𝐃𝐈𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖…
That every Ryze Gear design has been hand-crafted by a talented artist to make you look good? J-Ryze personally spends hours researching what designs are out there.
𝑾𝒉𝒚?
To examine as many dance shirts as he can. At least 30 minutes, on Google and often more. He then moves on to Bing, as well as Etsy, another 30 minutes. So he can find the best dance-shirt out there, and beat them. At Ryze, we believe one key to being better is knowing what’s out there, and we do it with passion. Can you say that about other designers?
And that’s just step one.
The placeholder lettering he’d inserted also gets refined.
He can’t just slap any old font on there. The letters have to speak. They have to sing with every line. So a typeface with proper curves is chosen. As is a typeface with the right amount of ‘boldness’ for dreams. Manual tweaks are made to get them to play nicely together.
And he still hasn’t finalized the polished logo, graphic, or glyph yet. And that step is harder than one might think.
All these considerations and many more for one t-shirt, lol.
Anyway, the point is that @RyzeGear isn’t interns barely learning their craft, pulling designs out of their behinds, like you get at most large corporate brands. Nuh-uh. Every detail of J-Ryze’s research, concepts, and environment are intentionally chosen to inspire a truly compelling design.
And he throws away more drafts than he keeps, selecting only the bes
