Vinyl

• You should be comfortable around Illustrator at this point. Now you get to create a sticker for your laptop or phone.
• Create a DESIGN that you would like to put on your phone, laptop or a car window.
  • Your design must work in ONE colour!
  • Best is to create the design from scratch, using the tools you used
  • You can ‘live trace’ existing images and modify them.
  • Any copyrighted design needs to be modified before you can use the image.
  • The more unique your image, the better your mark.
  • The vinyl cutter only sees OUTLINES, so switch to outline view in Illustrator to see if your image ‘works’
• Check the ‘how to’ guide for details
• Submit your image for cutting
• When cut, remove the unwanted parts and adhere to your object using transfer tape and a squeegee

KEY CRITERIA: Complexity of Design, quality of ‘weeding’

INTRODUCTION

Create a two-colour Vinyl design for a T-shirt you can wear. Check for available colours before you start!

BASIC REQUIREMENTS

• Create DESIGN that you would like to put on a t-shirt.
  • • You can start with existing images and add to them, or do your own.
    • When looking for images, try to find VECTOR images not BITMAPS so you do not have to rely on ‘live trace’.
    • Any copyrighted design needs to be modified before you can use the image.
• If the colours in your design touch, create an overlapping design, to make registration more accurate
• The more unique your image, the better your mark.
• Images need to be converted to OUTLINES, so the Vinyl Cutter can print them,
  • Switch Illustrator to outline view to see how clean your images are
  • Use the Shape Builder tool to clean up your image
  • Outline all text so it can be cut by the plotter.
• If using more than one colour, make sure each colour is on its own layer
• check the ‘how to’ guide for details
• Submit your image for cutting
• When cut, remove the unwanted parts and heat transfer to your t-shirt

KEY CRITERIA:

Complexity of Design, quality of ‘weeding’

For Two colour Decals (Stickers) watch this video (Essential part is after 12:00)