Aaron Draplin on How to Design Merch in Adobe Illustrator

Описание: Share your designs on sellable merch—*without* compromising the look. Here, designer Aaron Draplin shares how to optimize a design for an embroidered patch, from sizing your canvas to spacing your shapes. For more tips, join Draplin for Design Great Stuff: How to Make Merch with Draplin, a Skillshare Original: https://skl.sh/33VDnY4

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AARON DRAPLIN MERCH QUICK JUMP MENU

00:00 Meet Aaron Draplin
00:14 Designing a Patch
00:51 Adopting Your Design for Different Items
02:13 What's the Right Size?
03:56 Outline and Mock Up Your Patch to Scale
05:51 Adjusting Your Design to Fit the Parameters
06:17 Adding Space Between Shapes

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ABOUT AARON DRAPLIN

From pins and patches to posters and hats, well-designed merch can be a designer’s dream—if it’s done right. Enter Aaron Draplin. For the past 15 years, Aaron has been designing the best merch in the biz. You may have spotted his designs via Coal Headwear, the Union Binding Company, Snowboard Magazine, Field Notes memo books, Ride Snowboards, Forum Snowboards, or many other brands. Now, Draplin is sharing the tips, tricks, and trade secrets he’s gathered over a career centered on making great stuff. With his usual straight talk and zero funny business (ok, maybe a little funny business), Aaron will walk you through every step he takes each time he wants to create something new—and might just share some never-before-heard stories of mishaps and mayhem along the way. Join him for Design Great Stuff: How to Make Merch with Draplin, a Skillshare Original: https://skl.sh/3qJYh5C

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MORE RESOURCES FROM AARON DRAPLIN

Recreate the rough quality of vintage graphics on your own designs with tips from Aaron Draplin, who opens up about his approach to "scrizz" in Dirty Design With Draplin: Crusty Techniques to Create Truly Original Work, a Skillshare Original: https://skl.sh/3rGZ3PW

Learn the fundamentals of a great logo design in Logo Design with Draplin: Secrets of Shape, Type and Color, a one-hour course that guides you through creating your own family crest: https://skl.sh/3tKsbIH

In Customizing Type with Draplin: Creating Wordmarks That Work, join Aaron to learn how to seek out inspiration and create your own type treatments: https://skl.sh/3FNYwks