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

Aren't we the ones buying it?

[ASAPnetworks]

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!

Slasdot Membership Credit

[BigGar']

Don't you think that a slashdot membership for a year should be in the prize pack as well?

Hey /...

[dasmegabyte]

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.

This is total BS

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:This is total BS

[(54)T-Dub]

Or they could have eliminated the $75 and the 3 free t-shirts and they would still get plenty of designs.

It's not about the prize, it's about the status.

Re:Read the T&C's!

[Transient0]

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.

Those aren't colors! Really.

[ChuckleBug]

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

GIVE THE WINNERS A CUT, DAMNIT

[xlurker]

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.