MCS frontman Justin Pierce teaches you the intricacies of fine axe-work.

At Assault, we’re all about doing it yourself, and we recently got into contact with a band on Twitter called Trippy Wicked. They recently posted an in-depth how to on releasing an album on your own, independent of any record label. We’ve reposted here, check it out!

Tracking Google Analytics and setting up goal funnels is the key to giving your fans what they want, and determining what parts of your online strategy are paying off the most. I’ll show you how to set it up, and how to track it. Just like Mantracker.

With so many different facets of information and steps needed before you can even print your shirts it’s easy to quit before you even get started. We’ve compiled a detailed how to on starting your own t-shirt company. Get at it, it’s good.

A quick beginner’s guide to help you get started using manual mode in difficult lighting situations, and especially for live concert photography.

“Third World Timmy” runs through a few different techniques to get your designs on photo realistic t-shirt mock ups. It’s quick, easy, and it looks good enough to fool your mom.

A list of resources and tutorials for t-shirts, and t-shirt printing that I think would help anyone who’s designing their own shirts, or running their own t-shirt company.

Our most recent t-shirt line included our 1984 t-shirt. To accompany the design, we’ve decided to do a step by step layered breakdown of how we came to our final version of the shirt which you can buy on Assault.

John “Stani” Staniforth provides some insight as to how he created the One Year as a Lion t-shirt design with a step by step digital matte painting Photoshop tutorial. You can also find the finished t-shirt design on sale over at the Assault Online Store.

The newest member of the Assault team, John Staniforth took on the challenge to bring this entire deisgn to life, and this is the final product which I’m proud to say is some of our best work yet.

Rather than do what most design blogs do in creating a list of resources, I’ve created a list of our best posts that some of our newer visitors may have missed. Here you’ll find our best SEO tips, Photoshop Tutorials, MySpace Themes, Wordpress Themes, and even some lists of tips for bands and startup t-shirt companies.

A few weeks ago I wrote a guest post for Jonathan Kruse over at How to Start a Clothing Company, and he has returned the favor with a post titled, “How to ask for help”–which is something that I think more people should know about.

HTML emails have become a great way to solidify your brand with internal and external emails. Along with their popularity, there seems to be some common misconceptions about how they work, and how long they take to build.

The best way by far for us to stay on schedule with our hopes and dreams was to set goals. We’ve come to learn that by setting goals for 2 months, 6 months, 1 year, and two years we put more pressure on ourselves to succeed, especially when we carry our goals around with us all day. Here’s a few quick insights to how/why we set goals.

You’ve identified your niche, registered your business, designed your shirts, and launched your online t-shirt store. Now what? These few tips should help save you a few headaches as well as give you a few ideas on how to market your product for free.

Follow a long as I hack together a Wordpress theme with a few plugins that emulate ffffound, and its related images feature.

A co-worker of mine recently found a great article in Wired that had some really beautiful looking “lasers”, as he called them with some light bursts and motion trails around them. After a few minutes of experimentation this is what I came up with…

With Mr. 51% and Saw-Shan’s wedding fast approaching I decided it was time to make it official that I become the officiant of their wedding. Thanks to the Universal Life Church I was able to get ordained online, and for the very low cost of $49.99 I was able to purchase the Classic Wedding Package [...]

A trick often employed on webpages is to use a seamless background that can tile both vertically and horizontally. If your website gets alot of traffic and you don’t like paying for extra bandwidth costs you need to optimize your site for every single kilobyte. This generally translates to NOT using a giant JPG as [...]

In my earlier tutorial I went over how to use brush dynamics from a preset brush, but what I didn’t show you was how to actually create your own brushes. If you’re not using custom Photoshop brushes then you’re missing out on one of the best features of Photoshop that will save you a ton [...]