EliteCM.net

im working on a t-shirt design for forum members.  i would like to get as much feedback as possible before i go get the shirts made up.  below is a basic design of the logo for the shirt.  im curious as to what colors would be appealing to you as well as what size you would wear if you wanted one.  this is not available for purchase yet. this is just a feeler so i can gain info as to what i should have made. im also interested to see if anyone has input to make the design different.

(http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv356/ICEBOX434/EliteCM.jpg)

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eh, don't like the font. Should be simple and flow better.

Make the M in CM red and change the font but keep it italicized. :D

I like the design in the 1st post...

Well I did a sample tee to see what the outcome wold be. I like it, it's a Hanes tee and the size is acurate. I used the same design as my window decal. The only think is that they did the colors too dark from what I had in mind and submitted. Here is the sample kodak. I don't have one as of yet of the finished product. I can't find my USB cable lolzzz...

Got it done at:
http://www.zazzle.com

Sample kodak designed when I ordered it. But when I recieved it the colors of the words were darker! Other than that  like it!
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c14/crazycreashunz/EliteCMTee.jpg)

i dont like the font in the op, but the font above ^ looks cool

I actually like the design in the OP

zazzle is a good site but they dont always turn out just like you want them to

We should consider some other fonts.  I think it looks a little too tall like that.

I wish I still screen printed.  I would do this for nothing...

Agreed, I also feel it resembles the old , sorry to say this, G7A shirts way too much.

I will try to explain my idea as best I can:

I like the body silhouette, what if we remove the text in the middle all together, and on the sedan side panel  (doors) put the word "Elite" in Italics.  and on the coupe door panel put "CM" in italics.  Centered underneath maybe have the specific squads as an option, I will photoshop it up tomorrow to give you guys a visual of what I'm thinking of, bare with me here.

what do you all think of this one?

(http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv356/ICEBOX434/EliteCM2.jpg)

and there is a place locally that i can have them made at for cheaper than any of those websites.

Nice, but "EliteCM.net" should be centered under the rides atleast. We are wearing the shirts to represent the site we are apart of, this way we can get new members to join. I am down for a new shirt so I will be checking back from time to time to see what we decide.

I agree, i just creating another design that reflected someone else s request.

Kevin's idea was a good one, but I agree with Billy.  It really should say EliteCM.net.  I'm going to mess around with the picture a little bit and try to come up with something when I have some free time.  I'd also like to see the design be as simple as possible.  I think the coupe and sedan profiles with EliteCM.net should be the only thing on the shirt.  Once you start adding squads or screen names the price of these are going to go up.

^agreed, it would be more affordable having a consistent design and ordering in bulk versus ordering a few of many different designs.

take 3

(http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv356/ICEBOX434/EliteCM3.jpg)

I'll play around with it too but I have to wait until I get m laptop back this weekend!

i like the basic one that Crazy did, maybe do the silouette cars on the back across the top or something

still resembles g7a.
we need new design, maybe coupe and sedan at the angle and elitecm. net on top

the first font looks alright... i like the font and color scheme that AV6NHBP6SPD put on the Decals with the red CM... the Cm part should stay red cause that i will stand out out on whatever color shirt you put it on....

here is my idea place the elitecm.net on the front like CrazyCreashunz did and for extra you can put each squad at the bottom so when we are at meets people can distinguish us

not everyone will understand what the elitecm.net  is so put the coupe and sedan with the accord performance enthusiast club at the back of the shirt

it will cost more but you pay for quality and that does not come cheap

I think there are some good designs that have been presented but I think we can do better.  I'm hesitant to say this though because I have absolutely no experience in doing stuff like this so feel free to tell me to STFU.  I really like the shirt that Billy came up with on zazzle, VERY NICE! I also like layout of everything on that shirt...beautiful.

I personally think we need a new banner design and that could make the way for shirts and other garb.  Perhaps we should design a new banner before we do shirts.  I believe the old banner was used in haste to get ECM up and running, and now that we're actually established, we can make a new design that better reflects our pride.

^ I second that.

what do you gents think about this? I took a little bit of everyones ideas mixed with a lil of my own and this is what I came up with

(http://www.limongellidesign.com/rice/Design1.gif)

i like it

Not bad. The only thing that I'm concerned with is if that faded background is gonna be able to show on the t-shirt itself? and some of the fonts are too close to each other like where it says Accord looks like Aooord.

I like it too.  Steve brings up a good point about practicality.  I'm sure you can talk to a silk screener to get some feedback though.

i love the last one. alot. they going to say or show anything on the back.?

That looks pretty freaking hot lemonjelly

i wouldn't change anything. i love how close the words are together

Like it!

^+1

What about making separate shirts either coupe or sedan specific?

love the image but i agree the font needs to be different, the sub text kinda runs together.

It's a good idea, but it's not practical.  Making different designs is just going to complicate things.  I would be a lot easier and less expensive to make one design for everyone.

i think the text flows quite well

Actually I like the first take that David did, with a different font. Having the words cover up the cars, I dunno, I want to be able to see the image.

maybe try the smoked logos with the text above and below.

I think it looks badass how it is. We could even use it as the site's logo, unless the one that's been in production is almost ready.

I love the last one. I say the letters need a little more spacing between them but other than that it looks awesome.

Thanks for the kind words, ill play around with the "Accord Performance Enthusiast Club" part and post something up tomorrow.

I thought about mocking up separate shirts for both sedan and coupe, but like Tim said, it would only make it very complicated and probably more expensive.

(http://www.limongellidesign.com/rice/Design2.gif)

what do you guys think of this? I shrunk the size of the "Accord....." and also spaced out the letters a bit more.

that one is it!

Yes I think I like the 2nd version of this better. With the font small it looks less...agressive? But yeah, I like that design. Great job!

Nice Steve.  I need to see about getting those made now.  It shouldn't be too complicated.  Just a 2 color/layer silk screen.

Thanks guys! I'm glad you like it!!!

Tim I will go and talk to a few tee shirt places around me and see what they can do as far as silk screening in that "smoked" accord silhouettes. If we cannot find a place thats able to do it I can always adapt the design.

Any ideas on what colors you would like for the design, shirt etc?

black shirt, red or green letters and the smoke silhoette would look good

It looks awesome. I'm down for a t-shirt with that design. I also think that a black shirt with red letters + the smoke would look awesome.

I know that you guys have already decided on this.. but I think if you made the "E" in elite lower case it would balance the type better.. also, I'm not sure how I feel about the "accord performance..." breaking up the underline of "elitecm.net"

I think if those things were changed it would be a much more solid design.  but I definitely like the idea.. just my .02

That looks much better  

Steve, I can help you with getting the t-shirts made.

+1 on this design Steve. Black shirts definitely with either white or grey with the CM in red or green.

hey guys, I mocked up the colors. let me know what you think and if you wanna see anything different?

(http://www.limongellidesign.com/rice/Design_Final.gif)

there is a screen printing place that is run by the same shop who did my suspension that I am going to go and talk to.

http://illegalclothing.com/index.html

before i go and talk to them I want to get a rough count of people who are in to buy this shirt and what size you would need, so I can get an accurate quote.

im gunna run around to a few other places as well and see what we can get for the lowest price.

You know I'm interested.  I'll take like 4 of them!!

I like it!! So is the 'CM' going to say red will there be printed in a few different colors? I'll take a few too!!

i like. id take 2

I am thinking for right now we will just do red to make it easy, but when I am there I will talk to him about the ability to do different colors. That will prob raise the pirce though

They also do hoodies, hats, polos and jerseys there. Ive got a pretty cool idea floating around in my noggin for some hoodies. Ill mock it up and see what people think and I can talk to him about those as well if the interest is there...

I'm in. Put me down for 2 shirts.

i would like 2. in the black but should you do an alternate color in WHITE then that number would go to 4 shirts

awesome, im glad to see such a positive reponse to this! I am going to call the guy this afternoon and see what he can do for a price.

to make it a bit easier to keep track of please add your name and the number of shirts you want to the list

ME - 2
Tim - 4
Jeremy - a few (please specify)
Don - 2
Justin  - 2
Sean - 2

We should just make a separate order thread instead of using this thread for orders.

ill take two - XL please, and when you design a hoodie i will probably want one as well

2 Please!  

so I was just playing around a bit and I came up with something that I think might be a bit easier to screen print, and that I like better then the previous design.

let me know what you all think, and which design you would like to go with.

(http://www.limongellidesign.com/rice/sweatshirt.jpg)

here is the design mocked up on a sweatshirt

(http://www.limongellidesign.com/rice/sweatsshirt_mock.jpg)

^ Whoa ...

Man that hoody looks sick i like it

That's tyte. I'd rock both the hoody and the shirt. I just dont want it with the red "CM" though.

looks good. im a tad worried about the hood part because what if you usually wear the hood, the words would be upside down

So maybe put the words on the sleeve or something.

What if you put the rear of the accord in the back of the hoodie  

They look hot Steve! I would want Lime Green CM letters tho...

The purpose of this site is for performance information.  There are plenty of other forums that are geared towards that other stuff.

i will take 2 just let me know how much and when.

So just to give a brief update, I called the guy yesterday evening and got his vm (he prob went home for the day) so I am going to try back this morning and talk to him, as soon as I do I will let you all know what he says about colors, multiple printing locations etc...

I will also try and get a price quote on both the tees and sweatshirts.





I had thought about putting it on the sleeve or on the back, and I really wasn't pleased with how it looked. We don't have to have it on there at all, I just though it would spice up the design a bit more.


I had though about this but couldn't decide which rear to use since we all have different ones lol and also, as unclejud49348 pointed out that would be a lot more work resulting in more cost...



I will talk to the guy about what it would cost to do a whole bunch of different colors, if we start getting into shirts specifically made for one, or a few people the cost is going to sky rocket.


Tim has spoken lol

i like hodie but i think it would beeter if back had site on back and not on hood
id take 2 shirts in medium and 1 hodie (have to check if i need medium or small)

would back of tshirt has same wriging on back or at least elitecm.net?

I'll take 2 t-shirts and 1 hoodie.

one large t shirt
one XL hoodie

prices ?

x2

Ya I was just throwing out ideas since I think Don didn't like it being on the hoodie part. I think Misha mentioned putting the site address on the back instead. Maybe that could work.


Ya I realized adding the rear of the accord in the back of the hoodie would make things alot more complicated lol.

I'd take 2 tees and 2 hoodies pending prices though   .

It should be pointed out that this is the design thread.  I think that when Steve is ready to start setting this up, we will create a sign up thread.  I think at this point, he's looking for interest.  I'm definitely interested in the hoodie and t-shirt.  I'd even go for a long sleeve if they have them.  Steve, I think we should talk about this on Friday or Saturday before you sign up for anything.

For the hoodie, I would suggest the http://www.elite.com (http://www.elite.com) that's on the hood on the front chest of the hoodie and the Accord silhouette on the back of the hoodie.

i like that idea. it would be kinda like what these guys did
(http://www.weaksauceparts.com/store/images/t_18878.jpg)

Tim is correct, I just wanted so gauge the interest in both the tee shirt and hoodie before I went ahead and contacted the printer..

I can see we have very strong interest in both which is fantastic. Yesterday was incredibly busy and I wassnt able to pull myself away to call the guy, but I will today and get a rough idea of prices.

Tim I will bring some paper and we can sit down @ dinner on sat and work on a final design and really figure shit out before I actually place the order.

Is this what you were thinking Tim?

(http://www.limongellidesign.com/rice/Sweatshirt_2.gif)

just my .02 i think you should still keep the "Accord Performance Enthusiast Club" with the front end of the accord.

I was actually thinking of something like what Don just mentioned.  We'll talk about it either tomorrow if you can come to the shop, or Saturday night.  Whatever you do, don't place any orders before you talk to me though.  I have a hook up on this sorta shit.

so something more like this?

(http://www.limongellidesign.com/rice/Sweatshirt_3.gif)

nah. front and back needs to have the car or at least full info. couse front has half the info and back has other half. both sides need to have full info

I think the whole thing wording and the car should be on the back with just the website across the front chest or vice versa... plain and simple is the easiest way.

Really?  Why?  Is there a law about it somewhere?

i think it looks good Steve. both sides don't have to be cluttered with info. simple and clean.

simple and clean is best, plus when somebody sees the front they may wonder what is elitecm? and check out the back.

they see back and gona be like what is it. when they see from front gona think its one of selling websites or whatever. it at least needs pic of accord on front and elitecm.net on back

Im thinking I would have to agree with David. keep it simple and clean. If we start adding pics all over it, its gunna drive the cost way up and its gunna clutter it up so that you cant even distinguish what it is for.

Why not use the same design from the t-shirt on the hooded shirts and have the website on the bicep area of the sleeves. keep it simply so that when we're out it doesn't matter which we are wearing, even at a glance anyone will be able to see that we represent the same group.

Whichever way I'm interested in 1 hooded shirt (XL) and 2 t-shirt (LG)

I think this looks real nice and professional.  I would buy one of these.

Having just the URL on the front with the image and description on back is perfect...anything more is too cluttered.

i think its fine if its 2 different designs for the shirts and the hoodies. but if itll boost up cost for 2 different designs, then 1 would be fine also. im kind curious what it would look like to have the CM capitalized since thats how you can kind of identify its part of a chassis code right? As far as the back, im sure people will know its an accord club since it does say "accord performance enthusiast club"

This design is money too. Sign me up.

any updates Steve or Tim?

Bump!  Whats the latest on these shirts?

(http://images.starcraftmazter.net/4chan/for_forums/bump.jpg)

+1 it would be nice to have a hoody for the winter season  

sorry for kind of disappearing the past few weeks    Work has been CRAZY busy.

Ill make some calls this afternoon and see what I can get for pricing on the hoodies and tee shirts.

count me in

I just talked with 2 different screen printing shops in the area. Left-Tees and Illegal Clothing, about estimates for the shirts and sweatshirts.

They are both in the same ball park as far as pricing is concerned.

Left Tees

Tee Shirt - $7.81
Sweatshirt - $30.00

Illegal Clothing

Tee Shirt - $8.00
Sweatshirt - $26.00

I have worked with Left Tees before and they do great work. If you all would be ok with paying a little more for the sweatshirts I would say we go through them to have everything made.

Both shops said that they would be able to have the first batch of shirts (25 tee shirts and 25 sweatshirts) ready in about 7-10 days after artwork approval.

Let me know what you guys would like to do

The Tee Shirt
(http://www.limongellidesign.com/rice/ECM-Shirt/Tee-Shirt.gif)

The Sweatshirt
(http://www.limongellidesign.com/rice/ECM-Shirt/sweatsshirt_mock_final.gif)

ill take one of each, both XL.

+1

I'm down for the cause.

im willing to pay more if you have had a good relationship with them (left tees). and i like both separate designs for the shirts and hoody.

all Large
2x shirts
1x sweatshirt

Count me in for a t-shirt and sweatshirt.
Size: XL

Are you going to start a separate thread to take orders, if not, I'll take: 2 large Tees and 1 large sweatshirt.

I think that's a good idea Rich. Steve, start up a new thread when you're ready to take orders and I'll see about making it a sticky or something.

ill take
2 tee shirts and
1 sweatshirt
all in SMALL

i'll take 2 large tee shirts
lemme know when we order...

the response for this is awesome, makes me even more pumped to get this done.

I will start the final artwork this week and get it to Left Tees asap.

Once I meet with him and get the final pricing and size list I will post an order thread seperate from this one.

Ill keep you all updated with the progress

possiblity it would be done by sept 19th meet?

I am def going to try to have them by then, but it all depends on how quickly he is able to turn them around.

any updates steve?

ive been working on finalizing the artwork and making it perfect. I am hoping i will be able to get it done tonight or tomorrow so I can get it to the guy asap but work is going crazy right now, and has been taking up almost all of my free time.

I'll take one of each, smalls

its cool Steve, don't need to rush unless your trying to get these done for the meet. but the effort is very much appreciated.

How big do the t-shirts and hoodies go ?

we should make a separate thread for orders because this will probably be ongoing for some while.

Also, prices are pretty cheap.  What if we tacked on a "donation" of $1 extra for tee's and $2 for hoodies with the proceeds going to ECM?

i guess same as we did with decals

I think thats a good idea!

+1 Lets make this happen

That works...good idea.

COUNT ME IN!!!!

t-shirt Med x1
Sweatshirt Lg x1
Sweatshirt Med x1

any idea if its gona be done by meet this sat?

no these wont b done by the meet this weekend. I havent even had time to meet with the guy yet to get this going. Ive been pulling CRAZY hours at work lately, and have been getting home WAYYY after this guy has closed up for the night. Everything is starting to calm down now and im going to set up time with him for next week.

Soooo these aren't going to be ready for the meet?







J/K. Wanted to give you a hard time.

still wondering...

when I meet with the guy I will get the full size list and post it up asap.



no Z these wont b done for sat lol Ill have them done for the oct NH meet we are talking about having over in the NECM thread. maybe thats a little incentive for all you NYCM boys to make one last trip up here before the snow sets in lol Make that end of the year meet one for the record books

Bump for an update

+1
The cash is burning a hole in my pocket!  

any word. weather is getting cold. would be nice to have ecm hoodie. thanks

+1 the weather change was pretty drastic up here in the NW. 1 week was like 70's and 80's. Next week was 40's and 50's.

Alright Ladies and Gents

Im very sorry about the disappearing act. We are in the middle of our prime recruiting season here at work and all of the schools that we recruit from decided they wanted new recruiting websites. So 10 weeks and 25 sites later I'm back.

Now that everything calming down considerably I will have a bunch of time to dedicate to the shirts. I am going to finalize the artwork this weekend and set up some time to meet with the screen printer next week. I will find out the full range of sizes, final prices at which time ill be creating an official buy thread.

awesome! thanks for the update Steve.

So I am a little bit ahead of schedule...

I have finished up the artwork to the printers specs.

Teeshirt
http://www.limongellidesign.com/accord/shirt/Tee-Shirt.jpg

Sweatshirt Front
http://www.limongellidesign.com/accord/shirt/Sweatshirt_Front.jpg

Sweatshirt Back
http://www.limongellidesign.com/accord/shirt/Sweatshirt_Back.jpg

Please take a look at the design and let me know if there is anything that you think needs fixing. I am going to go and talk to the printer tomorrow.

What size are we looking at on the sweatshirt/ tshirts with the designs? The back of the sweatshirts going to cover the whole back, center back, small corner, that sort of thing. Same question applies to the front.

I'm okay with 'em.  Sign me up for 2 of each.

Fine here man, looks good

looks good to me

**actually looking at the back of the sweatshirt again, im not sure if its my eyes but is the front end of the accord level and symmetrical?

i think tshirt front should be on sweatshirt front. thats just my opinion

looks good to me, let er rip

+1 on that. That way we dont have two different designs for shirt fronts, and the sweatshirts would have something extra (the back printing).

But either way, they look great.

any way you can add some angle eyes and a big fart can, and if you really want a cool shit u should add an enormous wing on the back  :mrgreen:

if you have one design im sure it will be cheaper to make since he wouldnt have to switch designs for printing if you know what i mean

+1 to what Misha said. I like the idea of the hoodies having the extra on the back but the fronts being the same. No word on the size of the design?

im curious tho, would they even be able to do that faded gray outline on thats for the shirt design? if its anything like what i did in high school, it would probably be more solid outline rather than faded.

The Tee Shirt
(http://www.limongellidesign.com/rice/ECM-Shirt/Tee-Shirt.gif)

The Sweatshirt
(http://www.limongellidesign.com/rice/ECM-Shirt/sweatsshirt_mock_final.gif)

thats the "layout" for the shirts

I will talk to him about the cost difference between using the same design for the front or 2 different designs for the front, but I suspect that the difference in price is going to be minimal. I had called him for a quote a little while ago, its in one of my previous posts in this thread.

Dizzle, that was one of the things i was thinking as well, im going to talk to him about it and see how we can achieve the closest effect to the fading out. When I talked to him earlier I had mentioned the fading outline of the cars and he didnt raise any red flags about it, so we will see.

I see now. I'm sure you're stoked that the outline of the front of the car on the hoodie is your car huh Steve?

lol if it were my car it would have the inspire fogs in the outline I didnt have the 03-05 front lip before the inspires.

The outline is actually Jason's car (jdmaccord, NECM)
http://www.gen7accord.net/photo/img_0936-1?context=user

Ah, I see. My bad!

haha I thought about using my car, but I didnt have a good pic looking head on, and when I was doing the design I just had the stock 03-05 front bumper and thought it needed a lil something extra to spice up the design

im excited to see what they look like hot off the press.

alright people your wait is over. The OFFICIAL ORDER THREAD has been posted in the F/S section http://elitecm.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=2108

I stickied it for you as promised. I'm sure you saw that already though.