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)

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!

Comments

Deadline is August 1st...?

[Jin Wicked]

Didn't see it mentioned anywhere in the article posted... had to look at the "official" rules. :)

Re:Deadline is August 1st...?

[Adam9]

Hmm I also found this:

Residents of Vermont, Arizona, Tennessee and Puerto Rico are not eligible to participate in the Contest.

I wonder why..

Re:Deadline is August 1st...?

[Zapman]

Laws in those states prohibit such contests. If you read almost any contest rules, they will have the exact same verbage.

Read the T&C's!

[RobertTaylor]

This Contest is for United States residents only.

Aw crap!

The Slashdot font

[Jon Abbott]

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.

Re:Question for Taco or others

[Jon Abbott]

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.

Winners get $75, Slashdot gets rich

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:old shirt?

[gosquad]

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