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CMYK T Shirt Print-Screen Printing one rupee

Steve — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:51:43 +0000

Screen printing CMYK on white T shirts can produce results equal to that of any DTG printer, so at what point does it become impractical to create screens and put it on a digital printer? The print featured here was printed @ 85LPI using water based inks. We really should have timed the process to enable us to make comparisons, but unfortunately we forgot, timing jobs from start to finish is a very good practice to get into on multi colour set ups. A very rough estimate would be a couple of hours to produce screens, ten minute press set up, 30 minute press clean up and an hourly production rate of around 400 pieces.

Critical to making this process a competitive price on smaller print runs (I think 100+ T-shirts is where we can start to compete with DTG) is getting your separations and screen making process precise and repeatable, it is almost impossible to tell if you have a good print until you have run off the first T-shirt, if it has poor colour or unacceptable moire, you will be spending 30 minutes cleaning up your screens and squeegees before having to repeat the whole process again. (not having to clean up four sets of squeegees and flood bars is the best reason I can think of for converting to digital)

Accurate pre registration and a level press also make for much faster set up times. Once the screens are in place and you are happy with the result production is 10 x the speed of any DTG printer (if anyone wants to correct me on this wild guess feel free)

We recommend good quality T-shirts when printing at 85LPI, and the same is true for DTG printing. We find American apparel give excellent results, we were also very impressed with the bamboo/cotton mix T shirts we tried. Water based inks give a totally imperceptible hand and I think they also have some production benefits over plastisol for CMYK work. There are also environmental benefits. Grafco have formulated a water based binder especially for transparent process which we used here.

Screen Printing foil on T-shirts

Steve — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:39:16 +0000

Advertees will finally introduce foil to the range of screen printing techniques on offer, just a few more trial runs using different screen meshes and pressing times and we are good to go. This is not the most environmentally friendly technique as foils are supplied on a carrier which is discarded, but the effect is not one which can be achieved by any printing inks we have tried so far, and as the number of requests we recieve about foils has grown in recent years, we thought it was time to give it a proper try out. The technique is very well suited to our set up and is ideal for printing alongside water based inks.

Our first try out was using gold foil as part of a rough raster graphic, to see the effect of cracks, splatters and half tones. The details came up well, and therefore screen printing has obvious benefits over the cad cut foils. The process was certainly not as time consuming as we had anticipated.

So our first impressions are good. Our next graphic will be a vector graphic. Clean edges and a super smooth finish is no doubt a harder look to master, but we are confident this will be achieved very soon. The only real problem we had was trying to photograph the print for this blog, this design was printed on an ocean blue Gildan Ultra, but the foil has played havoc with the camera, hence the sky blue and other variants on display here.

Foils and glue are available from Textile and graphics

e mail: textileandgraphics@yahoo.co.uk

Tel:+44 116 253 0090

Web: http://www.textileandgraphics.co.uk

good advice available on all products supplied.

Are Retensionable frames worth the time and money??

Steve — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:24:45 +0000

Possibly the only reasons any screen printer can give for not introducing retensionable frames to their workshop would be the costs. And all the time involved in maintaining mesh tensions. Having used Newman frames for nearly a year now, we can only wonder where we would be without them. Retensionable frames have surpassed all our expectations with many unforeseen benefits being added to the list of ‘fors’ and the ‘against’ list has now been thrown in the bin. First and foremost we invested in Newman screens for faster set up times, using the pin registration system. This has worked like a charm not only in reducing set up times, but also the knock on effect of a better organized art department who now take full responsibility for the artworks placement on the screen.

More accurate placement of artwork on screens also allows for more control of halftones, high mesh tensions allow for finer meshes when printing water based inks, these two things combined have allowed us to produce screens extremely quickly, with very predictable results. We are never left trying to compensate for screen errors on press, our T-shirt printers are now faster, and much happier. The times where these improvements really make themselves known are on repeat orders where retensionable frames were not in use, this 3 colour water based discharge print previously had to be registered by eye, and then, after the first print, adjustments were made with great haste for fear of ink drying in the screen. Once up and running many adjustments were made to print and flood speeds to compensate for dot gain, or not enough ink down. This week we put the screens in their predetermined positions filled them with ink and printed a test print which was spot on registration. The job was then printed with zero fine tuning of print flood speeds. A retensionable frame removes so much frustration on press (especially when working with water based inks in the summer) that the time required to maintain them is more than worth while.

This print was produced for The Alarm who are presently touring the UK.

Screen printed T-shirt for Enochian Theory

Steve — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:30:00 +0000

Prog Metal Band Enochian Theory recently supplied a very challenging design to us. We immediately thought the design would be suited to the waterbased bleaching method known as discharge. The distinctive artwork was created by Robin Portnoff for the bands most recent album, and we are very pleased to have had the opportunity of reproducing this illustration as a screen print on T shirts.

Prior to this design we had never attempted a 6 colour simulated process using water based discharge inks, a job like this can present so many problems (colour is especially difficult to control), but when it works the final result cannot be compared to any other method of getting designs on to a Tshirt. The result is a fully ironable, breathable print. The earthy tones which are an inherent part of discharge prints, match this particular design perfectly.

The newly installed TAS dealt with this job brilliantly. We are already starting to wonder how we managed pre TAS. This job was run without flash cures, so an incredibly quick print run and a good energy saving. Newman screens also played a very important part of getting this job done without any hiccups.

Enochian Theory are now on their way to the Prog Power festival in Holland, with some UK shows on their return. Be sure to check out the bands web site, and myspace pages. There is also some great you tube footage. We like them a lot, a full 10 out of 10 from us. If you want to support this hard working band, buy their album, and if you like what you hear why not get the T shirt too.

Epson 4880 as imagesetter?

Steve — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:20:15 +0000

Years of printing excellent ultra black film on our epson 3000 lead us to believe a similar size, brand spanking new, epson printer would do the same job or an even a better one, but unfortunately it was not the case. Epsons new Ultra chrome inks are unable to create films black enough for producing quality films for silk screen printing. After the initial disappointment with the epson 4880s output to film we set about looking for a solution.

After several hours trawling the net it became clear the answer was accurips all black system. It was not the quickest decision to ditch all our coloured ink capabilities, as the colour print outs from this printer are amazing, but we were left with very little choice as creating good films is essential to creating good screens, is essential to creating good screen prints etc.

Finding a supplier of the all black system was not so easy, as it seems there is no UK supplier. Eventually we managed to find Serigraf a screen printing supplies firm in Ireland who were very helpful in sorting us out with everything we needed for the conversion. We spent an entire weekend colour printing to make good use of the no longer needed colour cartridges then set about purging the machine, and refilling with the black chromablast dye ink.

The resulting films are very, very good. The dye ink is as black as it gets, and combined with accurips software (I think this is the only RIP at present which offers an all black system) it is capable of producing extremely accurate half tone images.

The loss of our colour cartridges has been forgotten already as full colour T shirt prints become easier to produce, and this, ultimately, is our only requirement from this epson.

Discharge T shirt print using index separations

Steve — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:43:35 +0000

Index separations are very fast to create and very effective with some designs, the T-shirt design below is a good example of the kind of design which works well using this process. We chose to use discharge inks for a breathable print with virtually no hand.

Index separations have been covered previously in these posts:

5-colour-index-separation-and-waterbased-ink

index-method-for-screen-printing

and can be created in photo shop, screenprint separator is a useful additional plugin which has the ability to create separations, and export them for adding vector graphics and text to the design.

This 4 colour separation was printed wet on wet, the blending/blurring that occurs when printing waterbased inks wet on wet can help in producing more subtle gradations. Many screen printers will also agree the opportunity to print T shirts without the use of a flash curing unit (or 2) is both a time and energy saver.

Text only T shirt designs

Steve — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:40:19 +0000

Designing a T shirt using text only requires more skill than many might think, if aesthetics are important to you then there are plenty of things you need to consider, one of the most important being fonts.

Fonts convey a lot of information, designers go to great lengths to get this right, a good collection of typefaces is a must. Your choice of font will help you convey the other important element. Your T shirts slogan, catchphrase, saying.

Colour combinations will also play an important part of your design, this seasons colours, or classic black T shirt, large bold brightly coloured type, or modest colours and designer fonts.

Here are some of our favourite designer slogan T shirts

katharine Hamnett

Henry Holland

And a site which has a bewildering selection of type only T shirts

TypeTees

Enjoy!

Butt or Trap? Spot colours.

Steve — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:36:07 +0000

This is first thing we think about when separating your design for screen printing.

Butt or trap registration? What are they?

Trap Registration. This is essentially an overlap. When screen printing on dark garments all colours require a white underbase to improve there opacity. Without the overlap there is a danger the white will still be visible at the edges of the colour printed on top. Screen printing on textiles is a tricky business and very slight movement can occur in the fabrics and the screens, especially when heat is applied (the white underbase needs to be flash dried before applying the colours, some T-shirt brands will shrink at an alarming rate under this type of heat) trap registration creates a margin for movement. If applied correctly the overlap will be barely visible on close inspection. In a programme such as illustrator you can take the underbase back using a stroke of 0.5 .
Butt Registration. separations set up to register perfectly without overlaps. This type of registration is hard to achieve, but well worth the extra set up time on longer print runs on light shirts, especially when using water based inks. It helps to prevent bleeding of colours and the need to flash cure between colours. This type of separation can also be used when discharge printing. Butt registration requires a perfectly aligned printing press, if you have uneven palettes and worn registration pins you may want to stick with the afformentioned Trap registration.

Simulated process separation printed with waterbased ink

Steve — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:26:33 +0000

Simulated process separations were our choice for this T-shirt design, the subtle tones required for the egg were not suited to the index process. We find simulated process separations are a little more time consuming to create but they really can produce the highest quality prints.

We used 61T and 77T meshes for this print, 77T is not an ideal mesh for waterbased ink it held the half tone with no problem at all, but they required flood bar and squeegee tweaks on the machine to print well.

On the other hand 61T mesh printed with no problems at all, but the halftone on the blue screen suffered from moire patterning. This is possibly due to the mesh on the Newman frame being slightly off true square, as the yellow, also on a 61T mesh, was fine. Or was the yellow screen stretched off square? It is difficult to know for sure so a lot more care will be taken when stretching our Newman Frames in the future. With only slight moire on one screen we decided to go with it, there is no pattern visible on the final print, see rear side of duck above. The ideal screen angle for the 61T is what we are concentrating on now.

T-shirt printing:Gradients using half tone

Steve — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:43:40 +0000

Gradients require a little thinking about when screen printing. Moire patterns are tricky to avoid, many printers have their own rule of thumb calculations to decide on meshes, the most common are 3.5 or 4 X your halftone LPI = the mesh count you should use (imperial). The angle of the dot on the screen is also a big factor in avoiding moire patterns.

But none of these calculations really allow for a mesh below 196/77T, when screening water based inks by hand these fine meshes can make life very difficult. So can you put a 55lpi half tone on say a 34T and get a satisfactory result?

We think yes, in some cases it is ok. if you need to apply a large area of ink with a fade we think a coarse screen can do the job very well, the problem of moire is in fact reduced. However there is the problem of losing the finer dots on a coarse mesh, and this will reduce the tonal range.

This coarse mesh is not able to hold the very small pieces of remaining screen coat causing holes in some places,

at the other end there are less problems in the quality of the half tone, some very fine pin holes may sit on top of the wide mesh fibre and will not wash out, but the finished printed gradient does not suffer. The reason for this being it is a gradual change in colour over a large area, using only 2 colours. We would not like to attempt a full process colour job using such coarse mesh, but then we would probaly not print a full colour process screen print hand.

Sucker Punch

Steve — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:44:46 +0000

This T shirt design by Murkin uses 6 colours and is printed at our maximum proportions of 14×16. We prefer to print slightly under these dimensions especially when using half tones, but will make exceptions when customers are not in a hurry. This print was post old dryer and pre gas dryer, as a result it had to be printed using pthalate free plastisols rather than water based inks. This is our first multicolour job on Newman frames, a rather long set up time made clear the need to organise a pin reg system as soon as posible.

Printing Hoodies: 6 colour spot separation

Steve — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:55:34 +0000

A nice colourful design came through this week for Celefest. Initially this job was more than 6 colours, a little reworking made the design more affordable but had little effect on the impact of the design. Printed entirely in opaque water based inks, the colours were all underbased with yellow, as there is no white in the design. Curing a waterbase print like this is no easy matter, especially when printing hoodies as more ink is put down, so we gave the finished design a little heat pressing to make sure.

6 Great Sites for Vector Resources and Tutorials

Royzy — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:53:20 +0000

Here is a list of great sites for vector resources and tutorials. Regardless of your illustrating or design experience, there should be something in these vector sites for you. Each site generally contains a different style of resources to each other, so they are all worth checking out.

And remember, always check the owners terms and conditions before using freebies.

GoMediaZine

Go Media seem to be split between two grungy style sites, a graphic design blog and a product site. The blog is home to loads of original Illustrator tutorials, which cover quite a range of topics. The Go Media Arsenal product site is home to a variety of prepacked vector sets. They are generally $34.99 each from what I can see. Although you may just be looking for free stuff, these should not be dismissed, as they contain a considerable amount of artwork. They do also have a few Vector Sample Packs on offer for free.

Illustrator Tutorials
Free Vector Stuff
Themed Vector Packs (these require purchase – see site for prices)
Vector Samples

Bittbox

Bittbox is run by Jay Hilgert who describes himself as a ‘Freebie Maker’ and that is why he is featured here. He provides some excellent stuff, a mixture of Photoshop and Illustrator supplies. Only problem I found was that it could be difficult searching through the archive, because there is so much. Once I started using his tag cloud as navigation, it was much easier to find what I needed. This is a great site to keep an eye on.

Freebie Thread
Illustrator Tutorials

SpoonGraphics

Chris Spooner gets a mention again, as he previously appeared in my logo designer post. Chris has some great tutorials and freebies on his blog; one of my favourites being for the My Nite Life Logo. There are plenty of useful freebies here too, as well as an article on 50 illustrator tutorials that every designer should see.

Spoon Freebies
Spoon Tutorials

Vecteezy

Like it says – stupid name, cool vectors. This is pure resource, rather than tutorials. It is user submitted vectors and people have the ability to rate them. There is some really good contemporary artwork in here. It also has category filters and such in place, if you are looking for something specific.

Vecteezy Resources

Noupe

Although Noupe does not create tutorials, it compiles great lists of tutorials covering all sorts of creative areas. The post I have isolated has 60 tutorials to work through, covering a wide range of vector subjects.

Vector Illustration – 60 Illustrator Tutorials, Tips and Best Practices

Tutorial Blog

Like Noupe, Tutorial Blog compiles lists full of content ready for you to read through. The tutorials are aimed at beginners to intermediate, so have a look through to see what you might pick up from them. There are free vectors available too, mostly in the form of buttons.

Illustrator Tutorials
Free Vector Downloads

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If you have any favourite vector resources or vector tutorial sites, please feel free to add them in the comments below.

More Cheerleaders T shirts

Steve — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:03:54 +0000

In the space of a couple of months we have printed two cheerleading T shirt designs, this is up on the previous 30 years, in which time we printed absolutely zero. We are interested to know if this is a sudden surge in cheerleadings popularity in the UK, or this type of work has just been passing us by? Both designs made use of metallic inks, Razzle dazzle made use of the excellent waterbased binder and gold metal flakes from Grafco. The designs are often American old school in style, and lend themselves perfectly to screen print, nice solid areas of colour which do not require super tight registration.

T- shirt design:Creating simplified artwork from a photograph

Julian — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:35:25 +0000

So you’ve got this idea about taking a favourite snap and converting it to something that can be printed in a minimum of colours, eh?
Plus you’d like to give the subject of your photo a different background just to jazz it up.

Sounds interesting, but just how are you going to do it?

OK, come on, back into the studio.

Butterflies, they’re beautiful. On anything.
T shirts included, so here’s my subject for the present little demonstration.

Actually, this is a really good image to use because it will reduce to monochrome exceptionally well. It’s practically black and white already and this is the first thing to consider – how your original image will convert to print.
A photo with little contrast, especially one that’s a little murky, may prove unsuccessful. You don’t want an indistinct blob, do you?
You won’t get the right kind of looks. Believe me, I used to wear one and I became shunned socially.

Anyway, the first step is to cut out the butterfly from the background.
You got photoshop? OK, open the photo, zoom in and grab the lasso tool. I’m setting the feather to 1 px (top, left of screen) – this gives a small fade to the edge of the lasso selection which reduces the sharp angularity of the cut out and I’m using the polygonal lasso tool. With this, you click anywhere on the edge of the butterfly and simply move along that edge, clicking as you go. The selection line will pay out behind your cursor in straight lines between each click. When you get to curly bits of the butterfly, space your clicks closer together to go accurately around the bends.

You can see here the lasso line being taken around the edge of the butterfly. Note that I’ve come away from the wee beast a little in the region of its antennae. With something as fine as these, it’s often better to go in later with the eraser tool and clean up.

When you arrive at your starting point, your selection will be complete and will be shown with a moving dotted line.

Copy the selection – Ctrl+C, or Edit/Copy.

Hit Ctrl+N to open a new document, A3 should be big enough, and paste the selection into it. It should now be on its own layer, above the background layer.

The first thing to do with it is to clean up the edges where necessary. I’m using the eraser.

Choose a brush size for the eraser which is appropriate to the area that you’re working on.
If you click and hold, then hold down shift, then move along the edge of the antenna then click again, you will see that area is erased in a straight line between the click points. Moving on and clicking with the shift still held down like this will result in nice, clean- edged erasure instead of the wobbly line you get when you’ve drunk a whole bottle of Wild Turkey the night before and you’ve got the shakes bad.

Your butterfly is clean.

Now it must have all the colour sucked away from it like jelly tots up a Dyson.

Various ways, various ways; but what works well here is to first go image/adjustments/shadow & highlight and take the shadows amount down and the mid tone contrast up. This effectively makes the image starker. Follow this by going image/adjustments/brightness & contrast and slide the contrast up to max.
That’ll do – it’s almost completely B&W.

Now, just because we can, let’s sit this stunner on a red background and make it a jaw dropper.

Ow!

Here’s how it’s done:

Create a new layer – Ctrl+Shift+N.
Open up the layers palette and look for the new layer. This should be called Layer 2. Grab it anywhere in the grey area and drag it downwards so that it lies between Layer 1 and the Background layer. When we fill it with red, it will now be behind the butterfly.
Go to the colour selection box at the bottom of the toolbar and double click inside of it. A large colour picker will appear. Pick out your red colour and click OK. The selection box will now show red. Ensuring that your new layer is still selected, go Edit/Fill/Foreground colour and your new layer will be filled with vibrancy.

Here are shown the layers palette and the colour selection box (circled in green).

The design is good as it is. Alternatively, in order to give it perfectly sharp edges and to clean it up still further, it could be be given the vector treatment. I would take it into Illustrator and trace it.

Settings for a good, clear trace.

There you go.

Vectorising sketched artwork and drawings

Julian — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:14:12 +0000

Somebody sends us their artwork that they would like printed out onto T shirts.
How is it done?
Follow me into the studio…

We get artwork in a whole variety of forms from finalised vector graphics to a quick sketch on a shopping list.
For this demonstration, I will use a sketch of Woody Allen put together in photoshop.

To start with, this has a wide variety of textures and is fairly colourful. The idea here, is to produce a stark, single colour print. Woody’s going to need simplifying and that means combining all the tonal areas into black.

One way is to adjust the levels (image/adjustments/levels), another way – and the one I have used here – is simply to pull the contrast up and the brightness down. When you’re happy, save the file.
For screening simple graphics like this, as with so many other things, vector is best. Vectorising a piece of bitmap artwork will give it ultra crisp lines instead of the blocky edges we associate with bitmaps.
Open up illustrator or another vector program, and take the image into it.
You can draw over the sketch using the pencil tool. This way, you can do some cleaning up of the lines as you go.
However, if it’s speed you’re after, you should always try vector tracing first. As well as, usually, making a very good job of it, tracing often introduces interesting and useful effects of it’s own.

Here we have the bitmap sketch (on the left) and a quick trace using the default live trace setting in illustrator.
Even at this size, you can see how a lot of the messiness has been cleaned up by the simplifying action of a vector trace.

If we go in closer, the difference in line edge clarity is obvious. This will print nice and cleanly.

It could well be argued though, that some of Woody’s character is lost – look particularly around the mouth where the shadow has become decidedly angular.
Here’s where the tracing variables can help.

This time, I’ve gone into the options and taken the path fitting down to 1 pixel. This gives a trace with a much higher fidelity to the original image. Too far in this direction, however, can result in the actual bitmap pixels being traced! If the original is of a low resolution this can happen, and will result in something which is still rough looking. You should make sure that your original image is of a good resolution to start with if possible.

Another setting which can make all the difference is blur. Using this tool can turn ragged lines into smooth, flowing ones which tend to look quite organic. For simple shapes particularly of an abstract nature, curlicues and the sort of floral patterns commonly seen in artwork today, this might be just the job. Also the blurring of a trace can impart a ‘glossiness’, or sort of plastic sheen etc. Depends what you have in mind.

Here’s Woody again with the blur turned up to 4 px. It’s often a trade-off, trial and error, but again, the higher quality the original artwork the better.

However, we have to try and work with what we receive and often all we have is a low quality piece of artwork. Tracing does not always work. Under these circumstances, we have to re-draw, and a drawing tablet, such as a Wacom can work wonders – so much easier than using the old mouse.

Frenzy in the ball pool

Steve — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:09:37 +0000

This T shirt design from Chris Lanyon speaks for itself. A four colour screen print using opaque waterbased inks from Grafco. The colour came up good and bright, but we think we could have put more ink down with a coarser screen mesh.

6 colour T shirt print, index separation

Steve — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:08:47 +0000

This T shirt design does not appear to contain a great number of colours, but we found it required six colours to make the job work well. We used index separations at 200dpi and took a very long time playing around with the palette of colours before it came right, we printed the T shirts with a combination of clear waterbased and opaque waterbased inks.
Setting the job up on the hopkins handpress allowed us to change the sequence in which the colours were printed. It is always interesting to try different colour sequences when printing index separations with waterbased inks.

200dpi is a bit of a challenge printing T shirts manually in six colours using waterbased inks, but it does allow for some experimentation. We are very pleased with the choices water based inks are affording us.

New T shirts and Hoodies from the Rebus Collective

Steve — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:35:00 +0000

“The Number One Cornish clothing label” The Rebus Collective release new Screen printed T shirts and Hoodies. Rebus love their Graffiti, Hip Hop and street clothing. This collective of DJ’s, artists and writers are responsible for some seriously interesting happenings in Cornwall, the likes of which we have rarely seen before. Beat boxes, break dancing and graffiti alive and kicking in Cornwall.

Hoodies printing

Need a logo designer? Or just advice?

Royzy — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:00:29 +0000

When you walk down the street it is easy to spot and recognize a good logo, because that is what makes a good logo. A good logo is easy to remember, recognize, describe and should be effective without colour, at any size and preferably look great on a t shirt. The terms sound quite simple, but are not in reality and it is essential to research thoroughly before setting yourself upon such a task.

Whether you are looking to hire a logo designer or just want some advice on designing your own, be sure to check out these five friendly and very talented designers.

1. David Airey

David was one of the first really interesting and responsive designers I discovered online. He has some great articles on his blog and even shows his workings and the processes he went through for various jobs in his portfolio. Click on the image below to check out the process he went through for this example.

An example of David Airey's work.

http://www.davidairey.com/

2. Jacob Cass

Jacob is another designer who has a real dedication to helping people with informative articles and responding to comments. He seems to have a keen eye for current design trends. Even at just 20 years old and part way through university, he is well up with the best of them.

An example of Jacob Cass's work.

http://justcreativedesign.com/

3. Graham Smith

Graham has over 20 years of experience in commercial design and it really shows in his work. With so much experience, he is sure to have a great knowledge when it comes to design. Be sure to check out his extensive portfolio.

An example of Graham Smith's work.

http://imjustcreative.com/

4. Brian Yerkes

As well as owning it, Brian is the creative director of Brian Joseph Studios. He is well known in the creative networking area online and has a friendly writing style and some good tutorials on his personal site.

Examples of Brian Yerkes' work.

http://www.brianyerkes.com/

5. Chris Spooner

If you check out Chris’s portfolio, you can see how versatile he is, from logos to web, to print. He has some great tutorials and plenty of relevant resources on his design blog, including how he made the MyNitelife logo below.

Example of Chris Spooner's work.

http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/

There are so many amazing designers out there, so make sure you look around and do your research. A lot of great designers can be found through the designers above if you have a good look through their sites.

Have fun, and good luck.

Roy Nottage