How it works
The whole thing takes about ten minutes. Here’s each step in full, if you’d like to know what to expect.
Sign in
No password, and nothing to set up beforehand.
- Enter your mobile number and your work email.
- Your email has to match the event guest list. If it doesn't work, the registration desk can sort it out.
- The mobile number isn't checked against anything — it's so the print team can reach you about collecting your T-shirt.
- That's the whole sign-in — you go straight to designing.
Describe the design you want
Say what you'd like in your own words. You don't need to know anything about design.
- Type a description — "a tiger portrait in bold flat colours, deep indigo and brass" is plenty. Simple or detailed both work.
- Naming the subject and the colours gets you furthest. Saying how it should be drawn — an engraving, a linocut, bold flat shapes — helps too.
- You can add a reference photo, and your design is built from your description and the photo together.
- Each design takes a little over a minute to make. You get 8 tries in total, so there's room to experiment.
- Don't love it? "Change this" tweaks a design instead of starting over — say just what you want different and everything else stays put.
- If your signal drops while a design is being made, stay on the screen. It carries on being made and we'll pick it up again — it won't cost you a second try, so there's no need to press the button again.
Choose your design
Everything you made, one at a time. Pick the one you want printed.
- Swipe through them, or use the arrows.
- One design goes on the T-shirt, so this is the one that gets printed.
- Not happy with any of them? Go back and make another — you've got tries left until you don't.
Pick your size
Two different cuts. This comes before positioning, and on purpose.
- Pick the cut first — the two are genuinely different garments, so the same letter size measures differently in each.
- They are also different shapes, which is why this is asked now: the next screen draws the cut you chose, so the shirt you position your design on is the shirt you get.
- The chart shows chest, length and sleeve for every size, in inches or centimetres.
Position it, then order
Move it with your fingers, straight on the shirt.
- Drag with one finger to move it.
- Pinch with two fingers to make it bigger or smaller.
- Twist with two fingers to turn it — it snaps square when you get close.
- Size runs from 15% up to 200% of the printable width.
- The dotted box is the printable area. Anything faded outside it won't be printed — useful if you want the design to run off the edges.
- It snaps to the centre as you get near, and a guide line appears so you can see it's straight.
- Flip to the front to see the whole shirt. The event logo is printed on the front of every T-shirt; your design goes on the back.
- Then check the finished shirt on the review screen and place your order.
Once you’ve ordered
- That's it — placing the order is the last thing you have to do. There's nothing further to wait for on your phone.
- Collect your T-shirt from the merchandise desk.
- Every design you made stays on the order screen, so you can save a full-size copy of any of them to keep.
If the print team can’t print something, they’ll say why on your order screen and you can design another one.
Good to know
- Cost
- Free. One T-shirt per attendee.
- Design tries
- 8 per attendee.
- Designs per shirt
- One, on the back.
- Print area
- 11" × 17" on the back.
- What we can't print
- Brand logos, trademarked characters and real people. Keep it workplace appropriate — anything else is fair game.
- Your phone
- That's all you need. Nothing to install.