Dress your customers and fans in style and let them show how proud they are of your brand, organization, cause, or team. Work with professional designers from around the world to create a custom, eye-catching t-shirt design or sweatshirt design that helps your business, team or organization stand out. Risk-free, affordable and quick.
With every project you'll get:
Dozens of designs in 7 days or less
100% money back guarantee
Award winning customer support
Free legal contract protecting your intellectual property
Stop wasting your valuable time elsewhere. Over 210,000 talented creatives from 195 countries work on crowdspring.
Work you'll love, guaranteed.
Beautiful t-shirt design that drives results. If you're not 100% happy with your design project, we'll promptly refund all your money.
Award-winning customer support.
All the support you need, when you need it. Our dedicated support team (99% customer satisfaction) is available by phone, email, and chat to ensure your success.
Protect your intellectual property.
Powerful intellectual property protections, made simple. Every project includes industry leading customized, dynamic legal contracts and policies that protect your intellectual property.
Interactive Q&A customized for t-shirt design projects.
Flexible pricing for everyone.
Simple (takes just a few minutes) and proven process.
FAQs
Custom t-shirt design projects run for 7 days, but you can shorten them to as little as 1 day if you're in a hurry. Many entries come in the last few days of a project, and we encourage you to wait until the project ends before picking your favorite (tell us if you want to close the project early). You can extend your project for free, up to 7 more days if you need more time.
Custom tshirt design packages start at $299, while projects with a single designer (1-to-1 projects) start at $200. All packages include the award to the designer and crowdspring's fee, a custom legal contract giving you full rights to the work you're buying, free focus groups, our award-winning customer support, tools and platform. You can select packages and features based on what you need and your budget. You will always know up front exactly what you'll pay, with no hidden costs and no surprises.
Absolutely! Every project on crowdspring is protected by a custom legal contract giving you full rights to the work you're buying. If you have multiple awards, you'll have separate contracts for each. Once the contract is signed and the creative is paid after you approve the final deliverables in your project, you can use the design (or name) any way you like. You can change it or alter it in any way – it's yours.
The non-winning work remains the property of the person who created that work. This means you may not use those other entries (or any portions of them) in any way. But we give you an easy way to add awards and make offers in your projects when you find more than one design (or name) you love.
"I loved working with crowdspring! It was so exciting to watch your project pick up steam as you gave feedback to the creatives. It felt very collaborative and you have so many creative people submitting ideas just for your project. Their system is organized, easy to use and understand. I am so happy with the results!"
Ali Hissey, Founder, Hissey Fit
2.Work with our über-talented designers
Multiple designers submit dozens of concepts.
Review, rate, and give feedback.
One price. Pick the design you love.
FAQs
You'll see dozens of t-shirt designs from multiple designers. The more active you are in the project, the more designs you will get. We'll let you know every time a new design or comment comes in and invite you to give feedback. The more feedback you provide, the more designs you'll receive. Years of experience show us that projects with active clients will receive more than double the designs compared to projects with low client participation. You'll have more t-shirt design options on crowdspring than anywhere else.
Absolutely! In fact, this is a key factor for success. Once the designs start rolling in, let the designers know what you think about their designs. You can score and give individual feedback. You can also update your brief if you want to address all participants in your project. They are happy to make changes and create variations on their designs.
When you score each entry (1 to 5 stars), your score and comments are private. Only you and the individual designer will see the star rating and comments on their design. Updates to your brief are public for all participants in the project.
Like more than one t-shirt design? It happens all the time. You can start your project with multiple awards or add awards at any time during your project. You can also make offers on additional designs after your project has been awarded.
"In 10 years I have launched 17 projects on crowdspring and have always been impressed. Crowdspring brings 10 maybe even 100 times more creativity than simply working with a single random creative I could have found outside of crowdspring where I might only see a couple different concepts. And the price is very affordable."
Steven Krane, Entrepreneur & Investor
3.Pick the winning design and finalize the project.
Select the winner.
Make final adjustments.
Receive full rights to the work you purchased.
FAQs for step 3
You have seven days to select your favorite after the project closes. Sometimes, you might need an extra few days. Just let us know when that happens.
Before making the final decision, you may want to run a free focus group. All silver packages in design projects include one free focus group ($29 upgrade to unlimited). All other design packages include unlimited focus groups.
A focus group (also called a "poll") allows you to invite friends, customers, colleagues and anyone else to vote and comment on their favorite designs (you can assign weighted votes or let each vote count equally). Anyone is eligible to vote as long as they have the special voting URL we'll provide to you (they will not need to register an account). Your focus group can be public or private - you choose! You fully control whom you invite to each focus group and what designs are included in each focus group.
In design projects, you'll have a private area to complete the project with the designer you chose. If you have more than one award, you'll have a separate wrap-up with each designer. Each of you will sign the legal contract for the project (giving you full rights once the designer is paid).
You can continue to iterate and request changes in wrap-up to make sure the design is just right. Once you approve the proof files, the designer will create and send final files for your approval. Once you approve the final files, we pay the designer and you own full rights to the work.
For each project category, we'll recommend required file types and will ask the winning designer to provide you with appropriate final files for printing the t-shirt designs. You can always request specific formats you or your printer require.
"I just finished my 2nd of 3 projects with crowdspring. The first was an incredible book cover. This new project was artwork for a wooded token. I have a 3rd project on going for the development of a logo for graphic for my wife's jewelry business. I'll summarize - Don't waste your time at other sites - just come to crowdspring.com. The experience, the talent and the result will only make your life easier."
Robert Dixon, Bob Dixon Consulting Services
The creative power of crowdspring is unmatched anywhere.
Crowdspring is the first stop for any aspiring entrepreneur, whether bootstrapped or VC-backed. The creative power of the their crowd is unmatched anywhere.
T-shirt design on crowdspring is focused on the graphic design that it used on t-shirts, not the actual design of the t-shirts. T-shirt designers use graphics and designs, including company logos and other artwork, to showcase their aesthetic and personality and incorporate them into a wearable piece of artwork. Whether you have a racerback, v-neck, golf or polo shirt, crew neck style, hoodie, henley-y neck style, raglan sleeve type, a sleeveless t-shirt style, or scoop neck style, a custom designed t-shirt will let you stand out.
Yes, word spacing is very important. Once the letters of a tee shirt slogan have been properly tracked and kerned, the next step is to adjust the spacing between the words used in the design.
Most professionals, when adjusting spacing between words, visualize the width of a lowercase L in the font that's being used, and then make the space between each word as wide as that L.
Making sure you have the proper amount of space between words will complement the effects of tracking and kerning, and will help your words to hold together better as separate visual units. It will also improve readability.
If you have a design you love but something doesn't look quite right, you may find your word spacing, tracking and kerning are why things just don't seem to fit right.
Whether you are buying t-shirts from Gildan, Hanes, Fruit of the Loom, Armada, Rapha, Under Armour, or Tribesports, you can create custom t-shirt designs for any style of tshirt, sweatshirt, or apparel.
Ugly fonts make ugly t-shirts. When designing t-shirts, it's important to use proper typography.
There are a few tricks professionals use to check that a design is truly perfect. Some look at the design upside down to catch any uneven or inconsistent spaces. Other designers will look at the design reflected in a mirror, again to check for uneven or inconsistent spaces. It's also a good trick to print out the design and look at the text from the back of the page in front of a light source - once again looking for uneven or inconsistent spaces. These practices sound strange, but believe us, they work!
T-shirt printers charge a base price for shirts (based on quantity), and then charge extra per color. This is because for every additional color introduced into the design, a new screen typically has to be created, and more ink will be used.
You should think about color not only because more color costs more money, but because a great design reflects consideration of every line, shape and color. Too many colors can overwhelm a design, and too few can make a design look weak. It's a balance - and just because you can use many colors doesn't mean you should. This is especially important if you have an intricate illustration as part of your custom t-shirt design.
Some of the best t-shirt designers in the world work on crowdspring. Crowdspring can help you leverage an international community of clothing and graphic designers and eliminate your worries about the cost of clothing design.
Our unique model and graphic design process addresses process and solves many of the problems typically found when buying t-shirt design. Unlike traditional marketplaces where you might look at three or four freelancers, crowdspring is a crowdsourcing marketplace, where clothing designers from around the world post actual designs. It's like having your own t-shirt design contest.
You don’t need to obtain t-shirt design quotes in advance of the work because you set your own price. And when your project ends, you choose the custom design you like the best. No generic clipart or pre-made templates - all t-shirt design projects on crowdspring are custom and unique to meet your needs.
Crowdspring guarantees your satisfaction in t-shirt design projects. There's NO fine-print. We are not happy until you are. People are so thrilled with the designs they receive on crowdspring that we are proud to stand behind the work and make you an unconditional promise.
Ali Hissey, Founder, Hissey Fit
Steven Krane, Entrepreneur & Investor
Robert Dixon, Bob Dixon Consulting Services
