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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Funk Rush
SImple, clean, minimal. Enough said.
Linty Fresh
How do you get Linty Fresh? By washing your tees with too much detergent inside your animated washing machine. Great color selection.
Zombie Liquorice
Zombie Liquorice scares the hell out of me. ANd that is exactly what they were going for with this design.
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.
Hands On Clothing
Couldn’t you just eat it? Everything comes together on this one.
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: youdesignit
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Great series of designs that give good inspiration in design ideas
Sweet set of Cartel stores, thanks for sharing them.
Pretty Dark collection of threads here. Very unique. How often does
new inventory show up?
Awesome tees. Thanks for sharing the links.
Great collection of cool t-shirt sites. Thanks
some really cool designs, you should have a look at dropdead clothing.
Ugmonk is my personal favorite. (www.ugmonk.com)
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wow f**cking nice this app to have the latest blog post :)
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hey that is very psychobilly!
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Have you seen the metamorphosis t-shirt line. They use upcoming artist to design new different artistic art for their shirts.
Some nice designs there, and you can never have too many T shirts!
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talk about brilliant designs those t shirts are fantastic
Ya great stores but what they lack is saftey for the end user buying the shirts. Some of those sites use software/applications that are not real safe and me being a software developer I can say that their is better choices out there if your looking for a safe place to shop.
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Hey Thanks for the add! I just found this today, it was a nice surprise!
nice! a lot of these places I never knew of before. 410bc is my favorite there stuff is amazing
Word and Funk are my fav’s
Nice post.
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@ Matt,
You are aware of the relation of Big Cartel to Emptees, right? The Big Cartel system was created by the same folks that created Emptees.
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Some very nice designs in these stores. I might actually buy some tshirts from them.
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thanks for featuring my Arkaik Clothing design!
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Great post. I really need to start drawing tee art :)
looks good. lots of dark images here. very cool!
Thanks for the mention! :)
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This is like an advert for emptees clothing brands lol.
Thanks for putting up three of the sites I designed. I teamed up with a partner that knows way more than me about coding so we are going to have some exciting stuff in the future.
Thanks for including us!
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