Tag: design
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Most popular designs of February 2026
I was checking out the stats from the shop to see what were the most popular shirts in the store. As in January, most of the top shirts had a hand-drawn element to them. Tho the line up this month was slightly different from January. I think part of this was due to an ad…
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Celebrating women inventors on International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is celebrated on 08 March. In honor of the day, I want to share the story behind my “Women Inventors” section of my store. Same old storyWhen I started my store, I wanted to do shirts with famous quotes cheekily remixed for makers. For example, Descartes’ famous “I think, therefore I am”…
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My illustration process: standing on the shoulders of giants
I’ve been struggling to define my process for creating hand-drawn designs. I feel it is more than just ‘tracing,’ in the boring, mindless sense. As I have shared before, I do my hand-drawn designs on an iPad Pro, with an Apple Pencil, in Adobe Fresco. I look for visually interesting images from all sorts of…
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My first sales event on Grey and Slate, Haberdashers!
My first sales event on Grey and Slate™! All shirts 25% off thru 02 Dec for Etsy’s Black Friday promo. Hand-drawn circuits and maker references (NE555, op-amps, vintage chips). Help me hit 20 sales before year-end. Please share this with folks who like shirts designed for hardware nerds. 🙏 For context:I’ve been posting a new design…
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Why do ‘How-to’ Biz YouTubers think everyone can do what they do and succeed?
I’ve been on a tear these last few months, building up my Etsy store of expressive shirts for makers. Part of the journey has been learning about Etsy, Print on Demand, and design trends. So I spend a lot of time learning from folks on YouTube. One thing that occasionally pops up: some YouTuber shares their…
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Getting into a groove with my Etsy store of marker-inspired t-shirt designs
Back at the start of May, I kicked off the first line of products for my haberdashery. As I mentioned before, this idea was brewing in my head for some time until I honed in on expressive t-shirts for makers and hardware hackers. I am now 3 months in and have been learning a lot about what…
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I did a thing: Expressive t-shirts for makers and hackers
I’m the great-grandson of a haberdasher, as I keep telling my wife. And my mother is an obsessive maker – she used to have her own children’s clothing line and has quilted, crocheted, knitted, and sewed her way thru the past many decades (and still at it daily at 91!). Only in the past few…