Easter Weeks

This week I had to go home but i kept in contact with Keira and Abby and kept in touch by texting/ email what they'd done and sending me pictures of what they've done. They went and did some laser cutting which i was gutted i missed as I really want to learn how to laser Cut but they managed to do a few samples with that and with the brand name, WKW.
I was really pleased with the laser cutting samples they did, This again is another look we can add to our t-shirts to make them abit different to every other t-shirt.
I enjoy doing this company and I feel I am learning alot this way, with some independance aswell.
Next we hope to get some t-shirts done so we can do a photoshoot with them, see how that goes and look into more ways of printing.

Naming the Brand.

As a group we decided to name our brand as WKW. These are the initials of our surnames and it sounds nice put together. Now we thought about still being called WKW but calling our t shirt line orbit inc. This is so in the future we can do other stuff with the name WKW and we’re not trapped with what we can do. As individuals we are all interested in doing other stuff but corporate it with the name.

So we checked if orbit inc was available for copyright and it was, even though we saw something with the name orbit inc on a social network site so we’ll have to double check this out again, in case we have missed this on copyright. We like the name orbit Inc as well cause it goes with our theme for the prints we wanted to use for our t-shirts which is space.

So our t-shirt range will be called orbit Inc and we will use the names of some planets for our womenswear/menswear and will also use the logos that the planet represents. Our chosen planets we want to use are: venus, mars, Uranus and Earth.

Womenswear will be venus.

Menswear will be mars

Unisex will be Uranus

And accessories will be Earth.

I think this all gives the company abit more of an effect and something abit different aswell to other companies.

Printing symbols

Today we wanted to print our chosen symbols onto our t shirts. We went down to the printin seeds to start printing, we got the screen ready but then unfortunately we was unable to print as the technician wouldn't allow us to print as we hadn't given her a brief or what we wante to do in writing.
This is what we done so far...

 These are the two symbols we wanted to print on our t-shirts. Neptune and Earth.

T Shirts

We decided to start looking for t-shirts to order for us to print them. I started looking on the Internet, on some t shirt websites. We wanted quality t shirts but at also at a good price. I found some batches of 50 to 200 t shirts. To begin with we wanted to go for a batch of 50, to see how we get on.
We found some t-shirts on plaint-shirts.co.uk. A batch of 200 white t-shirts for £261.05. This is heavy weight material and then it's an £8 delivery. We thought this was way too expensive for us to start out with so we carried on looking on other websites.
We also found some other t-shirts based on a batch of 20 for £1.13 each so the total would be £22.60. This seamed more realistic to us and was happy with this price.
We also found a pack of ten t-shirts, which cost £1.10 per t-shirt for a total of £22.00 with a delivery charge of £8.00 which the total gave us £30.00. This again we was happy with but not the cheapest we found some t-shirts for. We'll carry on looking around, see if we can find something abit cheaper.

Illustrated Designs.

I did some designs on illustrator and photoshop. I did this because I want to improve on my skills and also I think they look neater.
I played around with the different styles of t-shirts we want to use aswel as the different styles/colours/prints.

Screen Printing.

Today we experimented with some screen print. I only ever done this once, and that was in my first year, so i was excited to do it again and excited for the outcome.
We decided to use an image of space, as this is the sort of thing we want to go for in our t-shirts.

This is what the fabric that we experimented on looked like afterwards. We used different techniques, by using different strokes and was interested to see the different outcomes. 

This is a sample we did on some jersey fabric that is similar to our t-shirts. We were really happy with the outcome.

Designs/Print

I did i moodboard of some recent prints I thought was suitable for our t-shirts.
We like the idea of the planets and the solar system. This is something we havnt really seen much of in the shops.
I drew up some designs of different styles of tee's. We thought about doing the bottom of a tee like an upside down tee, with arm holes for a different style. This was something that made the tee unique. This we thought could be one of our unique selling points.

I really like the idea we are going for and hope to achieve. I find it quite edgy and on trend, and this is what we want and want to keep creating, clothes that are on trend.