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25% off Everything with CC: SPRING13

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It’s Spring Bling time with 25% off ALL Design By Humans shirts. The Collective has been blossoming with new designs, some really great contest winners have had proven success. As spring officially is now in season its time to stock up on your favorite Design By Humans shirts.

Use Coupon Code: Spring13

The Sale starts Thursday, March 20th all the way through Monday, March 25th get 25% off all shirts. This includes men’s and women’s contest winners and Collective tees. Remember free shipping on all orders over $75 for the US and $125 for international orders. Check out some of the newest Collective favorites and the best contest winners.

The Best of the Best Contest Winners

Perfect Pilot ShirtArt Deco Owl Graphic TeesHourGlass Collect Graphic Teeneon lion shirts

Here are some of the top new shirts from the Collective.

Perfect Pilot ShirtArt Deco Owl Graphic TeesHourGlass Collect Graphic Tee
Eastern Sunset Boat ShirtLets the Magic BeginNinja Clash ShirtsFly Kick your boos

Animal Shirts that Help you Find your Spirit

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If you’ve been a fan here at Design By Humans for a while you have seen the famous lions, tiger, bears and owls printed on our top quality tees.  We occasionally get blessed with more fantasy creatures like unicorns and dragons.

Spirit Animal ShirtsSo what animal best represents your style? What is your spirit animal? We have made a list of the best animal shirts from around our site to help you on your adventure. What is a spirit animal or an animal that represents your style? Well, the animal that you can relate to the most. Are you sly and smart as a fox, powerful like a lion, light hearted like a panda or cuddly like a kitty? Maybe you don’t relate to a real animal but you can associate more with the dragons and unicorns.  Maybe your into Cosplay or fantasy role playing games? Who knows? But whatever your preference Design By Humans will have a tee that suits you.

Me personally, change my mood as often as my tee! Some days I’m moody, other days I am the lions roar and other times I could be soaring like an eagle. Regardless I have put together collections of the best animal shirts to further find my spirit animal or should I say spiritual zoo? There are lots of options I don’t think I could pick just one. My spirit animal could be one of the cats with headphones, or a painting panda. Either way there are tons of animal shirt designs up for grabs here.

Lion ShirtsThe lion shirts are a favorite and always have been. The giant cat with strong eyes and a great mane always make for a great t-shirt design. Bold and dramatic the lion allows artists to add detail and attitude.

Tiger ShirtsTigers are another favorite, prowling and full of mystery and beauty. Artists love these beasts and draw their stripes in many cool styles. Detailed line art or blood splattered abstraction; we’ve seen it all, or have we?

Cat T-shirts are growing in popularity; the cute and cuddly pets with a mind of their own have quite the following. Cats dominate the web and we have some pretty cool tees with cats right here too.

Panda ShirtsPanda Shirts– The black and white bears are contrasting creatures. Strong, soft and often portrayed as cute. Artists can sue the contrast of the bears and their fun loving spirit to capture a funny tee or raise awareness of their plight.

Owl ShirtsOwl Shirts– The leaders of the night sky. Impeccable vision and stealthy flight make them a dark favorite.

Dragon Dragon Shirts– Now we are getting into the fantasy realms as one of the more powerful lizards of any story. Dragons are from Chinese tradition to medieval fairytale. Breathing fire, flying over cliffs and dominating knights on their battles.

Unicorn ShirtsUnicorn Shirts– The magic of the unicorn is a fairy tale favorite. You must be free, uplifting, fun and imaginative to have a unicorn as your spirit animal.

Bird t shirt designs are dominators of the sky. High soaring, great vision, and living in the clouds. Check out the gas mask sparrows to the soaring eagles.

Sea Animals ShirtsSea Creatures Shirts include all the vast fishes, sharks, whales and octopi of the ocean. Do you have the bit of a shark? Perhaps you enjoy the grace and intelligence of an octopus, or just love the deep sea adventures of the kraken.

Did you find your spirit animal yet? Or at least get a chance to view some cool animal shirt designs? You can continue to look through you favorite animal shirts to find a few that fit you best.

Win $1500 in the One Color T Shirt Design Contest

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One color t shirts can be a dramatic way to give a design contrast and detail. A one color design allows you to focus directly on the design and its relation to the shirt. Black and white designs will give a high contrast look that gives a strong positive and negative effect. The foreground and background will work with one another to make an interesting visual appearance. There are also subtle opportunities to create an elegant look that blends with the rest of the shirt, yet still has that unique appeal. A baby blue on a dark blue blank makes a nice color harmony that has a medium contrast. The silhouette t shirt design has that simple color harmony, that can make that design contrast stand out. Enter the one color t shirt design contest by April 19, 2013 for a chance to win up to $1500.

Let’s take a look at some of these great One Color Designs.

Great positive and negative play, your eye bounces back and forth from foreground to background.

Black and white t shirt design

The single color designs show texture details like in the Man on the Moon.

Man on the Moon

A single color gives this t shirt design detail, power, and integration. The complex design is simplified by a single color.

Dream Quest

This reverse silhouette plays on positive and negative color. The white highlights, and the blacks create a shadow.

Silhouette T Shirts Design

A light green on darker green really lets the texture show with out completely attacking the viewer.

Cool Croc in Green Design

Good luck on your next one color t shirt design, we look forward to seeing all the creative entries. Submit to the one color contest.

Awesome Illustrative T Shirt Design Tips

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There are lots of different t shirt design techniques out there from photo realism, to abstract patterns to illustrative. This will be a multi part series on different design techniques with different styles of graphic illustrators, drawings and digital painters.

Illustrative T Shirt Designs

Illustrative t-shirt designers are masters of the pencil and Wacom tablet. Often times you will see them drawing out an imaginative design using the traditional pencil and pad. Many designers then scan the design into Adobe Photoshop to digitize the art and make it print ready. They load up Photoshop and grab the Wacom tablet for some serious designing. Retracing the original design sketch to create a digital format. This allows you to edit, add detail, fix errors, rotate and save different layers of your design.

Digital art allows the designer the freedom of adding and taking away elements at the click of a key. The art comes alive with different brushes, stroke widths, textures, and personal drawing techniques. Below there is a sample of an artist using a brush tool to really show the hatching highlights, and adding the lights and shadows to the details. Watch the video to see a Design By Humans artists bring this flat art to life with shadows and highlights to give a 3-Dimensional representation of a skull.

Once you have the pen in hand and cruising around the canvas there are tons of different textures, brushes and line drawings to test out. Check out this video tutorial for a ton of different digital art styles. Check out how just changing your brush can make for a very different style of art.

Detailed Drawings and great line work really make your t-shirt design stand out in a crowd. Developing a cool style of your own allows you to be recognized amongst a sea of artists. Stepping your fine details up to the next level can really elevate your art. A defined illustration style will stand out from the norm and practicing this skill is key. Illustrative t-shirt designs are often top sellers for many reasons. The hand drawn style has an organic and nature feel that people relate to. Extremely unique characters can capture an emotion or more that a viewer will enjoy.

View this Video for more T Shirt Design Techniques

There are great brush and illustrative design tips throughout the video from Wacom

Illustrative T Shirt Design Samples

Lost Illustrative t shirt design

The Dark Officer T Shirt Design

Samauri Tiger Illustration

T Shirt Frames for Your Favorite Tees

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Do you have a favorite t shirt? Not just one that you want to wear everyday, but the one that you want to keep forever and ever. Well, the designers at Umbra and the students at Pratt Design have innovated a new T Shirt Frame to display your favorite t shirts on the wall.

A new style of frame that takes the shape of a t shirt. You can fold you t shirt around a template, lock in the backing and hang it on the wall. It turns the t shirt into a piece of wall art, instead of hiding them in the drawers.

This is a great way to frame up your favorite contest winners, limited editions, or unique collective tees. The T shirt frame keeps the t shirt color crisp for years to come. Or if you’re like us, then you can put a new one up every month, because we always like seeing new designs.

Where did the T Shirt Frames Come From?

For 8 years in a row Umbra and Pratt Design Competition have hosted a product design competition. The T Shirt frame, designed by Caleb Ferris and Prakhar Mehrotra, was the winning designs in 2012. The design includes a simple frame shaped as a t shirt, a template to fold up the t shirt around, and special padding to keep the t shirt fitting in the frame.

The T Shirt Frame Specs

The t shirt frames are available in white or black. The viewable area of the shirt design is around 13” by 19”. This might require some cropping of the design, but most shirts fit nicely into the frame. It’s a great way to keep your special tees in great condition. Check out the how to frame a t shirt video and some shots with some of our Design By Humans Tees framed up and shining on the wall.

How to Frame a T Shirt

What Do you Do in your Design By Humans Tee?

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This month on Facebook we are asking our fans, What do you do in your DBH tee? So far there have been some extremely entertaining videos and pictures of you in a Design By Humans tees. We love the talented, unique, artsy fans. We know many of you don’t draw, paint or design. But check out the diversity of dance, musicians, and even yo yo super stars.

What do you do in your DBH Tee?

You can post videos on our Facebook wall until the end of April to enter a chance at 3 free tees. So record a short clip of you jamming out, dancing, having an art attack, or anything that makes you, you.

New Shirt Design Trends from the Collective

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A new wave of talented collective shirt designs has surfaced at Design By Humans. New styles, subjects and themes have further increased the diversity of designs available. Qetza has been grinding the gears of fine line and fantasy. He has more the 30 elegant designs to choose from with great line work and subtle colors. SilentOp has also been busy trying out new styles from music themes to urban designs.

New Shirt Styles Blooming in the Collective

A few other gems have begun to sparkle in the Collective, take a look at some great new Collective shirts. Take a look at Aquarium by Moncheng with a texture harmony of dancing fish. Then there is Jun087’s detailed piece God of Tattoo. Taking a new perspective on the artistry of tattoos. It shows a tattoo artist inking a dragon. Infinite Tears is one of the first to take a smooth digital painterly texture to the t shirt design. This shirt has an eye for emotion and should be a popular tee for the designer Pinkstorm.

New Artist to Join the Collective

The Collective also welcomes the beautifully detailed illustration work of Terry Fan aka igot2cairo. Check out the hilarious Burger Board design and the insanely detailed Navajo Skull, showing this designer has a wealth of talent. Ecsu has revealed some cool tees that stand out for the coming summer months. Be sure to look at his nautical themed Tossing My Knots, which is very on trend right now. His other new art includes L.O.V..E which is a unique and intriguing piece that resonates with those of us who have endured tough love.

beta fish aquarium tshirt

God of Tatto Shirt

Infinite Tears

The Key

Techno

Owl want Coffee Shirt

New Artist's in the Collective

igot2cairo

Navajo Skull

Ecsu

Tossing My Knots

There are many new pieces and many new artists to empower. Support an artist and check out the new section regularly to stay up to date with all the latest styles.

Help test our new shipping service and get a free tee!

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We're happy to announce our FedEx International Mail service is almost ready to go live! With this new service we will be offering $4 shipping on all single shirt orders anywhere in the world we offer service to. After your first shirt, it is flat rate pricing by weight to any destination currently available. Before we release it into the wild, we'd like to do some real world field testing to test both the speed of delivery and the quality of the service first hand and we need a few good humans to help us out! Below is a list of 10 countries and cities within those countries we'd like to do our first round of test shipments to. In exchange for a free (random) shirt in a size of your choice and letting us ship to your address, we just need some feedback. Let us know exactly how long it took to reach you from the date we ship the orders, who delivered it, the condition of the package at delivery, and how it compared to previous DBH orders shipped to you (if any) or any other international shipments sent from the USA. During this round we will only be shipping one package to each of the below listed countries. To be selected, please follow these instructions: 1. Live in or close to one of the locations listed. 2. Have a DBH account with an up-to-date shipping address! 3. State the size of the random tee you'd like to receive if selected. 4. See #2! Want a free tee? Update your account, no exceptions. 5. Make sure you post as a reply to this forum topic. 6. Want to improve your chances? Post your best picture wearing a DBH tee! Now for the locations and before someone asks yes it's sorted alphabetically, not based on any other criteria. 1. Australia - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Perth 2. Brazil - Sao Paulo or Rio de Janerio 3. Canada - Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Winnipeg or Mississauga 4. Germany - Berlin 5. Spain - Madrid 6. France - Paris 7. Great Britain - London 8. Norway - Oslo 9. New Zealand - Auckland 10. Russia - Moscow

Megan Lara's Art, Work and Play

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Megan Lara It makes the heart grow fonderEvery once in a while a designer enters the T-shirt design world and literally makes everyone's head turn with their amazing art. Megan Lara is one such person. Her beautiful art has excelled her into new worlds and an impressive client list is unfolding. A recent winner at Design by Humans with her retro French poster inspired piece, It Makes the Heart Grow Fonder we thought it was time we had a chitty chat with this new star and found out more about her.

Megan LaraIt makes the heart Grow fonderMeganLara Shirts

Megan Lara Talks Art, Business and Fun

You have a distinct style that harks back to Art Deco style and particularly the work on Mucha, when did you first discover this art movement and what pulled you towards it?


I first discovered Mucha/art nouveau/deco right after my wedding. My husband was really sick, and I had taken a few days off to take care of him. I was leafing through some of the art books I'd gotten as wedding presents, and one of them was a compilation of Mucha's works. Immediately I was hooked. I had always loved drawing realistic portraits with thick lines, and that was something Mucha did extremely well. He was a HUGE inspiration to me, and I thought it would be great to re-imagine some of the biggest figures in pop culture in his style.

A little birdy tells me that you have an array of wigs and you are into the phenomenon known as Cosplay? What is that and how did you get involved?



I have a wig addiction. I have, like, 15 wigs and only six costumes. I got into cosplay after I had several people tell me I had a strong resemblance to Rose Tyler, and that I should dress up as her. After dressing as her for the first time at C2E2, I was hooked. It's so much fun getting to be someone else for a day or two, and the challenge of creating your own (or recreating) a costume is SO much fun.

Your art is gathering some serious attention and I saw that you recently did a cover for Dark Horse's Willow comics. Very cool, how did that come about and do you plan on more comic art in the future?

I got an e-mail from Scott Allie one day, saying he and Joss wanted me to do the variant covers for the new Willow: Wonderland comic, with David Mack doing the main covers. I pretty much had to change my pants after reading that e-mail. Doing comic covers had always been a dream of mine, and working with Dark Horse (on a Joss Whedon property!!!) has been the highlight of my career thus far. I am so hoping they decide to work with me again. They are a great company and I had so much fun working with them.

Megan LaraYou seem to know your pop culture references pretty well, are you a nerdy girl? What is your favorite TV show, Game and Nerdy item currently?
I'm a huge nerd. Right now, my favourite TV show is Community. My god, a show has never captured my attention so fully. It's smart, funny and just freaking amazing. And I got to participate in the Six Seasons and a Movie Art Show (put on by Pixeldrip) this summer. Dan Harmon bought two of my pieces, so I suppose I am partial to it now. :) As far as games go, I am waiting (impatiently) for my husband to get done with Bioshock: Infinite, so I can delve into that. Other than that, I play Civ pretty much daily. I love RTS games.

Tell us a little bit about your process, how do you go about making such highly detailed, amazing art?

Typically I take an hour or two to gather references. Deviantart has a wonderful stock section that I often use as inspiration. If I can't figure out how something is supposed to look, I go there and it's very helpful! I have a pretty simple process, to be honest. I do a really rough, pretty ugly sketch. I refine it once, then tighten the lines up again (making sure to mirror it several times so I can tell where my mistakes are) before I start colouring. If it's a t-shirt design, I make sure all the lineart is not anti-aliased before I begin. I do a messy flat colouring and then tighten it up. After that, I add gradients/shading and then halftone all those last. All colours/gradients are on separate layers. Doing digital paintings is much easier—sketch, refine, paint.

You have a huge number of followers and fans. Do you have any tips for up and coming designers on how to build a community all of your own and market your work?

Try and respond to everyone, and share your work and updates often, but not too much. There's a fine balance between being active and annoying. And don't be afraid to show your work! With the internet, it's easy for people to steal your work—and that understandably scares a lot of people off. Watermark everything and be diligent about looking for art theft. It will happen, but it shouldn't discourage you from showing the world your art. :)

Don't be afraid to take criticism. Do art every day. Be humble and be kind. It may sound obvious, but really appreciate the people who like your art!

If you could only draw one thing for the rest of your life what would it be?

Women! I love drawing soft, curvy things—so what's better to draw than the female form? I just love romantic, feminine things. Women with flowers, and jewelry and pearls.

Megan Lara Women

You have a very strong work ethic and have worked with many clients, which was your personal favorite and why?

My favourite so far has been Dark Horse. It pretty much fulfilled my life's goal of doing comic book covers. Joss Whedon is one of my favourite creators, ever, and hearing that he liked my art enough to want me to do art for him.. such an amazing feeling, and I could not be more grateful! And they put my art on a car—how freaking cool is that?

What's the next big project(s) you are working on? Anything new in the pipeline? Any submissions for Design by Humans lurking around the corner?



I'm working on another project for Quantum Mechanix that may or may not be Joss Whedon related... :) I'm trying to do a lot more original art lately, as I'm really enjoying the series of women I've started painting. I have a couple sketches for possible DBH shirts :). I probably oughta get working on those...

Finally, you walk into a bar and there are three famous people waiting to buy you a drink, who are they and why do you want them there? 


Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer and David Tennant. I don't think I can mention why I'd want them there and still keep this interview rated PG.

Thanks again, Megan Lara for such a great interview, we look forward to reading your stories, checking out new designs and wigs. Megan's Facebook and tumblr's are full of new designs all the time.

Megan Lara Tumblr

Megan Lara Facebook

Megan Lara's Art

Megan Lara Art

Megan Lara Art

MeganLara Buffy Vampire Slayer

It Makes the Heart Grow Fonder Megan Lara

Megan Lara's first print, "It makes the Heart Grow Fonder"

Featuring the Best Illustrative T Shirt Designs

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Design By Humans has over 1000 shirts from abstract, funny, digital art to refined, highly illustrative drawings. The Museum Collection is a series of the best pieces of one category that is created for the best in t-shirt design. A few factors decide the best including sales, detail, idea, votes and how much attention it got from other sites.

Top 5 Best Illustrative Tees

The DBH Museum will be a collection of the top shirts from the contest winners and Collective in each category.  Top 5 Best Illustrative Tees. The first category is the best illustrative shirts. This collection is a special look at the details in the line work, shading, accuracy, color and rendering. These are well rendered designs with hand drawn subjects. The drawings are converted into digital media and worked on even further, in some cases worked directly into digital format using a tablet.  

Megan Lara, Young Illustrative Master

One of our favorites is a Megan Lara illustration, It Makes the Heart Grow Fonder is an art deco rendering of a fun girl drinking and Absinthe martini. She makes the collection as being one of the top sellers, great thick and thin line work with smooth curves.

It makes the heart grow fonder

A Painterly Illustration

Love to Death is a highly textured color field with a digital ink drawing of a lady with her crow.  Multi layered cross hatching makes up depth and fine detailing. Reminiscent of scientific illustrations this one is multi layered and has a sinister beauty.

Love till Death Drawing Shirt

Defined Patterns and Detail

The Rhythm of the Rising Sun is a detailed rendering of a Samurai playing the guitar. The texture of the armor helps to create the detailed out line of the samurai. He is rocking out on the guitar. The illustration set against the red symbolic shape makes a hard rock splash of noise.

Rythm of the Rising Sun

Out of this World Rendering

Lost in the colors and details of this illustration. You can look into the skeletons eyes as he struggles against a space squid. The pink and orange textures stand out against the purple and blues. Neon colors and sharp line work create a unique and appealing illustration.

Lost Shirts

The Dark Officer Details in the Texture

The Dark Officer shows contrasting textures of light and dark colors. This illustration raises many thought provoking ideas. With it’s strong symbolic elements and clever use of color this tee works well with its canvas. The soldier man is silent and eerily still, with his flower showing the only sign of hope.

The Dark Officer

We will regularly post a new special collection. Congratulations to the first elected winners for best illustrative drawings on Design By Humans.

Artists - Know The Rules of Submitting

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Hello all, Yesterday we were alerted to the Shirt of the Day design being made up from a vector pack. Inkong's design "Melted Survival":http://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/melted-survival-tiger-shirt/13651/ !http://cdn.designbyhumans.com/product/383/melted-survival-mens-front-640x480-b-p.jpg! and Vector genius's Tiger Vector !http://www.vectorgenius.com/images/Vectors/Tattoo/main%20image/Tattoo-Vector-Pack-16.png! The terms of use of this graphic state clearly that it cannot be resold and copyright will remain with Vector Genius. *ARTISTS - You need to read the Terms and Conditions of all the images you use. It is not OK to take another persons art, a copyrighted photograph or a vector that has complex T&Cs attached to it.* *It is your responsibility as an artist to check these details.* In this particular case the good people of Vector Genius where very understanding and we worked it out so that they would be compensated for their trouble. The artist will not receive payment for the design. In the past two weeks I have had to remove one artist for plagiarism and now this too. Know that our community is very vigilant and you will get caught. Know the rules and play by them. Design By Humans has a zero tolerance for this kind of thing and if you rip another person/company they will receive the prize money as they are the rightful owner. Thanks for reading and let's not have this happen again, it makes me angry and sad all at the same time. I have permanent cry face right now! wotto

Best Surrealism Tees Make your Reality a Dream

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The best surrealist tees mash up part dream and part reality. The designs use physical objects and distort or rearrange them in an abstract way. Artists like Salvador Dali and Joan Miro highlighted the golden age of surrealism around 1930’s. Since then we have seen surrealist photomontages, abstract photography and 1000s of fantasy like drawings. The best surrealist artworks are those with a little culture or story to go behind them to communicate an abstract language.

Top 5 Best Surrealism Tees

We are lucky enough to have a couple of great surrealist T-shirt designers in the Design By Humans Network. Roncabardz is a great example of a surrealist T-shirt designer. With a shirt like the painter you can see the reality and the fantasy worlds overlay.

The Painter Surrealism Tee

Radiomode is another talented artist that can dream up some really interesting t-shirts. We have “catch the stars” which mashes up surrealism and well as the impressionism

Catch the Stars Surrealism

Here is another Radiomode piece. The ‘Draw’ t-shirt is one pen exploding with imagination.

Draw Surrealism Shirts

LukeBatten is a designer who merges the human form with a TV set to make an intriguing and surreal image. Striking and bold, this tee has had a spot in the top 50 Most Wanted Tees for some time now.  

Retro TV Shirts

Moncheng makes subtle references to Surreal Art with ‘Tears of Color’.  A unique illustration of an eye crying a rainbow of color. The surrealist vision comes to life in this multi colored design. It makes you turn and look and question, the very essence of surreal art.

The tears of Colors Surrealism shirts

Finally Kase is a great master of mixing montage to create something obscure as well. He takes multiple real objects and integrates them into one. ‘I dreamt of Another Place’ is a surreal t-shirt design with a clock a, koi, a mask is a meshing tornado dream. Kase has many cool designs focused around Surrealist themes.

I Dreamt of another place

The reality and the dream, feel free to continue the feed and add your favorite surrealism t shirt.

New Star Trek Tees for Into Darkness

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The new Star Track movie is soon to release, so we figured to launch a new group of sci fi, space and Star Trek tees to get you inspired. “Star Trek In To Darkness” will in premiering theatres May 17th, with much better effects then the 1970s! Better explosions, crazier weapons, and new technology special effects. We are excited little Star Wars, Star Trek and BSG fans here, and obviously have lots of space inspired designs. But before you check out the tees check out the newest trailor…

Like any great movie premiere it’s always fun to dress up a little, or support your favorite “space suit.” We have put together a few space and sci fi tees so you can “go to no where no man has gone before;” or to the New Star Trek movie.

Beam me up, Humans. Time to celebrate a few star trek t shirts to just in time for Star Trek In To Darkness. The best Star Trek shirt is the Star T Rex crew of dinosaurs ready to shoot alien invaders with phaser guns.

Star Trek T Rex Shirt

The next is of course the Live On and Prosper by the zombie Vulcan. It’s one of the most logical tees we have.

Live Long and Prosper Star Trek

One more Star Trek tee with the captains as cartoons.

DOOP Crew Tee aka Star Trek

Those are the Star Trek shirts we currently have, and of course with a little Design By Humans character. As you travel further through space and the stars you will find plenty of other themed shirts to take you a little further out of this world. If you don't find a Star Trek shirt you would like then check out the sci fi and space tees.

Calvin and the Spaceman

Princess T Shirt

Space Jamborbee shirt

Sound of the Sun

Blaster Plan Tee

One Color T Shirt Design Winners Annouced

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Congratulations to the winners of the One Color contest. There were over 350 exciting entries from artist all around the world. We saw some of the best in texture, illustration, and cool new ideas. Check out the top 3 winners...

The first place prize goes to Skulltapus by Shawn Coss. This is his first win at Design By Humans and a beauty indeed. He recognized the all over tee style with a cool concept, not to mention great detail and texture throughout the design. It's not everyday you see a skull with octopus legs, which could be the skeleton of Cthulhu or a highly evolved sea creature.

Skulltapus by Shawn Coss

Coming up in second was "Choose your Flowers Carefully" by Samalope. An interesting concept with skulls blossoming like roses. The bees don't seem to mind the human skulls have replaced a few of the rose buds. Interesting design, good textures, and composition on this one color winner.

Choose your flowers Carefully Tee

To round things off we have "Inked Cat," he has joined the popular trend of big animal faces. You can look right into the cat's eyes to see an intense look, accented with cute whiskers and hair. Moncheng made interesting textures within the cats face, hair, whiskers and eyes to make a nice 3rd place finish.

Inked Cat SHirt

We were over welhemed with the amount of entries we got for the one color contest. Great entries from the simple to the complex. Remember to check out the shirt of the day contest for a $1000 daily grand prize, and stay tuned for the next special contest.

Introducing FedEx International Mail

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On January 27th, the US Postal Service drastically increased their international shipping rates prompting many companies, including Design By Humans, to seek an alternative to what used to be one of the most popular international shipping services from the United States. This hurt the ability for many of our international customers to make daily purchases or even group purchases, forcing them to pay a much higher shipping rate. You asked for help and we took up the challenge. We reached out to all the major courier services within the United States and after exhaustive negotiations (we originally thought a courier service death match was a great idea, the courier services didn't agree) we decided that continuing our relationship with FedEx was the right choice. FedEx has been our sole domestic service provider for quite a while and they have been an extraordinary partner. We're excited to continue that partnership by including their FedEx International Mail Service to our international shipping options. As many of you saw on Facebook and on our Forums, we've been going through several rounds of testing and I'm happy to report great news from those tests. We sent out numerous shipments to test the speed, reliability, and the potential for possible customs charges. FedEx's new service successfully reached every major continent we currently ship to and with great speed and no customs charges for all single shirt shipments we sent out. Design By Humans is no stranger to breaking new ground and blazing our own path as we did with our DBH Collective and Custom Printed tees. In that spirit the label that the package ships under was custom designed by Design By Humans to ensure a smooth transition between FedEx and the recipient country for final delivery. So how does this help you? We have pulled the current rates to the Netherlands as it's about the best middle ground rate we could locate as an example to compare how FIMS (FedEx International Mail Service) compares to the USPS rates: *1 Shirt* FIMS - $4 USPS - $13.75 *2 Shirts* FIMS - $5.83 USPS - $15.90 *3 Shirts* FIMS - $8.60 USPS - $19.60 *4 Shirts* FIMS - $10.66 USPS - $21.45 *5 Shirts* FIMS - $12.72 USPS - $23.30 As you can see from the above we've negotiated a great rate with FedEx allowing you to now get 5 shirts shipped through FedEx International Mail for under the cost of 1 shirt through the US Postal Service. In addition, the ability to purchase and ship ANY single shirt for $4 now means purchasing and shipping the shirt of the day is now cheaper than the cost of the shirt alone the day after it premiers on our website! The new service is a flat rate price by weight which allows us to give you the best possible rate instead of other services which take into account both weight and distance making customers who live further away from us pay more for the same product and service. FedEx International Mail ends that practice by providing the same price to every customer. We're really excited to be able to launch this service for our international customers who have been waiting very patiently. You've all provided some amazing feedback and we're generous enough to allow us to ship packages to you to allow us to do some real world testing. The Design By Humans team thanks you for your time and effort in helping us to help you!

30% Off This Memorial Day Weekend

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Enjoy excellent savings this Memorial Day Weekend at Design By Humans. Use coupon code: DBHfreedom to save 30% off until May 28th. The extra saving this weekend is a great chance to launch into the summer with an updated collection of graphic tees. Everything is on sale, even the shirts that are already on sale. You can browse the Top 50 for one of our favorites, or dive into the Collective for custom t shirt options.

Design By Humans is also launching new International Shipping options through FedEX. International Shipping Rates are now a third of the price that they use to be. This Memorial Day Sale is a great opportunity of scale up for summer, and get the lowest prices on all our graphic tees.

Eye of the Beholder Owl

putification shirt

SOS Soilder

Black Bear

Hero Samuri

Soldier

Help Oklahoma with the New Give Back Store

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Our hearts go out to those affected by the destructive tornado in Oklahoma last week.  Regardless of location, it’s also a day to remember our fellow humans throughout the world.   As the days pass we can unite as humans to show our support for those in need and to help them gather the strength to heal and rebuild.

With the help of artists throughout the world, Design By Humans has created a DBH Collective store to support the Oklahoma recovery effort. 100% of the net proceeds from the sale of each shirt will be donated to the American Red Cross. All the profit from the the new IAM Humans store with be donated to the American Red Cross for disater relieve.

Giving Back with the American Red Cross

You will find tees from the worlds best artists like Hydro74, Qetza, and Kdeuce who have donated their time, skill and artwork in an effort to strengthen humanity and inspire life through creativity and design.

We’d like to sincerely thank each artist for taking the time out of their busy day to give back.

Ok by Kduece

Kdeuce has a painter style that we all recognize. Since joining Design By Humans he has amassed a great selection of winning designs. He also isn't shy when it comes to giving back. His piece 'OK' literally took our breath away when we opened the file. Beautiful paint lines and a message so well portrayed through art. Hope and a sense of everything being OK collide to make a simple yet amazing tee.

Ok Oklahoma Shirt

Flag by Qetza

Qetza has been a part of Design By Humans since 2009 and has consistently delivered detailed illustrations that always please our community. His eye for detail and his love of Native American art made him the perfect partner for this project. Depicting the Oklahoma State flag in a new style, Qetza really delivered with his vintage cool art in 'Flag'. Detailed, fresh and vintage in style this tee supports and looks cool all at once.

Qetza Flag Giveback

Rebuild Strong by Hydro74

Hydro74 has an impressive portfolio filled with clients that you would recognize. This cool artist isn't too big to lend a hand and donate a piece of art to support a cause though. When we asked him to help we barely finished our sentence and he had started drawing. Hydro delivered with his awesome line art for 'Rebuild Strong'.  His art depicts the strength of the Buffalo and a message to rebuild.

Hydro74 Buffalo

Here is a storm chaser following the last Oklahoma twister on May 20th, 2013.

Style Guide for Graphic Tees and Sunglasses

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It’s heating for summer, soooo its definitely time for a comfy shirt, sunglasses, maybe sandals and shorts. There are lots of different styles to choose from, this blog series will be a style guide for looking the best with your Design By Humans tees. Here are some good tips to mix and match your sunglasses with your new DBH tees. There can be some good strategies to matching up the right shades and shirts.

Style Guide for Shades and Graphic Tees

The aviators are a dominate pilot style with the browns, bronze, with a little metallic touch. Aviators match well with modern styles that are clean and adventurous. This combo will keep you and your wing man flying high.

The all knowing shirt hydro74

The retro sunglasses made a huge come back the last couple of years. These are the hipster, artist, or young designer style. The retro shades and unique tees is a great for a personable student.

Skullatpus shirt

This collection is complete with the neon style for the next concert or black light party. One of our great neon tees with some neon shades is a sure way to add some glow to your life.

Neon Skulls Tees

The old sport aviators from the 80s are probably not your favorite glasses, but its always good to change it up every once in a while. The sparkling orange goes good with any bright tee. Check out the sun reflecting these bad boys.

The old leopard print glasses are a classic to pull out for those days on the prowl. Step one cougar sunglasses, step 2 neon lion shirt, step 3 equals jazzy liougar style.

Hope you like our first style giude. If you're doing something innovative or trendy, post some pics to our wall or comment below.

New Men's Graphic Tank Tops

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It’s summer and it’s getting hot, it will be the first weekend in the 100s for the first time this summer in California. The time is now to find a better way to stay cool, a brand new graphic tank should work for some fun in the sun. That’s right Design By Humans now sells graphic tank tops! Our first run is a Miss Monster limited edition print, Deep Creature. This design is a perfect one for the water as you can be the mysterious creature in the water with four legs, or wherever your imagination takes you. Tentacles slither up the front of this cool custom tank and the blue on blue really pops.

New Graphic Tank Tops

Graphic Tanks

This cool tank will ensure your body heat stays a little cooler than the standard t-shirt, plus you can show off your sturdy arms. Tanks make a great cover up for the summer activities to stay cooler and avoid a farmer’s tans. You’ve spent all year in the gym, now’s the time to flash those guns!

The Tank Specs

The tank is a two tone blank with a navy blue base and heather grey trim. The 100% cotton shirt is soft and durable thickness, with an added trim to prevent tearing in the summer activities. This shirt print is a screen-printed with baby blue, for a cool look as well. Slim fit and soft feel is in full effect.

New tank tops are another exciting fresh feature at Design By Humans. You can be the first to own one of these tanks. This is the very first edition. There will be a few more designs later this month. We are striving to add more features to the site more with more products to buy. There are now graphic tees, hoodies, and our latest addition, tank tops for the summer. Where would you wear your tank?

graphic Tank TopsNew Men's Tank Tops

Win Tickets to Spring Awakening in Chicago

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Design By Hümans and Digital Departure have a few things in common, art, bass, and the fact we’re Hümans.

Design By Hümans is proud to announce a chance to see Digital Departure perform LIVE! This week at Spring Awakening (June 14, 15, 16 @ Chicago Soldier Field.) Simply enter here for a chance to win TWO FREE 3 DAY PASSES to Spring Awakening!

Good luck, and remember, we’re all Hümans.

...Except the artists that are from another planet

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