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Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff!
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)
- 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.
- 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!
- 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!
A $75 credit at ThinkGeek won't buy one thing!
Didn't see it mentioned anywhere in the article posted... had to look at the "official" rules. :)
My Webcomic: Asylum on 5th Street
This Contest is for United States residents only.
Aw crap!
The typeface that Slashdot uses in its current logo is called Coliseo and can be downloaded here... A sample image of the font is here.
Slashdot's first reaction to VMware
Games section purple, 3300CC.
"Stop failing the Turing test!" -- Dilbert
Font geek to the rescue! May I refer you to my post? The word "Slashdot" is in Coliseo, and the "News for Nerds" part appears to be in Arial or Helvetica.
Slashdot's first reaction to VMware
All I could find was this: we pot the o in .org
Design your own shirts, you bottom feeders. :-)
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.
ImageMagick.
convert foo.svg foo.eps
Easy as can be.
--
the strongest word is still the word "free"
The hex for the color is the same everywhere, just like pantone is. Because your monitor isnt viewing it the same as I am, doesnt mean that the hex value has changed. In theory, if we calibrated correctly, it would be the same
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.
My bad:
/. merchandise (feels like it's slashdotted): http://web.archive.org/web/20020206014203/www.thin kgeek.com/slashdot/
Here's a Web Archive link with the official
You can see my winning entry (it's the first one) from the 1999 contest here:
:)
http://redmenace.org/slashdot/
I have one that I never wore.. It'll be going on ebay August 2nd as a collector's item..
-gosquad
Coliseo is actually a knockoff of Koloss. See also Nick Curtis' version called Phat Phreddy.
From the official rules:
:(
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
/* affect != effect */ void affect(int *thing,int effect) { *thing += effect; }
here's a link to the current /. stuff on thinkgeek:
fleece (clearance)
hat
sticker
Jeremy Logan's Website.