How to Get Designs Made For Your Clothing Brand

Choose between in-house design and outsourcing to define your clothing brand's creative workflow, then commission artwork from graphic designers and buy the rights, or enjoy easier revisions and direct communication.

Discover how to find graphic designers for your clothing brand using fiber for t-shirt design and hub staff for hourly or full-time talent, including posting jobs and communicating with designers.

Sketch your concept, share a line art draft in Adobe Illustrator, then add shadows and color to finalize a clothing design ready to send to a graphic designer.

Create a concept document to brief your graphic designer with hex color codes, reference images, and the style notes. Also define garment details and themes to guide the design.

Understand raster vs vector art, why vector stays crisp at any zoom, and how vector tracing prepares artwork for screen printing using Illustrator and Photoshop files.

Learn what a source file is — an editable Adobe file that lets you change designs and colors; obtain original source files from the designer (often on Fiverr) to avoid rework.

Learn how to enable commercial use on Fiverr by selecting the commercial use option in the graphics services, allowing you to resell artwork and print on t-shirts.

Explore five channels for communicating with graphic designers, including email, WhatsApp, Skype, GroupMe, and Slack, with emphasis on WhatsApp for overseas collaboration.

Learn how to get clothing designs made by defining your idea, colors, and style, then hiring a designer or doing it yourself, and obtaining vector art for screen printing.