pic: Rookie Team 4525 t-shirt design!!

[Kevin Sevcik]

My OCD is worried for your screen printing company having to align those different screens with that precision. The Lost in Space robot will be particularly challenging.

What color shirt is this going on, and what order are you printing? I would guess black shirts, printing white then blue then red... But looking at the blown up picture, even that arrangement seems highly unlikely to work well.

TLDR; I'd recommend running this by a graphic designer that works often with screen printed t-shirts. He'd likely have some useful suggestions that will make it more likely you'll be happy with how the shirts come out.

[mrmummert]

In order from the top going left to right..

1964-rock em sock em robots
1984- terminator
1962- "rosie" from the "jetsons" cartoon
1927- robot maria from "metropolis"
1977- "r2d2" from "star wars"
1965- robbie the robot...aka b-9 or as will robinson called him "robot"
1999- "bender" from "futurama"

[Rambot 4525]

Originally Posted by mrmummert

In order from the top going left to right..

1964-rock em sock em robots
1984- terminator
1962- "rosie" from the "jetsons" cartoon
1927- robot maria from "metropolis"
1977- "r2d2" from "star wars"
1965- robbie the robot...aka b-9 or as will robinson called him "robot"
1999- "bender" from "futurama"

You've got them all! Thought we would use a random selection. This could be changed every year, there is so much material. Good work on Metropolis!

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

My OCD is worried for your screen printing company having to align those different screens with that precision. The Lost in Space robot will be particularly challenging.

What color shirt is this going on, and what order are you printing? I would guess black shirts, printing white then blue then red... But looking at the blown up picture, even that arrangement seems highly unlikely to work well.

TLDR; I'd recommend running this by a graphic designer that works often with screen printed t-shirts. He'd likely have some useful suggestions that will make it more likely you'll be happy with how the shirts come out.

Just thought I'd bring this back up. It's a valid concern that should be looked into before going to the printer.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

Just thought I'd bring this back up. It's a valid concern that should be looked into before going to the printer.

I thought I'd run the design by my brother, a professional graphic designer who's designed some of 57's coolest shirts. His comments:

The only tough part is the lost in space robot. There's so many ultra fine lines around the "neck" that I think they'd just bleed together.

The thing about black shirts is that it takes 2 at least one pass of white ink underneath everything so the color doesn't come out dull. Like a base coat. In terms of everything else, a good print shop is staffed by professionals, they'll make anything look good and even make recommendations to guarantee a good outcome, but superfine lines that are really close together might get lost just from the ink absorbing into the fabric (or a shifty screen printer would just print it bad and blame it on the designer). I'd just take the neck area and make it a solid shape.
My best advice is to take a full size printout to the print shop and ask, "Will this work? Will this be hard to pull off? What can I do to ensure as few misprints as possible?" Again, a good printer will have a conversation and provide advice, it's extremely beneficial and educational to young designers to meet and respect the people who make their designs happen, just like engineers and machinists.

[Rambot 4525]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

I thought I'd run the design by my brother, a professional graphic designer who's designed some of 57's coolest shirts. His comments:

I plan on simplifying the neck of the Lost in Space bot. These are vector graphics I drew and I work closely with the screen printer who is a friend of mine. Before teaching I was a graphic designer for ten years. You are correct being concerned, if this was a jpeg or other format there would be issues but traps and colour will not be a problem. Will post when we get them screened.

[ctccromer]

Words can not describe the level of pride I would have while sporting that shirt.
Great design!

[Jibsy]

Love the design! You guys are doing awesome, keep it up!

[voxelcreative]

That's EXCELLENT! I have to say... nice choice of iconic robots, and bender!!!