Competition: Design the first TF tshirt.

**Shane** · November 15th '05

Oh the w00tness! That’s my T-Shirt!
Picture This, You are walking down the street and you see some kid wearing a T-Shirt that YOU designed! Thats right, we are holding our very first T-Shirt competition and everyone is invited to take part.

About The Competition ( The Brief )
Teen Forums wants some great looking T-Shirts for staff members to be given out to the top Staff Members and for regular members to buy ( dirt cheap, we can assure you!

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With each tshirt sold we will give away a free 6 Month TF Premium membership.

We require a design for the Front AND back of the T-Shirt however the design does not have to be made on the layour of a T-Shirt, feel free to submit ANY designs as long as you also submit a description of where things would be placed on the T-Shirt.

Feel free to add to go wild with your designs people as you can put on whatever you like as long at it appeals to Teens today. - The only thing we do require is that the Teen Forums URL, TeenageForums.com, is included or space for it is left and detailed in the description.

Do not worry if your design does not appear as high quality as some of the other members, the Final Design will be brushed up by the Graphics Team here anyway before we go to printing. - This means even if you only have paint or have never done any graphics design before then you can still enter and win!

Checkout the entrants gallery:
http://www.teenageforums.com/gallery/index.php

So whats the Prize?
(updated)
The prize has been updated, you will now win 10 tshirts so you can pass them around your friends or whatever.

You will also win this:

Yeah, thats right, decided to push the boat out.
The winner will either a 30gb Video iPod or a Sony PSP with any one game!
The winner will choose one of these fantastic prizes and we will get it to you within 28 days.

But....
Because we are kind we will also help you out a little with your designs, a few things that might help you are below.

I am not too good at designing on a computer
Dont worry, you can submit your entry as a sketch if you think you will produce a higher standard of work.

Where can I download the Teen Forums Graffiti Font?
Want it to match the look and feel of the site do you?
The font can be found here: Clicky
Font From SimplyTheBest.net

I would prefer to design it on a T-Shirt layout but cannot make my own!
We do not realy require that all entried be submitted on a T-Shirt but if you wish to then there a few images attatched that you may find slightly helpful!
Images From SitePoint.com

I am stuck for Ideas!!!!
Please take a look at the following things if you need ispiring:

http://www.sitepoint.com/gallery/winners - The Winning thsirts of the sitepoint tshirt competition.
This Post - Pictures of tshirts I have found on Google's Image search that I liked.
Search Google Images - Why not search google yourself? As long as you have not entirely copied a design and have just used it for inspiration then you are still in witha chance of winning!

Competition rules

This competition opens on November 15th, 2005 and closes on midnight, April 1st.
Only Teen Forums members may enter the competition.
Each member may enter as many individual designs as he or she likes.
We will only consider entries that are submitted as per these guidelines, and those outlined in the design brief.
By entering a design into this competition, you automatically declare that you are the sole creator of the design.
Entrants automatically grant Teen Forums the rights to reproduce their design on t-shirts for the purposes of promoting the Teen Forums community.
Only unique designs will be considered. Originality will be favoured over derivative entries.
All Teen Forums Members (including competition entrants) are able to express their opinions on the designs, but all feedback must be constructive.
The Management Team (Shane, Bob! and Riccardo) will select the winner from these designs.
Teen Forums management reserves the right to select from the entries additional designs that they would like to use on t-shirts and merchandise.
All entrants need a minimum of 100 posts on the closing date of the competition to be applicable as winner.
The judges’ decision is final; no correspondence will be entered into.

Lookout, this post could be updated!

**The Wheel** · November 16th '05

heh what a coinquidinc (sp?) I honestly was thinking about making some fo The Roost

**Shane** · November 17th '05

First post updated!

**Wandering Soul** · November 18th '05

heh heh heh i think you should put a limit on the number of entries one can put cause i am brimming with ideas. as soon as i get into multimedia monday oh boy. heh heh heh

**Shane** · November 18th '05

Can I please just stress that this is a SERIOUS competition.

**The Wheel** · November 18th '05

you deleted my entry

**Shane** · November 18th '05

I want serious entries, even if they are only rough ideas. Not a copy of the header!

**The Wheel** · November 18th '05

Not great but serious

**Riccardo** · November 18th '05

To keep the t-shirts cheap everyone should try and keep there t-shirt designs simple, so that they use less ink.
I also suggest you don't use a wide varitey of colours on the same t-shirt.
by doing this it will costing less to get the t-shirts printed, meaning that you get the t-shirts cheaper!

**Shane** · November 18th '05

Well I will try and keep the colours to a minimum when I finalise the tshirt but if people could try and use a minimal number of colours that would be great!

@ The Wheel: Nice designs, think you could try and move the address furhter down or possibly to the bottom of the shirt and try it on the other 2 colour templates?
Might also be good to use the rectangular area to show the design of the front of the tshirt bigger!

**The Wheel** · November 18th '05

ok, sure, I just put that pic there cause I didnt know what to do, but I'll do what you said as well

**The Wheel** · November 19th '05

another design

**Shane** · November 19th '05

What exactly do the men on it symbolise, if anything?

**The Wheel** · November 19th '05

um . . . the community? I really didnt know what to put there seeing as you dont have a logo including a picture - or anything other then text

**The Wheel** · November 19th '05

Here's another

**The Wheel** · November 19th '05

Maybe add a TF to the sleeve like on my first one and have the same back too im too lazy to add them though

now that I look at it, raise the TF if you pick it too

**Shane** · November 19th '05

The Wheel wrote:

um . . . the community? I really didnt know what to put there seeing as you dont have a logo including a picture - or anything other then text

Well you dont have to use clipart if you dont want to, just draw a simple design in paint or whatever.

Please don't emboss the writing and please dont add drop shadows, remember this is a tshirt.

**The Wheel** · November 19th '05

the otherones had drop shadow

**Bob!** · November 19th '05

The tf logo on the front, and the one on the arm of the first one looks good.

The people on it kinda make it look like a child support agency tho lol.