Threadless Loves Lomography T-Shirt Design Competition
Analog Photography Organization Encourages Designers to Create Happy Accidents.
Community-centric tee shirt company Threadless.com has partnered up with The Lomographic Society International, a globally active organization dedicated to experimental and creative analog photography, for its latest “Loves” campaign.
Lomography and Threadless are challenging designers to create a tee inspired by one of the “10 Golden Rules of Lomography” including:
Lomography Rule #1: Take Your Camera Everywhere you Go
Lomography Rule #2: Use it Anytime, Day and Night
Lomography Rule #4: Try the Shot from the Hip
Lomography Rule #6: Don’t think
Lomography Rule #7: Be Fast
Lomography Rule #10: Don’t Worry About Any Rules
“Threadless Loves” challenges give designers an opportunity to flex their skills and design to a particular challenge. Challenges are sponsored and supported by companies relevant to the idea. Lomography, boasting half a million members across the world, encompasses an interactive, vivid, blurred and crazy way of life.
Up for grabs are the ultimate tools needed for photographers to commmunicate, absorb, and capture the world including the iconic Lomo LC-A+ camera with LC-A+ wide-angle lens, the DianaF+ with fisheye lens, the world’s first compact fisheye camera (Fisheye 2), 10 rolls of LomoX-Pro film, and a lot more. In addition, the designer chosen gets $2k in cash.
Deadline for entries is July 5, 2008. For more info and the 10 Golden Rules of Lomography visit Threadless.
Alienboys T-Shirt Design Contest (Due 7-12-08 - Win $50)
AlienBoys is having a T-shirt contest for what is barely a prize but if you are interested you can submit a design to tgordon@alienboys.com by 7/12/08 and get the chance to win $50.00 a designer credit on the shirt, a shirt for yourself and the chance to model the shirt or choose a model for the shirt who will be on our website and/or myspace.
For more information visit alienboys.com
Army Ten-Miler Race T-Shirt Design Contest (June 6 $1000)
The Army Ten-miler (ATM) has just announced the dates for its annual Official Race T-Shirt Design contest. Submissions for the contest will be taken from May 6 to June 6, 2008. The first place winner will receive $1,000 and the winning design will be printed on over 26,000 runner and volunteer t-shirts. The second and third place designs will win $500 and $250 respectively.
The top five entries as selected by a Blue Ribbon Panel will be posted on the Army Ten-Miler web site. Registered runners only will be eligible to vote for the top design from June 17 - 24. Last year over 6,840 runners voted for the winning designs. Winners will be determined by the greatest number of online votes. Winners will be announced on the ATM web site on June 26.
The Army Ten-Miler Official Race T-Shirt Design Contest is open to all U.S. residents, ages 18 or older. Designs must be original artwork and reflect the spirit of sport and the Army. For more information and technical specifications on the contest, visit www.armytenmiler.com.
About the Army Ten-Miler
The Army Ten-Miler (ATM) is America’s largest 10-mile running event. The Army’s annual 10-mile race will take place on Sunday, October 5, 2008 in Washington, DC. This unique road race has both its start and finish lines at the Pentagon. Race weekend activities a two-day race expo, fitness clinics, youth runs, 94.7 the Globe post race party and HOOAH tents from Army installations from around the world.
The ATM is produced by the U.S. Army Military District of Washington (MDW) with proceeds benefiting Army Morale, Welfare and Recreation, a comprehensive network of support and leisure services designed to enhance the lives of soldiers and their families. The mission of the Army Ten-Miler is for the Military District of Washington to safely conduct the Army’s annual 10-mile race to promote the Army, build Esprit-de-Corps, support fitness goals, and enhance community relations. For more information about this prestigious race visit www.armytenmiler.com.
RiffTrax T-Shirt Design Contest (Due: 6-5-2008 $100)
Rifftrax is holding a t-shirt design contest. The prize is only a $100 Rifftrax gift certificate but you could have your design as the “official Rifftrax t-shirt”. So if you are into fame and don’t need much of a prize this might be a contest for you.
Rifftrax will narrow the submissions to 16 finalists and then users will be able to vote for the winner in a head-to-head single elimination bracket style format on June 10, 2008. The design contest ends on Thursday June 5th at 11:59PM PDT so don’t delay. Make sure to visit the RiffTrax Contest page for all the requirements and rules.
RiffTrax creates funny DVD commentaries and has completed over 60 different movies and shows. You can check out all the movie commentaries over at Rifftrax.
Purex Eco-Friendly Slogan T-Shirt Contest (Ends 6-1-08)
Create a t-shirt online which includes an eco-friendly slogan and submit it at Log on to purexsavesgreen.com by 6/1/08. The grand prize winner will receive a smart fortwo by Mercedes Benz cars. If you enter each week you will have a chance to win $1000. Each contestant will receive a free sample of Purex detergent and a coupon. So go Create a design read the rules or check out the gallery of previously submitted entries.
District Cotton Shootout T-Shirt Design Contest (Due June 20 - $300)
The District Shootout T-Shirt Design contest is currently accepting design submissions . Submit your designs and the community can critique and vote for their favorite designs. At the end of the month up to five designs will be chosen and printed. The contest theme and organization will change monthly. For May/June the contest theme is “big city” and the contest will benefit Trees Not Trash in Bushwick. Trees not Trash will receive 10% of the t-shirt sales proceeds for the first 30 days the shirts are for sale. Submit your big city design between now and June 20, 2008 for the chance to win $300 cash and a $100 gift certificate to DC and $250 each time the t-shirt is reprinted.
For more information visit District Cotton.
Vote for your favorite Hillary Clinton T-Shirt Design
It is time to vote on your favorite Hillary Clinton t-shirt design. Clinton supporters submitted thousands of designs and the campaign narrowed it down to just five designs. Personally my favorite is the shirt with the ladies pant suit t-shirt. In general the final designs really aren’t that impressive but it is what they have given us to vote on.
Visit HillaryClinton.com to vote for your favorite t-shirt design.
T-ShirtForums.com Community T-Shirt Design Contest ($300 + iPhone - Due 4-30-08)
To celebrate the third birthday of the T-ShirtForums.com, Rodney is holding another t-shirt design competition with a chance to win fame and prizes. The T-ShirtForums.com has grown to an amazing 37,000 t-shirt industry professionals and enthusiasts. The community is very active making an incredible resource for information, help, and ideas.
The theme for the t-shirt design competition is community. You can create a t-shirt that relates to any part of community whether it be local, global or online community. This year the design should not include the T-ShirtForums.com logo. Your design can be printed just about anywhere you can imagine so get creative. The designer can also choose the color of the shirt.
Community members will vote on the design submissions for two weeks following the deadline of April 30, 2008. The design with the most votes will win but the ultimate decision is up to the forums founder.
What will you win? The winner will receive $300 in cash, an 8 gb Apple iPhone, 5 T-Shirts with the winning design, and a unique forum avatar color. The winning design will also get fame and be given to forum members who have reached a certain number of posts. The second place winner design will receive $50 and an iPod Nano. The third place design will receive $25 and a 1st generation iPod shuffle.
The only restriction for this contest is that you need to have made at least 5 posts to submit a design so go sign up at T-ShirtForums.com and be a part of the growing community.
For more information visit the T-ShirtForums.com
Customized Girl T-Shirt Design Contest ($200 Due 4-15-08)
Customized Girl is having another t-shirt design contest with a chance to win $200 and see your design in U.S. Weekly. So basically the prize is more about the novelty of seeing your design in US Weekly than the cash. Entries for this contest are due April 15th 2008 but the Customized Girl contests are said to be ongoing so after this contest is over they will immediately have another. The theme of the design contest is “personalized, smart, funny, and cute”. You can choose from any of the Customized Girl tops or undies and then go to the design center and add your own text or design.
For more information visit the Customized Girl Blog.
Firefox 3 T-Shirt Design Contest - Winner Announced
The winner of the Firefox 3 t-shirt design contest was announced a few days ago. Tracie Andrews from the UK had the winning design you see above. Tracie’s design will be featured in the Mozilla Store as the official Firefox 3 T-shirt. Congradulations to Tracie for beating out over 2,000 other submissions. View more about the winners on the Mozilla blog.
