Rachel Robinson: Well, I started doing it a few years ago and I started doing it about diversity and women’s issues and it started taking off. We love what we do. We love going around and meeting college students and we wanted a way to kind of incorporate those core issues and work together and we realized that every time we went to all these campuses – there were all these women – that the pressures of society to meet a certain standard gave us an outlook.

Asking your parents and relatives for money is the easiest way to obtain a lot of money at one time. Remember that this is a loan, and your relatives will want their original investment back, so be sure to treat this like a business venture. Create a business plan to show your relatives so they know how serious you are about starting a t-shirt company. You should also go into the meeting with your parents/relatives knowing how much money you need them to invest. Asking your parents and relatives for money to fund your new t-shirt business is an easy way to gain a lot of money, as long as you treat it seriously.

So apparently, Palmer gets an idea from the heavens, and as The Force flows through him and onto the paper, his hand moves on its own accord (Colin swears he’s seen it happen!). Well… maybe not exactly.

You can choose from different fabrics and colours for making t-shirts in the UK. For example you can pick 100% cotton t-shirts or those that are made from a blend of cotton and polyester. 100% cotton t-shirts have the advantage of being economical as well as being a good surface for printing onto. White is a good colour choice – especially when you have a large quantity of shirts since they are the least expensive. You can also choose from coloured shirts. Other fabrics are also available. A specialist can assist you in determining the best type of fabric for the printing method that will be used for your design.

I’m collecting notebooks full of words, rough drawings with ideas, etc, as well as pictures I usually take during my walks. There I find so much inspiration. But I also love the work of photographers, like Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, and lately Ryan McGinley.

We have always been committed to bringing our customers the highest quality screen printed funny t-shirts possible. However, when we started out, we had no idea how to design t-shirts and did not know anything about graphics programs. When designing funny tee shirts, you always need to be able to adapt an image to an idea, and this is where I really had problems.

As for the cost of custom t-shirt printing the more one orders the more discount one gets. For Acttee example, a company decides to order more 50 t-shirts and they can get a discount of 40% on the original price. They order more than 100 t-shirts and they get a 50% discount. There are websites that can offer up to 65% discount depending on the size of the order that they get. One good part of dealing with online t-shirt companies is that they are already very competitive. There is, hence, no need to bargain with them. The price that they ask for cannot be matched by too many vendors.