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Week 3

This week was spent mostly contacting potential manufacturers and finalizing designs.

Designs

We have run into some unexpected obstacles as we were going about designing our shirts on Adobe Illustrator. We have gotten most of our designs down on paper, you can view them on Mohammed's blog (aseattire.blogspot.com). However it is much harder than I expected transferring them into Adobe Illustrator so that we have a professional design. I have spent most of my time watching videos teaching me how to use illustrator, specifically with clothing design. There is definitely a steep learning curve but everything is slowly becoming much easier for me to use and maneuver. We have found a friend who also used this program to design clothes and is therefore very skilled with this program and are going to begin meeting with him so that he can help me out with whatever I need. Even though this has been much harder than expected I am glad that by the end of this I will be much more skilled with using this program. Here are some of the preliminary designs that have come about on Adobe Illustrator. We will be editing these and perhaps creating new ones and then choosing one of them to materialize into actual t shirts. These are obviously all based on traditional Chinese patterns.

Manufacturing

From my previous weeks blog post you may already know that I have found many potential suppliers mostly in China or Pakistan. This week was spent contacting them and letting them know about what requirements we have and what exactly we want done and seeing if they were capable of it. This helped me narrow it down to just a few suppliers based on price and what they were able to do. For example we are hoping to be able to have some sleeve tags but not every supplier was able to do that for us so that helped us narrow it down. I will be able to narrow it down even further once I receive exact quotations from the suppliers after sending them our finalized design. 

Website

We are getting close to being able to take pre orders for our shirt designs. After a design is finalized by the end of this week we will be able to take pre orders on our website aseattire.com. I have also created a big cartel site for our clothes because then big cartel is able to process your payments safely. Our website will link to the big cartel site soon.