The above title is another funny example of things we’ve seen printed on T-shirts. You can have so much fun with text on Tees, but some of the funniest designs are mistakes and mis-translations. We’ve included a few more this week, some from Tee shirts, and some from badly translated signs.

No thanks…that’s ok, you can keep it!:-)

Well….the text is nice and clear, but the meaning is a bit obscure!

Everyone stand clear! Explosive Dog on the loose….maybe a new terrorist weapon? Funny how the absence of one “s” can give text a whole new meaning.

We wish you all are Merry Christmas, and hope that all our customers are giving their loved ones some of our great tee-shirts, polos, or rashies as gifts this Season

Here at Customyourshirt, we love all things “T-Shirt”, and love to see what folks from other countries like to print on their tees. Some of the funniest artwork comes via cross-cultural misunderstanding, particularly between Asia and the West. It’s a matter of “if it looks good, it must be cool”. We’ve collected a few samples of what happens when people don’t understand the text of another language. Some samples are unprintable, so we’ve kept it clean. It makes us wonder what on earth our own shirts actually say, when we buy a shirt with Chinese or Japanese text

Here are just a few samples of what happens when we don’t understand a language, and go off to buy a tee-shirt. Some shirts obviously have blocks of text lifted from books or magazines, and placed artistically on the shirt, without the slightest understanding of the text meaning. …hope you enjoy these, we’ll put some more up later.

French and US president advertised middle East preference in a souvenir shop selling Tee shirts.

A souvenir shop in Jerusalem displays Tee shirts with pictures of French President Nicolas Sarkozy wearing a traditional Arab headress and US Barack Obama in the hat of an Orthodox Jew.

Top Palestinian and Israeli leaders held talks in New York amid frantic diplomatic efforts to avoid a showdown over a Palestinian bid to seek full UN membership as a state. Let us know if you want some Tees to support their cause.

Some of our customers like to wear scary stuff on their tee-shirts, and we get some pretty amazing artwork sent in to print. But the message gets kind of lost when the artwork’s all blurry and pixelated, and our Art department often gets called in to re-draw an illustration, and put the SCARY part back in !

This is a sample of the artwork received from one customer recently:

It goes without saying that this kind of artwork presents a real challenge in preparing a new drawing for displaying on one of our great tee-shirts, and usually necessitates a couple of Panadol afterwards too!  Here is the result of our re-draw, and then a sample of what it looked like on a shirt:

Once you’ve had artwork re-created, it remains on our files for future use…in case you want us to dig it out at Halloween, to scare everybody all over again Maybe you’re an aspiring artist, and want to advertise your skills on a shirt, along with your contact details, and maybe a website  URL….our top quality polos and tees are perfect. You’ll also notice that the print sizing maximum for our style of printing is 28cm wide by 36cm high

We can’t say enough about the power of advertising on a T-shirt.  Shirts with logos are “walking billboards” Our amazing range of shirts include everything from girls & guys t-shirts, to hoodies, poloshirts, Hi-Vis shirts, kids tees, and hats, coolers and mousemats. Nothing looks as good as a whole group of company staff wearing the company emblem on a good quality tee-shirt or poloshirt.

Some recent customers have asked us to redraw their company logo, to supply their staff with shirts for customer service. Like many of us, over the years, they’d lost their original artwork, and didn’t know what text font was used in their logo. We were able to come to the rescue, and completely recreate their logo, set up a print template, and supply hundreds of shirts. An added bonus was that now their new logo is stored in our database, and accessible for all future printing needs. Here are a couple of samples of great looking company logos we’ve just done:

This logo for Redland Bay Fishing Club was redrawn from a tiny sample sent to us in different colours. The club wanted it to really stand out, so it was printed just in red, and looks really effective. Here’s the sample shirt:

Here’s the small coloured logo we used to recreate the logo:

Another very effective logo just in one colour is the Atari Logo:

Printed on a black T-shirt. So you see, walking billboards have got to be some of the most inexpensive and effective advertising you can use for your company. We hope you will allow us to assist you in growing your business.

Like photography, sometimes a picture or design looks far more effective in black and white, than in colour.  The example we have for you today is a fantastic little design sent in by a customer, to be printed in black, on one of our classic white t-shirts. The design is so simple, yet creates a bit of an optical illusion. Part of the text says “Schroedinger’s cat is dead” and the other text says “Schroedinger’s cat is alive” ! Maybe you can use this example to create your own spin on the design?

Other designs which print extremely well in one or two colours are tribal tattoo designs, and African designs, as well as negative silhouettes and cartoon designs made from photographs. Escher’s optical illusions  also look amazing on polo shirts and tees. Here are a couple of examples:

Such a simple, but effective design, just using black and grey, and leaving the white background of the t-shirt for the white lettering. Here is what it looked like on the shirt we prepared earlier!:

Here are a couple of samples of Escher’s brilliant designs – one of them printed as a tattoo on a man’s head!

and Here is another of this brilliant man’s designs:

So many of us have digital cameras today that it wouldn’t be hard to create an amazing design even from photos, using a program such as Photoshop to edit and put together your own t-shirt design  Imagine wearing, or giving a gift of a shirt featuring your own artwork ….