Print Designs for Clothing

Graphics for the Garment Industry

This is only a small sample of what the Apparel Search design staff is capable of creating. We specialize in graphics for the garment industry and have extensive knowledge of applications and production. From men’s to boy’s to women’s to girl’s, make Apparel Search your one stop shop for all of your graphic needs. The seven samples in the gallery below — dragon, flame, polo, soccer, character, construction and millennium artworks — were chosen to show spread rather than depth: creature graphics, biker flames, sport themes, licensed-character style work, workwear themes and commemorative art are different trades inside one studio, and a buyer of print work needs to know which of them a studio can actually draw.

Print design for clothing is production design, not illustration for its own sake. A graphic has to survive being separated into screens, printed at a set size on a moving garment, and washed for the life of the clothing. Knowledge of applications and production is what separates a garment print from a picture: line weights that hold in screen printing, color counts a printer can run profitably, repeats that join invisibly on an allover print and artwork sized for the chest, back or sleeve it will occupy. The studio’s print work sits alongside its Apparel Search Design Studio menswear page and the wider studio services, and companies planning production can continue to Production Guru for production and sourcing services.

Spot Prints and Allover Prints

The two families of garment print ask for different drawing. A spot print is a single placed graphic — the dragon or the flame — composed for one position on one garment, judged the way a poster is judged. An allover print is a repeating pattern that covers the fabric itself, composed as a tile whose edges must disappear, judged the way a textile is judged. Studios often do one well and the other badly, because the skills differ: spot work rewards boldness, allover work rewards patience and mathematics. A sample set that shows both families, as this one does across its seven pieces, is the quickest evidence that a studio can serve a whole line rather than a single tee.

Choosing between them starts with the garment and the market. A boy’s tee can carry a large spot graphic that would overwhelm a women’s fashion top; a millennium or event graphic has a selling season measured in months, while a good allover floral or geometric can run for years across many garment types. The brief for print work should name the garment, the print position, the approximate size, the number of print colors the budget allows and the delivery date — the same discipline the Pricing Request Form page describes for design work generally, applied to the print studio’s specific questions.

Whose Artwork Is Shown Here

Apparel Search Company has no affiliation with any of the companies represented in this artwork, nor does it imply representation of these companies. All logos and related indicia are property of the particular company. These are actual samples of work that has been created for these companies or the licensees of these companies. Although art was created by our art staff, we do not claim ownership or right of any kind to the artwork presented in this section. The samples are shown as evidence of the staff’s drawing range, under the same rule as the licensed presentation boards in this section: creating the art for a client or a licensee never transferred the client’s rights to the studio.

Photos

The seven samples below are the print artworks themselves, shown at their full-size paths. Each one also opens at full size from its caption link.

Dragon print — a bold creature graphic drawn for garment printing.

Flame print — a flame graphic in the motorcycle-inspired style used on biker apparel.

Polo print — a sport-theme graphic prepared for casual apparel.

Soccer print — a soccer graphic for sports apparel.

Character print — a licensed-character style graphic sample.

Construction print — a workwear-theme graphic for occupational apparel.

Millennium print — a turn-of-the-millennium commemorative graphic sample.