Hey everyone! My wife makes t-shirts and we are looking to purchase an SVG file for a 69 or 70 Cougar. Does anyone have one? I see the designs all over the internet on shirts but we want the actual design file to make our own.
What is an “SVG file”, I am not familiar with that.
- Phillip
Hmmm, ok, I just played with one of my vector files pulled into Photoshop and it looks like I can export as a SVG file.
I use a local screen printer for the shirts that I create and he prefers the raw vector file.
As for '69 or '70 Cougar artwork, you would either need to create something yourself, hire someone to create it, or purchase art that has already been created.
There are lots of “stock” websites, like Shutterstock -
https://www.shutterstock.com/home
Not sure if they have any classic Mercury Cougar art, but you could search them and other stock sites.
There are also companies that sell technical illustrations of cars, or blueprints like -
Not sure what you have in mind but you might be able to make something like that work.
- Phillip
Propayne,
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics with support for interactivity and animation. The SVG specification is an open standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1999.
I’m looking for silhouette side shots of a 69 or 70 Eliminator. I know they are out there cause they are all over eBay for sell but I can’t find where those folks are getting the graphic to start with. I even asked one seller to sell me the graphic but he wouldn’t.
Here’s an example…
Most likely, nobody is going to sell you their graphics because they spent the time to create them, and they are a piece of intellectual property that they profit from. If they gave you the graphic, they’d no longer be the exclusive source on that design and would risk competing with you or whoever else got their hands on the graphic. It would lose a lot of its value.
My advice is that if you want to make your own shirts, make your own graphics too. It’s more fun that way anyway!
Blitz, I understand what you are saying completely but there are about 15 different vendors out there with the same design so somebody sold it to them. I will work on making one since I can’t find one. Just thought I’d ask the community first.
You are going about it the right way Scott. Wish I could have been more help.
I’m willing to bet, of the 15 different vendors using the same design, 14 of them stole it.
I can’t even count the number of times I’ve seen my artwork turn up on watches, t-shirts, cups, business cards, etc. - all without my consent.
I don’t mind lending my artwork out to other Cougar clubs so that they can use it to market their club, promote a show, or make some money to put into the club treasury.
What angers me is when people steel from me to make a buck.
Speaking of which (making a buck, not stealing) - CCOA ATSOTC editor Pam Lindsay and I will be manning the Cougar tent at Carlisle this weekend, with LOTS of Cougar swag.
Hope a lot of you can drop by and see us!
- Phillip
In this day and age it’s easy to steal someone else’s work, but it’s also easy enough to protect it. I had a problem with people stealing my photos, so we started copyrighting them online. Simple process that takes almost no effort. It won’t stop everybody, but you’d be amazed at how many will cease stealing your property with the threat of $1500 in damages per offense. Of course you do have to catch them, which in my case was easy since it was on eBay.
Phillip,
I agree completely. I was wanting to purchase the design from somebody to use to make shirts. Since I can’t find anyone selling their designs, I’m just going to create my own. I’ve already got one almost ready to test on a shirt!!!
Al Bundy,
Were they stealing pics of your Cougar from online??? They were using them for advertisements? My car isn’t in that caliber YET!!! LOL
No, not Cougar pictures. Maybe some day though.
I would love to see some Cougar shirts along this line.
The 3rd one down is available as a 70 Eliminator.
That’s interesting Al - is that some sort of recognition software that automatically notifies the perp that what they are copying is legally protected?
Which of course everyone should (but don’t) automatically know - if you didn’t draw it, write it, take the picture, etc. then it is not yours to take.
And 69XRRR7, I am a big fan of Ed Roth/Ed Newton and Dave “Big” Deal - the originators of the styles you posted.
Here is some work that I did in that is similar - a poster for Ed Meyer, owner of the Nicholson Boss 429 Cougar and a shirt I did for the 2005 Nats that my club hosted.
- Phillip
It is not, it’s called the Electronic Copyright Office or something along that line. It’s a .gov site that registers images and such. It’s free and easy to use. The hitch is you still have to spot your images and report them. I never actually got to collect from anyone, every one that I caught would remove the images as soon as I busted them. When eBay got proactive they started using some type of software to compare reported images. They could tell if they were the same even if someone altered them by resizing. I don’t know what they were using.
I usually find out when a fellow Cougarfile contacts me because they spotted something that looks like my work.
I have seen my illustrations and graphics used without my permission on watches, posters, mugs, t-shirts, vehicles, etc. Sometimes I want to order one to see how the hell they did it.
It has to be of low quality as they don’t have access to my original files.
When I started out, the business model for an illustrator was that you could protect your work like a mother protects it’s young. I had a bulky piece of original art (or “mechanical” when they were set up for color separations) that I controlled.
It was very expensive and time consuming to make a copy. But, even in the pre-digital age I had my work illegally duplicated.
Now you can make a million copies with the press of a button and in the end it can’t really be controlled.
So the business model now is to look at it like a dandy lion, that the “seeds” are just blown to the four corners and you hope that some of that somehow will come back to you as paying work.
- Phillip
69XRRR7, here’s the graphic I was talking about but it’s a wall art and not a t-shirt but it’s a design similar to what you were asking for. I’m going to get me one!!!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/169990860/1970-ford-mercury-cougar-vinyl-decal?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=1970+cougar&ref=sr_gallery-2-6&organic_search_click=1&col=1
Here’s some more from online that are available… I had to add the Orange one for Michael B!!!
