One of our pet projects over the past year has been to launch our own line of customised t-shirts, and we have now finally decided to get this baby moving. But we thought it would be cooler if we asked YOU to help us with the design.
Instead of us just slapping the MakeUseOf logo onto a white t-shirt, we thought we would ask all you budding designers out there to design a shirt for us. Something cool looking that people (techies) would WANT to wear. Think along the lines of geeks, computers, software and Make Use Of. The MakeUseOf.com text should be placed somewhere on the t-shirt as well, but doesn’t have to be the main element.
For instance, check out the T-shirt done for our friends at GeeksAreSexy.net.
If you would like to design something for us, we would need it by April 30th 2010. We will choose the top 3 designs which will make its way onto our shirts. The three winners will get $200 each (payable via Paypal), bragging rights and a free T-shirt with their design on it.
But before you get your crayons and hand paint out, there’s a few rules to this competition :
- T-shirt artwork needs to be high-resolution or vector. Photoshop rasterized images should be at least 300DPI, vector images can be any size as they are easy to scale. T-shirt designs should be 7 colors or less.
- The recommended formats for the design are TIFF, JPG, PSD, PDF, AI and EPS (other file formats will not be considered).
- All designs should be sent to mark[at]makeuseof[dot]com. Do not send them to another MakeUseOf employee.
- Do not submit anything containing legally copyrighted images. If you use one of your own images, we may ask you to prove ownership.
- If your design is chosen, MakeUseOf will assume the legal copyright of that design and will do with it what we please. We would ask you to sign a contract, transferring the legal copyright of the design over to us in perpetuity.
- While making your design, what would increase your chances of winning would be if you could also make a smaller version of the design which could easily fit onto a mug or a mousepad if we ever decided to head in that direction in the future.
So – if you would like your work to be immortalized on our T-shirts, start designing! We are looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
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But one thing you didn’t mention- can we have multiple entries?
I would hope so.
when will the winner be announced?
You won’t accept animated GIFs? This is madness!
I’m so gonna enter. Hopefully I can make some time for this.
@Matthew Simmons Lol, I wish we could use GIFs too. I’d love to have a dancing banana a shirt.
I’m going to do this for 2 days straight, maybe more! I’m mainly doing this for the bragging rights and the money,but I’d like to have the shirt too.
Is it a must that it should be a white tee or could it be any other base colour as well?
Also some clarification on multiple entries please.
Thanks
I Finished Way Early! Click My Name To See My Design
Yes you can do multiple entries and the design should be based on a white T-shirt.
One other thing – when sending me entries, don’t paste your design onto an image of a T-shirt. Just send me the actual design – as large as possible. Tiny pictures won’t work at the printers.
Where can we get your logo in Vector format?
Here is the logo in vector format – http://makeuseof.com/images/logo/muo_logo.ai
A high resolution version of the MUO logo can be found here – http://drop.io/moneill/asset/muo-hires-png .
I will look into getting one in vector format.
Mark, I just wanted to double check with you first before emailing directly. Did you receive my submission? Thanks.
Yes we got it, thanks
Damn! I have a great idea for a T-Shirt but I don’t have any way of submitting it as an image. Can I still enter the contest?
Hi Jasmine – your entry must conform to the file formats & specifications outlined in the post. If it doesn’t, we can’t use it.
Mark, did you get mine?
Yes.
Just double-checking: we CAN use the MakeUseOf logo, right?
Yes we would definately like to see the logo in there someplace! I linked to a high-res version in one of the above comments.
Mark, can I hand-draw a design, scan it in hi-res and send it to you?
Well you could I suppose and we would consider it. Sure, feel free.
Can we put an image on the back too or is it restricted to just the front?
Sure you can. Do what you like
Hey Mark,
Is it necessary to have a 2-sided design? I mean, a design in the back of the Tshirt.
Karan
No, it’s not necessary to have designs on both sides.
Hi Mark,
you mean (techies) wear the T-shirts? The stuff and fans of makeuseof? How can we get that T-shirt?
Thomas
this is tuff
hey i have send you my designs please do let me know when u get them
and yea thanks for the competition
hey i have send you my designs on the email provided by you.Please let me know when you get it.
Hi Mark
Please confirm if you’ve received my entry
Hi Mark
Please confirm if you’ve received my entry
We would need to see the image.
It would be great to see all the designs submitted, and to get an idea when the winner(s) will be chosen.