Author Archives | Jon Kruse
Jon Kruse - who has written 83 posts on How to start a Clothing Company.
Besides running this blog I also own two clothing companies, Mediocore Clothing and SHRED. I also run Double Dragon Studios with a partner and we do a lot of work for clothing companies making stores, blogs, and myspace layouts.
Please send me an email if you have any questions, want to hire me for work, or just want to say thanks.
Stop trying to do it all and delegate
When I started mediocore about 2 years ago I wanted to do everything. I wanted to design the shirts and website, screen print everything, and do all the marketing myself. This is how a lot of self employed people think when they start a business. They don’t trust others and they want to do it [...]
Continue reading...Lowdtown is Closing Down – Clearance Sale
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Ray at lowdtown has written some awesome articles for this site and I thought it was only right that I help him when he needs it. Here is his post he wrote This post has been a long time coming, but it should definitely clear everything up for those confused with the state of Lowdtown. First of [...]
Continue reading...We are on Facebook!
Friday, February 26, 2010
I just signed up for a page at Facebook. I know I am behind the times but at least I am starting now. I think it will be a good way for store owners to connect with each other. You can post in the discussions section, upload photos of your products, or just post a [...]
Continue reading...Typography for t-shirt designs
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Article by: Austin Martin I could go for days about typography. Typefaces, kerning, leading, tracking, etc., etc. I thought, “Hey! I’m sure most people don’t really know the basic fundamentals of typography!”. This is not an insult to anyone’s knowledge. Many people on here haven’t gone to school for design or haven’t really done much reading on [...]
Continue reading...T-shirt design process – Greg Abbot
Monday, February 22, 2010
By Greg Abbot I get asked about my regular working process quite often so decided to post a basic overview for those who are interested. I produce my work in three stages. I use Corel Painter 11 for sketching and Adobe Illustrator CS4 for designing. 1) The Sketch Firstly I sketch my ideas. This allows me to rough out [...]
Continue reading...Line Work for t-shirt designs
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Written by: Sol Amstutz Here are a lot of ways an illustration can be ruined, and a big one is line work. The line work is almost like the skeleton of an illustration, because you build everything else from it. There are a few very simply steps you can take to take your line work to the [...]
Continue reading...How to connect multiple paypal emails – tutorial
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Paypal has a lot of different options but it always seems like you will never use most of them and it is difficult to find the ones you want. Today I got a paypal payment to the wrong email. I did a bit of research and found that you could connect up to 8 emails to [...]
Continue reading...Sometimes you don’t need Internet Marketing
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
I am fortunate enough to help a lot of clothing companies create awesome sites with my company Double Dragon Studios. While I am in there putting in all the code I also get a chance to look at all their web statistics. The one thing that surprised me the most was how little internet marketing [...]
Continue reading...Coloring Tips for T-shirt Designs
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Written by: Sol Amstutz Ah, coloring. It’s something every artist has loved since childhood, and some have grown to hate. Once again, like most things that are part of a greater whole, how you choose to color a piece can make or break it. Being color savvy is key, especially when working on things that are [...]
Continue reading...Pool Tradeshow Review
Friday, February 12, 2010
I found this post by someone who went to the Pool Tradeshow and thought his experience was something my readers would be interested in. I’ll see if I can get him to answer any questions you guys put in the comments. You can check out his site Fur Face Boy SEPTEMBER 7, 2009 POOL TRADESHOW RECAP Ever since attending [...]
Continue reading...Threadless Seminar
Sunday, February 7, 2010
The founders of Threadless talk about their rise to awesomeness and a few other projects you might not have heard about. The real talk about threadless doesn’t begin until halfway into the video. Their other ventures sound interesting but none of them have anywhere close to the success or traffic Threadless does. This website even gets [...]
Continue reading...New Comment System + Feedback System
Thursday, February 4, 2010
I decided to use Disqus which is a comment replacement system for Wordpress and other blogging platforms. In addition to all basic functionality, it is also well integrated with Facebook Connect and Twitter. I want to make this more of a community and promote sharing of all the information posted on this site. Please post [...]
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