This collection of 30 stunning T-Shirt designs is an inspirational roundup of examples from some of the best names in the apparel world, each with their own unique take on vector illustration and design.
Vector based artwork not only looks great, but the nature of vector design makes it a perfect choice for professional design for print: design for products such as T-Shirts require color separations in order to be produced by industrial printers. With the closing date for our Vector T-Shirt design competition fast approaching (September 28th), it’s time for some last minute inspiration!
Jeff Finley
Jeff Finley is one of the creative minds behind first-class design studio Go Media, and a prominent figure in the web community. Well known for his unique illustrative style and T-Shirt design work produced for a range of well known bands and recording artists.
Jeff’s work is a successful mix of initial hand-drawn elements and vector elements, resulting in some detailed and stunning illustrations.
Dave Tevenal
Dave Tevenal, another member of the design team at Go Media, has produced design material for bands such as Bullet for My Valentine and War Pigs. His awesome illustrative style is crisp and colorful, displaying a range of line-work and vibrant contrast.
Rob Dobi
Rob Dobi is a respected illustrative designer working primarily in the music industry with a client list including Fall Out Boy, New Found Glory, The Used and Angels and Airwaves.
Included within his personal T-Shirt line is a collection of stylized vector illustrations portraying unique messages with inspiring and sometimes humorous designs.
Nik Holmes
Nik Holmes is a long-time Threadless user and multiple submission winner. His vector characters and artwork result in crisp and clean T-Shirt designs such as the popular winning design Corporate Zombie seen on Threadless.com.
Ray Frenden
Ray Frenden is a talented illustrator from Illinois who has worked with a variety of clothing companies, bands and skate/surf clothing lines. His initially hand drawn artwork is then treated to fine vector line-work and an impactful use of bright and energetic colors.
Herman Lee
Herman Lee is a popular figure in the T-Shirt design community and showcases a range of distinctive design work. His range of T-Shirt creations include variations of vivid color and abstract illustrations to hand-drawn work with a limited color palette.
Alex Norman
Alex Norman is a talented illustrator from Bristol, UK. His extremely intricate illustrative artwork makes extensive use of fine line-work and detail. Based on an array of monsters, zombies and other fictional characters his work is right at home being exhibited in print on T-Shirts.
Matthew Skiff
Matthew Skiff is a Colorado-based illustrator with an extensive client list including a range of clothing lines. His design portfolio presents some amazing T-Shirt designs, often including an assortment of monstrous characters set in strong lines and bold colors.
Now it’s your turn!
If you’d like to exercise your own T-shirt design chops, win a hefty loan for Kiva.org, have your design turned into a real T-shirt, showcased at VECTORTUTS and sold through Cafepress while helping to “solve poverty” as you do it, be sure to enter our Vector T-shirt design competition before midnight on September the 28th. We look forward to seeing some of your awesome designs on the site!
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i like those from herman lee!
herman li from dragonfroce?
Absolutely fantastic stuff – thanks for posting.
AMAZING shirt designs! I want them
The first one from Herman Lee is rad!
Awesome!! I like those skull design shirts…
All of those designs are really great
Just my opinion but skulls are way over used. Totally
Frenden, Ray Frenden. Not Frendon. Other than that, nice compilation of work. A lot of talent there.
Great stuff…. Thanks! http://www.BJNArt.com
nices designs
You left out Hydro74, YASLY and so many more!
Amazing works, what can I say – I am not so big fan of those skeletons and zombies but the first ones I really enjoy! I will add this for inspiration! thanks!
i thought this would be alot better. did not really like any of them
Skiff, congrats man, your becoming a well known beast with your designs man, happy I got on the wagon early!
Great technique and skill in many of them, but only really like 3 as a t shirt design
I hate to whine…but I check this site at my job…and I’ll probably have to stop because of the post title.
I agree, these are k-a designs…but I just can’t risk the boss-man seeing this site.
And check, they do.
Congratulations guys, Nice to see these shirts getting some love.
If you like these, check out Grape Brain’s work. He’s Japanese, but his site is easy to navigate and the art is GREAT! I discovered his stuff last year when I was visiting Osaka & was blown away. Great great stuff. His website is grapebrain.net or you can search around Yahoo & Google’s Japanese sites to find examples of what he does. You won’t be let down
incredible, just incredible, i love it!
wow
Thanks Spoon for featuring Dave and myself! Dave’s work doesn’t get highlight enough so that’s awesome you picked him!
Btw, those tees of mine are 1-2 years old by now! I’ve been slacking on the portfolio updates and I haven’t posted on emptees lately. I should send you some new work!
DEF HYDRO 74 ! AND TROY WHITE ! AND MATT ROXO!
wow.nice tshirts.great post.
These are some awesome shirts, vector artwork is getting more popular everyday.
These are some amazing designs. Especially Rob Dobi’s and Nik Holmes The zombie/skull designs I find really cool, but not sure I would really wear them.
We just started a clothing design company using vector art designs too, One of Twenty and this is the type of stuff we look up to.
Thanks for the feature! Jeff is correct. My last name is spelled with an E.
yeah loved the Herman Lee and the zombie stuff!!!
I also did a post on 18 truly awesome designer tshirts…
http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/09/18/18-truly-awesome-handpicked-designer-tshirts/
click my name.
woowww very nice designs
We have some cool t-shirt designs for sale at http://www.designious.com/t-shirt-designs/cat_2.html, have a look.
Thanks.
Thumbs up for Jeff Finley.
besides the fullbleed desgins, I need to find out where I can find these shirts!!! Help please??
Frendans and Matt Shiff’s are great.
i like whoever does king apparels designs aswell
The Rob Dobi shirts are pretty awesome. I like the crisp clean lines.
These are some really nice designs. Thank U!
herman li? that the dragonforce guitarist….hahaha
I was expecting to see dobi in the list
cOol sHiRTz i LyK dA sKuLlz tHeRe bADaSs
Nice design. All of them are kick-ass, but those skulls are not my style.
Awesome!
i rlly like this types of t-shits!