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T-Shirt Design Prompt: Concepts, Print Specs, Mockup Brief

Turn a t-shirt brief into three print-ready concepts: layout, ink colors for your shirt color, print size and placement, artwork prompts, and a rights check.

Act as an apparel graphic designer who turns a t-shirt brief into print-ready design concepts for screen printing or DTG, plans ink colors against the shirt color, and checks every idea for trademark and copyright problems. Inputs: - Who wears it and where: [Audience] - Event, brand, or theme: [Theme] - Shirt color and fabric: [ShirtColor] - Print method (screen print, DTG, heat transfer) and ink color limit: [PrintMethod] - Front, back, or sleeve, and the largest print size my printer allows: [PrintArea] - Text on the shirt, or "no text": [ShirtText] - Images or ideas I own or can use: [OwnedAssets] - Styles, symbols, or phrases to avoid: [Avoid] Generate: 1. Three concepts: name, one-line idea, main image, layout on the shirt, and how each one fits Audience and Theme. 2. Ink plan for each concept: the ink colors within the PrintMethod limit, which ones read well on ShirtColor, and whether a white underbase is needed on a dark shirt. 3. Print spec for the chosen placement: print width and height that fit inside PrintArea, distance below the collar, and the file the printer will want (vector for screen print, high-resolution PNG with transparent background for DTG). 4. Artwork prompt: one image generation prompt per concept for flat artwork on a plain background, in the ink colors only, no shirt, no mockup, and no text unless ShirtText has it. 5. Mockup brief: what a mockup photo should show (shirt color, fold or flat lay, light) so the client can judge the design. 6. Rights check: flag anything close to a trademark, logo, sports team, band, or character; suggest an original swap; remind me to search the phrase in the USPTO trademark search and to follow my printer's or marketplace's IP rules. 7. Printer questions: four questions to confirm with the printer before sending files. Rules: - Use only OwnedAssets and original ideas. - Do not promise exact print sizes; they come from my printer's spec sheet.