T-Shirts and Suits is all about bringing together Creativity and Business in harmony – and helping creative people to use smart business ideas and tools.

T-Shirts and Suits is a metaphor for creative people (the ‘t-shirts’) being smart with business (‘suits’).

T-Shirts and Suits means that you can be creative and commercially successful.

T-Shirts and Suits is an international community of creative entrepreneurs sharing cool business ideas that fit with their values and objectives.

Watch the video of David Parrish talking in Denmark about T-Shirts and Suits, featuring entrepreneurs who combine creativity with smart business thinking.

T-Shirts and Suits is a concept with many dimensions, including:

• a book (and free eBook)
• a Toolkit: ‘Designing Your Creative Business’
• a Business Growth Framework
• information, tools and inspiration
• a network of creative entrepreneurs
• a blog
• articles about creativity and business
• an award at the Creative Business Cup
• a Facebook group
• a LinkedIn group
• a Coffee Club series of networking events
• a registered trade mark
• a company registered in England and Wales

The book T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity’ by David Parrish shows how successful creative businesses and cultural enterprises have used business methods appropriately and imaginatively to help them achieve their objectives. The book is also available to download as a free eBook. [Direct link to download full PDF eBook.]

‘Designing Your Creative Business’ is a Toolkit for Creative Entrepreneurs, devised by David Parrish and published by T-Shirts and Suits.

The T-Shirts and Suits^® Business Growth Framework sets out the steps to creative business success.

Information, tools and inspiration for creative people in business, including a Creative Industries Guide, videos, animations and free stuff that can be downloaded, shared and republished to help creative entrepreneurs become even more successful.

David Parrish continues to write in the ‘T-Shirts and Suits blog’ with new information for creative entrepreneurs and the creative industries world-wide.

Articles showing how creative entrepreneurs have used smart business thinking, including a series of ‘Ideas in Action’ articles.

The T-Shirts and Suits Special Prize was awarded to an outstanding creative enterprise at the international finals of the Creative Business Cup in Denmark.

On Facebook, there is an international group of creative people in business in the group ‘T-Shirts and Suits (Creativity and Business)’.

There is a ‘T-Shirts and Suits’ Group on LinkedIn.

The ‘T-Shirts and Suits Coffee Club’ is the name for occasional informal networking events which are open to creative people in business and everyone involved in the creative industries.

T-Shirts and Suits^® and the T-Shirts and Suits logo are registered trade marks.

T-Shirts and Suits Ltd works in partnership world-wide with a range of organisations that support the creative industries, creative and digital businesses, cultural enterprises and creative entrepreneurs.

T-Shirts and Suits Ltd is a creative industries consulting company, and the creative industries business through which David operates as a creative industries speaker, trainer, business adviser, creative industries consultant and writer.