In this video we're gonna take a look at Amazon Merch on Demand's top sellers and
I'm gonna show you 11 design styles that I found while looking at them. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video. My name is Juna with Detour Shirts. I've been designing and
selling t-shirts online since 2005 and in this video I wanted to show you and talk about design
styles. Now these are design layouts. These are graphics that you can use on your t-shirts.
Every print on demand site is different. Today we're going to look at amazon and
I'm going to show you from the top sellers what kind of design styles they are using
to get some sales. Now I'm not saying to copy the words on here or copy the niches this is just
layout, how you're going to lay out the words, where you're going to put a graphic and what
kinds of graphics do you use that can help you in your design. So we're going to look at that.
This is mainly for people who don't know how to lay out a t-shirt. Maybe it's your first time to
design t-shirts. We can learn a lot from the top sellers here by looking at how they lay it out,
where they put the words, what kinds of graphics to use and things like that. So I'm gonna go into
amazon first. I'm gonna go to a PrettyMerch Pro and show you the top sellers on amazon and we're
gonna take a look at that and then i'm gonna show you i'm gonna break it down and show you some of
the design styles i've done the research so you don't have to i can show you some of the design
styles that i found that were in these top 100 so let's get to pretty merch pro right now so here we
are on pretty merch pro plus if you have pretty merch pro plus you can go to the research tab
i have it here and you can look at the top selling now we're just looking at the top selling t-shirts
in the united states now pretty much pro you could do uk germany whatever country you're
from if you're from any of these i would do that first but i'm in the u.s so we're going to do this
it's it's different they're different designed in different countries and they're different designs
for different products too so we're just going to look at the top ones here and we're going to
scroll down i'm not going to spend too long on here but we're just going to take an overview of
what the top sellers are doing so you can see here most of the time they're filling the big space
right not all the time but you can see a lot of their designs on amazon are really big and bold
right most of the time and you can see if they do use color they use kind of more of a rainbow
color maybe a vintage muted rainbow color or like a bright rainbow color for kids
or kind of a vintage rainbow color but a lot of times also they do very limited colors so you
can see this is just white red white and blue just white white just uh pink and pink right so
a lot of times it's just white on black so those those do sell as well um you can see there
are some exceptions to the rule where it's not filling the space but for the most part they are
kind of filling the whole space right big graphic big text uh here's an exception to the rule right
here on the top corner but for the most part again very tall so let's just look at it we can kind
of get we're going to start seeing patterns you know of layout maybe a big design maybe
ways you put the text in here things like that so we're gonna i'm gonna go through all of these and
put together what i found 11 different design styles that i found but you can see again
very tall so if you're if you're new to design you may want to try and fill the whole space
it's just a lot easier to to figure that one out right just fill the whole space and in this video
i'm going to show you some tricks that they use to fill the whole space but you can see
very nice designs very cool and a lot of vintage stuff if you didn't notice so we got some kind
of like vintage here vintage here 90s right if we screw up vintage vintage sunset 90s again
so vintage stuff's really selling fill the space throw in some vintage things if you can in there
give yourself a good chance of selling on amazon okay so now that we've seen kind of the top 100
top 200 designs here i'm gonna show you some of the design styles that i've found and hopefully
help you with your designs on amazon if you're selling on amazon so the first design style that
i wanted to talk about is just two lines two lines of text it can be two sentences two words uh this
is very different than what we saw the most of them filled the whole space but i wanted to i'll
show these to you because these are this is very simple to do and um it kind of breaks the mold of
fill the whole space like i'm always saying fill the whole space these don't fill the whole space
and they just have two lines so class of 2035 san diego now don't copy these phrases
just lay out right you got a bigger word on the top smaller word but just two two words
two cool you can see two lines two lines and they're right above the chest so placement is very
important it has to be right there above the chest line right here see all of them are right there so
uh this is one that you can use if you're a brand new seller think of a good phrase
don't copy these again and again this could sell well on other print on demand spots but mainly on
amazon we're looking at amazon right now so this is geared towards amazon these kinds of things
will sell there so have fun with this one this is your design style number one and i'm calling
it two lines so design style number two is another simple one i'm starting with the simple ones first
and then going down this is real easy to do as well and i'm calling it three lines straight
so you can see just straight lines uh it can either be left aligned center line you can see
probably right align as well this one right here right aligned with some graphic to kind of fill
that space either way you can fill the whole space or not but three lines of usually funny
designs funny phrases or motivational or vintage like it doesn't matter so find a phrase that will
take three lines it doesn't have to be just three words you can see here there's it's a sentence
that's broken up into three lines so have fun with this one make it in a nice style you can see
a lot of these either have kind of a rough style or they using graphics in there or color or um
this one has just like a fun font right use that as a design style make sure to stack your
words your phrases your sentences in three lines and i think it could do really well
on amazon so design style number three another really easy one to do and that is the big graphic
with one line underneath i we see this a lot in the top sellers just a big graphic now it could
be a funny graphic most of the time it is a funny graphic or a graphic that kind of catches your eye
you can see this one it's not funny but it kind of catches your eyes because it's a little different
has some color so do a big graphic and a word or line a sentence underneath so you can see here
very easy to do the the tough part about this one is finding the right graphic you need to find a
good graphic that's um funny catches your eye or something that's interesting that catches your
eye so either way again don't copy these these are not here to copy you we're just looking at
the style big graphic at the top uh this line on the bottom either one word or a sentence
so design style number four is kind of like a sandwich where you have one line of text
a graphic in the middle and one line on the bottom so one line graphic one line you can see very easy
design style to do again you're going to need a good graphic in the middle but it doesn't
even have to be a graphic it could be you know a year or something or just really simple graphics
so think about that it all comes together and you can see these are usually tall rectangles
kind of filling the whole space and that's what makes this really easy to do with the the graphic
sandwich if you will is you just need a good graphic that it's kind of tall and then it's
going to make your rectangle even taller as you add the line and the top to fill the space right
so if you're looking for like a square uh maybe a slightly tall rectangle is the kind of shape that
you're looking for for the graphic and then as you add the lines it's going to feel that tall
rectangle make that tall rectangle shape and so that's why this one's really popular because
it's really easy to fill that space with this design style now don't get hung up on
any copyright stuff that you may see here i mean like oh this is legos i can't use legos
yeah we're not talking about using legos or using specific graphics we're looking at the design
style so a line of text a graphic and a line of ticks so graphic style number five is this one and
one easy way to fill the tall rectangle space is to have a tall rectangle so you can see right here
the design itself is in a tall rectangle either a card or you can just see that they've designed it
within a tall rectangle sometimes there's text inside of that rectangle sometimes there's not
sometimes it's just a graphic but try to do that try to just have a rectangle there and design
within it you can put a border you cannot put a border just put things in use that as your space
so this one this one is super popular because it's really easy to do you just have to make sure that
you feel the space now it doesn't have to be a straight edge you can see these have rough edges
these have some vintage stuff on it but either way i just create your rectangle first and
design within it and you'll be on your way to creating a good design that fills the space so
design style number six since we talked about rectangles why not do another shape and that
is the circle circles are really popular because they can be right over the chest area and provide
a good shape for you to put your design in and you can see a lot of these sell really well
you can kind of break the circle sometimes but most of the time it's in the circle shape now
there doesn't have to be an actual circle line you can see this is in a shape of a circle with the
flowers and sometimes the circle breaks a little bit like this one down here with the vintage
sunset but all of these have that circle shape and are right above the chest so you're gonna it's a
nice way to fill the the t-shirt and you'll see it you'll see this technique used everywhere not just
amazon this is a style that's used throughout the internet throughout t-shirt design as a whole so
fill that circle put your design in a circle if you don't want to do a tall rectangle
fill it with words fill it with graphics fill it with both words and graphics either way i think it
will help you make a great design design style number seven is the giant graphic now this one
is mainly for merch by amazon i've seen this a lot on merch by amazon where you just have a
cool maybe funny graphic and it just fills the whole space so your graphic has to be kind of
a taller graphic to fit the tall rectangle shape but you can see these are selling well on amazon
and they're just a big graphic and usually funny usually an animal doing something or this one has
video games this has sasquatch so it doesn't have to be a certain kind a graphic but it's usually
more detailed graphic because it's big it's it's not very simple graphic it's more detailed and has
a lot of different things going on so you can see this one's really funny so don't copy these again
but when you think about what to design for your t-shirt maybe you want to do a bigger graphic no
words just a big graphic that fills the whole space so design style number eight now we're
going to get into specific graphics that you can use to help you with your t-shirt design so one
of the popular graphics on amazon right now is the side flag so usually the american flag on the side
uh the stars can either be on the left or on the right usually it's on the left but sometimes it's
on the right and you can see they fill the flag with different things so this has a camouflage
flag this is a flag made out of baseball bats this american flag has a motorcycle on it or
words or a combination of different things so this one has that so think of different things that you
could put with the flag with the american flag it doesn't have to be the red white and blue you can
actually change the colors on it as well with camouflage or just just a white flag with some
text in there some graphics so think of different things that you could add to an american flag
to make your design the nice thing about the american flag and why i think it's so popular
is when it's on its side it's a tall rectangle right so it's filling that whole space you can
see all of these fill the whole space because it's a tall rectangle so have fun with this one this is
a great way to get a design out there that kind of fills the whole space and can get you some sales
so design style number nine is the vintage sunset yeah vintage sunsets are still very popular
on amazon and you can see right here these are straight out of the top 100 and the reason why
i think it's very popular is one it helps you with colors it has that vintage colors but two it fills
the space for you so when you cut that circle at the bottom right here one you have that straight
edge where you can put text right underneath but two it's giving that sandwich again right that
line on the top a graphic and a line on the bottom just like we talked about well the graphic in the
middle at this point is a vintage sunset a kind of a cut off circle with the straight edge on the
bottom where you can easily fit text and then on the top where you can arc the text which gives it
variety so this is a really easy way to create a design for amazon and you can see you can fill the
the sunset with all different kinds of things think of something that you would want to fill
your vintage sunset with and then come up with a sentence a couple words on the top or a longer
word on the top and something on the bottom and it's really easy design style that you can use if
you're designing on amazon design style number 10 is very similar to the vintage sunset and this is
rainbows so rainbows just like a sunset has an arc on the top and a straight edge on the bottom which
really helps with that design sandwich or just filling the space right so you can see sometimes
there's words on the top like this kind of like the vintage sunset and sometimes there's not
there's maybe two sent two words on the bottom to fill that gap right so you can see these are
tall rectangles very tall usually tall rainbows which kind of helps fill that space and it also
gives variety and color to it so these rainbows are usually filled with different things or use
different objects this is using a pencil these are filled with leopard patterns and hearts so
that's another way where you can add color and variety to your design is by filling that rainbow
with different things in different colors and usually this is for school you can see a lot
of these are for school but that's i think that's because it's back to school time as we get closer
to christmas we're probably going to see more for activities and jobs right here you can see nurse
first day of school i wouldn't be surprised if it said mom life or something like that for moms or
girls or something so think of different words that you can put in here with your rainbow not
any kind of rainbow kind of a graphic rainbow right here so have fun with this one this is
your design style number 10 and that is rainbows so design style number 11 this is the last one
i'm going to show you and that is the vintage wavy line so this has become very popular lately
uh this is the um like 70s 60s vintage design and you can see they all have wavy lines and there's
different kinds you can do three lines you can do four lines usually between three and four and they
just have that wavy line there and usually vintage colors and vintage graphics so you're seeing
like flowers here happy faces flowers again stars uh peace signs and things like that so
think about the the right colors to use i have a tutorial on how to do this one this design style
i'll put the video up here so you can look at it but really cool to do um real easy to do as
well and it can help you stand out in something that's super popular right now that i'm seeing
in the top 100 so here we are here's the recap of the 11 design styles you can take a snapshot here
remember these are just layout design styles we're not copying the actual text in there or the niches
or whatever use your research do your research on what the niches are and kind of fill that space
with these techniques these design styles these graphics so have fun with this and hopefully you
can get some really good designs up on amazon and get some sales so that is it for this video
thanks so much for watching hopefully these design styles help you make some good t-shirts
for amazon now most of these are for amazon so they may work for other print-on-demand sites
but they're mainly for amazon because we did the research on amazon so if this was really helpful
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