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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
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).
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!
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? :-)
Denim and twill shirts in all sizes would be great, for us small geeks who prefer them to T-shirts. My shirt size is "medium". I'm little.
I go to the gym. Five days a week. That's WHY I need a XXXL.
muhaha.
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!
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
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
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).