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capri0mniYou see, the thing is: They take your "design" and apply the same image to every single object they're able to sell starting with tee-shirts. They just assume that you want to create a simple image & word combination and stick it smack dab in the perfect center of everything.
So a design that I've specifically worked out for a mug (and also with Left-handed and Right-handed variations) would get stuck on tee shirts, baby clothes, wall clocks, hats, bags and whatever else they sell. And I'd have no control over how they arrange the image on the object, so with my mug, for example, they'd probably mess up the placement, and ruin the humor.
I'm sorry... but: That's not "design."
I can choose a specific image for a specific object if I'm creating them to buy for myself, but not if I want an easy way for my friends to get them for themselves.
Oh -- and in case you're wondering why I'm so opposed to tee-shirts: because I use a wheelchair, and, when I'm out in the outside world, wearing a seatbelt, the standard placement of t-shirt graphics (with the top of the image level with or just below the arm pits) means that it's too low down for anyone else to see it. So what's the point? And I'm probably not the only wheelchair user with the same frustration. A mug, or a bumper sticker, however, lets you "carry your message" in a more flexible way.
(When I was younger, and painted my own shirts, I'd place the focal point of the image around the neckline between the shoulders and the top of the chest).
Oh well. Maybe I'll check out Zazzle, or something. Or find a cafepress-like business that uses some other default object besides clothing.
*sigh*
*is disappointed.*
So a design that I've specifically worked out for a mug (and also with Left-handed and Right-handed variations) would get stuck on tee shirts, baby clothes, wall clocks, hats, bags and whatever else they sell. And I'd have no control over how they arrange the image on the object, so with my mug, for example, they'd probably mess up the placement, and ruin the humor.
I'm sorry... but: That's not "design."
I can choose a specific image for a specific object if I'm creating them to buy for myself, but not if I want an easy way for my friends to get them for themselves.
Oh -- and in case you're wondering why I'm so opposed to tee-shirts: because I use a wheelchair, and, when I'm out in the outside world, wearing a seatbelt, the standard placement of t-shirt graphics (with the top of the image level with or just below the arm pits) means that it's too low down for anyone else to see it. So what's the point? And I'm probably not the only wheelchair user with the same frustration. A mug, or a bumper sticker, however, lets you "carry your message" in a more flexible way.
(When I was younger, and painted my own shirts, I'd place the focal point of the image around the neckline between the shoulders and the top of the chest).
Oh well. Maybe I'll check out Zazzle, or something. Or find a cafepress-like business that uses some other default object besides clothing.
*sigh*
*is disappointed.*
