26 Designs Anyone Can Do With No Experience in 2026 (No AI Needed)

About this video

He argues beginners need no Photoshop, Illustrator or design experience to make print-on-demand designs in 2026, and works through 26 beginner design types found via Etsy/Amazon/Walmart research, explaining why each works for shirts, posters, mugs and hoodies. Despite the title’s ‘No AI Needed’ claim (title-only framing — in the transcript he still suggests using ChatGPT/AI writing tools for sayings and AI for detailed illustrations), most are simple text or text-plus-icon ideas: single-word/sarcastic text (’tacos’, ‘I can’t adult today’), class-of-2026 graduation layouts, ‘good vibes only’/mental-health sayings, birth-year designs (‘born in 1990’), quote-plus-small-icon designs (‘but first coffee’ with a heart, an adventure/travel quote with a plane), motivational quotes (‘she believed she could, so she did’, ‘be you, the world will adjust’), icon-and-text combos (‘peace, love and dogs’ with peace/heart/paw), ‘I love my…’ animal/breed designs, mom-life stacks (‘coffee, chaos, cuddles’), sports mom/dad designs replacing the ‘o’ with a ball, to-do-list/checklist shirts, house/barbecue/poker rules designs, seasonal mixes (coquette bow or a job such as nurse/teacher crossed with St Patrick’s Day, Easter, Valentine’s, July 4th, Halloween or Christmas), Easter ‘mama’ shirts with kids’ names, personalised pet portraits/names, customised sports-mom backs, family reunion/cruise group shirts, matching couple shirts, and finally detailed holiday illustrations (a baseball ice-cream-drip character) for those who can draw or use AI. He repeatedly warns not to copy examples, to check trademarks/copyrights first, not to overdesign or sacrifice readability, and not to chase trends instead of demand. He closes by reusing one design across products and shirt colours to multiply listings, and promotes his Top Research Design Vault, claiming over 1,700 niches plus 20 weekly.

Key takeaways

• Simple text-only and text-plus-small-icon designs are presented as the easiest high-selling starting point for beginners
• Build designs by crossing an audience (mom, nurse, teacher, sports parent) with a holiday, hobby or funny saying
• Checklist, house-rules, birth-year, group/family and matching-couple formats encourage relatable or multi-shirt orders
• Do not copy examples: check trademarks and copyrights before listing on Amazon, Etsy, Redbubble or your own site
• Reuse one design across shirts, hoodies, mugs and posters and in black/white colour versions to create multiple listings

Episode details: published January 13, 2026 · 19:20 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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