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@joshstar
Hey all,
I've seen a few people on here looking for work, so thought perhaps if there are any designers out there that are looking for a source of income, the t-shirt design business I work for are looking for designers. We have an ad on gumtree, but thought I'd post it here as well (below).
Hope this is useful for someone on here looking for work, or for someone that you might know. And by the way, we'll take on international designers a well.
Cheers.
www.WeAdmire.net is a t shirt publisher based in Shoreditch, London EC2. We started designing in September last year and we were indexed by google in November. A central feature of our shirts is that they celebrate and admire some aspect of human endeavour or nature at large, human or otherwise. We work with Adobe Creative Suite. Having paid some fees of experience since November last we are about to make radical changes to our website that are timetabled to take effect in early May.
Limits on t shirt design and content - if limits exist at all - are defined by designers' interests and motivation. The best designs tend to be founded in genuine interest, knowledge and appreciation of what is being admired. Designs so inspired will resonate with a wide audience and deliver self expression to wearers irrespective of how apparently obscure and esoteric the subject of the design might be. Ray Charles is on record as saying there are two types of music – good music and bad music. Something similar applies to t shirt design. The way to consistently produce the good stuff is by engaging with the topic. We do not want the primary design concern to be an attempted judgement of what might sell.
We print on demand. Shirts designed and published on WeAdmire.net can be kept permanently available in all colours and all sizes: they will not go out of print. There are presently more than 450 designs available on our website. It is possible if not likely this makes our selection of properly available original designs the largest of any such site on the internet. If this is not the case now, it will be soon. The designs presently on the site largely reflect the legacies and interests of a group of designers living and working in London. However we want to represent a broader range of legacies, interests and cultural backgrounds - whatever they are and from wherever they spring - in the designs we publish and make available via the internet. In time we intend to establish a network of local websites that will be better at representing cultures other than our own and these will likely be in the language of the country in which they are based but for the time being if you design and write in a language other than English you must be able to provide us with an English translation of your work.
We print our shirts one at a time. They are printed digitally using gas dispersion inks. Colour, complexity, resolution and size variations - the enemies of the standard screen printing process - are our friends. We prefer the designs we publish to tend toward the colourful, the detailed and the complex, with the size of the design proportional to the shirt it will be printed on.
We pay permanent designers a basic salary and a royalty for each shirt they design as it is sold for the time they work for us. For freelance designers we pay royalties and an advance on those royalties when we accept a design for publication to our website. Because the designs do not go out of print, we expect successful freelance designers to establish a long term cumulative stream of income.
If you are interested in becoming a designer for www.WeAdmire.net, please call Theo Stegers or Lawrence Keogh on 020 7377 1801 or email theo.stegers@weadmire.net. Please do not send a CV or portfolio of your work. In deciding to hire/offer a freelance agreement we are interested in understanding how you express yourself about that which engenders genuine enthusiasm in you. Please look at the website www.WeAdmire.net and consider the shirts you might design. Then make contact. We will decide to make you an offer on the basis of the conversations we have and the work we will ask you to do as part of the application process. This will typically be to design some shirts on a couple of topics of your choosing and one of ours or vice versa.