T-Shirt Design Contest

[kirupa]

Hey everyone,
Welcome to the forum for the kirupa.com T-Shirt Design Contest. Here is where you will get a chance to submit your own entry, view other entries, and talk about other entries if you want to.

Updates:
For more information about the contest, rules, etc. visit the following URL: http://www.kirupa.com/contest/tshirt/index.htm

When submitting your entry as a new thread, be sure to include your forum name in the TITLE of your thread. You are all creative people! Try to come up with imaginative titles besides "My entry" :)

The reason I want all the entries to be on the cafepress site is that, if I were to be interested in purchasing your t-shirt, I should be able to. Think of this as a larger graphic battle with a real-world application!

Just to clarify, your cafepress T-Shirt is nothing more than a really big graphic(s) that you upload from your computer to your T-Shirt design. You don't actually design the T-Shirt on the cafepress site.

Besides that have fun and check this thread periodically for any updates, etc. that may occur. The contest will run from 5 November 2003 through 5 January 2004.

Good luck!
Kirupa ;)

[Game™]

Could we use this (http://www.t-shirts.com/blank/default.asp?sid=50534190804&cmd=detail&item=5004&color=BK) for our basic T-Shirt layout?

[ Click colours and then enlarge ].

- Sunny:ch:

[kirupa]

Sorry no - you have to use the layouts and design them on the cafepress web site.

[Game™]

Oh sorry, I didn't see that link you posted.

[kirupa]

No problem - I'll make the link a little bit more visible :)

http://www.kirupa.com/contest/tshirt/index.htm

[McGiver]

be sure to include your name in the TITLE of your thread. do you mean my real name or my forum nick

[mdipi]

sweet idea kirupa, surprised we didnt think of it earlyer. i'm game :D

[neverrain]

I missed out for the signature contest. :(

[kirupa]

McGiver - forum name is good :)

[sef]

after countless hours of trying to create a "I-went-to-kirupaforums-and-all-I-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt" - t-shirt in photoshop, Ive given it up, so this idea's free for anyone else to use... ;)

[novatake]

haha sef im well gonna use that its well fun lol mines at http://www.cafeshops.com/novatake gonna work on some more i reckon

[novatake]

yeh i have myself a slogan its stolen so i aint sure if ill be able to use it hope so though ive got 2 entries sorted so ill have to sign up to cafepress again

[McGiver]

when you register @ CafePress you can enter a
"Referral Store ID" to give credit. anyhin we should enter? dunno, maybe some kirupa store...

btw: does it need to be a t-shirt or can it be a jersey ore something like that too

[kirupa]

it has to be a t-shirt for this competition :) You all are free to design other things, but they won't be considered an entry for this contest. But if your other entries are good, after the contest, I can link to them also via the site.

I don't really know what you want to enter for the referral store. I have a sample store for experimentation at http://www.cafepress.com/kirupa that you can use as a referrer if you want, but if you have other friends or acquaintances you want to support, feel free to refer them instead.

[eyezberg]

from the rules: "1. The designer submits his/her animation..."

maybe change last word into T-shirt or picture.. ;)

I'll make one.

Sometime.

Later.

Soon.

[kirupa]

ah thanks! I am so not used to mentioning the words "images" :D

[skiistari]

Hey, Kirupa,
My thread, the one that's "Trying not to be noobish" should probably have the title of my t-shirt entry... sorry 'bout that.. just letting you know.

[Todd Sayler]

Some stuff you should probably consider when creating a shirt:

Is the font too small? Will people be able to read it from a reasonable distance on the actual shirt?

Would anybody actually want to wear this shirt?

Is it wearable by both sexes?

Is the graphic something that looks good on a shirt, or does it appear out of place on a t-shirt?

Just some things I thought might help.

[sef]

I can't find any rule stating that you should put your design on a baggy, white T-Shirt (and thus rendering it never-wearable) or is that a cafepress limitation :?

[NeoDreamer]

I suggest all participants to use the "fitted shirt" instead of the "white t-shirt." I ordered a "white t-shirt" once and it was a cheap Hanes undershirt. The "fitted shirt" should be one that is wearable in public...

[McGiver]

anyone already sold one shirt? :P

[ryuukosan]

Originally posted by Supree
I suggest all participants to use the "fitted shirt" instead of the "white t-shirt."

K, Thanks for the advice Supree!

Here are the updated links of the images of Fitted T-Shirts!

ryuukosan1 (http://www.cafeshops.com/ryuukosan1.8524539)
ryuukosan2 (http://www.cafeshops.com/ryuukosan2.8524568)

[skiistari]

woo, hopefully!
updated (http://www.cafepress.com/skiistari)

[odedvard]

heres my entry...but i must say, the smaller version of my tshirt is seriously messed up...i dunno what went wrong. but heres the link to the larger version in which it displays properly.(bottom of the page)
http://www.cafeshops.com/odedvard.8647207?zoom=yes#zoom

[spikeyspike76]

I have a question that would be easily answered by Kirupa if he were logged on AIM right now, but he's not, so: is there some specific image related to kirupa like a logo (i.e. that pixel orange or isometric cube)? I'd like to use something representing the site (maybe I can use your picture).

I'm making a real cool one combining a bunch of programs. Keep you in suspense about it.

I'm gonna slit my wrists if it screws up when I view the shirt! Wouldn't it be great if we could have animated tees? Cafepress does accept gif's, right? Ha!

[kirupa]

There really is no official logo or style that goes with the site. I often use the pixel-ish Kirupa.com text along with the orange a lot though. I guess that could be the unofficial logo :)

[spikeyspike76]

^ I'm making that on a mouse pad! :beam: <I'm not a smiley man, but I can't resist pixel art!

v Download some smileys by me, for no reason! Add 'em to the forum if you want (but they're old and not too good)

[spikeyspike76]

http://cafepress.com/spike76shop

Get a kirupa hat, kirupa clock, kirupa mug, kirupa jumbo mug, several kirupa tees, kirupa raglan, kirupa *thong,* kirupa mouse pad, and kirupa wall clock!

Did I just double post?

[.soulty]

what a shame, i didnt get to create any of my shirts. :(

maybe next time..

[Muj@ck0_it]

sounds interesting dude.... :)

[kirupa]

Wow spikey - the mug and mousepad (and the shirts) look really cool!

soulty - members are allowed to create new things to go on the store even now. It just won't be judged. Maybe in a year or so, I'll revive this contest back :P

[.inspire]

darn.... why did i miss this contest! i designed some shirts before.. aww.. :(

[slinkyart]

How about another t-shirt contest?!?!

[kirupa]

How about another t-shirt contest?!?!
That won't happen for a while, but you are free to make your own site-related shirts and I can feature you on the shopping section on the site :)

[slinkyart]

Excellent!! I'll keep that in mind!! Thanks ;)

[©©©]

T-shirts rock :)