This is my first official printed tee. It is a commissioned work for a school musical based on Mamma Mia and other music from the 70s. The design was created to mimic a 70s retro style (stars and fonts), and printed with gold and blue metallic inks on orange American Apparel tees in various shapes and sizes (mens, womens, and kids). Below you will find the full picture of the shirt, along with a test vintage-look shirt I requested for myself, and a poor quality version of the shirt.

The story on the poor quality version goes like this…

I had originally designed the shirt with yellow stars and gold “star zooms”. I sent the 5 color design files to the t-shirt printer. They have 4 color presses and 8 color presses. Their 8 color press was broken, so they had to outsource the work to another company (because my design was more than 4 colors). Unfortunately, it turned out the other company was awful at screen printing. Once they got the work back from the outsourced company, they didn’t want to put their name on it and send me bad shirts, so they offered to reprint them all on their working 4 color press instead. That meant I had to change the design from 5 colors to 4. The final design you see in the good quality shirt is the updated 4 color design. The bad quality shirt shows the original colors, but you can clearly see that the ink is inconsistent and the edges are uneven and misprinted. Good call on not sending me the crappy shirts.

Hope you enjoyed the little story, and like the design.

A7 is (a golden star)

Good Quality Full View:

Vintage-look version:

Bad quality version:

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