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Design & Art

Design is at the heart of every project here. The art staff is experienced and versatile, and the work runs from a one-colour team logo on a softball jersey to a ten-colour tournament shirt — because getting the image right is what decides whether anybody wants to wear the finished piece.

A designer working at a large monitor with colour swatches, printed proofs and pens across the desk
Art staff
In-house
Starting point
Finished art, a logo, or nothing at all
Output
Press-ready separations and digitized files
Revisions
Proofed before anything is made
File ownership
Your approved art stays on file
Range
One-colour team mark to ten-colour event print
How it runs

The concept comes first

Most decorated apparel fails at the drawing, not at the press. A tournament shirt nobody keeps, a company polo that sits in a drawer — those are design problems wearing a production costume. The art staff draws for the garment, the audience, and the decoration method at the same time.

Production art is a separate skill

A beautiful concept still has to become screens or stitches. Trapping, underbase, halftones, minimum stitch widths — the art staff handles the translation, which is why the proof and the shirt look like each other.

Your art does not get lost

Approved artwork stays on file with the separations and the digitizing. Next season, the reorder starts from the finished file rather than from someone hunting through email for a logo.

Recent work

Drawn here, printed here.

  • Skirmish in the Corn lacrosse tournament design — a helmeted skull with crossed lacrosse sticks over cornstalks, printed in orange and white on black
  • 2019 NCAA Wrestling Championships design for Cornell University — a Pittsburgh skyline inside a shield above a bear mascot
  • Shane Lynch Memorial Opening Weekend design for the Upstate Lacrosse Association at Hollander Stadium, Auburn NY
  • 30th Annual Marathon Cross Country Invitational design — three runners inside a large numeral 30
  • Cold Brook Lacrosse Lake Placid design — a stag head above collegiate lettering, printed on orange
  • Shane Lynch Memorial Opening Weekend tournament design listing competing Upstate Lacrosse Association clubs beneath a clock tower
To get started

Send us this.

None of it has to be perfect. Half of what comes through the art desk is a photo of an old shirt and a rough count.

Start a project
  • Anything you already have — a logo, a sketch, a photo, a Pinterest board

  • Who is going to wear it, and where

  • Colours you must hit, and colours you cannot use

  • The date you need to approve by

Tell us what you need on it.

A quantity, a date, and whatever artwork you have. We will come back with garment options and a quote — not another form.