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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!
What fonts is the graphic
Slashdot
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
Done with?
>>>Bragging rights at LUGs, CompSci Labs, Cubicle Farms, and Tech Tradeshows around the world.
Does that mean you'll also hire a personal bodyguard for the mockery and continual muggings?
If so, IM IN!!(snortchuckle)
...the ascii goatse with "I read Slashdot at -1"?
That last 6 set the evil bits.
You are in a maze of twisted little posts, all alike.
I submit the old t-shirt design. The editors won't notice.
Invalid Checksum. Retrying.
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
"The Judge shall be Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda.
Why do I feel like the first place entry will be merely a repost of the second place entry, only with misspellings?
So I wonder how many variations on 'first post', 'imagine a beowulf cluster of...' and suchlike there shall be...it's inconceivable! (yes, that word does mean that I think it means)
this one's easy:
Im' with the SlashDORK ---->
We're like rats, in some experiment! -- George Costanza
Didn't see it mentioned anywhere in the article posted... had to look at the "official" rules. :)
My Webcomic: Asylum on 5th Street
I knew it!!! SCO is sponsoring this contest...
This Contest is for United States residents only.
Aw crap!
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.
I submitted this design to slashdot, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt (and a $75 gift certificate) :-)
Vote for Pedro
Option 1: Implement it your own damned self.
Option 2: Shut up.
Sheesh. "I have an idea, but not enough talent to follow through. If anyone else does have the talent, I want something for spouting off for 10 seconds!"
Forward, retransmit, or republish anything I say here. Just don't misquote me.
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
Submit the same Tshirt design once, wait a couple of hours, submit it again, then wait a few more hours and submit it a third time. They'll forget it was you....
go ahead... mod me down.. you know you want to.
If you're looking here for something insightful or thought provoking, you're probably looking in the wrong place.
Regardless of the design, I think a tshirt with the following on the back would be pretty funny:
click here! [goatse.cx]
Unfortuantely /. doesn't allow the <u> tag, but you get the point.
There should be a Mod point of (-1, Didn't get the Joke)
Slashdot: (Score:5, Troll)
I want one already!
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)
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm going for a games.slashdot.org design, done on a t-shirt of the most horrid, offensive, seziure-inducing purple I can find.
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
I gave up my
IP rights in
this logo
and all I
got was this
lousy t-shirt.
"You know you want me baby!" - Crow T Robot
then someone taps you on the back, do you have to stop, drop your pants, bend over and well, open wide?
I'm damn sure not buying one that says click here for goatse.cx
I wouldn't do that even under doctors orders.
The preceding post was not a Slashvertisement.
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
"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))))
into their local paper as a kid's drawing symbolising "unity"...
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.
Nonono
Slashdot THIS!
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Beat that! Mess with the best, die like the rest! Sorry folks, contest over, move along...
Cheers,
IT
Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
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.
nope; they were sold off last night in a bid to raise money to support for prosecuting the war on [noun].
:>
might i suggest reading another news site that isn't slashdot?
ed
http://elektron.its.tudelft.nl/~aakeur21/title.gif
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.
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
Slashdot
Back:
-1 Overrated
psxndc
The emacs religion: to be saved, control excess.
That on the front or the back of the shirt?
...a baseball cap.
Back has little Slashdot logo. Front reads, "Karma Cap."
Thankew, thankewverymuch, I'll be here all week...
Breakfast served all day!
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.
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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sigamajig...
Can you figure out how to make these slashdot tshirts not magically start smelling like body order after 5 to 6 days of use?
Already done. In english-speaking countries it's called "laundry".
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
It started as a 3-color design, but ended up as a 5-color design once I read the happy-fun and absolutely agreeable T&C's. Yay! Lawyers!