T-Shirt
Classic Tour Tee · Backprint
Front logo / back tour dates layout. Perfect for first drop and show runs.
Core merch, repeatable.
Merch Hub
Start with a T-shirt
Quick production workflowChoose base garment, engine handles the rest.
Start with a:
Fastest way to get a first drop live.
T-shirt
Preview of your t-shirt base. The designer will let you drag art, swap colours and auto-generate back & sleeve details.
Three-step quick t-shirt:
1. Upload your logo or artwork.
2. Choose front placement (chest / full front).
3. Auto-generate back print with tour dates, quote or QR.
Later, this button jumps into a Fabric.js canvas and can even spin up a full collection (e.g. 10,000 variants) as a premium engine.
10k generator (locked)
How merch plugs into ASCND
Every hoodie, tee and bundle becomes a small economy node. The long-term goal is to let you route ASCND earnings from feed, radio and sync into exclusive drops and 10k-style collections.
- • Design in Merch → list in Marketplace as premium files or physical items.
- • Optionally generate large collections for collectors and superfans.
- • Attach pieces to specific tours, radio shows and NFT collections.
This is the future bridge between "I just need a shirt" and "I'm running a fully-fledged fashion lane from my music world."
Garment blueprints
When you're ready to go deeper than a quick drop, pick a lane and refine.
Starter ready
Premium engines (ASCND locked)
These are the heavy engines you eventually unlock with ASCND — not for everyone, but life-changing when you're ready.
10k Variant Generator
Spin up thousands of colourways and slogan variations from one base garment. Only the pieces fans actually pick ever get minted or produced.
- • Run off-chain first to explore ideas without waste.
- • Lock and mint only winning variants linked to ASCND.
- • Perfect for collectors, superfans and limited capsules.
1200 ASCND (concept pricing)
ASCND Routing & Fulfilment
Route ASCND from Feed, Radio and Sync straight into your merch production lane, with clear logs and caps so it never feels like a black box.
- • Set targets: % of earnings that auto-fund merch.
- • Track spend vs. return for every drop.
- • Keep full visibility over costs and payouts.
800 ASCND (concept pricing)
Fashion Pro Lane
A gated lane for fashion schools, tailors and ateliers to plug into your world with mission-based onboarding and protected contact channels.
- • Designer / Tailor account type with portfolio checks.
- • Mission streaks unlock 1:1 contact and collabs.
- • Ideal for CSM-level programmes and serious pros.
1500 ASCND (concept pricing)
Later, these cards map directly to real paywalls and flows: ASCND leaves the wallet, engines unlock, and you see the cost lines clearly like any serious business tool.
Featured User Case
Coubadja · Berlin ⇄ London
Coubadja is a fashion house using Artist.Ascend, not the other way round. Their lane becomes the reference blueprint: fabrics, fittings, shoots, exhibitions, and how all of that ties into ASCND flows.
- • Missions: sourcing, fittings, lookbooks, gallery shows.
- • Proof-of-work timeline other brands can follow and adapt.
- • Capsules tied into ASCND earnings, staking and digital twins.
Later this evolves into platform metrics: drops, sell-through, mission streaks and how fans move between music, merch and shows.
Digital twins & 10k-style collections
Premium mode lets you spin up large collections (e.g. 10,000 variants) from one base garment: colourways, slogans, placements. Each piece gets a unique ID, and only the ones that sell ever need to be fully minted.
- • Generator runs off-chain first, priced in ASCND.
- • Fans pick their favourite variants; those get locked & minted.
- • Artist keeps margin; collectors hold scarce editions, not spam.
That premium generator is where you charge more ASCND, because it uses more compute, storage, and advanced fashion work.
Production & Tailor Network
Where designs turn into finished garments. Today it's a magazine; soon it becomes a routed pipeline for pros.
Coubadja Factory
Boutique atelier connecting Berlin ⇄ London. Tracksuits, capsule collections and one-off pieces tuned for artists & DJs.
- • Specialises in high-detail tracksuits (DJMacBee BTRAK, etc.).
- • Handles fittings, fabric sourcing and small runs.
- • Future: direct "Send to Coubadja" button from designs.
Print-on-Demand Network
Global POD partners for artists who need speed: shirts, hoodies and accessories fulfilled near your fans with minimal hassle.
- • Route simple drops directly to POD from your designs.
- • Geo-aware fulfilment so EU / US / UK fans get local shipping.
- • Future: payouts and costs tracked in ASCND behind the scenes.
Fashion Schools & Tailor Accounts
A future lane for Central Saint Martins–type programmes, independent tailors and pattern-cutters to live inside the ecosystem as pros.
- • Dedicated "Designer / Tailor" account type.
- • Mission-based onboarding: portfolio, ethics, reliability.
- • Private contact channel unlocked once missions are completed.
DJMacBee × Coubadja, CSM alumni, and other fashion pros can show their collabs here in magazine-style cards.
As this evolves, these cards become living profiles with stats, mission streaks and links into Marketplace, artist profiles and NFT drops. For now, it's the blueprint for how humans plug their real-world craft into your digital ASCND economy.