All you ever wanted to know about the T-Shirt industry is right here. Get to know about the various kinds of graphical T-Shirts available in the market and how they have become a rage. Explore how T-Shirts portray your style and thinking while being a visible symbol of your personal statement.

T-Shirt Design
By Henry De Guzman

The fashion industry woke up to the importance of T-Shirt design, sometime in the last decade or so. Till then nobody had cared to give the designing of T-Shirts much forethought. If there was a great idea that could be put on a T-Shirt, then well and good, but if not, then no sleep was lost over it. T-Shirt design emerged as a major component of the fashion industry when the designing world saw the coming of skilled graphic designers. Over the years this trend has gained in popularity and T-Shirt design is fast becoming a major money-spinner in terms of the designing business.

By using innovative graphics to design T-Shirts, graphic designers found a new medium to showcase their wares. Using spectacular artwork, they made T-Shirt designing a whole new form of art. Moreover an increasing focus on personalizing items that were used daily, saw the popularity of T-Shirt designing gain by leaps and bounds. The inherent desire to advertise your thoughts, desires, likes, and dislikes on articles of daily wear has meant that we are seeing highly innovative, fantastic, and sometimes scandalizing T-Shirt designs entering the market. Today, you not only see customized T-Shirt designs but also get to see personalized car graphics, accessories and even mobile phone covers.

You might just be of that generation when 'sloganeering' was very popular. This was the time when you wore your slogan on your tees, also called 'slogan tees'. Though simple in nature, a witty slogan was generally printed on these T-Shirts. These T-Shirts are now not in-sync with what is usually termed the 'generation next'. The limelight is now being stolen by more adventurous and complex T-Shirt designs.

The popularity of T-Shirt design can be gauged from the fact that it has now evolved into a venture that is community driven. There is extensive collaboration between consumers and designers, whereby a kind of non-formal product testing takes place before the products are finally produced for the market. The latest technology has enabled unspecialized people to undertake the designing and printing of their own T-Shirts.

Many companies have now formed online communities. The purpose of these communities is that members can contribute their personal designs to a particular product. T-Shirt aficionados have also got into the act now and have created blogs that cater to the specific needs of the consumers. Here, 'expert consumers' guide other members as to what design they must go for and what is hip and what is not.

Moreover, these experts have industry contacts and are in-sync with the latest brands available in the market today. They have their own networking groups and also have an idea about the latest T-Shirt designs that are available in the market. T-Shirt design is a million dollar industry today. If you are looking for a great T-Shirt design then you definitely will be spoilt for choice. So go buy your T-Shirt that has a design suited just for you.

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Color In Uniform

Have you ever wondered why certain colors are associated with specific professions? Why, for instance, do surgeons and doctors always wear blue and green scrubs? And why do corporate leaders wear black? The answer has to do with the emotive qualities of colors and how they affect us. Blue and green are soothing, peaceful hues and are known to cause feelings of relaxation. Hospitals are stressful places for doctors, nurses, and their patients, and the subtle visual cues help everyone stay a bit calmer in what can often be a difficult situation. Black has traditionally been the color of authority, and let’s face it, a black-robed judge can cut a truly imposing figure. Purple, the color of royalty, signifies a different type of authority, the authority of leadership, and as of late has taken precedence as the color of choice for presidential ties. In fact, whenever you see a uniform, you can be quite sure that there is a good reason behind the choice of color.

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Quotes for Entrepreneurial Peeps

1. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. ~ John Wayne

2. If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you. ~ Robert Collier

3. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. ~ Richard Branson

4. Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. ~ Henry J. Kaiser

5. Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time.Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ~ Vince Lombardi

6. You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. ~ Zig Ziglar

7. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ~ Henry Ford

8. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. ~ Napoleon Hill

9. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ~ Thomas Watson, Sr.

10. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill

11. To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. ~ Tony Dorsett

12. Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~ John Wooden

13. You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance. ~ Lee Iacocca

14. Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. ~ William Durant

15. I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~ Martha Stewart

16. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. ~ David Rockefeller

17. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~ Maya Angelou

18. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

19. If you are going through hell, keep going. ~ Winston Churchill

20. It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. ~ Confucius

21. I’ve always believed that one woman’s success can only help another woman’s success. ~ Gloria Vanderbilt

22. Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke. ~ Eliot Wiggington

23. Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. ~ Bernice Johnson Reagon

24. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~ Bruce Lee

25. You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

26. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~ Steve Jobs

27. If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know and start charging for it. ~ Kim Garst

28. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ~ Helen Keller

29. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

30. Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~ Frederick B Wilcox

31. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ~Henry Ford

32. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. ~ Mark Twain

33. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~ Jimmy Johnson

34. The essential question is not, “How busy are you?” but “What are you busy at?” ~ Oprah Winfrey

35. If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient. ~ Gurbaksh Chahal

36. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~ Beverly Sills

37. We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. ~ Earl Nightingale

38. Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out. ~ Robert Collier

39. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~ Thomas A. Edison

40. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~ Swami Vivekananda

41. Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. ~ Harriet Tubman

42. No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. ~ Buddha

43. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ~ Henry Ford

44. When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. ~ Audre Lorde

45. Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

46. If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. ~ Ray Kroc

47. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~ Vidal Sassoon

48. The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. ~ Debbi Fields

49. Have a very good reason for everything you do. ~ Laurence Olivier

50. Capital isn’t scarce; vision is. ~ Sam Walton

Why start a business?

It’s funny. This past year has really stunk. I lost my mother in February. We moved into my fathers to care for him this summer and it has been a huge adjustment for everyone. I finally decided to do what I want to do. I have always had an entrepreneurial spirit. I want to be able to have a legacy to leave to my kids. So I decided to start my own business making custom  t- shirts and school and sport uniforms. I spent the entire summer researching and discovering what is offered in the market now and how I can add to it. I also see the potential to help schools/teams/leagues/parents save money by giving them a cost effective option. I am a mother of 5 children, 3 girls and 2 boys. All of my kids are involved in some kind of extracurricular activity and I can tell you first hand how expensive it is. I am here to work with you to come up with a solution to your costs. I have a ton of fundraising experience and some great ideas. Think how neat it would be to have the ability to sell custom shirts to raise funds for your organization? Or car magnets…or car clings….or wall decals….the possibilities are endless!!

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Website Is Live!!

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