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50 Hip T-Shirt Designs For Your Merchandise

Graphic Design50 Hip T-Shirt Designs For Your Merchandise


Contemplating what to sell to strengthen your branding? Try a t-shirt. You might be thinking, “ But we’re not an apparel company.” We know, but hear us out.

T-shirts are wearable and fashionable. Aside from that, they’re great with any visual design. It opens collaboration lines and is a great way to bring revenue aside from your product or service to the business.

Check out the hip T-Shirt designs below and start pooling revenue for your brand.

Fresh New T-Shirt Designs for Your Brand

Apparel is a unique way to connect with your customers, and you instantly make them your ambassadors when they wear your merch out in the world. You just added another asset to your marketing scheme.

With that in mind, let’s get into the designs we thoroughly researched for you. We have ten popular t-shirt design ideas you should try.

  • Anime Style
  • Crypto/NFT Inspired Design
  • Minimalist Shirts
  • On Social Concerns
  • Pixel Art Design
  • Punny Design
  • Rainbow Aesthetic
  • Tie-Dye Design
  • Typographic Shirts
  • Vintage is Back

Anime Style

Have you heard of Kimetsu No Yaiba, Jujutsu Kaisen, Spy x Family, Haikyuu and the like? Well, it’s high time for you to check them out. The pieces stated above are manga pieces that have been adapted into anime to promote it better.

The anime industry has been experiencing a boom since its 2020 drop. The industry is worth USD 24.80 billion in 2021 and is expected to reach USD 26.89 billion this year—it’s profitable to get on the bandwagon of popular anime.

Anime has become so popular because of its variety of stories and how well its animation design performs. Kimetsu No Yaiba, Jojo’s Bizzare Adventures, Attack on Titan, and Spy x Family are some well-animated animes that are worth the watch.

Now just create a design that incorporates doe eyes that captures the reflection of light, anime hair that defies gravity itself, and a variety of mouth design depending on what emotion you want to express.

Express your love for the Japanese aesthetic with some of the anime designs below:

AMITAFX 99 ? t-shirt (white/sports grey) by Kikillo™ ?

Elegant, Simple T-shirt Design by Abiyoso28

Elegant, Simple T-shirt Design by zatsukiki

Izana T Shirt (tokyo revengers) by Kahla Laudza Hiban

Milim Nava T-Shirt Design by ORRANGE STUDIO

Crypto/ NFT Design

With the rice of cryptocurrencies, merchandise created from it is inevitable. Since the rice of NFT art, pieces like those have become popular enough for want of NFT-inspired clothing to become a trend.

Check out the pieces below for inspiration:

Biannual Town Hall T-shirt by Richelle Rolli for Kalderos Design

DESIGNERA T-shirt design by UNCADR Studio

Glean Collateral by Brightscout

Hexangle T-Shirt by Damian Kidd

Xena — Corporate T-shirt Print by Alexei Maletsky

Minimalist Shirts

Less is more with this t-shirt design. The more eye-catching the few elements are, the stronger your minimalistic design will stand out. You’ll pull off this sleek design with the right minimalist logos and or typography to pair with your shirt.

Get ideas from the graphic t-shirt design ideas below:

Bold, Simple T-shirt Design by jeffdefy

D H Tees by Type08 (Alen Pavlovic)

Fugit T-Shirt design by Kanhaiya Sharma

MISFIT T-Shirt by Damian Kidd

Modern, Beautiful Business T-shirt Design by SiliaD

On Social Concerns

People support a brand more when they know who they stand for—incorporating these elements into your design matters from climate change issues to gender topics.

It makes for cool creative t-shirt design ideas that turn people’s heads in a good way. After all, 64% of consumers said that they’d back up a brand that was vocal about social issues.

Whether speaking up for the LGBTQ+ community, climate change, or social injustice, make sure your t-shirt design speaks for your brand.

Show your market you care with the design below:

Black Lives Matter NAACP Donation by Kevin Craft

BLM Meatball T-Shirt Design by Alex Aperios

Bold, School Martial Art T-shirt Design by Barney Stinson

GitHub 2017 Pride Shirts by Ruby Jazz

Work T-shirt Design by Jonya

Pixel Art Design

Give your customers a nostalgic and techified feel, and add pixel art to your t-shirt design. The design is easy on the designer and the person looking at it.

The calming and cute feeling of being a child again attracts many to this type of design. Pixel art for t-shirt design makes a creative family t-shirt design that parents and children enjoy wearing.

Get your pixel art design below:

Doughnuts t-shirt – pixel art by Abdelrahman Anany

I Paused My Game To Be Here Sweatshirt by MadeByBono

LA LAKERS t-shirt – pixel art by Abdelrahman Anany

Questocat T-shirt by Ruby Jazz

Philadelphia eagles t-shirt – pixel art by Abdelrahman Anany

Punny Design

Get witty with your t-shirt designs. Some jokes are funnier when paired with the person wearing them. Imagine you see a person wearing a t-shirt saying, “ With this body, who needs hair?”

Punny, right? You have a confidence booster right there.

Or maybe a person wearing a shirt saying Seal of Approval with the sea creature holding up a yes or a shirt saying Romaine Calm with lettuce as the visual. Punny statement shirts are funny and corny at the same time.

But the charm doesn’t go over the heads of people who enjoy them. Get your clever design below:

Bold, Sports Bar Sports Bar T-shirt Design by Andi Yan

Coffee T-shirt Design by Mousumi Akter

Hunting T-shirt Design by Mousumi Akter

Playful T-shirt Design by AngryBear

Surfing t-shirt | Beach t-shirt design by Tushar

Rainbow Aesthetic

Whether you’re supporting the LGBTQ+ or just love the magnetic feel of the rainbow, it’s become a t-shirt design staple. Depending on your brand colors, you can either have it arched like the usual or as a background under typography.

Aside from that, rainbows symbolize hope and give off the bright feelings of hope and joy that people want to emulate. So when they wear something like this, they claim that they’ll feel good vibes while wearing the piece.

Spread joy and hope with the rainbow design below:

Bold, Awesome Fashion/graphic tees T-shirt Design by 4 be

Elegant, Trendy T-shirt Design by jd_teedesigns

Fake Rainbow Shirt Design by Manu

Rainbow Style Trendy T Shirt Design by Safi Ahmed Prince

rainbow t shirt design by Md Nurul Afsar

Tie-Dye Design

Til to this day, tie-die has become a staple in the apparel industry. Create shirts with this pattern from the retro era. Its psychedelic colors are cool to the eyes and make you feel nostalgic and cool at the same time.

Use it as a background or as is, whichever you want; the outcome will look great. Also, technological advances made digital tie-dye patterns incorporate other visuals of your brand or print t-shirt design.

Get your tie-dye inspired design below:

Don’t wash – tie dye by Glenn Newcomer

JOY by Travis Cooper

Smiley Note Tees by Sebastian Abboud

Sufjan Stevens Convocations Tie-Dye by Andrew Lawandus

r o u s e r s h i r t by pseudodudo

Typographic Shirts

Like the punny design, typographic shirts focus more on the font you use to express what you want to express. For 2022, the typographic trends to use for your t-shirt design are.

  • Multi-Colored Words
  • Arched and Flipped text
  • Handwritten, to name a few.

It works well with whatever statement you want to put associated with your brand. Check out the typographic designs below:

Do Not Talk To Me About Sports by Chris Koelle

Modern, It Company T-shirt Design by obidesignfactory

Playful T-shirt Design by windu

T-shirt Design by saka.aleksandar

Typography t-shirt design by Mashket Tofa

Vintage is Back

Last on the list is vintage t-shirt design. It brings back the 80s and 90s psychedelic and retro design. From the depiction of rock bands to their faded design, it all screams vintage.

You allow yourself to use this style through the font you use, the elements that represent eras of the past, and even the color scheme you choose. Some themes you might like are

  • Gothic Elements
  • Microphones and Instruments
  • Wild West Fonts
  • Old Cartoons, to name a few.

Take your pick from the vintage designs below:

Alright Alright Alright by Jeremy Teff

Bold, Company T-shirt Design by Eightone 3

Love T-shirt @ Anthropologie by Neil Rook

PigFloyds T-Shirt Design by TravisPietsch.

T-Shirt T-shirt Design by GEK (agentfortysix)

Design Your Brand T-Shirt Today

And there you have it. Whether you have a white t-shirt or a black t-shirt design, you now have a trendy design for it.

Contemplating what to put on your t-shirt? Get a logo that expresses your brand well. We have freelance designers here at DesignCrowd and a logo maker at BrandCrowd just for you.

Whichever you choose, you’ll have an awesome t-shirt design to add to your products!

 

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Written by DesignCrowd on Tuesday, May 31, 2022

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