cmrosko

Hi,

I am interested in buying a book that features a variety of examples on t-shirt design artwork.

Can anyone recommend a good one?

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Solmu

Are you looking for a how-to, or more design inspiration?

If the latter, I like the Cotton series (100% Cotton, 200% Cotton, 300% Cotton).

Louis Bou's Street T is okay. T-shirt Factory (Beams T) is okay. Lou Lv's The T-shirt is pretty weak. Charlotte Brunel's The T-shirt Book is a good history, but not much good for actual design. Pedro Guitton's T-shirt 360 is pretty lame. The many music related t-shirt books out there (Vintage T-shirts, Rock Tease, The Art of the Band T-shirt, etc.) are all much the same - kind of interesting, but not really worth it.

The Cotton series has a decent mix of offline and online content, but most of the other books are very much the result of the internet age of publication: lots of content culled from online, sometimes even to the point of using pixelated 72dpi images not suitable for print. You'd be better off reading some t-shirt blogs than many of those books.

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brianmot

spend 15 minutes browsing this group on flickr...

http://www.flickr.com/groups/t-shirtdesign/pool/

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chonkymonky

yes i agree. if you're looking for inspiration, then there is nothing better than surfing the web. using the internet will allow you to keep up with all the new styles that are hot so you can get an idea of where to go with your designs. although i myself get the best inspiration from just observing things around me. or just getting on photoshop and letting my imagination go to work.

i can't believe i used the word "hot" hahahaha.

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