Tips for Designing a Custom T-Shirt

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GRACE FRAGA: We already have cut our little patches, two patches. And now, it's time to design the T-shirt. So, what are some of the tips you give us to design the T-shirt? CHANTELLE TIBBS: When I design the original Redistribute, there's a study that shows that most people, when they look at your clothes, they look at you--anything that's written, they look right here. So, I always try to keep my words up here. And now, some folks have their words lower but this is the eyeline. If you want something you really wanted to be said, this is a good place to put it. You can also put it on your back of your shirt, that's the same thing, it's the eyeline. And it's up in like the top of the chest area. So, that's where I decided to put the Redistribute but remember, you're the artist, you can put it anywhere you want. So, I'm going to place this right here on the upper left corner of the shirt eyeline so that people can see the word Redistribute. Now, redistribute has a lot of meaning to me so redistribute is kinda of--I guess it's kind of socialist but it's in the sense of just like, you have like--when you have something and you're not using it that you should redistribute it. Every year... GRACE FRAGA: Like breasts? CHANTELLE TIBBS: Yeah, if you... GRACE FRAGA: There you go. CHANTELLE TIBBS: ...if you have a bunch of breasts and somebody needs--and a butt, you can just donate some of that, some butt. GRACE FRAGA: You can just do it and that's the message. That's very generous. CHANTELLE TIBBS: That's right, yeah. But--and pretty much, we have a project called Redistribute every year and last year it was My Friend's Place. This year it's the Youth Alliance on the--hate. And pretty much what I do is I donate. I take shirts that you would have at like the goodwill or shirts that you would take to the goodwill or shirts you don't want anymore and I redesign them. I cover up things and I fix the shirt and I make--and I give them away. So, that's an every year project for us and I call it Project Redistribute. So, we have a shirt that says... GRACE FRAGA: Nice. CHANTELLE TIBBS: ...Redistribute. Now, I'm going to put this eye. And this is design is based off of a--it's like a flame or... GRACE FRAGA: Yeah. CHANTELLE TIBBS: It looks like a flame but--it's a flame, usually when we watch fire but this is almost like fire watching us 'cause the parts that make it look like it's on fire, it looks like a... GRACE FRAGA: To be honest, I thought it was a fish. I'm not going to lie to you. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Well, you know, there you go. GRACE FRAGA: That's a fish to me. CHANTELLE TIBBS: It's going to be something different to everybody. GRACE FRAGA: See? So--but that brings us to design, like to me it's a fish, so I probably would like do this. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Yeah. Okay. And we can do that then. GRACE FRAGA: So, it's whatever it means to you, that's how you design it? CHANTELLE TIBBS: Exactly. GRACE FRAGA: To you it's a flame so you design it that way. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Exactly, and that says a lot too with people who are getting really technical with the design. You know they're like, "Technical, technical, technical." You can draw something all day long and then somebody else could be like, "I thought that was a baboon." So, remember, it's a T-shirt, you're wearing it, people are going to be hiding with their eyes--don't get too crazy. Just make sure that it looks--remember you're designing the T-shirt but you're also designing something that folks can wear and be proud of wearing.

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