Design By Humans

Clothing · Sustainable Fashion

Design By Humans is an online-only apparel and accessories retailer that sells graphic T-shirts, hoodies, tank tops, phone cases, wall art and pins priced $20-$60 for tees and $40-$80 for hoodies, situating the brand in the mid-range segment. All products are printed on demand and drop-shipped from U.S. and EU facilities, eliminating inventory risk and enabling daily catalog updates. The company’s core differentiator is its open-call artist submission model: over 20,000 independent illustrators upload designs that are voted on by the community; only the top-scoring artwork is printed, ensuring constant freshness. Licensed collaborations with Nintendo, Star Wars, Marvel and indie game studios sit alongside these user-generated graphics, giving the site a catalog of more than 150,000 SKUs that cannot be found elsewhere. Customers are 16-34-year-old gamers, anime fans, comic readers and pop-culture enthusiasts who value originality and want to wear limited-run art rather than mass-retail graphics. Eco-friendly water-based inks and a print-on-demand system appeal to shoppers who prioritize reduced waste and support-for-artist ethics. Design By Humans competes in the crowded online graphic-apparel space against marketplace platforms and niche pop-culture merchants; it separates itself by combining community curation, officially licensed properties and artist royalties that exceed standard marketplace payouts, creating a hybrid of fan merch store and indie art gallery.

Wear art voted up by thousands, printed fresh just for you

• Sustainable
• Independent