T-Shirt Videos at You Design It

How lucky is Threadless to have Coty Gonzales, t-shirt blogger extraordinaire, doing an episode a week exclusively covering their shirts. The guy goes through each design and hands out winks to those that he likes. Threadless should be sending Coty shirts on a regular basis.

Leave it up to Nike to be absolutely over the top with the special effects.  This time they focused their efforts on some new t-shirt gun technology.  This commercial starts off with NFL superstar, Steven Jackson checking out a new shoe in a meeting with Nike’s product development.  Their meeting is interrupted by two Nike 6.0 snowboarders, Matt Ladley and Trevor Jacob.

These two clowns have futuristic t-shirt guns in their hands and are shooting each other with Nike sportswear t-shirts.  I don’t want to give away the punch line, so you just have to watch the video to see what happens when the t-shirts hit the person they were aimed at.

One of the largest, if not the largest, sources for streetwear on the internet is Karma Loop. They have just about every hot streetwear brand there is to be had on the interwebs. They have come from humble beginnings to be a monster in the industry.  Greg Selkoe is the CEO and he recently sat down to tell their story at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

The main theme is perseverence. He begins with admitting they should have gone out of business at least 15 times before becoming the behemoth they are now. The story is good and we are fortunate he is willing to tell it. Pretty inspirational info.

Caution – language can be slightly NSFW at times.

I am still trying to bring you the classics in the beginning of You Design It TV because these are the videos that started making me aware of the need for t-shirt videos. The technique shown in this next video for t-shirt folding is pretty revolutionary in terms of time saved and consistency of the fold. The efficiency of mastering the process is full of awesomeness.

I will have to admit it took me a while to get it right but after the first successful attempt….it is like riding a bike. Go ahead and give it your all, just don’t expert to be a t-shirt folding ninja on the first try!

Get ready for this guy to be a regular on You Design It TV. I have said it before and I will say it again, Coty Gonzales works extremely hard at his craft. And not just hard but equally as smart too. He hails from Hawaii and is quickly becomine a t-shirt expert in the industry. Check out his daily-updated blog at Coty Gonzales.

Put together regular videos and sticking to them is a pretty admirable accomplishment. You can see that his opinion is valuable with all of the shirts that are sent to him for review.

Co-Tee TV Episode 22: Quixotic Clothing, Full Metal T-Shirt and Light Bulbs from Coty Gonzales on Vimeo.

I know there have been similar videos since this one of people breaking the t-shirt wearing record. I think I remember seeing some 200+ shirts being worn by one person. I decided to post this one because of the originality and creativity. I will try and find the most worn in the future and post it to see the difference.

The end total weight was over 100 pounds of t-shirts ranging in size Small to 10XL. You could use that size for a bed sheet!

Why wait any longer to follow up our last video by Jimmy Heartcore and not just post the next one right after. These screencasts on how to separate colors in t-shirt artwork are top-notch professional grade quality. It is one that I have watched many times over and will continue to watch in the future as a brush-up.

Thanks Jimmy and we hope you have more to come.

4-Color Process Separations In Photoshop from Jimmy Heartcore on Vimeo.

For the inaugural video post on You Design It TV, I am going to one of my faves. Jimmy Heartcore has two of the best screen printing artwork tutorials based on color separations on the web. You can bet that I will be posting the second one soon. High quality with a lot to learn, you can’t miss this one.

Spot Color Separations In Photoshop from Jimmy Heartcore on Vimeo.