In this article we want to give you some tips on how to create a design for your customized products. As you have already read in our previous article, the first thing to do is to find a winning idea for your products. Once you have done all your research and defined your niche, you can dedicate yourself to your design realization.
Create Your Own Graphics
If you want to create your own graphics and don’t have particular skills, we have a couple of platforms to suggest that are simple and intuitive.
Canva
Canva is a free (and paid for some graphics types) platform where you can find preset layouts (but you can also start from scratch) including: logos, icons, posters, presentations, newsletters, Facebook covers etc. This platform offers us a truly wide range of graphic projects of any kind that will be useful even when our project has been launched. This tool also allows you to create t-shirts or mugs graphics: in both cases you can select from templates, graphics, texts, background colors and much more.
Design for a yoga themed t-shirt made with Canva.
Crello
Crello is a platform similar to Canva created to realize web or social graphics using pre-set templates or starting from scratch. Here, too, you can choose from: logo designs, t-shirt designs, Instagram and Facebook post templates, Facebook page covers, brochures, coupons, newsletters, presentations and much more. This platform use is really simple and intuitive, even for those who are not very accustomed to graphics.
Entrust to an Online Professional your Graphics Realization
Another possibility is to turn to specialized sites to buy design by entrusting the work to a professional freelance.
Upwork is the best known platform that brings together freelance professionals in different professional sectors: web developers, architects, planners, designers and creatives etc. In the first phase you can narrow your search by choosing between categories, sub-categories, work timing, professional experience level. Finally, you will choose from a freelancers list who have applied for your offer and from whom you will be able to read the received reviews from customers. You can choose whether to pay on an hourly rate, at the project end or in milestones.
Fiverr is another digital services platform starting at $ 5 populated by freelancers in different categories: graphics and design, digital marketing, video and animation, translations, writing, web programming etc. As with Upworks, the freelancer reliability is entrusted to customer reviews but you can choose based on the experience degree or view previous work.
Buy Ready-Made Graphics
Designious is designers and Print on Demand enthusiasts specific platform. This offers a large, always up-to-date stock of vector art products, design templates, Photoshop brushes and fonts, logos, iconography, textures, t-shirt templates (many free with royalty-free license) to make your own design or designs to print on products such as t-shirts, mugs, bags etc.
Buytshirtdesigns gives you access to an exclusive rich library royalty free vector designs for t-shirts and directly created by designers. The models can be individually or in bundles at competitive prices purchased.
Download Always New Mockups
If the provided mockups for free by Hoplix for each product are not enough for you, you can download additional ones on different sites. We have selected two which, in our opinion, are the most interesting.
Placeit is a generator of mockups (many also free) that are always new and that allows you to always keep your store updated. The available mockups are divided into categories such as: sportswear, sweatshirts, t-shirts, caps, book covers, mugs, tank tops, bags, smartphone covers etc. Customization with your own design is very simple. But it doesn’t stop there: on Placeit you can download designs, customizable logos and much more.
T-Shirt Bundles allows you not only to download mockup packs, but also editable design packs for t-shirts by category (sports, profession, family etc.) at an affordable price.
As you will have understood, the web offers various solutions even for those who are beginners and don’t know how to orient themselves. With this article we wanted to provide you with some suggestions to take your first steps in this world as innovative as it is fun. We look forward to seeing you in the next article coming soon!