What is Print on Demand?

Most people will think about books, but today almost every product imaginable can be purchased one item at the time, like with a book. Decor, Footwear Clothes, Wall art and more… Being a self-taught graphic designer, I started off by designing my own book cover that was published in 2001. Seventeen years later the opportunities…

Designing for the T Shirt market

Many of my designs are published on T Shirts with several P.O.D shops that specialize mainly on T shirts. Here are the links, so that any shopper can compare prices. Needless to say that Amazon is so far the cheapest, but I will add a n image at the end of this post from other…

Spring and Easter designs on products

The theme of my product designs was inspired by our world in Spring (in the northern hemisphere) and Easter everywhere else. I had not been back to Polyvore for a while, having had several computer problems, but the happy spring image below when clicked on takes you to my Polyvore site. I have added the…

The story behind Valentine day

I was wondering about that because when I lived in Holland during the sixties I had never heard of Valentine’s Day! Today because of my POD online shops The day of romance is an important event. These days Valentine is celebrated in many more countries around the world, although it is not a public holiday…

Personalized gifts

The popular online print on demand shop ZAZZLE offers just that. It took me a while to edit some of my products that I thought were available to be personalized, and apparently were not. I created a collection for these products and will keep adding more as I go along. Its a real shame that…

Our rainbow nation

In the past I did a lot of leather work. I also tooled and carved leather but today most of the leather work I still have photos of are now photographed and prepared to become a #leather-look print-on-demand design that appears as real as if it was real leather,suede or snake skin. Each product on…

Abstract fantasy

I was looking for a T shirt design and was playing in Photoshop and this was the result. Sometimes like writing a story, we need to just go with the flow and let our creativity take over. Then when I have finished with a design I usually start preparing my new image for the templates…

The Leather look

In my deep past leather work was the craft I did for several years and I held numerous exhibitions in South Africa. Today I have to scan the photos I still have of my leather work in order to use them for my product design, but its a great opportunity for me to revive this…

Minion Yellow contest

This Polyvore set was my first entry in a competition on polyvore titled:The Minion Yellow contest.What it does to enter competitions is that it attracts people who will follow your creativity on Polyvore.The design was one of my trendy fashion creations that I loved seeing on t-shirts and I hope it will attract professional interior…