Occasions
Team and work event shirts
Tournaments, volunteer days, trade show booths, retreats. Somebody needs thirty shirts by Thursday and they need to look like a decision rather than an accident.
Four situations, four different shirts
Tournaments and leagues
Read from a distance or it has failed. Big type, high contrast, the team name legible from the far touchline. Player names on the back if the roster is fixed.
Volunteer and service days
The shirt is signage. People need to know at a glance who to ask for help, so the organization name comes first and the year comes second.
Conference booths
You are competing with a hundred other booths. A left-chest mark reads as staff; a full back print reads as a walking sign. Most booths want both, on different people.
Retreats and offsites
The one work shirt people keep. Aim for something that survives being worn on a Saturday, which means fewer logos and more of whatever the group actually calls itself.
Write the prompt like a brief
Work orders come with real constraints, so put them in the prompt. What the organization does, what the event is, whether the tone is serious or loose, and above all where it sits between corporate and human. "Volunteer day shirt for a Charlotte food bank, four hundred volunteers across one Saturday, needs to be readable from across a warehouse, friendly rather than corporate, organization name is the loudest thing on it."
If there is a brand you have to respect, describe it in words: the colors, the feeling, whether the existing look is modern or traditional. The generator works from description, so a described brand is a usable brand.
Roles, not just sizes
Work events usually need more than one variant of the same design. Staff and volunteers, players and coaches, booth staff and executives. Keep one design language and change the word, rather than designing twice. It photographs as one group and it still tells people who is who.
- One design, one or two word changes per role. Not two designs.
- Different garment colors per role works too, and is often clearer than different text.
- Collect role and size in the same step so you are not reconciling two lists.
Purchasing, invoices, and the finance department
Work orders have a second customer nobody mentions: whoever approves the spend. A single invoice for the whole run, with a quantity and a line item that a finance team can read, is usually what unblocks the order.
Email us with the quantity, the size split if you have it, and who the invoice is addressed to. If you need a quote before you can raise a purchase order, ask and you will get one in writing.
If your event date is fixed and close, say the date in your first message rather than at the end of the process. It is the only fact that determines whether the rest is worth doing.
Questions
Can we get different shirts for staff and volunteers?
Yes. Keep one design and change a word, or change the garment color by role. Both are handled in a single order.
Can you invoice our organization rather than take a card?
Email us before you order. Card through Stripe is the default at checkout; an invoice for an organization is arranged directly.
We have an existing brand. Can you match it?
Describe it in the prompt in words and the generator will work toward it. For an exact match to existing artwork, email us and we will tell you honestly whether we can do what you need.
How far ahead should we order for a tournament?
As soon as the roster is close to final. The constraint is almost never the design, it is how long it takes to get sizes out of a squad.