In this video we're going to take a look and study one of my favorite t-shirt shops online and that
is SnorgTees. We're going to look at their designs and discover different ways that they create their
awesome t-shirt designs and I'm going to show you 10 things that they do. 10 different
design styles that they use so that you can see what a good
t-shirt design looks like and use it in your own shop. 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 right around that time is when I started looking online
for examples of good t-shirt designs and I found this place called SnorgTees. They're still in
business. I believe they started in 2005-2007. Right around the time when I started and they
just have some amazing designs. Their designs are all revolved around graphic humor which is really
great and i think these kinds of designs would sell well on amazon and redbubble and things like
that if you look at funny t-shirts you'll see a ton of those on any of those print-on-demand
shops people love these kinds of funny things so what i'm going to do and what i want to do
in the future is take a look i tell the people all the time that don't know how to make designs is to
go study go out there look at target look at some other t-shirt shops and study what they do this is
what we're going to do in this video i'm going to show you how to study what people do in this case
we're going to look at SnorgTees i'm going to go through and kind of scroll through all their
designs and i'm going to pull out different ones that i notice that there's a theme on the way that
they're styling their t-shirts so i'll show you 10 different ones 10 different styles that they use
to create their designs this isn't going to cover all of them but they're going to range from very
easy to a little more difficult so no matter what kind of t-shirt designer you are if you're a new
designer then you're going to find something for you if you're someone that can design really well
then i'll have something for you at the end as well we're going to kind of go in order with kind
of the easiest ones first and then it will get a little more difficult but if you study these and
kind of look at the layout we're going to look at layout and color and what each one involves so i
can kind of teach you what a good t-shirt design looks like hopefully you can use it in your own
design style your own shop and get more sales and that's the idea is to teach you good design
techniques from other people just learn from them we're not looking at what they're putting on there
we're looking at how they lay it out so if you want to look at that and see the 10 different
ones let's do that now first i'm going to go to SnorgTees kind of show you the website so that
you can go on there and look yourself and then i'm going to break it down into 10 different styles
so here i am on SnorgTees. SnorgTees.com I'm on the about page just wanted to fact check myself
and see this this company actually started in 2004 so a little before i started on here but
they're great they just started off great i'm going to show you the t-shirts i'm going to do
best sellers so that you can see what kinds of stuff they did but you can look at all t-shirts
and they have categories and things like that but just take a look at some of these designs
this is just so cool very easy you notice they don't have a lot of colors um but they most
of them are laid out tall rectangle right tall rectangle here but some of them aren't they break
break the idea right here but just some really fun and clever stuff again this is graphic humor
so mainly a graphic um and almost always funny in fact i think all of these are just hilarious so
so they do a lot of references to star wars star trek pop culture different things like
that i'm not saying to do those kinds of things i'm just we're just looking at layout right now so
you can see here with the text and the graphics how do you put together a graphic and text to make
it look good on a t-shirt well these guys have found multiple different ways and i'm gonna pull
some of these things out to show you what they do but sometimes there's no words right so if
you scroll through here you can really just scroll through here for a long time those were the best
sellers but if i went here to view all this thing goes on forever so let me just do the scroll here
you can see just they just have a ton of shirts of course because they've been here since
2004 and you can see a lot of them have to do with dinosaurs and cats and you know gaming thing and
things of pop culture right um pac-man and things like that so just be careful not to do those kinds
of things you shouldn't copy these designs anyway we're just going to look at layout and how they
how they use text and graphics together but i just wanted to show you kind of a resource of
good t-shirt design all of these are are great they're all a little bit different some are
better than others in my opinion like that's a great layout right this is a great layout
some of them are just really easy you know with text and a design anybody could do those
and of course anybody can just put words on a t-shirt but i'm going to try and show you some
other ones that they do just kind of looking at these and and showing you so one of the things
that i like to do if i'm ever stuck and i need to brainstorm i go to places like this and kind of
just get inspired of what kinds of things now don't copy any of these things you don't want
to do your own version of this thing but this can help you kind of brainstorm and think about
you know maybe a different topic or a different way to to lay things out and things like that so
have fun with this keep scrolling down here you can see it goes almost goes on forever uh all the
t-shirts that they have so lots of different ideas what i'm going to do now is i'm going to take
and look at 10 different examples and i'll show you what i've found
and kind of talk through them so you can see different ways that you can lay out your t-shirts
all right so here we go first i pick one of the easiest ones first and that is i'm calling it
text on top with the straight words so text on top straight you see right here there's a big graphic
usually a big graphic and the words on the top are pretty straight right they're not curving
or anything um they kind of and this one right here you know they're not all on the same line
but they're pretty straight up so and even though this one isn't right on a straight
line you can see it's um at the top here it's not like doing an arc or anything like that so
uh here's some examples and some things that you can do with this is make sure you choose very
few words so this works very well with one or two words you can see here one this one has two
words two words two words down here one long word right here and then there's a bigger graphic right
so that takes up most of the space and of course there has to be some humor in it because this is
uh humor graphic humor and so you know this one is hump day with the camo or this one has a funny
picture or just the words or the picture could be funny the picture alone here this tree isn't funny
by itself but with the words it is funny right so sometimes the picture doesn't the graphic doesn't
have to be funny for this to work so have fun with this one this is really easy if you can think of a
funny uh one or two word phrase that matches a graphic that you already have or want to draw
i think this will work really well the next one is this text on top arc which is almost
exactly the same thing but this time i'm arcing the text so you can see you can have a really fun
arc like this one a little more rounded or just a very slight arc like this but same thing one or
two words um graphic again that's nice and funny and you notice these graphics don't have a lot of
color one or two colors maybe three here but very good graphics right so you have to have some good
artwork to support this one and a bigger graphic because it takes up the most of the page the
graphic needs to be the star on this one so you can see not not too hard like these these aren't
super realistic graphics but they're funny they know um you can tell what this is it's a sloth on
a unicorn right this is a cheese getting graded right and a hedgehog and things like that so
you have to think about this beforehand don't just put text with a graphic it has to be funny and has
to be something that people think is funny when they see it they have to get it right away right
number three now a lot of people don't have graphics and want to use words and that's fine
this one is when there's a lot of words and you can see what they do when there's a lot of words
they usually put some kind of graphic to create some interest or use two different fonts or do
smaller and bigger fonts to kind of create interest right there's usually something in here
you see all of these have some kind of thing it's not just straight text you can see this one has
some really cool things going on this one is kind of at an angle and different things like that so
if you have a lot of words and in this case there's mostly
words and you just want to keep it simple with one or two colors you can see this one and
this one have one color and the others have just two colors right so keep it simple but
create interest with maybe different graphics or how you do your fonts or something like that so
this is another pretty easy way to do it you can see a lot of these are tall rectangles as well so
keep that in mind but this one mostly words you can learn a lot from what they do just with words
number four is this tall arc so unlike just the little arc like a rainbow this one kind of has
a straight line almost like a pill like half of a pill those long pills straight here and then
an arc and then straight down i haven't taught how to do this i probably do a video on how to
do this uh in affinity designer in other places but you can see all of these kind of have a tall
arc right um this is a trend that i've been seeing lately and i think it will continue to
you'll continue to see this throughout the years and what this is good for is if there's a tall
picture or tall graphic that you have so like this you can see this is a tall graphic and so
that's perfect for to use this technique to have the tall arc right and again i'll have this humor
side so this arc on the side is what you're looking for and and you can put stuff below
it you can put text below it but you don't have to you can see right here this has a tall graphic
and we're using the tall arc behind it with words so try to use kind of four to seven words is
where what i think it would be the right amount of words for the arc part and if you need to put some
words below then you can use that as well so this is a number four to tall arc number five is the
perfect circle i'm calling this the perfect circle because you can see it looks just like a circle
on the top and the bottom and um this works perfect for a lot of designs where you can put two
to four words on the top and two to four words on the bottom you can see three and three three and
three and they've all kind of looked the same here with a graphic in the middle right so two to four
on the top two to four on the bottom graphic in the middle real simple and these again
don't have a lot of colors and they can work for multiple different kinds of ideas and topics so
if you have an idea and you have a nice graphic and can think of words maybe put it in a circle
like this i think it works really well just a nice shape for t-shirt designs and real simple to do
so this one's not really a design style but a design idea so this one i'm calling not the thing
and really it's just a simple graphic but you're putting one or two words that describe
a different thing altogether so let me show you what i mean so obviously this is not a taco this
is a hot dog and it says taco right here and this one uh this guy's playing baseball and he's saying
touchdown in the opposite here uh this guy's playing football and he's saying home run and
the opposite of the taco hot dog here is it says a it is a taco but it says hot dog so just the
opposite of everything uh you could put baseball under here under this football and you could put
you know uh duck under here or something like that it's going quack so think of have a nice
graphic and maybe put the opposite thing in there this is a funny one and very simple to do
simple graphics one or two words and basically put what it's not so now we're getting just a
little more difficult and this one i'm calling the three circle venn diagram a venn diagram usually
for the most part have two but it's intersecting ideas together and then the center is the thing
that is the common analytic right so in this case um let's see an easy one right here if
the things that connect believing me now and thinking about tomorrow is don't stop don't stop
believing don't stop me now and don't stop thinking about tomorrow so that's the
middle part so if you can think of something don't copy these again but if you can think something
that has a common trait between three different things you can see here a platypus has you know
a bill of a duck and the tail of a beaver and um something of a snake i don't know what it
has to have a snake but that's kind of what it is right so um this one's really cool uh and
again it has that nice shape and i think people uh can relate to it and it tells the story right so
um this is a fun one to do but can take a little bit more thinking in a little more design with
this one because you're going to have to find more graphics and more things that works with it but
have fun with this one this is a cool one to do i'm calling it the three circle venn diagram so
number eight i'm calling this two things talking so basically it's like a cartoon where two things
are talking to each other and you can see lots of different ways to do this so think of a comic
where um and it's funny it has to be have funny but two cute graphics that have words on them so
you can see here um a french fry is saying bonjour and the tacos saying hola and that's funny right
they're talking to each other so try to think something really quick you don't want them to
um have long things to say one or two words each you know and get the message across really quickly
so try to fit it in a square like these are here but it doesn't have to be a tall rectangle all the
time but if you can that would be great so number nine this one's a little more difficult too for
those that have lots of graphics or lots of design experience i'm calling this groups of stuff so you
can see here lots of different groups of stuff we've got sharks we got animals plants cats
insects just have if you have a lot of different graphics of the same thing just slightly different
then you can do this one and everything has a name on them so you can see underneath they're kind of
just saying what each thing is and usually it's really funny i can't read all of these but you
can see uh if you want to go on there and look at it maybe zoom in here and see all of these have
really funny names and this is going to take a lot of time to design as well as think of what
each thing should be called but i think if you put some time into this one and make it really funny
i think this will get a lot of sales especially for people who love cats or who love plants or
who love the thing that you're doing in here i think this could do really well and sell a lot of
t-shirts so the last one number 10 now this one is i by far i think is the most difficult unless you
already have a design like this but i'm calling it the national park theme so you can see here all of
these say the word national park even though they're not national parks so you can kind
of um fake it so you can see a lot of these are designed very similarly the national park whatever
it is on the bottom and then you have this nice graphic kind of scenic graphic with a few colors
on there and and silhouettes so think about that think about what could be a fake national park and
that would be funny and come up with your own one again this is going to take a lot of design skill
and a lot of thinking of what it could be to make it funny but i think this one will pay off because
this would make a great poster as well if you can do it right can make great posters on redbubble
and redbubble always looks for things like this where it's very artistic and very timely and funny
as well so have fun with this one if you're an artist that can do this more power to you
this is a good one to do and i think it take a long time but it will pay off so here's a simple
recap of all 10 that i talked about today if you want to take a snapshot of this just to have it in
your record or just write these down this is great these are not all the design styles on SnorgTees.
There's a lot more but these are 10 that i picked out so that you can try them out and see how they
work for you so that is it for this video thanks so much for watching hopefully all these examples
are helping you learn how to design a t-shirt better if you struggle with that go and look at
these things try them out try them with different words and different graphics of course make up
your own thing uh let me know how that works out for you if this video was really helpful for you
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the day for this video is what other places do you look for inspiration let me know in the comments
i would love to do videos for all these different places i'm planning on doing one for like target
or different places in the mall and things like that online so that you can access those things
and kind of look at inspiration i'm going to try and do this as a series i wanted to start with
snorties because they're one of my favorites and real simple to understand they have great colors
and great design styles so let me know those in the comments thanks again for watching and
if you want to see more videos on how to design t-shirts click on these right here i'll go over
some of my styles and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye