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Design ideas for class T-shirts recommended for the school festival

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At the fun, once-a-year school festival, many of you are fired up to work together as a class and make your attraction a success! One item that can strengthen the bond of the entire class at times like these is the class T-shirt! If you’re going to make them, you’ll want shirts that become a lasting memory.

In this article, we’ll introduce recommended design ideas for class T-shirts for the school festival.

Use these designs as a reference and choose one that matches the image of your class and your attraction!

Class T-shirt design ideas recommended for the school festival (21–30)

Korean-style street

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Let your heart dance with adorable illustrations! Here are some ideas for Korean street-style illustrations.

Many imported goods from Korea feature cute-style artwork, don’t they? This time, let’s try a street-inspired Korean design.

The illustration centers on a long-haired girl stylishly wearing headphones, a cap, a cropped T-shirt, oversized pants, and sneakers.

The mood can change a lot depending on the color palette! Be sure to give it a try.

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Let’s try creating designs using an app! Here are some ideas for Canva’s AI.

In recent years, AI technology has been a hot topic.

It seems that AI can generate not only text but also illustrations and designs.

This time, let’s make use of the Canva app.

One of the app’s features is a service that can generate graphics.

Just enter a clear description of the image you want to create and choose an illustration style, and you can finish it easily! Among the styles, there are a variety such as hand-drawn and stamp-like looks.

Be sure to give it a try.

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Class T-shirt design ideas recommended for the school festival (31–40)

In a KIRSH cherry design style

How about incorporating cherries—the logo mark of the Korean fashion brand KIRSH and a design that symbolizes the brand? People who know it will recognize the KIRSH reference, and for those who don’t, the simple, cute design will still stand out.

Because the design features two cherries side by side, it conveys not only cuteness but also a sense of closeness or good relationship.

Consider the size based on how prominently you want the cherries to appear—whether as a large central motif or as a small accent placed at the edge.

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Enter all of the class members’ names

Having the whole class unite and take on the challenge together helps make the school festival a truly fulfilling time, doesn’t it? How about a design that straightforwardly expresses that team spirit by featuring the names of every classmate? You could line up full names, go with nicknames, and explore various approaches.

If a simple pattern of densely arranged text feels a bit plain, it’s also a great idea to create a design by playing with the placement of the names.

A pattern where a large image is formed using the names could express your unity even more—showing how you work together to create something as a team.

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bib-like

How about a class T-shirt inspired by basketball bibs (pinnies) as the uniform motif? A bib is a vest-style garment with a unified team design, featuring the team name and each member’s number.

While actually making bibs for the whole class would be great, a T-shirt printed with a bib design could be a fun idea too.

In that case, since the bib is the focal point of the design, we recommend keeping the surrounding areas simple—like solid colors—to make the bib stand out.

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Include a portrait illustration

It’s a classic class T-shirt idea that some class adopts every year! The concept of putting a caricature of the homeroom teacher on the shirt is bold, but it conveys the students’ affection for their teacher and might make the teacher happy too.

And years after graduating, if you come across this T-shirt, it will vividly bring back memories like, “Back then Mr./Ms.

___ was our homeroom teacher, and that school festival was so much fun.” This is especially recommended for those who want to capture their school festival memories tightly in a T-shirt.

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Make it a unique pattern

If you want a standout T-shirt design that makes it clear from afar that you’re part of this class, we recommend using a shirt with a distinctive pattern! How about covering the entire T-shirt body with designs like tie-dye, Mondrian-inspired patterns, or zebra stripes? You can make tie-dye yourselves as long as you have plain white T-shirts.

T-shirts with Mondrian or zebra patterns can be bought at mass retailers or found on custom merchandise sites.

You can freely customize them too—like printing your class name on the purchased T-shirts!

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