear from other old-school (and new-school) Palm users with statements. If I like the statement, I may produce a t-shirt with your statement on it.

Custom, single-edition shirts can also be created with the statement of your choice. I'd love to create a one-of-a-kind t-shirt, using this PDA graphic, so if this interests you, let me know.

If you like the Apollo Thirteen T-Shirt, pick one up in Black ($20), White ($16) or Ringer ($16) at the Rohdesign Cafe Press store.

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March 15, 2006

T-Shirt Designs: Ideas and Questions

I started the day listening to the SXSW 2006 Podcasts, in particular he Keynote Conversation with Jason Kottke (Kottke.org) and Heather Armstrong (Dooce.com). They spent around an hour talking about their blogging experiences: what they've learned about themselves, their audience, methods and limitations of funding approaches and more. Interesting podcast.

One remark in particular caught my ear, as Jason mention how Jon Gruber (DaringFireball.net) suggested he develop t-shirts for his blog as a way to help bring in some funding. Daring Fireball t-shirts are very cool, and that's where my question about t-shirts comes in.

T-Shirt Selling History
I have a history with this t-shirt, having setup a Cafe Press shop years ago for The Palm Tipsheet, offering t-shirts, mugs and more. In fact, that store is still open for business. However, in the 4 years since opening the Cafe Press store, I've sold 3 shirts, one of which was to myself, at cost. :-)

I've never felt anyone would want to a Rohdesign Weblog-branded t-shirt, let alone pay money for one. It's not that what I'd design wouldn't make for a stylin' t-shirt, — it's more the idea of someone wearing a t-shirt advertising my weblog.

Topical T-Shirts?
However, I could imagine people buying well-designed topical t-shirts, featuring funky coffee, cycling, PDA or other interesting, colorful graphics on them. So the question is, would you, as a reader, consider buying a Mike Rohde designed t-shirt?

I've already been playing around with a few preliminary coffee-related shirt ideas at the Rohdesign Cafe Press Store (see the image top right) but I feel as though I'd need to expand the designs for coffee or other topics quite significantly, and feature more colorful designs as well. I thought I'd ask you, my readers.

What Would You Buy and How Much?
It all comes down to the question, what would you, as a reader, consider buying? It might be worth my time to design some cool t-shirts, if there are folks out there interested in buying them. Here are my questions:

1. What would you like to have designed? Would you like funky coffee-related designs, or maybe cycling, PDAs or even pen or pencil sketches? What about other topics or ideas? I'm open to your thoughts.

2. What kind of t-shirt do you like best? White, black, color?

3. What's a reasonable price range? I'm mostly interested in knowing if the average price of around $15 for white, $18 for organic cotton and $20 for black at Cafe Press is reasonable?

4. Extra Credit: Would a limited edition (short run), traditionally screen-printed t-shirt, offered on a nice color fabric interest you? If so, what do you consider a reasonable price for such a t-shirt?

Feel free to leave a comment or email me with your thoughts.

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