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Being unemployed doesn’t mean to be unoccupied. The only difference is the lack of money. So I got me an account at spreadshirt. It’s one of those platforms where you can create T-shirts with your on motifs. All you have to do is to upload your image as a vector- or pixel file. If you’re lucky and people buy it, you can earn a selfdefined commision per sold shirt. And it’s a very good way for designers to bandy their ideas about.


The first motif which I uploaded, is about J.S. Bach. His immortal music is still one of the most played in the world. But not only classical musicians play it. One of the last quotations is Tenacious D’s Song Tribute, which proved the Rock compatibility to Baroque music. Wouldn’t it be cool if Bach would have rocked his harpsichord like Jack Black…

As you can see in the gallery, the motif went a long production process. In order to be plott printed I couldn’t use pixel images. So I had to go the long and stony way. As it was my first T-shirt I had to deal with the printing techniques. And there were a lot of problems I didn’t even imagined before. Reading the spreadshirt FAQ revealed a few secrets. Thereby I learned that any vectore object has to be a closed path, has to have a size of at least 1.5cm (0.6in) and a minimum distance to other objects of 1cm (0.4in). But knowing that didn’t prevented me from the annoying revision process with the spreadshirt design team. My motif was rejected for 4 times before I could create any T-shirt with it, which is a good measurement of the quality assurance spreadshirt provides. The main problem was my approach of drawing it first as a pixel picture. So I had to review every single path point, after the automated tracing. Drawing it by hand and controlling it straightaway would have saved me a lot of time. But next time I’m going to be smarter. By the way one great trick to do smaller distances between objects is to use two different color layers. You have to know that any color has to be printed separately onto the fabric and for any color the plotter will cut out a separate printing foil. And the distance restrictions are only meant for one color layer. So that you can design your object distances smaller than 1 cm, but only for different colors. If there are still questions to you how they print the shirts, I recommend you to watch this video. It was a major help to me…


But enough of the ramblings. Here is my BaRock T-Shirt on the spreadshirt market. Just click it and buy it. I wanna see you in this shirt…