Showing posts with label T-shirt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label T-shirt. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Merchandise House of Coffee April 2011

Ok setelah sebelumnya selesai ngerancang seragam sekarang giliran desainer lepas unjuk gigi lagi untuk bikin merchandize masih dengan client yang sama House of Coffee di Semarang. Sekarang semuanya diserahin ke aku sebagai desainer. Mulai dari pemilihan warna, model, gaya desain, proses produksi, dsb semuanya aku (padahal desainer grafis itu urusannya bukan cuma nyablon kali... walaupun bisa). Susah juga ya. Klo desainer profesional sih tinggal bikin, client gak banyak ba.bi.bu karena liat perusahaan tempat kita kerja. Nah klo masih jadi desainer lepas kaya gini ya ngurusin semuanya sendiri, mulai dari cari tempat produksi, sampe bawa barangnya. Merchandise yang pertama itu kaos alias t-shirt dengan warna dasar putih. Aku ambil warna netral soalnya ini merchandise pertama untuk kafe yang baru aja buka. Harus dipikirkan mateng-mateng biar bisa laku juga. Aku kan emang desainer lepas yang kuliah di jurusan Desain Komunikasi Visual. Gak cuma urusan nggambar aja yang harus bisa, strategi kaya gini harus dipikirkan mateng-mateng, jadi client juga senang dengan keputusanku yang tepat, jadi walaupun masih desainer lepas, tapi udah kaya kerja resmi.
Sekarang tinggal mikir gaya desain.... ilustrasi sederhana aja lah, dengan kiddy style, sedikit gak rata stroke-nya, dengan warna-warna harmonis yang sama sekali gak kontras (cuma maen shade sama tint aja). Aku bikin pake pen tablet... merk Genius i608 (maklum, pendapatan selama ini sebagai desainer lepas masih sayang untuk beli wacom bamboo fun atau intuos yang sampe 3jutaan lebih harganya... tapi itu aja udah bagus kok). Maenin adobe Illustrator doang... jadi deh tu design.

Bagi yang suka beli ya... bisa didapatkan di House of Coffee, Jl. Jati Raya G17, Banyumanik Semarang. Mungkin awal bulan April 2011 ini release.

Monday, April 19, 2010

CMYK Color Separation (for T-shirt Screen Printing)


Here I’ll explain how to do CMYK color separation for screen printing. Why buy a software that’ll cost you a lot if you can do it with your photoshop? And what if you don’t have any postscript printer on your desk, so you have to make the dots on your own? What if you have the postscript printer, but your artwork is larger than your printer size can hold? I’ll explain those here.

See the cost:
Color separation software: US$ 299.oo
Color separation service  : US$ 35.oo each file (US) or IDR 15,oo/mm /color (Indonesia)
Photoshop Color Separation Plugin : US$99.oo
Make your own with photoshop : free (Photoshop software price and printing fees are not included)

First, prepare your image or graphic. Here I use the illustration of “Nightmare” a Soul Calibur IV character.


  1. Prepare the image (make sure it’s large enough), and change the resolution to 300dpi by choose menu Image> Image Size.
  2. Change the color mode to CMYK by choosing menu Image>Mode then you’ll see that the channels is changed to Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black.
  3. Click the option of channels panel (the little triangle on the right upper corner) and choose split channel
  4. Now You got C M Y and K channel split with gray in mode.
  5. Choose menu image>mode>bitmap
  6. Set the output resolution to 300 dpi and method to “halftone screen”
  7. Set the frequency to 45 lpi to 55 lpi, depends on your screen mesh. Let’s choose 45 for now (it is safer). And set the shape to ellipse
  8. Do this to every channel, with unique angle for each separated color. The angles are C=15, M=45, Y=75 and K=75 so you won’t get a moirĂ© pattern.
  9. To simulate the printing, make a new file on CMYK mode, change it to multichannel mode, copy and paste each color on its channel. WAY SO SIMPLE!

Note: if you don’t want to do the tutorial I’ve explained, please download the photoshop CS3 Action i’ve made from here . Place it under X:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Presets\Actions (for x32 OS which “X” refer to the disk drive where Photoshop installed)

You can download the full tutorial including picture here (.pdf)

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

T-shirt Design 4 Sale

These are some of my t-shirt design which i made January 2010. You can buy it. It's sold per-graphic-range. It won't cost you much, only IDR 150,000 or about US$ 15 each range. Contact me, and it'll be yours only. I'll send it to your e-mail. The payment is via bank transfer or via paypal.

ONX R01-0110 (SOLD)
 
ONX R02-0110


 
ONX R03-0110 (SOLD)

 
ONX R04-0110 (SOLD)

 
ONX R05-0110
  
ONX RO6-0110 (SOLD)

 
Thats all for now. Just wait my other design this middle february
thanx y'all