Are those creative juices trickling? Need some inspiration, idea starters, or fresh artwork for your custom heat transfer designs? Design ideas can pop up at the craziest times and there are some obvious places that we look daily for trends and inspiration. Hollywood, school, professional sports, local large retails stores etc. These are the “in your face” motivation places for design ideas so let’s dig a little deeper.
Let me share with you some alternative places to find design ideas for custom heat transfers. First, we can look into CadworxLive™ Creations Gallery. This gallery is filled with custom design ideas that have been created by various cadworxlive users. Some of them are created to be cut with a vinyl cutter using heat transfer vinyls. Some will be used for ink on paper transfers and others may be created for digital printing. The gallery contains not only the artwork but also photographs of the finished designs heat transferred to the garment. This is important because it will give you an idea for mixing medias and colors. There are combinations that I could never imagine and yet they create something so striking.
Photograph from Creation Gallery
The creation gallery can also inspire us to “think outside of the box”. There are several photographs in the gallery that were printed on non-apparel items with sign vinyl and unusual patterns.
Gradution Gifts created with sign vinyl
Some places that you can search are right “under your nose” For instance how many of us have an Idea Book from Transfer Express? An Idea Book – what is inside of it. O.K., now it was meant to be an ordering template for custom ink on paper transfers and it can still be that for you. However, sometimes they job that is being requested by your customer does not produce enough pieces for a transfer order so we can use the Idea Book and create something with a similar look and feel in our graphics software or in Cadworxlive. Besides, if you make the design eye popping enought they may come back with a larger order that would require you to order a transfer or digital print.
Do you have a “hot spot” for ideas? Do you want to share it with us? Please send us a comment with your idea starters. We are always learning from one another.
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