12 Cool Big Cartel T-shirt Stores

Big Cartel offers an excellent resource for indie t-shirt lines looking for a quick and easy social online store.  However, as of this posting, there were well over 4,000 shops at Big Cartel. The majority of these serve up some t-shirts and we wanted to share 12 of our faves?  Read on to see what we like about each of these stores.

Dekay Clothing

The store is just as dark as the characters and themes being printed on the shirts.

dekay

Word Apparel!

There are certain features on this one worth noting like the torn edges and the illusion of depth from the top layer to the background. The layout flows well.

word_apparel

I Came From Nothing

I guess those tentacles on the sides “Came From Nothing” because I don’t recognize them from anything I’ve ever seen. Whatever they are, they perfectly match with the style of design on the shirts.

came_nothing

410 B.C.

I threw you a cureve on this one because it looks so different than all the others. The point with including 410 B.C. is showing that you don’t have to go nuts with graphics and can still look good. Models are a great way to personify the brand.

410_bc

Arkaik

I am a fan of the background being used and the title going beyond the main body. Arkaik kept with the theme by customizing the navigation in an appropriate font.

arkaik

This Noise

If you tried to create text that is loud enough to make a sound….this title is what it would look like. The store’s look and feel completely agrees with the t-shirts and their designs.

this_is_noise

A Burning Hollywood Romance Clothing

There is a lot of action going on here. Sometimes that is a bit much, but AHBR showed that excess can look good too.

abhr

Funk Rush

SImple, clean, minimal. Enough said.

funk_rush

Linty Fresh

How do you get Linty Fresh? By washing your tees with too much detergent inside your animated washing machine. Great color selection.

linty_fresh

Zombie Liquorice

Zombie Liquorice scares the hell out of me. ANd that is exactly what they were going for with this design.

zombie_liquorice

Regal Clothing

This is an awesome background. The lighting on the imagery makes it look real. This is a very cool touch for a t-shirt line that covers quite a few subjects.

regal

Hands On Clothing

Couldn’t you just eat it? Everything comes together on this one.

hands_on

I know there are many more and I want to see them! Please let me know the ones I left out in the comments section…

Author of this post: youdesignit

Blake Poutra works for a company called You Design It where you can design t-shirts and maintains a t-shirt design blog. See all posts by:

42 Comments (Leave a Comment)

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  4. Dekay Clothing is the one for me.

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  5. We’ve recently finished a free theme for BigCartel, specifically for t-shirt stores, it’s free to use in any which you you desire, and could be a good starting block to work from for a custom design. Link – http://www.wearenine.com/big-cartel-free-theme/

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  6. The Burning Hollywood Romance is the one for me, great background too.

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  7. Rob

    I love the Regal Clothing background!

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  8. Inspirational… great examples of what can be done to push the possibilities of Big Cartel stores. Thanks for sharing.

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  9. I love the funk rush’s tee shirts

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  10. liz

    Awesome round up! We’ve covered a bunch of these guys before at our site.

    I love seeing how creative folks are with big cartel css customization. I think my fav is still Regal Clothing.

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  11. wow i love your blog !

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