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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!
er.. Since we're the ones buying the shirts.. shouldn't we be the ones voting for it? Have something like all members get one vote and all Anonymous Cowards can eat poop!
in the bonds, ppka
Say 10 or so hours design.. works out at maybe 7 bucks an hour!! But I guess given the economy most designers have some free time on their hands ;)
so much for the internet being a world wide thing uh?
moo
Can you figure out how to make these slashdot tshirts not magically start smelling like body order after 5 to 6 days of use? Oh, and make them out of 100% cotton, too- I don't need slashdot messing with my open sores!
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
Don't you think that a slashdot membership for a year should be in the prize pack as well?
Shop smart, Shop S-Mart.
You *DO* know that "computer colours" aren't very accurate, right? As in, not at all accurate, due to everybody on the planet having different contrast, brightness and gamma settings on their monitors?
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.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
Slashdot is NOT some poor homebrew low budget site. /. is owned by a major corporation that is going to make a fortune on these shirts and they expect some chump will design them for a mere $75?
Give the winner 10% of the profit and then you might have something interesting here.
I propose a submission proxy system.
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.
lysergically yours
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!
Actually, those values don't represent colors. They're device settings, and they will display different colors on different devices, since they all have different gamuts and different RGB -> Output color matching. This is the reason for ICC profiles.
If you want to define the color, you need to measure it and post Lab values, which represent actual color. So if the standard is, say, Taco's monitor, you should make a patch of the appropriate color in Photoshop and assign your montor profile. Then convert the image to Lab and report that color. Then you will have truly defined Slashdot green.
For further explanation, check out this article on our web site:
The Color of Toast
Ah yes, once again, CT doesn't practice what he preaches. First, it took him forever and a day to release the slash source. Now it seems that the open content license (and similar) don't really exist. The rules for this contest say, in effect, AYBABTU. Don't feed the trolls. Don't feed Rob. And tell the VA keiretsu to go fuck themselves.
Whatever, I'm sure the slashkids will submit and be bought out for $75 worth of overpriced stuff from ThinkGeek. You're the same people who scream about the MPAA, but line up for The Matrix. (Yes, I know slash is not some monolithic entity. Save it.)
Flame me, mod me down, but know in your heart that Rob (and his corporate masters) have just snubbed OSS and its principals. Again.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Lets see if I got this right. Slashdot wants people to design t-shirts for them that they will sell and make money with. In exchange Slashdot will give the winner 3 t-shirts and $75 to spend at the over-priced ThinkGeek store. All I can say is may the biggest sucker win!
This totally stinks.
If your design is good enough, they use it and everybody buys it; what do you get?
less than $100
If your design is so good they should give you a cut. period.
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