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Abduzeedo T-shirt Design Contest

October 28, 2008

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What's up, people? So, today we come to tell you about an awesome new contest! Our last one, the cards one, was pretty cool, we had many design pieces running for many prizes. Now, it's all about T-shirt designs! Yes!

We all love well design tees, and what about a tee designed by an Abduzeedo reader? You gotta love that! We also have awesome prizes again! All you have to do is design the best shirt you can and post at Flickr, in our group, Abduzeedo (http://flickr.com/groups/abduzeedo/), under the tag "t-contest" and send us the link by commenting this thread. You guys may post as many designs as you want, but I really recommend that you guys try to make the best design you can only once! Anyways, post as many designs as you wish. Your designs must be inside a theme: Space and/or Abduction... feel free to design inside this theme.

Rules

Download the t-shirt template here
Design your t-shirt
Publish it on the Abduzeedo group on Flickr

Deadline

You will have 1 month to submit your designs, the deadline for submissions will be November 28th. After that we will start voting on the designs. All Abduzeedo members will be able to vote.

Now the prizes:

There will be 5 winners, eveyone gets awesome stuff from Abduzeedo and from our sponsors: Spreadshirt, Vertus FluidMask 3, Pixelmator. The first 3 places will get your tees sold in the Abduzeedo's store, and will get the first sample of your own design. Also:

Winner - Your t-shirt from Spreadshirt.com, Fluid Mask 3 license, 1 Pixelmator 3 license, suprise prize.
2nd - Your t-shirt from Spreadshirt.com, Fluid Mask 3 license, 1 Pixelmator 3 license
3rd - Your t-shirt from Spreadshirt.com, Fluid Mask 3 license, 1 Pixelmator 3 license
4rd - Your t-shirt from Spreadshirt.com
5rd - Your t-shirt from Spreadshirt.com

Again the idea of the contest is practice and share ideas and skill with the design community. We look forward to seeing your designs and help you to improve your design skill in all medias from digital to t-shirt design in this case.

Spreadshirt

Spreadshirt is an online custom apparel platform that allows creative professionals start their own clothing line without the risks typically associated with starting your own business.

Unlike other companies in the custom apparel business, Spreadshirt offers plot printing technology which end result are products with designs that are very durable and do not crack or fade in the wash. In addition, Spreadshirt’s plot printing technology allows for apparel to be ‘printed’ with textures and specialty materials in addition to regular color printing.

If you want to explore the possibility of starting your own apparel business, you can start by opening your free shop here.

Vertus FluidMask 3 - #1 Still Image Cut-Out Tool

Fluid Mask 3 is designed for photographers, image editors, graphic designers and all those who take digital image editing seriously.

In a streamlined interface and workflow, Fluid Mask 3 instantly shows key edges in the image and provides comprehensive easy to use tools that work with difficult-to-see edges and tricky areas like trees & lattices.

Pixelmator

Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.

Pixelmator harnesses the full power of Mac OS X. It takes advantage not only of Core Image, Open GL or Automator, it also supports, ColorSync, Spotlight and many other technologies. Pixelmator was built exclusively for Mac OS X, and it shows.

About the author

My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo. Also you can follow me on Twitter or my personal site at http://fabiosasso.com.

Help us to share this!

82 Comments

jmgarrido10/28/2008

great idea !! i'll work on it !!

deathline ?

jmgarrido10/28/2008

yes yes, 28th november, lol :D

HamBoneZ10/28/2008

I should give a try! T-shirt design will be my first try btw :) Can we get inspired by the tutorials ?
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We <3 HamBoneZ !

BogDinamita10/28/2008

oh my gosh, i can't wait! i'm on it
Flickr Photostream

BogDinamita10/28/2008

question: isn't that template kinda like.. low res? i mean, we'll submit to you that size but then will you ask for a larger version in case it's a winner?
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mushroom10/28/2008

hey that's awesome! I'll start thinking...

abduzeedo10/28/2008

@BogDinamita - That template is just an idea but you can use any template if you want... in this post there are some really cool templates http://outlawdesignblog.com/2008/t-shirt-templates-free-and-paid-blank-t...

Thanks a lot and I look forward to seeing your designs ;)

Martin10/28/2008

YEAAAAAAA!!! Bring it oon!!

Daan10/28/2008

I hope the surprise prize is Adobe CS4 Design Premium :p
lol, jk
I'm in!

eXiD10/28/2008

ooohhh hell yeah!!
XD

BogDinamita10/28/2008

@fabio: thanks bro
@Daan: looooooooooooool
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abduzeedo10/28/2008

The prize is a big surprise, so big that we don't have any idea of what it will be.... seriously we're trying to get a nice prize for the winner let's see... :)

Thanks

Hank from NJ USA10/28/2008

hey sounds cool! i have a spreadshirt store already. am i disqualified? what's the deadline?

thanx
Hank

blacker design10/28/2008

Fabio,

I know there is a space theme etc, but does the "design" have to include abduzeedo or is that not necessary?

http://flickr.com/photos/alexanderblacker/

PauloGabriel10/28/2008

@blacker design - no, it's not necessary to have abduzeedo written in your design.

BogDinamita10/28/2008

hey fabio could i suggest for the prize: a 1-year flickr pro account :D?
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BogDinamita10/28/2008

and here they are: feast your eyes:D
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3036/2982388346_a352f11780_b.jpg

K3v10/28/2008

Neat idea! I'll see if I can get some time off :)
Good luck everyone!

Dan10/28/2008

http://flickr.com/photos/7445727@N04/2981630271/in/pool-abduzeedo

thanks for running the comp!

abduzeedo10/28/2008

@BogDinamita that's a great idea, we can do that for sure.

Daan10/28/2008

@BogDinamita, you shouldn't have said that, adobe cs4 is a better prize, now you turned him off :(
Lol

HarmonicDesign10/29/2008

cool

vangeroriginal10/29/2008

here is my design

http://flickr.com/photos/31862661@N05/2983335868/

NoiM10/29/2008

Kind of new to this, so i'll post my design here:) hope it works!
http://img258.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tcontestgc1.jpg

Frosty10/29/2008

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26835698@N07/2983671350/in/pool-abduzeedo

colur?

lordCovenant10/29/2008

woohoo!

this is cool!

prizes are great too!

plastic_stress10/29/2008

what a great idea!

are there any rules like limited amount of colors or something like that? does it have to be fully vector?

BogDinamita10/29/2008

hey guys check it out; another one!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bogdinamita/2983137723/sizes/l/in/pool-7772...

Nemida10/29/2008

Great!!

kYe Designs10/29/2008

Hi! Gratz for the contest it is a nice idea!!

OK here is mine...

Front:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyedesigns/2984240161/

Backside:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyedesigns/2984240079/

Sorry that I'm not good as you, its because I'm not really a designer ^^ LoL, just a fan that is trying to become one :D

Petrish10/30/2008

hello
here is mine..
http://flickr.com/photos/25539017@N05/2986796844/

Franck_Da_Tank10/30/2008

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31926383@N04/2987550828/

my first try for this type of thing

Commanderlewis10/31/2008

question? does it have to be space or Abduction? or can we design other things?

eXiD10/31/2008

here is mine!! xD

whooooooo

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31863115@N03/2988560098/

please leave a comment if you watch this :]

Jaaaiiro10/31/2008

Here is my work x]
Join!

http://flickr.com/photos/jairojoker/2988147261/in/pool-abduzeedo

Jaaaiiro10/31/2008

Cool

Giva10/31/2008

Hi
here is mine
http://www.flickr.com/photos/givamalik/2990298868/
and i also applied in different colors
http://www.flickr.com/photos/givamalik/2990308898/

degertz11/01/2008

http://flickr.com/photos/31982242@N06/2990469481/
My first entry... hope you like it

erikdraven11/01/2008

M 1st. design:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84812096@N00/2990584853/

Applied to different t-shirt colors...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84812096@N00/2990573599/

degertz11/01/2008

http://flickr.com/photos/31982242@N06/2990469481/
heres my first entry...
hope you like it

Quan Duong11/02/2008

Hi, I just take a chance to try out this contest. Have fun and good luck everyone! :)

http://flickr.com/photos/13275083@N05/2993480383/

kye182611/02/2008

LoL im taking a look into everyones shirt designs and noticed that most of them are using UFO in their designs, LoL, Why? By the way, They look great!

erikdraven11/02/2008

@Kye1826: Yeah, I notice the same.
And i can't stand behind... so, I made a new T-Shirt...

My 2nd. try:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/84812096@N00/2994967316/

LOL

I take some tips from the "Create sci-fi poster art in Photoshop" tutorial by Fabio. =P

QuanDuong11/02/2008

Woo, sounds really interesting! Here is my idea:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13275083@N05/2993480383/

Good luck to all!

QuanDuong11/02/2008

Another work for this contest. :)!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13275083@N05/2995481803/