Monthly Paycheck For Your T-Shirt Design

[freshattire]

I'm Charles from Fresh Attire, Inc. (www.freshattire.com (http://www.freshattire.com)), an online t-shirt company. We are now officially open for business, and as such we need new designs to keep up with our exponential projected consumer demand.

Our goal is to bring brilliant designers around the world together to produce clothing that looks good. We print all our t-shirts on the highest quality shirts that we can find (American Apparel), and we will never print anything we won’t wear ourselves. Fresh Attire is more than just another company bent on materialistic accumulation; it’s an outreach to this world to celebrate the human mind’s imagination. We're looking for talented artists like you to lend a creative spark in creating imaginative, fun, stylish t-shirts!

Our Offer:

• $50 initial stipend
• A free t-shirt of the design
• 10% of each sale

It's easy to imagine how much you can make off a brilliant design – if just 20 people per state buy your design (not too uncommon through the power of the internet) – you're already looking at over $1000 in your pocket.

Please go to our site at www.freshattire.com (http://www.freshattire.com) and click on the “Submit Design” tab for further details.

[Digwal]

How about if i give you rogh concept designs for T-shirt with some south asian toch which is different; how much would you pay for this?

Baba
contact

suresh dot arts at gmail dot com

[Tony N Chicago]

I've viewed your website and initial questions I had have been answered with the exception of two:

(1) Are you able to print images that are multi-colored, because I've noticed that the examples posted are of solid images that are either one or two colors and

(2) How is payment made to the artist i.e. Paypal, direct deposit, etc.?

Thanks

[Koh]

Tony said , What I wanted to know as well. I've worked with a few people on t-shirt designs and have always stood me up when it came down to the money.

[silken]

Hello Charles,

I am interested in creating new artwork for your t-shirts. Aside from the two questions posted by Tony, I would like to know how you deal with the 10% profit from sales. Do you create invoices which are sent to the artist in question? Also, I'd like to know if you pay that initial 50$ to all designs submitted, or only to those you accept.

If you wish to view my gallery, it can be seen at http://silken.deviantart.com. I can be contacted by email through silken555@yahoo.com.

Thank you and have a wonderful day!

[Blissbee]

I'm Charles from Fresh Attire, Inc. (www.freshattire.com (http://www.freshattire.com)), an online t-shirt company. We are now officially open for business, and as such we need new designs to keep up with our exponential projected consumer demand.

Our goal is to bring brilliant designers around the world together to produce clothing that looks good. We print all our t-shirts on the highest quality shirts that we can find (American Apparel), and we will never print anything we won’t wear ourselves. Fresh Attire is more than just another company bent on materialistic accumulation; it’s an outreach to this world to celebrate the human mind’s imagination. We're looking for talented artists like you to lend a creative spark in creating imaginative, fun, stylish t-shirts!

Our Offer:

• $50 initial stipend
• A free t-shirt of the design
• 10% of each sale

It's easy to imagine how much you can make off a brilliant design – if just 20 people per state buy your design (not too uncommon through the power of the internet) – you're already looking at over $1000 in your pocket.

Please go to our site at www.freshattire.com (http://www.freshattire.com) and click on the “Submit Design” tab for further details.


I do not wish to be rude but iff 20 people makes a 1000$ for the artist this would mean that you are selling 1 shirt for 500$??
And I am geussing this can't be right?
Could you explain better how this works?

[Blue]

I do not wish to be rude but iff 20 people makes a 1000$ for the artist this would mean that you are selling 1 shirt for 500$??
And I am geussing this can't be right?
Could you explain better how this works?
believe he is suggesting if 20 sell in every state (freshattire, please correct me if my math is bad :) )

(20•50)•(X+R)=T
X=Base Price (which includes all production costs)
R=Royalties
T=Total Cost

If it the artist get $1,000 for selling 20 shirts in each of the 50 states, thats $1.00 royalty per t-shirt sale.

[Blissbee]

Blissbee - he said " if 20 people PER STATE buy your design.." so your looking at 50 states; 50 x 20 = 1000 people, so 1000 people buying a t-shirt at say $10 = $10,000 of which 10 percent = $1000

so each shirt would be approx $10 if I'm correct. ;)

edit: Blue you beat me to it..while I was replying lol

Oww thanks for the explaination ^_^ !!!!!! I missunderstood the whole state thing! In that case it's a very fair deal!

[Blue]

Charles, i am very tempted to submit to you quite a few designs. One thing which has been bothering me though has been a detail in rights i can't seem to find on your site.

How many rights does the artist retain regarding submitted work? In the case of characters (for example my avatar), does the artist retain right to recreate this character for personal avenues, effectively retaining the rights to the character itself. Or do they lose rights to said characters if they are accepted, effectively making this character a psudo-mascot of your company? Or better to say; do you retain full rights to all possible facets of the designs you accept, or are your usages rights restricted to that design only?

In a nutshell, if i were to submit a nifty design to you of character in my avatar (lets say you loved it), would i be prevented from using that character for other avenues? (ie. the free comic strip i designed him for)

[Moai]

It says on the "Submit Design" page that the artists keep full copyrights of the pieces they submit. I'm tempted to submit some stuff as well, but I'm waiting for Charles to come back and answer these questions on the forums.

[Blue]

Yea, it's a bit confusing.

Owning the copyright is great, but the problem lay with the question of exclusive publishing rights. If an image is under our full ownership, but we grant exclusive right to a single publisher, we are restricted from publishing this work elsewhere. If we are under an exclusive publishing clause, things get complicated when elements of the submited work are reused by the artist for seperate projects which run a possibility of being published by a different publisher. Does the first publisher retain exclusive right to that character, or only to the exact image the contract is created for?

For example, if we submit a t-shirt design with a character which we use elsewhere and it suddenly becomes a popular icon (mickey mouse for example). If we try to publish other products with this character, the exclusivity clause from the first publisher could (theoretically) spill over and cause a legal battle over the artist's right to use a different publisher for said character.

[Eric Lofgren]

For everyone in general- Just a reminder that you are under no obligation to sign any contract until you are completely satisifed that you are protected under it's provisions. If that means requesting changes to any contract presented to you, so be it. It's fully within your rights. whether your requests for changes is honoured or not by the other party is where the line is drawn between you deciding to accept the risks and sign the contract or just turning your back on it.

[tonykola]

Thanks for never responding to my submissions.

[Qitsune]

If you expect potential employers to reply to every submission they receive, you are going to be severely dissapointed.

[SF Monsterdark]

Any word back on the above ?'s ?