Tshirt Design - High school lesson PPT for Beginners

PPT Lesson for high school about tshirt design

1. T-Shirt Design
How creative are you?

2. California State Standards
•Proficient
•2.1 Solve a visual arts problem that involves the effective use of the elements of art and the principles of
design.
•2.3 Develop and refine skill in the manipulation of digital imagery (either still or video)
•Advanced:
•1.6 Describe the use of the elements of art to express mood in one or more of their works of art.
•2.1 Create original works of art of increasing complexity and skill in a variety of media that reflect their
feelings and points of view.
•2.4 Demonstrate in their own works of art a personal style and an advanced proficiency in communicating
an idea, theme, or emotion.
•5.3 Prepare portfolios of their original works of art for a variety of purposes (e.g., review for post secondary
application, exhibition, job application, and personal collection).
Objectives:
•Students will create a t-shirt design that
communicates an idea, theme or emotion.
•Students will develop and refine their skills in the
manipulation of digital imagery.

3. What Makes a Good Shirt Design?
Will Somebody Buy Your Shirt?
•Does the design appeal
to the target audience?
(Who is the target audience?)
•Does the design have a
clear concept?
•Are the elements of art and
principles of design used to
support the design and the
message/mood of the design?
•Does the design look high quality?
•Is the design created in a high
quality format?
•Is design presented creatively?

4. Let’s Look at Some Shirt Designs and Decide
Which One is Best?
Monster in the Closet
byEfrem Palacios

5. Let’s Look at Some Shirt Designs and Decide
Which One is Best?
Space Needs
Color
by Alvaro
Arteaga Sabaini

6. Let’s Look at Some Shirt Designs and Decide
Which One is Best?
Missing!!!Designer by Julian Glander

7. Let’s Look at Some Shirt Designs and Decide
Which One is Best?
I Be Au Sm Designer by Lawrence Villanueva

8. Evaluate the Designs
•What stands out most when you first look at the designs?
•Does the design have a clear concept?
•How does the artist use the elements of art and principles of
design to lead the eye?
•How does the artist use color to add to the feeling of the
design?
•Who is the target audience for these designs? Does the design
appeal to that audience?
•How does the presentation of the shirt make it more
appealing?
•Does the design look high quality?
•Could the artist do anything to make this design more
successful?
•Which is your favorite? Why? Objective: Students will
create a t-shirt design that
communicates an idea,
theme or emotion.

9. Will evaluate the
designs using this
table in your
notes form.

10. Your Turn
You have five minutes.
Go to threadless.com
and find your favorite
design. Put your design
up on your screen and
we will all look at them.
Objective: Students will
create a t-shirt design that
communicates an idea,
theme or emotion.

11. Steps to Designing Your Own Shirt
•Step 1: Come up with an idea.
Your idea could be an
illustration or a slogan.
•Step 2: Complete some thumbnail
sketch ideas of your design, until
you come up with one you like.
•Step 3: Create your design in
Adobe Photoshop or Adobe
Illustrator.
•Step 4: Create a presentation for
your design.
•Step 5: Turn your final design into
the dropbox.
•Step 7: Critique.

12. Step 1
•Come up with an
idea. Your idea
could be an
illustration or a
slogan.
In your notes please
write down a
minimum of three
ideas.
For example:
1.I want to do a shirt
design for kids that
represents the
slogan “3
Caballeros”
2.I want to do a
design for the
quote, “Life is a
Bowl of Cherries.”
3.I want to do an
illustration of the
city.

13. Step 2
•Complete some
thumbnail
sketch ideas of
your design,
until you come
up with one you
like.
In your notes please
complete four thumbnail
sketches of design ideas for
your t-shirts.

14. Step 3
Create your design in
Adobe Photoshop or
Adobe Illustrator.
Your design must be:
•A minimum of 150 dpi at
the size it will be printed
•No more than 8 spot colors
•No larger than 15" x 20"
You will need to choose
which program will work
better for your design.

15. Step 4
Save your original
file!
Then copy your
artwork to one of
tee templates
located in the
assignments folder.
You can add to
your design to
make your
presentation more
interesting
You can either choose a template of a t-
shirt in Illustrator or Photoshop.
Or you can put it on an actual photo of a
person in a shirt.
Think about how you can creatively present
your shirts like the ones you saw earlier in
the presentation.

16. Step 5
Save your final
file as a jpg and
turn it into the
drop box.
BE PREPARED TO
CRITIQUE THE
ARTWORK IN
CLASS.