Litographs Prints A T-Shirt Worth Reading

You can wear your heart on your sleeve or have a card up your sleeve. Now, Litographs offers the opportunity to wear the text of your favorite book on your sleeve—and shoulders, back and torso—as well. Already known for its posters that integrate text into designs, Litographs is seeking pledges on crowdfunding site Kickstarter in order to finance its next business venture.

E-books are great for spreading knowledge, but there’s something special about having that tangible connection with a book,” wrote Litographs founder Danny Fein. “I love knowing that people all over the world have a Litograph poster displayed in their home.”

To me, each poster I design, print, roll, and ship signals that love for literature is stronger than ever. With Litographs t-shirts, we’re creating a way to literally wear your favorite book on your sleeve.”

Through Kickstarter, Fein sought out pledges totaling $15,000 to fund the first production run of Litograph t-shirts. With 13 days left in the campaign, the project has already garnered 1,419 pledges totaling $52,148. And no participant will go away empty handed. For the smallest pledge of $5, a set of Litograph wallpapers will be offered for the pledger’s PC, tablet or phone, including 10 different designs. Those pledging $10 will receive a custom digital Litograph, and at the $25 level—which has already sold out—a flatbed printed poster of the pledger’s choice.

Litographs is offering one of the new t-shirt designs to anyone pledging $30, and a printed Litograph poster for a $40 pledge. The awards continue to grow as the pledges get larger, increasing to a custom Litograph designed with the pledger and a professional artist at the $200 level, and the complete set of all five first-edition, signed, custom-framed screen prints for a $500 pledge.

Five new Litograph t-shirts are already designed and ready for production. For the first run of t-shirt designs, Fein chose to use the text of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” “On the Origin of the Species,” “The Great Gatsby,” “Moby Dick,” and a fifth design currently being voted upon by Web site visitors. Litograph uses Sharprint to screen print the t-shirts and ensure the text is not only printed on every inch of the shirts, but is also completely legible.

I made a conscious decision to only launch this Kickstarter campaign after the hardest work had been completed,” Fein wrote. “I’ve created the designs, flown to Chicago to watch the first prototypes be printed, and am thrilled with the results. Our printers are on standby, waiting for me to give them the green light.”