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Slashdot T-Shirt Design Contest
Copyleft has redone all their
pages, so it only makes sense that we get some new T-Shirts
up there too. So we're going to try to do a contest for
some new designs. I'm going to serve as Judge (and god
am I ruthless judge) on this one, and the Winner (or
Winners if there are several good entries) will
get the fame and glory of having their names and designs
displayed here... as well as a $100 credit at Copyleft.
Hit the link below to read the specifications.
- Fronts and Backs are good, but not required
- Designs that will work on different colored shirts are good (black/white/grey)
- Large lossless formats are preferred (PNG is nice, jpeg's will be ignored) Bitmapped images ought to be fairly large (100-200 DPI) so that they print nicely. I better be able to view it on Linux, so don't go sending me a Freehand file or something. If ya gotta use some other platform for an illustration, I don't care, but I'd prefer seeing a Gimper win (are you listening tigert?!)
- I prefer if you email me a URL with the image, but I'll also take attachments (although if you gotta send attachments, you might want to send me a lower quality preview image so you don't lock my ISDN line up for 5 minutes while I download your 8 meg tiff)
- I'm gonna judge. Sure we ought to have a poll or something, and if I have time, maybe we will, but I'm going to make the final decision- and I am anal about this stuff. Friends and family of Blockstackers are eligible, but no 1/8th size clones of ruthless evil masterminds bent on global domination please.
- Suggestions: witty slogans, use of #006666 green or the curve, the Caliseo font, avoid using something that is copyrighted by another company (we don't wanna get sued!), good clean simple design- I'm a geek, but I'm an artsy guy too!
- We'll pick winners in a week or 2.
I'm looking forward to seeing what ya'll come up with. This ought to be fun. Besides, its sorta like doing your part to keep geeks clothed. Nobody really wants to see me running around naked. Well, maybe somebody, but I bet he/she doesn't look like Heather Graham...
Rob's missing the big picture here - a full-scale slashdot merchandising program just like the big guys:
trading cards/action figures (rob/hemos/etc)
bed spreads/curtains/towels/etc
bathing suits
temporary tattoos
comic books/videos/"music from the motion picture"
etc etc etc
> i think i'll start sewing them on the left
/. design in a
> breast of all my shirts, just like laverne.
> i'm gonna be *stylin*
Or better still, draw up your
Windows-friendly format, pop it on a floppy disk,
and take it (and your most fashionable shirt)
into a Bernina shop.
Ask the good folks there to open it, copy it
into Bernina Artista, download it onto one of
their high-end embroidery-capable machines,
and then watch as it plays the seamstress.
It's almost as much fun as a plotter!
And you can do ray-traced spheres too!
(But don't expect millions of colours.)
Hey believe it or not, some /. readers are artists or graphic designers by trade. We're not all code-heads, you know. :-)
well, $100 bux credit for a well-designed logo is a killer deal... for copyleft. I wonder exactly HOW MUCH of the profit is donated? i couldn't find it on the web site.
well yeah i agree with that .. i haev had a few pais of hemp jeans .... very nice comfy casual sorta feel ..
an ofcasue its just cool to be wearing pot
www.grunef.com slashspam(an A with a squiggle around it) willcowan.com
Posted by Nina Simone:
You can find it here:
http://discuss.userland.com/msgReader$7162
In addition to Neal, who are the best web writers we have?
I only wear T-shirts for yard work or construction work...basically only when there's a possibility of getting really dirty. Even then I hate it. (Well, the NeXT T-shirt is OK, and the 3 floor T-shirts I did for my college dorms...a slashdot shirt might make it into that elite group).
I'm with the poster here...I freeze all of the time, I run a heater in my office even in the summer and wear long sleeves constantly, only dress oxfords...never a tie (Ok, weddings and funerals...that's it).
I'd *never* wear a pocket protector...and with the exception of the NeXT-logo T-shirt, I neither own nor wear any article of clothing with a logo on it.
--Rubinstien (A.C. 'cuz I'm at home and too lame to log in)
P.S. If this were open longer than two weeks I might attempt to learn the Gimp and do something with it. I'm a good artist, I've done plenty of shirts (starting back in '82) but with the traditional tools (pen, brush, ink, and paper).
My Fellow nerd, Some of us nerds do actualy excede the standary 5'2" geek image. I need 4XL because I have a 4XL chest and shoulder size (stop coughing, its true I am 6'6"), not 4XL waist line's. Just thought I would help break that geek mold a little more.
Head on over to NTTG.Net for more details -- they've got two contests starting up with a couple of hundred dollars in Amazon.com gift certificates for prizes.
I talked to Dan Weaver, one of the people who's supplying hardware, etc. to the site (nice guy BTW)... the site authors' know that the site's not the best looking thing yet, but wanted to get up and running quickly and are really interested in feedback from us talented folks at /. (I had to put in a blatant promotion on behalf of all of us, wouldn't you agree?) ;-)
On second thought, maybe I could use a new t-shirt... time to fire up the airbrush, I guess. Hope I don't blow anything up this time...
**poof** oops, big red splotch on the wife...
*sigh...*
...Open Source isn't the only answer -- but it's almost always a better value than the alternatives...
A couple of months ago, the company I work for dished out polo shirts with the corporate logo on to everyone in my department. I gave mine to a charity shop. (Not so much over the corporate logo issue; more that polo shirts don't work well when worn under long-sleeved shirts).
Besides the cash and having them displayed, would we get one of the t-shirts too? :)
"It's here, but no one wants it." - The Sugar Speaker
About right now, Rob should be kicking himself for picking on all the Mac users. :>
- Darchmare
- Axis Mutatis, http://www.axismutatis.net
- Jeff
Where can I find the "Slashdot" (Caliseo?) font? Preferably in TrueType format. Any help appreciated. flip
I think Green or Black or Red Berets with the /. insignia would be very very cool
Get a life, not a lifestyle. - Hikem Bey
I've seen a shirt with the GPL on it...so that idea would not work anyway...
I thought about ordering the t-shirt with the copyleft symbol on the back. Although I praise the GPL, I didnt order the shirt because of the big nasty looking license on the back. If enough people agree, maybe we could get a batch w/o it?
I'll have the fries, please....
About your sig... I've always heard the saying "An infinate number of monkeys could type the complete works of Shakespeare given an infinate amount of time". But isn't the Internet disproving the theory as we... type?
ALG
Of course you'd also think I'd learn how to spell "infinite"...
ALG
Heya,
Artist-geek ready and willing to help.
n.
I'm not playing hard to get, I'm playing hard to want!
I have an idea, but
I AM NOT AN ARTIST.
Are you accepting "concepts" or images only?
Hail to the Sun God! He is the Fun God! Ra! Ra! Ra!
Well, mathematically, one monkey is statistically equivalent to 100, or 1000, or any finite number given infinite time. However, it's not equivalent to infinite monkeys in infinite time. Both are infinite, but the size of infinity squared is greater (yeah, I know, but ask a math professor).
- Vincit qui patitur.
So go get a white shirt and a magic marker?
Tig
Dunno who the artist is, but I e-mailed the company to ask if he'll submit something for /.
The shirt they sell now absolutely ROCKS! I just bought 4 of them.
The URL is:
http://www.sweetgear.com/shirts/shirt.htm
or for the lazy, click here .
Talisman
"Man is the only animal capable of blushing, and he is the only one that needs to." - Twain
"Study your math, kids. Key to the universe." -The Archangel Gabriel
I used Tux, but that's not the message of my t-shirt... it's just that i have absolutely no talent when it comes to art (heck, i even failed 5th grade sculpting -- i.e. clay ashtray class). It's pretty neato tho, considering that i gave Tux a flip-top head* (copyright of Reach, or something, cause that is a really funny commercial). Neways, this comment has kindof gone off at a tangent from where it started off, so i might as well drop my url...
:)
Talk about horrible scripting... i think i did this when i was 13 and just decided to cut and paste this time
niiiice long link for those of us who forgot our glasses!
*insert pithy sig here*
The Internet Movie Database is your friend.
Vern
Rob, Even if you don't let us vote on 'em, can you put the submissions up somewhere for us to look at? I'd love to see what the artsty among us can do with this...
Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away. -Rob Malda
can someone post an URL to the Caliseo font? i can't find it anywhere
-- adraken
I'd love a slashdot shirt, black on white, with just "/." on the front. Nothing else.
I'd like the same kinda thing with copyleft -- with just the copyleft symbol on the front, and not the GPL on the back.
pooptruck
How many times Rob gets the same submission of a box with a forward slash and a period inside!
How many colors can we use?
if we use 200 dpi, how many inches (width & height) should we look not to exceed?
-- adraken
I in agreement with you on the minimal thing.
I too would love a copyleft shirt with just
the copyleft logo on it. It's more subtle
that way -- spelling out the whole GPL is
just too blunt for me (not that I have
anything against the GPL).
The last time something re:Copyleft was posted
on Slashdot, someone from their crew said that
they'd be making such a shirt, so my hopes are
high on this.
This is probably heresy, but I hardly ever, if at all, wear short-sleeved shirts. I feel the cold noticibly; if the sun is blazing down (rare in this country, but hey), but there is a slight breeze, I'll feel chilly because of the breeze. Therefore, I almost always wear a long-sleeved shirt (denim or twill, no polyester or anything like that) with a breast pocket for my pens. Mind you, I often wear a T-shirt under the shirt, but that's no way to show off a cool Slashdot T-shirt.
How about a Slashdot pocket protector? :-)
wow i guess BSI is hard up for cash ever since you fired all the good writers
Mmmm... Heather Graham...
Here, here! Being part of the "larger" than average nerd crowd, I do like roomy tee-shirts. Just call me XXX boy! :-)
Heart, Hands, Honour
Back:
of course, you'd want the actual design to have the slashes at the same angle.....
Do you think Copyleft could make bigger shirts (XXXL) for the "larger" nerd crowd?
Any hope of a /. sweatshirt, maybe with one of these new designs? Better yet, simply embroider a /. on the front (say 4-6 inches in size...). That's what I want...
/. logo... mm...)
(mmm... warm fuzzy sweatshirt... with
MetallicBurgundy
And there definately needs to be a talking anonymous coward figure. You push the button and it either
- A) shouts "First Post!",
- B) tries to incite a flamewar regarding GNOME/KDE or
- C) takes the world by surprise and says something useful.
But the sheets, I'm not sure about. I seeI myself was considering slapping a "/." on the Ewing penguin, and calling it a logo, however, Slashdot isn't linux, Its readers might use linux, but it is News for Nerds, which is more general..
Opinionated Law Student Strikes Again!
I have to wear ties to school (neckties) /. also.....
What i am looking for is a tie (maybe yellow?) with a big bad "Tux" on it. and possibly something with a
Opinionated Law Student Strikes Again!
If such a copyleft shirt is made (just the backward C in a circle,
nothing else), I would definately get at least one. I'm for the GPL
and all (duh, otherwise I wouldn't want the shirt) but there's
something cool about just having that weird backwards copyright
symbol on it.
People that don't know will look twice at it as they pass you on
the street, and think it's cool in a weird sort of way. Others will
recognize it and not need to see the GPL written out on the
back. Put me down for one of those. I've actually checked
back several times to see if such a shirt had been added.
Vidi, Vici, Veni
I have an idea for a t-shirt/slogan that I thought up awhile ago, but I am not artistic enough to do the art work. Anyone willing to help me on it? I can provide the details and sketch, and then you can finish up the artwork. If we win, we split the money. Anyone interested?
Is it just me, or does it seem that with any competition of this type, there is always a moron who fires up POV-Ray, spends five minutes making a ray-traced logo, and then submits it? Don't get me wrong, I love POV-Ray and ray-traced images (although they wouldn't quite transfer to a t-shirt that well), but everyone here's seen chrome spheres and checkered floors. Let's lay off the ray-traced logos this time. -NG
+--
Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
+-- (Score:-1, Moderator on Power Trip)
i'd also like to see a slashdot t-shirt that's black and has nothing but /. on it. but perhaps not white for the /., maybe some grey, or a green or brown that goes well with the black and sort of fades out of it without being as stark contrast as white/black.
and a sweatshirt w/ the same. polo shirt too??
Hmmm?...Wondering how many people will actually submit a design that they created all by themselves (i.e. not use Larry Ewing's)?
shurely: and third
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Arse
Or even one covered in little penguins?!
I don't like ties mind you, but sometimes one just has to wear them
Also a slogan for slashdot might be
---
"Hasta la victoria siempre!" El Comandante
All I ever DO wear are t-shirts. They are great, if its colder i wear a long-sleever on the inside, and a t-shirt on the outside.
Your Momma's so fat she makes emacs look like nano!
How about a shirt printed to look like a sword or big knife is
slashing a huge, jagged tear in the shirt, and next to it a large
bullethole or burned out area printed on. Naturally, they would
form the design you are talking about.
Vidi, Vici, Veni
they're being printed as we speak. they'll be up on friday.
i rule.
ok i got the postscript fonts, now i can't find the docks to install fonts. Anyone care to give a hint?
What I would like to see is a simple /. over the left breast and on the back a large "Slashdot" written out with the artwork that is used when an article is posted about Slashdot, such as the "Slashdot Falls From First Place" article today.
If you think you know what the hell is going on you're probably full of shit. -- Robert Anton Wilson
jdube is who
all these ideas i'm reading about having a /. on the breast pocket or mock neck or beret or what not are pretty easy to carry out. if you can code, you can certainly make a few stitches. or have a tailor do it. or your mom. or dad. or whoever. i think i'll start sewing them on the left breast of all my shirts, just like laverne. i'm gonna be *stylin*
i just spent 20 minutes looking for it and i cant find it. immediately after slashdot posted neal stephenson's "in the beginning there was the command line" article his website had to take it down. for a while, when you tried to get the article all you got was a little thingie from neal stephenson that said something along the lines of "it was like the barbarian horde from hell came and pillaged everything...at least that was how my isp described it". (NOT the original quote)
even now, you have to download it as a zipped text file instead of the original html. i thought it was pretty funny.
it was a very cool quote but I CANT FIND IT ANYMORE. and i think it was on the cryptonomicon.com website originally but its not there now. does anyone else think that would be a cool "back" to a shirt (along with graphs of the slashdot effect posted a while ago) or is it just me?
if not, does anyone REMEMBER the damn quote? its really really bothering me.
by the way, if you think this idea is cool, go ahead and take it. i hav no artistic talent, i dont care, i just want a kickass shirt.
How about appending "in public" to that?
The whole idea behind telecommuting was so I can cinch multi-billion-dollar deals butt-nekkid and stanky. (just don't tell them about the Home Office Cam).
Go ask in alt.binaries.fonts but only after you couldn't find it on the huge web font sites. cuz the reply is usually slow.
--fontfish
I suggest we change the words to "Slashdot.org" It's a very stylish shirt, made of a thin cotton fabric which keeps you warm in winter and cool to termperate in the summer (as long as you stay out of the sun, it is black)
Throw on some slacks and a jacket and you're ready for the ladies...
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