Ript Apparel’s Still Rippin’ Away

Ript Apparel seems to be getting better with age. I have followed these guys for a while now and some of their latest prints have to be hits. The colors and designs are so compelling…

Halloween 2009 – T-Shirts Around The Web

As I sat down to prepare the Halloween edition post for Color Overload, I started to think this may be tougher than I thought. With the increasingly popular trend of gruesome designs including zombies and guts, you might think it’s Halloween year-round in our world. :)

Holebrain’s New Mini Collection

Why do we see the majority of new clothing lines with single color prints on their t-shirts? It’s pretty simple economics…it’s much cheaper. The only problem with that is, a single color design is much harder to sell with people or a high quality multicolor designs in the t-shirt marketplace.

So Many Designs, So Little Money

I have never seen so many t-shirt designs in one single thread. And the best part…they are all for sale. These designs are of the highest quality to with styles that appeal to every design taste. Where is this design oasis you ask?

Threadless X Tate Modern Museum

Question: When does designing t-shirts become a lot more than just designing t-shirts?

Answer: When a major company such as Threadless is able to partner up with a world-renowned art museum to give you international exposure.

That is what is happening in the…

Arkaik Brings The New

Arkaik just unleashed some new offerings and were kind enough to give us a coupon code. You probably want us to just give that to you. Well we are….right after we talk about the new t-shirts they just dropped.

The Black Axe Tutorial on Illustrator Masking

Blake is a guest author from You Design It. He helps us at Color Overload when it comes to custom t-shirt printing.

When the Black Axe write about t-shirt design, we pay attention. It’s plain and simple. These guys know a thing or two about designing t-shirts. They have designed for some of the freshest names in the music industry and their work continues to get better with experience. They just released a short video tutorial on masking and transparency in Illustrator…

Engedi Apparel Is Galactic

Engedi Apparel is the clothing company of the future. Seriously, according to their history page they came in a time machine from the year 2061 to escape the mankind versus mechanical duck war. Anyway, they brought a bunch of cool shirts with them. Check it out.

Homage Clothing Pays Homage

From the moment your browser lands on the Homage Clothing home page you feel like you’ve stepped through a portal into the past. Music plays as black and white images of famous sports stars and their legendary moments flash on the screen. While you’re enjoying the nostalgia check out Homage’s about page. As you might have expected their M.O. is to:

Two Color Separation Tutorials from Vectortuts

Blake is a guest author from You Design It. He tries to bring the knowledge to help you design t-shirts.

Vectortuts just released a new tutorial from Chad Holmes about creating color separations in Illustrator for use with screen printed t-shirt designs. It’s an excellent article and goes into an amazing amount of details taking the reader from selecting the skull, adding strokes and layers and then finally doing all the color separation for a crisp, clean screen printed t-shirt.