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Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff!
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Thu Jul 03, 2003 12:37 PM
from the and-the-jeers-of-anonymous-coward dept.
from the and-the-jeers-of-anonymous-coward dept.
It's been some time since we had a new shirt design for folks to buy,
and it's time to change that. More specific guidelines for the contest
follow, but in short, we're taking design submissions starting
immediately. Winners will get a $75 credit at ThinkGeek, as well as 3 copies of of
their t-shirt design. Winners will be chosen by me.
Technical Specs
- Designs should be for Black or White shirts. Or even better, both!
- No larger than 12" wide by 15" high
- No more than 5 colors (Black & White Count as Colors People!)
- Entries must be either 300 DPI Bitmap (JPG, PNG, Tiff etc), or Vector Format (PS, EPS, PDF)
General Recomendations
- I strongly recommend the use of Slashdot's favorite shade of green in any design submission. Slashdot's "Green" is 006666 in hex. 0,102,102 in RGB. Entries will not be excluded for failing to use the green, but I like it, and I'm the judge!
- You can try anything: From witty slogans to fancy design.
- Avoid photographs & shadows since they don't print very well at 5 colors.
- Parody is fine, but I'd rather designs be original.
How to Submit?
- Email tshirts at cmdrtaco.net, and provide a URL to your design(s). If this isn't possible, you may attach your submission to an email.
- Winners will be selected in a few weeks by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda (Me!) based on their creativity and design.
- There may be more than one winner if there are several good entries! I have permission to select as many as 3 winners if there are many good entries!
Prizes!
- The submittor of each winning design will get $75 credit at ThinkGeek
- 3 Copies of your T-Shirt Design
- Bragging rights at LUGs, CompSci Labs, Cubicle Farms, and Tech Tradeshows around the world.
Finally our lawyer demands that you read the Official Rules. Do it!
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What prize??? (Score:4, Informative)
This is total BS (Score:5, Insightful)
Give the winner 10% of the profit and then you might have something interesting here.
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Re:This is total BS (Score:4, Insightful)
It's not about the prize, it's about the status.
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Re:What prize??? (Score:5, Funny)
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How about... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How about... (Score:5, Funny)
I thought that was considered ASSCI art...
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My submission (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My submission (Score:5, Funny)
Even the bloody shirts will be DUPES! Dammit, man, that'd be just a little too real for me.
What we need is a Beowulf cluster in Soviet Russia figuring out why the secret to life, the universe and everything seems to have something to do with Natalie Portman petrified, and hot grits. 42 of 'em, I guess.
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Aren't we the ones buying it? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Aren't we the ones buying it? (Score:5, Funny)
Don't be silly. What's next, readers moderating the story submission queue? Catching dupes? Fixing typographical errors? Posting Google Cache links or no-registration partner links to NYT articles?
That's crazy talk, man!
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Judges (Score:4, Funny)
Why do I feel like the first place entry will be merely a repost of the second place entry, only with misspellings?
hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
..a Beowulf cluster
of these!
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easy (Score:5, Funny)
Im' with the SlashDORK ---->
Re:easy (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot THIS!
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Re:easy (Score:5, Funny)
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Deadline is August 1st...? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Deadline is August 1st...? (Score:5, Informative)
Residents of Vermont, Arizona, Tennessee and Puerto Rico are not eligible to participate in the Contest.
I wonder why..
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Re:Deadline is August 1st...? (Score:5, Funny)
CmdrTaco was threatened by the T-shirt mafia in those states...
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Re:Deadline is August 1st...? (Score:5, Informative)
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Read the T&C's! (Score:5, Informative)
Aw crap!
Re:Read the T&C's! (Score:5, Insightful)
Anyone who is a United States resident that would not mind taking a very small amount of work onto their hands and does not plan on entering the contest themselves, post contact information (preferably an e-mail address to this thread).
Anyone who wants to enter the contest but is not a United States resident, forward your desired entry on to the posted contact information.
Any U.S. resident proxy submitter may either accept or deny any offered submission as their one allowable submission under the official contest rules. In either case, it is polite to respond as promptly as possible so that the artist may offer their design to another proxy submitter.
In the case that a proxy submission wins, it shall be a gentleman's agreement that the proxy submitter is entitled to one t-shirt and $25 of the ThinkGeek gift certificate. The other two t-shirts and $50 should be mailed to the orignal designer (designer to pay postage).
Anyway, it's just an idea. I myself am a Canadian resident and will be quite happy to submit an entry in this fashion if any U.S. residents like the idea.
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Re:Read the T&C's! (Score:5, Funny)
Your plans for proxy-submission are in violation of the DMCA (see: circumvention device). Cease and desist immediately or face legal action.
Sincerely,
You know who we are!
P.S. YVAN EHT NIOJ!
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old shirt? (Score:5, Interesting)
How about... (Score:4, Funny)
The Slashdot font (Score:5, Informative)
Increase Your Odds of Winning (Score:5, Funny)
go ahead... mod me down.. you know you want to.
goatse (Score:5, Funny)
Regardless of the design, I think a tshirt with the following on the back would be pretty funny:
click here! [goatse.cx]
Unfortuantely /. doesn't allow the <u> tag, but you get the point.
So if you wear that shirt, (Score:5, Funny)
I'm damn sure not buying one that says click here for goatse.cx
I wouldn't do that even under doctors orders.
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Here's one. (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot: (Score:5, Troll)
I want one already!
I was thinking more long the lines of... (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot
Back:
-1 Overrated
psxndc
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A unique approach? (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
IP rights in
this logo
and all I
got was this
lousy t-shirt.
Slasdot Membership Credit (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Slasdot Membership Credit (Score:5, Funny)
While your at it throw in a Taco big toe nail (lightly chewed) and some CowboyNeal bellybutton lint (size large)
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Hey /... (Score:5, Insightful)
Hell, the green is different from my laptop to my pc. By a longshot. On the mac, it's nearly the intensity of a grass green and blends into white nicely. On the PC, it's more subdued and hides the shadow on the logo.
Get a pantone book and tell us the colour that most closely matches what YOU think the green should look like. Otherwise, you're telling us you want to see the world through our eyes.
Interesting... (Score:5, Interesting)
"To receive additional copies of these Official Rules, or a Prize Winner list, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Open Source Development Network, Inc., 47071 Bayside Parkway, Fremont, CA 94538; Attention Slashdot T-Shirt Design Contest. Specify Prize Winner list and/or Official Rules on your request. Replies will be sent after the completion of the Contest." - Official rules
Ah, yes. Requesting rules after the competition ends. Sounds like those slashdot Eds again.
b0w b4 m3!!! (Score:5, Funny)
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Beat that! Mess with the best, die like the rest! Sorry folks, contest over, move along...
Cheers,
IT
Winners get $75, Slashdot gets rich (Score:4, Informative)
According to the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook Pricing and Ethical Guidelines 10th edition (published in 2001), page 340,
t-shirts:
$150-$250 for concept,
$250-$1,000 for design, and
$250-$1400 for complete design.
Fees are for each design; ranges reflect design complexity, size, and number of colors.
Compensate the winners accordingly dudes!
At $2.50 per shirt to produce, and selling at $15 - $20 per shirt, there's no excuse for not to.
By the way, I highly recommend the above book. (includes info on web design, programming, contracts, and negotiation as well)
It seems that pricing is one of the areas people are weakest at.
Web and Software Development a legal guide by Fisman (Nolo) is very good too.
My awesome submission (Score:5, Funny)
Random t-shirt sighting... (Score:5, Interesting)
I was watching the news the other day, where some little girl drowned in a lake. The guy that found her was being interviewed, and he was wearing a slashdot shirt.
My first response when I saw the guy was, "Hey! Cool!", which was just a bit inappropriate for the situation, I was informed.
Not a T-shirt... (Score:5, Funny)
Back has little Slashdot logo. Front reads, "Karma Cap."
Thankew, thankewverymuch, I'll be here all week...
T-shirt design, 3 colors, then 5 (Score:5, Funny)
It started as a 3-color design, but ended up as a 5-color design [kobotica.com] once I read the happy-fun and absolutely agreeable T&C's. Yay! Lawyers!
Re:006666? (Score:5, Funny)
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Official Rules (Score:5, Funny)
I knew it!!! SCO is sponsoring this contest...
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Re:My suggestion (Score:4, Funny)
Option 2: Shut up.
Sheesh. "I have an idea, but not enough talent to follow through. If anyone else does have the talent, I want something for spouting off for 10 seconds!"
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Re:Question for Taco or others (Score:5, Funny)
No larger than 12" wide by 15" high
Considering the average
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Re:Question for Taco or others (Score:5, Informative)
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Someone already managed to get a version of it (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Well at least (Score:5, Funny)
Already done. In english-speaking countries it's called "laundry".
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