New Products January

NEW: Rope Cap (ID 2470)

Product details

• Brand: Imperial
• Material content: 97% polyester, 3% spandex
• Performance fabric and sweatband
• Retro fit with contrasting braid
• Structured, five-panel, mid-profile
• Pre-curved visor
• Plastic snap back closure
• Imported product, printed & processed in the USA
• One size
• Colours: navy/white, black/black, white/black and gray/black

Print & Price

• Print Area front (width x height): 4.8″ x 2.5″(12,4 cm x 6,4 cm)
• Print types: Flex/Flock and DTF (Direct-to-film), pixel and vector graphics possible (recommended at least 4,000 x 4,000 pixels, PNG)
• Retail Price: $27.99 USD ($37.99 CAD / $41.99 AUD)
• Commission: $3.00USD ($3.50 CAD / $4.00 AUD)

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Quarter one of 2024 is upon us. But what do we have in store? You can find occasions to celebrate, remember and learn throughout this calendar. This little preselection of holidays is just waiting for your design ideas:

• Australia Day, January 26^th
• Black History Month, February 1^st– Match 1^st
• Chinese New Year, February 10^th
• Super Bowl LVI (US), February 11^th
• President’s Day (US), February 19^th
• Family Day (CAN), February 19^th
• Love your Pet Day (US), February 20^th
• International Women’s Day, March 8^th
• Saint Patrick’s Day, March 17^th
• World Down Syndrome Day, March 21^st
• Easter Sunday, March 31^st

More exciting events are waiting for you in our calendar. Have a scroll through the next three months and discover suitable occasions for your designs.

Need some more drive to get you going? Our article on the top search terms from January – March 2023 will be sure to get you on the right path.

Still have some burning questions? Get in touch with us on the forum or in the comments section below.

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Thank you to all our amazing designers

We cannot thank all our designers enough for being with us one more year and for all your creative and awesome designs. Your endless creativity and talent is really the power house of our marketplace and what drives so much inspiration and creation.

A special thank you to all our designers of the month

January: Adam Lawless

Februar: Huette Kunterbunt

März: CAROGRAPHIC

April: WACHtraum

May: Elena Bunt

June: lsdesigns

July: Vectoria

August: Baibaibai

September: Kimprut

October: Ilustrata

November: DESIGNbyUP

December: TheMaskedTooner

Thank You to our external Forum moderator and all the Forum Users

We want to extend a big thank you to all the engaged Users in the Forum who report bugs, issues, questions, and suggestions. Your feedback helps us to continuously improve and better understand your needs.

We also wanted to give a very special thank you to our external Forum moderator, Simsalapimp. Being a successful designer herself, she knows from firsthand experience, the worries and troubles of designers. She has been such a valuable asset to the forum and we are grateful for her help.

2023 in a nutshell – Main Events & Features

Riding the economic wave

New Design Price Structure for Marketplace – Design commission harmonization

In February we had to make some important decisions which would change our design commission model. Following the pressure of inflation as well as the rising costs of energy, logistics and printing, we wanted to ensure the Marketplace was better prepared for potential challenges, which ultimately led to the harmonization of our design commission model.

Here’s how it works now

EU Design Contest: “Gothic Aesthetic”

We ran a big design contest in May for the designers from Star Classes 3, 4, and 5, and had incredible results. With the theme of “Gothic Aesthetic”, we were amazed (but not surprised, of course) by all the talent and creativity that was displayed.

See all the winners and their amazing designs here!

We even had a chance to get know our creatives better and interviewed the top 3 design contest Winners.

A huge thank you to ALL participants! We were so inspired by your creativity, so stay tuned for more design challenges.

New SpreadApp v. 4.0.0.

In March this year we released a beta version of the new SpreadApp which gave you a sneak peek at its features. We received your helpful feedback on our SpreadApp beta and have put it into action: with the latest version, SpreadApp 4.0.0., you can now use nearly every feature and function of your Partner Area from the convenience of your phone.

Get all the details

Another inspiring year

To make sure that your designs get the attention they deserve, we’ve been busy filling our blog with an endless stream of useful and inspiring posts on topics such as:

Design inspiration: 

• 70s Design Style
• 80s Design Style
• 90s Design Style
• Vintage design inspiration

Color inspiration and tips &tricks:

• Inspiring color palettes and combinations
• Free color tools
• Design creation with color of the year

Tools and tutorials to level up you design skills:

• Tools for Illustrators
• Best tutorial sites and YouTube channels
• Best graphic design challenges for your creativity

and more…

New year, new products

We’re proud to say that we’ve added many colors and organic products to our assortment this year.

See all the additions that came in 2023

Thank you again for your contributions, wishing all our wonderful and inspirational designers a happy end to 2023, and of course also a great start to the New Year. Keep the designs coming!

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The beta version of the new SpreadApp already gave you a sneak peek at its new features. We gratefully received the feedback on our SpreadApp beta and have put it into action. Now you can discover the results for yourself. Download SpreadApp 4.0 and connect it to your Partner Area now.

Create and publish products with your smartphone

With SpreadApp 4.0, you can create and publish new products for your Showroom and Spreadshop on the go or from the comfort of your sofa. Simply select a photo or graphics file on your smartphone, upload it, add metadata, and publish it on the sales channels of your choice.

Here’s how: first of all, open the SpreadApp and tap the picture frame icon in the middle of the bottom navigation bar to open the Designs section. Here, you’ll find all the designs you’ve already uploaded at a glance – just like in the design overview in your Partner Area. Use the filter function to sort your designs by sales channels and publication status.

You can also tap “+” in the top-right corner to upload more designs – from your photo albums, files or straight from your phone camera. Next, tap the new design in the overview, choose the sales channels where you’d like to publish it, and add the metadata. Hit “Create” in the top-right corner and you’re all done!

Edit sales channels

But that’s not all! Want to open a new Shop in a few quick and easy steps or publish your designs on the Marketplace? No problem! Open the sales channels overview, tap “+” in the top-right corner and give your new sales channel a suitable name. Then you can activate and visit it straight away on your smartphone – just like all your other sales channels.

Create and edit products across devices

The content in your SpreadApp and your Partner Area always syncs up – making life incredibly easy for you. This way, for instance, you can start creating and publishing products on your smartphone, then fine-tune the product selection in your Partner Area. Here’s a rundown of all the new features of SpreadApp 4.0:

Statistics:

• Detailed information on sales, credit and bestsellers

Design area:

• Upload and publish designs
• Edit metadata
• Organise designs
• View design details

Sales channels:

• Edit existing sales channels
• Set up new sales channels
• Activate and deactivate sales channels
• Visit sales channels

Have you already installed the new version of SpreadApp on your smartphone? Let us know what you think and any other features and functions you’d like to see in future.

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While classic colours and symbols put their stamp on the festive season, it’s also shaped by the latest trends and styles, which you can use for your designs.

Every year, trade fairs like Christmasworld Frankfurt present the top trends for the holidays ahead. This Christmas, the following styles will be our guiding lights:

• unusual beauty à strange + appealing
• calming nature à caring + pleasant
• ideas made to last à passionate + atmospheric

Just like last year, nature is the main source of inspiration for this festive season Now, more than ever, the main focus is on sustainability. Many new creations emerge from a mix of traditional handicraft and innovative techniques.

Unusual beauty à strange + appealing

This trend swaps classic Christmas symbols for unexpected and surprising designs. You can use the following colours and elements to make extraordinary and appealing creations:

Design ideas:

• Unexpected decorations and unusual shapes
• Situation-specific patterns and organic shapes
• Reflections of surroundings and interplay of light and shade

Colour palette:

• Metallic surfaces and pearlescent objects
• Engraving and flowing colour effects
• Interplay between extravagant colours like azure blue, peach, magenta and burgundy and cute, subtle shades of light blue, lemon, silver and grey

Technique:

• A blend of handicrafts and innovation

This trend consciously breaks apart conventional festive design templates. It’s ideal if you want to express yourself creatively and get your fans into the festive mood with new, even futuristic interpretations.

Calming nature à caring + pleasant

Peaceful vitality and natural minimalism shape the second big trend this Christmas. It’s all about a vibrant connection to nature and design themes revolving around life cycles and transience. The colour palette also takes inspiration straight from nature.

Design ideas:

• Patterns, designs and textures are inspired by natural materials

Colour palette:

• The shades draw on the hues of lichen, mountain lakes, raw malachite and the many grey tones of rock. Dark colours are offset with warm tones such as moss and woody and delicate pink.

Technique:

• With creativity and a sustainable approach, the designs increasingly blur the boundaries between art, crafts and technology.

This trend taps into a caring, feelgood vibe you can approach from a number of different directions. Perhaps you want to create a simple sense of cosiness and warmth, make a stand on the environment, or take inspiration from the natural world around you? Then this is the Christmas style for you.

Ideas made to last à passionate + atmospheric

This trend is about visuals and decorations that make a clear design statement:

Design ideas:

• Striking designs with lots of geometric shapes
• Shapes like circles, discs, cones and squares
• Stripes – from sharp and elegant to subtle and flowing

Colour palette:

• Unicolour designs, intense colours and neutral, metallic tones
• Shades of blue and petrol dominate the cool colour spectrum
• Orange-red, violet and ochre add warm notes
• Neutral, metallic tones in zinc, iron and bronze grey

Technique:

• This trend uses graphic elements such as marble grains, wood structures and overlapping grids for moiré effects.

This festive trend is perfect for designers who love bold colours and striking statements.

Themes and styles for Christmas 2023

• Scandinavian style: Delight your fans with charming Scandinavian designs. The hallmarks of this style are simple elegance and natural elements such as wooden details, soft, neutral colours, lush green foliage, snowy wreaths and delicate white berries.
• Rainbows: Immerse your fans in the full colour spectrum of the rainbow – from bright reds and cool blues to playful pinks and vibrant orange. This feelgood concept celebrates bold colours, vintage materials and striped decorations and includes designs using the colour of the year, Viva Magenta.

• Christmas lodge: This theme draws on the traditional Christmas colours red, green and gold.
• Winter’s tale: A frosty white colour palette combined with metallic, light blue shades – a blizzard of beauty!

• Futuristic Christmas:Modern holographic elements and 3D designs.

Festive design tips

• Take inspiration from nature: Sustainability and nature-inspired designs and decorations are bang on trend again this winter. Use colour palettes inspired by nature and create designs in the popular Scandi style.
• Make it metallic: Nothing lightens the mood and creates a festive feel like a touch of glitz and glitter. So when it comes to metallic elements, you don’t need to hold back. Metallic and grey tones are also among the trend colours for this autumn/winter season.

• Don’t focus on just one holiday: Work out whether going all in on the Christian festival of Christmas is appropriate for your target audience. At the same time, most people are sure to welcome you getting into the festive mood in some way. You can do this with wintry landscapes, colours and pictures, for instance. This means fans are sure to get into the festive spirit, irrespective of the specific winter holiday.
• Let fonts do the work for you: Festive graphic design presents a unique opportunity to experiment with creative fonts. On other occasions, you might not consider them. However, at Christmas, you can consciously choose elegant fonts and playful, child-like hand lettering. Festive messages like “Merry Christmas” and “Season’s Greetings” are so familiar you can consciously play with a font that’s a little less easy to read. The idea: while fans decipher the lettering, the typography has already begun evoking pleasant festive feelings.

• Go beyond red, green and classic symbols: Leave traditions behind and create modern, extraordinary festive designs. You can use cool trend colours and patterns to do this. Inspiration can also be found in our blog featuring the design trends for the latest autumn/winter season.

We hope our tips have helped you find your festive flow. Have fun getting creative this Christmas! We also recommend keeping the practical, organisational side of things in mind: Here you’ll find an overview of order deadlines. This will be updated on an ongoing basis from now on. That way you can make sure your brand-new Christmas creations make their way under the tree in time for the big day.

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