October 28, 2008 from abduzeedo's blog
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.
Sponsors
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.
