Anyone starting a t-shirt project without a finished design usually looks for a template tool first. Custom Ink offers an online design tool, commonly referred to as Design Lab, that lets a shopper start from a blank template, drop in clipart, add text in a chosen font, and preview the shirt before ordering. That is a genuinely useful starting point for someone with an idea but no artwork. Bear Grips Pro Shops takes a different starting point: it assumes a vendor already has a design or logo file ready to upload, and focuses the platform on turning that file into a full branded shop instead of building the design itself.
A template-based design tool like Custom Ink's Design Lab is built for someone starting from nothing: a team name, a slogan, or an idea without existing artwork. Templates, clipart libraries, and font pickers let a shopper assemble something presentable without a designer. That is the right tool for a one-off shirt where the design itself is simple text and clipart, and the order is a single run rather than an ongoing shop.
Bear Grips Pro Shops is built for businesses and creators who already have a logo or design (a gym brand mark, a studio logo, a creator wordmark) and want that exact file applied consistently across an entire product catalog. A vendor uploads a PNG at shops.beargrips.com, and the design gets applied to whichever products the vendor picks, with no in-platform design builder standing between the file and the live shop.
Bear Grips Pro Shops: Custom Apparel for Your Team. No Minimums. Free Shipping.A business without a finished logo has two practical paths: build one first using any design tool, including a template tool like Design Lab, purely to land on final artwork, or use the Done-For-You VIP plan ($105/mo), which turns one uploaded design a month into a fully mocked-up 15-product shop with a personal shop advisor handling color and layout decisions. Neither path requires the vendor to become a designer inside a print platform.
A clean upload is a PNG with a transparent background, at least 1500 pixels wide, so the print stays sharp across shirts, hoodies, and hats alike. A vector file (AI or EPS) works even better if one exists. See the t-shirt pricing guide for how the design gets priced once it is live on the catalog.
Already have a logo or design ready? Upload it and get a full branded shop, no in-platform design tool required.
Start FreeNo. The platform is built around uploading a finished design or logo file rather than building one inside the platform.
Use any design tool, including a template-based one, to land on finished artwork first, or use the Done-For-You VIP plan for professional mockup and layout help on an uploaded design.
A PNG with a transparent background, minimum 1500 pixels wide, or a vector file (AI or EPS) if available.
Yes. One uploaded design can be applied across the full catalog, from tees to hoodies to hats.
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