Would you buy a GIRS T-Shirt?

[waverz]

I would like to see how many people would like to buy a GIRS T-shirt, if theres enough interest we could probably get a good deal on them and make some extra $$$ for the club.

[waverz]

If theres enough interest maybe a GIRS T-Shirt design contest would be in order. What do you guys think?

[glaspie69]

I think it's a great idea

[got2lb]

You bet! I never got one last time! I can't even draw stick people though so my designs are def. out!!!

[waverz]

Its a great way to promote the hobbie and club! Not like they would be very expensive either....

If you dont want one please explain why.......

[tuffy1845]

good idea....hope it takes off better then the last time
Good Luck

[musty baby]

If you dont want one please explain why....... [/B]

Don't wear shirts with logos. Plus I'm poor. Also, I was born without a torso.

[xroads]

I saw the last ones with the names. I thought they were pretty cool. Although I wouldnt want my name on mine.

[leeweber85]

It looks like there is quite a bit of interest. I like the idea of having the design contest.... I would definitely participate in that.

[IowaKevinK]

The last time, researched and designed by tuffy1845, the shirts were great but not cheap. I think they were going to be $20 - $25. Are you thinking of lesser quality or still in that price range? Do you have a source in mind? ect.

I'm very interested in this, and if we can get this high partisipation maybe we can get prices down.

kevin

[waverz]

I was getting shirts made for my old band a few years ago, they were like $7 apiece for full color prints. So i am thinking it would be around $10 apiece. I would never pay $20 for a t-shirt....

It seems like theres enought interest, i think its maybe time to start doing some designs. Any of you graphic artists feel up to it?

Start posting your designs and we will all vote on which one we like best. Just remember to keep the DPI high. We dont want nintendo looking graphics.

[glaspie69]

The first round of t-shirts were embroidered and a very high quality shirt. If we did an average t-shirt with a simple screen print I can see why they'd be over 10 or 12 a peice

[sgarrett1108]

I have a friend in Iowa City that owns a screen printing business. If people get me a design I can look into pricing. I know the more colors in the shirt the more expensive they get. Also he has told me that set up is the most expesive part of the process. So the more you buy the cheaper each shirt becomes.

[leeweber85]

Jeremy do you still have any high resolution GIRS logos? post them for me if you do.

[tibbs2]

We should consider uploading our designs to Cafepress.com.

You can print your designs on mugs, coasters, shirts, hats etc. They have shirts ranging from 9 bucks up to 22 bucks.

I bought these sweet coasters here a few years back.

Chris

[The Gnome]

Waverz has the mad hook up on T - shirt printing ... cheaper than one could imagine if he DOES order them in bulk. I will participate in designing a GIRS shirt - Adobe here I come !

[waverz]

Cafepress is a way to go but my guy would be waaaay cheaper, specially if were wanting to order 20 at a time. Also there is no shipping which is another bonus.

Once we get some artwork done, we can shop around for pricing and see what way would work best.

[tibbs2]

If we have someone on the inside, then that would definitely be the way to go.

[Coralfreak]

I would really like to see everyone give Cafepress.com some serious thought. Yes, there is shipping, but if a few people go together it wouldnt be that bad. They also run free shipping specials quite often, the one right now is for any order over $50.

The advantages are, no mininmum order. If someone joins the club later on, how do we get them a T-shirt? You can also do more than just T-shirts, you can get hats, coffee cups, magnets, mouse pads and on and on, plus they do all the work. A basic T-shirt is about $8. All we need to do is get a hi-res image, set up a GIRS store on the CafePress site and thats it.

Again, just something to think about.

Allen

[leeweber85]

Again, does anyone know where I can get a higher resolution of the GIRS logo?

[waverz]

Lee, PM sent.

Anyone else need the logo?

[leeweber85]

I'm not sure what other people like in shirts, but here is one design. Feel free to critize.

Blue shirt with plain white screen print... you could do any color of shirt you wanted, blue, red, brown, green, pink whatever.
Either logo could be changed to go on the front or back.

[waverz]

Lee, cool looking shirt! You know what, we could just print these out on iron on's and iron them on some shirts. Ive done them like that before, they last a fairly long time for the money and are easy. Ive got a continuous ink system for my printer and would be willing to print them out if you wanna try some. The only problem is, is that each graphic could only be 8.5" x 11"

Oh yeah, is it me or does the www look a tad too close to the graphic?

[leeweber85]

I can move the stuff around, I also noticed I forgot to fill in some of the water(blue) areas around the coral.

Can you do white with the iron-on's? If we were to do a design like this, we could screen print them ourselves. My friends band does that with all there shirts that way they can keep the designs on hand and print them as needed so they don't end up with a box full of XXL or XS. I've never screen printed before, but i'm sure they could help me get started.

Another thing, were we wanting to do names/screen names? It would be cool, but cost would prob. be considerably higher.

[waverz]

I used to screenprint for a living. I have a screen and squeegee but no ink or a way to burn an image on the screen.

The iron ons do work on white but you kinda see the iron on patch, but its real faint and only really noticable if you iron it too long.