Design Inspiration and Graphic Trends
Your sales success rises and falls with how trendy your designs are. If you capture trending topics with your designs, you’ll increase your chances of selling.
Watch this space to find regular updates on hot topics, fresh trends and notable events. We usually try to run campaigns in the time leading up to these occasions: use them to promote your designs! Let yourself be inspired and offer the designs that are most in demand.
Double-exposure effect
Two super-imposed images result in a new image with multiple facets. A combination of two contrasting images, like animals and a landscape scene, gives the resulting image an artistic and slightly surreal impression.
Handwriting with a digital brush
Chirography and artistic handwriting is a popular trend. Scripts created on graphics tablets and with paint brushes on Photoshop are completely in line with the 2018 trend.
Superposition
The trick here is to impose comic-style illustrations on photos. This is how you create striking new compositions with an artistic appeal.
Seasonal trends and holidays
In the following list, you’ll find seasonal topics and those with a country-specific significance that tend to create big search volumes. Important! Always get your tags right before publishing your designs on Spreadshirt’s Marketplace. We’ve already suggested at least one suitable tag for each topic.
Tip: Combining graphic trends with the topics from this table is a clever strategy. And don’t forget that social-media sharing can improve your exposure. Think “jogging” your followers memory by drawing attention to your designs.
| Occasion | Date | DE | FR | NL | UK/IRL | US/NA | Scandinavia | Keyword |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Movember | November | Beard | ||||||
| Grandfather Day | 10/07/2018 | grandfather | ||||||
| World Pasta Day | 10/25/2018 | pasta | ||||||
| Halloween | 10/31/2018 | horror | ||||||
| Day of the Dead | 11/02/2018 | RIP | ||||||
| Father’s Day | 11/11/2018 | father | ||||||
| Carnival season | 11/11/2018 | carnival | ||||||
| Veterans Day | 11/11/2018 | veterans | ||||||
| Thanksgiving | 11/22/2018 | thanksgiving | ||||||
| World Dart Championship | 11/14/2018 - 01/01/2019 | darts | ||||||
| Saint Nicholas | 12/05/2018 - 12/06/2018 | Saint Nicholas | ||||||
| Christmas | 12/24/2018 - 12/26/2018 | Christmas |
Find more inspiration on our Pinterest boards.