Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff! 508
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!
What prize??? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:What prize??? (Score:3, Informative)
Deadline is August 1st...? (Score:5, Informative)
Read the T&C's! (Score:5, Informative)
Aw crap!
The Slashdot font (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..
Alternative favourite color (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Question for Taco or others (Score:5, Informative)
Re:old shirt? (Score:3, Informative)
All I could find was this: we pot the o in .org [geekt.org]
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.
Re:vector formats, but no SVG? (Score:2, Informative)
convert foo.svg foo.eps
Easy as can be.
Re:Deadline is August 1st...? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What prize??? (Score:3, Informative)
The "fee" in the case of Slashdot would be the requirement of submitting a T-Shirt design.
Here are some other examples:
Weight loss sweepstakes [yahoo.com]
Fantasy sports [yahoo.com]
Sports Cards [upperdecke...inment.com]
Re:Read the T&C's! (Score:2, Informative)
E-mail address: the username is "slashdot", the subdomain is "pwhite", the domain is "mailhaven", with a commercial extension. Form: username@subdomain.domain.ext
Jabber ID: Cluster@jabber.org
Re:Read the T&C's! (Score:1, Informative)
I'm in email me
Re:actually thats wrong... HEX is fine. (Score:4, Informative)
Wrong. If we had 2 different monitors that were both calibrated, we would still see different colors for the same RGB or CMYK values. RGB and CMYK are not colors, just device settings, and each device has its own interpretation of those values. That's why jpgs and tiffs support tagging with profiles. They define the actual colors the image is supposed to have.
All calibrating does is make a monitor profile that will properly display Lab colors, which come from the image's profile or color space.
Re:old shirt? (Score:2, Informative)
Here's a Web Archive link with the official
Re:old shirt? (Score:4, Informative)
http://redmenace.org/slashdot/ [redmenace.org]
I have one that I never wore.. It'll be going on ebay August 2nd as a collector's item..
-gosquad
Re:Question for Taco or others (Score:2, Informative)
This Contest is for United States residents only. (Score:2, Informative)
This Contest is for United States residents only.
Might be nice to post on the story itself these obvious limitations and stop wasting our time
For those who don't know... (Score:1, Informative)
fleece [thinkgeek.com] (clearance)
hat [thinkgeek.com]
sticker [thinkgeek.com]