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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!
What fonts is the graphic
Slashdot
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
Done with?
Can we see a link to the old shirt? I wasn't even aware there was an official slashdot shirt. That will also let potential designers see what's been done already.
OR
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I am releasing these ideas under the open content and dual licensing them with creative commons. Have at um.
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
Here's a suggestion - mirror the entries on /. somewhere so we can all see them (you could even be democratic and put your top choices in a poll and let us vote)
"To receive additional copies of these Official Rules, or a Prize Winner list, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Open Source Development Network, Inc., 47071 Bayside Parkway, Fremont, CA 94538; Attention Slashdot T-Shirt Design Contest. Specify Prize Winner list and/or Official Rules on your request. Replies will be sent after the completion of the Contest." - Official rules
Ah, yes. Requesting rules after the competition ends. Sounds like those slashdot Eds again.
((lambda x ((x))) (lambda x ((x))))
Slashdot: 1010001001101110010 geeks can't be wrong.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Which holds a strikingly exact resemblance to the Koloss font family, however Koloss typically isn't a free font. Who copied who? Or is there a small difference that maybe one of the graphic designers out here could point out?
How about a custom shirt with your user name and your choice of Friend/Foe and Fan/Freak icons? I would love one with Foe and Freak, to scare the other geeks away.
sulli
RTFJ.
Residents of Vermont, Arizona, Tennessee and Puerto Rico are not eligible to participate in the Contest.
Does this seem a bit odd to anyone? I can understand Puerto Rico, but what's the deal w/ the Vermont, Arizona, and Tennessee?
Yeah, this is off-topic. Mod as necessary...
:-)
I was watching the news the other day, where some little girl drowned in a lake. The guy that found her was being interviewed, and he was wearing a slashdot shirt.
My first response when I saw the guy was, "Hey! Cool!", which was just a bit inappropriate for the situation, I was informed.
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.
If what you said was true, then every printed brochure with slightly different hue would mean that the "pantone colors" aren't very accurate... you *DO* know that that you shouldn't blame the output medium, right?
But, just so you can move on, here's the CMYK, cleverly gathered from looking to the right of the hex value in Photoshop:
C90%
M42%
Y55%
K22%
He also mentioned the
R0
G102
B102
Now go make a t-shirt.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Damn dude, you totaly fucked that up. Should have used some san-serif font like Verdana or Ariel for the exclamation point, not that fugly thing.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
If we don't win, do you still get the IP rights to the design? Because my idea isn't Slashdot-specific, and i'd like to make a shirt of it someday, if no one else does. So if you're going to claim ownership of something you're not going to use, then forget it - I'll come up with something else.
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