So you’ve been commissioned to come up with a killer t-shirt design for the hottest local band in town. After spending countless hours sketching out the design, scanning it and redrawing it in Illustrator you’re ready to give the proof to your client. You meet them at their local hangout to show them the proof, but they look at your with that “is this it?” look on their faces. Turns out they like your design, but they wanted to actually see what it would look like on a dark gray t-shirt. What do you do now?

Well, if you had the latest product from Go Media, you’d already know what to do. They have released a truly awesome resource for t-shirt designers which will allow them to create quick, photorealistic mockups of their t-shirt designs in just a few minutes. Instead of your clients wondering what your design will look like on a dark gray t-shirt or a baby blue t-shirt you can show them before spending hard earned money at the press.

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During my search here at the office for some inspirational t-shirt designs I came across the Holy Grail of inspiration…T-Shirt Factory! This site is simply amazing and worth the visit just to check out some of the designs, but they’ve also got some killer vector artwork for sale. The website originally started out as a group of freelance t-shirt artists sharing their work, then it blew up into a market for selling their t-shirt designs and vector artwork.

You all know that I am a huge fan of the work that Go Media does and they’re my favorite resource for design inspriation and design elements, but the folks at T-Shirt Factory have some top notch stuff too…some of which rivals Go Media. The extra bonus is that the t-shirt designs and vector packs are $10/each! All of their bonus packs of vectors like skeletons, clowns and freaks are all 50% off right now which is an awesome deal. There are a total of 17 sets to the skeleton bonus pack which is selling for only $85! I am definitely going to look into getting some of these vectors for future projects. I’ve posted a couple images of some of the available t-shirt designs for your viewing pleasure.

~ GrandmasterB