Since we launched our voting platform we’ve seen a wealth of designs uploaded and shared around the world. We’re at a good point in the voting process with various designs on the brink of hitting that magic 30 number, plus we haven’t posted any Graphic Tide news recently as we’ve been busy focusing on creating top class art and design tips and tricks posts for you guys!

In case you’re not familiar with our t-shirt voting platform then it’s basically a selection of amazing t-shirt designs competing against each other for votes from the Graphic Tide community.

All have been designed and added by the community and designs that hit 30 votes move to the next stage and get printed onto t-shirts. From here every t-shirt sold, the artist will make a commission, it’s as simple as that. The whole voting process is a great way to get your name out there and it’s an even better way to make some extra money. We’re excited to see which t-shirt designs are going to make it to the printers first and we can’t wait to start shipping your designs worldwide, it’s very close at the top!

If you’re interested in submitting your own t-shirt design, you can for free. The best way to get the most votes is to upload a good high quality image that shows off your design to it’s full potential. Mobile phone photos are discouraged as they’re normally too low quality, and are often blurry. You can submit as many designs as you wish but as always they must be your own!

If your design hits the golden 30 votes mark, it’s important that your image is 300 dpi resolution, as we want to print designs of the highest and crispiest quality, which you don’t achieve with images that are 72 dpi. Keep this in mind when your uploading your images to us, and just make sure you have another copy which is 300 dpi. If you’re more of an art or t-shirt collector/fan, then you can still take part and vote for your favourite designs. Don’t forget you can vote on Twitter too!

Whilst we’re on the topic of voting, we’re in the process of developing Facebook voting too! We’ve seen a lot of activity on Facebook and think it will be great to allow both Twitter and Facebook users the option to vote for t-shirt designs online. Expanding to Facebook will mean that you, the designer will get even more exposure, it’s a win-win situation!

We’ll keep on the development track and will let you all know when it’s rolled out, if you want to find out first make sure you’re on the email newsletter list. Were really looking forward to seeing what designs will come onto our voting platform next, and are awaiting to see who will be our first winner of our voting platform.

Thanks very much you guys, remember to keep voting and have a great weekend!