Design for Lightmetal, earn on every sale.

Lightmetal creates heavyweight, automotive-inspired streetwear engineered to high garment standards. This is a partnership program for professional digital artists, typographers, and automotive illustrators to produce limited-run drops and core collections.

Every accepted designer receives an official licensing contract and direct backend dashboard access to monitor their unit sales in real time, earning a transparent per-sale royalty on every single piece shipped.

You bring the vision and vector. We handle production, marketing, and fulfilment.

The partnership model

Direct backend dashboard access: No guessing games or opaque accounting spreadsheets. You receive dedicated partner portal access to track live inventory movements, daily orders, and gross unit sales specifically tied to your artwork.

Binding legal contract: Before a single sample is cut or printed, we execute an official licensing agreement detailing your exact per-unit royalty, drop timeline, and payment schedules.

Per-unit recurring royalties: Earn a guaranteed, recurring payout on every single t-shirt sold throughout the entire lifespan of the design.

Full attribution: Based on your preference for anonymity, your handle, personal portfolio link, and artist bio are featured directly on the product detail page and launch assets.

Zero overhead or financial risk: Lightmetal funds 100% of fabric milling, prototyping, screen development, advertising spend, inventory holding, and customer logistics.

Retained creative identity: You retain the fundamental rights to your artistic style. You license the specific graphic release exclusively to Lightmetal for agreed apparel drops.

Creative direction and standards

We maintain an uncompromising design and garment standard. We look for authentic automotive culture, not recycled generic clipart or auto-traced stock vectors.

Aesthetic preference: Playful+bold+elegant/minimal. These classic design types like heritage motorsport, homologation specials, silhouette blueprints, technical schematics, track-day culture, Japanese/European tuning subcultures, and bold industrial typography are also welcome. 

Composition: Streetwear-first silhouettes (heavyweight oversized back prints, minimalist chest badges, architectural sleeve placements).

Artwork specs: Vector files (.ai, .eps, .svg) or raster graphics at minimum 300 DPI at true print dimensions (layered .psd / .tiff with transparent background).

Strict originality policy: No trademark infringement (no raw manufacturer logos/badges without transformational, stylized intent), no stolen artwork, and no raw, unedited AI output. Submissions must be your original creative execution.

How the process works

Artwork submission: Submit your concept, portfolio, and digital mockup using the form below.

Review and curation (5–7 Days): Our production and creative team reviews your artwork for aesthetic synergy, print viability, and market demand.

Official contract execution: If selected, we issue a formal licensing agreement defining your exact per-piece royalty rate and drop schedule.

Backend portal provisioning: You receive private login credentials to our partner analytics dashboard to monitor real-time sales performance.

Sampling, drop, and payouts: We mill, print, shoot lookbooks, launch the release, and send your royalties on a predictable monthly schedule.

Tap the link to submit and review your designs.

Note on Review Timelines: We batch-review submissions weekly. If your piece fits our upcoming production runs, our team will reach out directly via email with the formal agreement draft.