UTGP 2011

What is probably the worlds biggest t-shirt design contest has yet again been launched by Uniqlo’s UT. The Grand prize is $10,000 which is pretty sweet for one winner. The contest is open to everyone regardless or nationality, age or whatever.

This time it is a themed contest which is a bit weird but that’s OK. I’m sure Uniqlo makes a lot of profit from their affiliation with Disney already and this will only feed the cash cow. Seems like it is quite unnecessary though.

Applications close September 19, 2010.

Link: http://ut.uniqlo.com/utgp/

Threadless Havaianas Contest Winners

Threadless announced two winners to the Havaianas t-shirt/flip-flop design contest but several other previous Threadless designs are also available on flip-flops. You can check them out on the Havaianas page of Threadless. The two below are not the winners, but two of my favorites that I picked out just to confuse you.

Artwork Junkies T-Shirt Design Contest

Artwork Junkies is another ongoing t-shirt design contest to add to Rude Retro’s ever changing list of t-shirt design contests. They are a German site and fairly new if I am right. I have no idea where I came across this one. Anyway, they seem to be carving a little niche in what appear to me as very strange designs. For an example just look up.

The Artwork Junkies website is painfully slow and fairly lacking in information but the prizes are as follows:

• 1 € per sold unit of your design for every shirt of the day (payment at the end of each month)
• 75 € in cash as well as a 25 € gift certificate for every shirt of the week
• 300 € in cash as well as a 100 € gift certificate for every shirt of the month
• 1.000 € in cash for every shirt of the year
• 1.000 € extra if your shirt is sold more than 500 times

They advertise that you can win up to €3000 but as you can see, that is very unlikely. Most people would just get €1 per shirt sold by the looks of it. The site is bilingual, German and English.

If you do sign up it would be great if you used “deadhippo” as the “User that invited you” on the sign up page. Thanks.

JiNX Design Arcade: New t-shirt design contest

I have mentioned JiNX here quite a few times. They are purveyors of fine geek t-shirts and more. Of course I just mention the t-shirts. More…not so much. Anyway they have launched a t-shirt design contest called the JiNX Design Arcade with a $1000 prize ($750 cash and $250 store credit). Awesome! Remember that they are mainly a gamer site so gamer humor in your design will probably go a long way to helping you get votes. Check it out and be sure to read the rules carefully.

Stone Temple Pilots T-Shirt Design Contest at DBH

The Stone Temple Pilots are the latest band in Design by Humans‘ music series. The prizes are decent and if you are a Stone Temple Pilots fans you might think that the prizes are awesome. Go to Design by Humans to get more details but submissions close on May 30th so don’t procrastinate.

There are three prizes of $1000 cash and more.

Tumblr T-Shirt Design Contest

I’m sure that you know that Tumblr is a hosted blogging platform and some of you probably use it. I don’t use it because I am a bit of a WordPress fanboy but I have heard only good things about it especially about its ease of use. Anyway, they are holding a t-shirt design contest for the next Tumblr t-shirts that will be sold on Busted Tees. The prize is pretty lame: 25 t-shirts, and it is only open to people who live in the US but if your design did get selected your artwork would be seen by a lot of people. I don’t know what kind of a bump you would get from it though. Will they credit the designer in the store? I doubt it but possibly.

Read more at Tumblr.

DBH Facebook Profile Pic Design Contest

Design by Humans are holding a fun little contest with a $100 prize. You may also get a little fame so if you enter and think you might win and of course you do otherwise why would you enter then you better tidy up your website a little just in case you get some visitors. The details are below. I think you need to be a fan of Design by Humans to participate. So go check out the DBH Facebook page. There are already some sweet submissions.

The T-Shirt Vault is open!

Yet another t-shirt contest site has opened but this is definitely one with a difference. In the T-Shirt Vault all submitted designs will go on sale and the designers will received $3 for every shirt sold. When a tee is sold it’s sold on a DTG printer and shipped out, like a POD.  It’s not very clear but I think that the t-shirt that sells the most in a month will get the grand prize of $5000 on top of the royalties. Then $3000, $1500, $1000, and $500 respectively for 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th place. They are pretty decent prizes. $3 royalties per shirt is pretty crap but the chance to win those prizes might make it worth.

Well, again I feel I just throw my 2 cents in. The site design is nice enough but it’s a shop and they haven’t made that obvious enough on the front page. There are some pretty good designs in there but lots of mediocre ones too and you have to do a lot of clicking to see them in any detail. I don’t know how many people will bother with that when there are a million t-shirt sites out there with easy navigation and better presentation. I think the T-Shirt Vault will have a difficult time pulling it off as that is a lot of prize money they have to pay out which means they have to sell a hell of a lot of t-shirts just to cover the cost. I think that they might break even around the 1000 t-shirt mark which is pretty tough for a new unknown brand.

Also they are printing DTG rather than screenprinting which a lot of people have doubts about. That said I have some awesome DTG t-shirts and I think at this stage it just depends on the quality of the DTG printer.

I do have some concerns about the lack of information and Terms and Conditions on the website too. There are also quite a few broken links. Hopefully it will be sorted out pretty soon.

Having said that I encourage you to check out the T-Shirt Vault and if you like some t-shirts you will be supporting designers by buying them as well as being part of this new experimental business model.

Camaro T-Shirt Design Contest at Yerzies

If you like cars and you like designing you will be delighted to hear that Yerzies are holding a Camaro T-Shirt design contest with a $500 first prize. You must be a US resident to take part though. Check out Yerzies for Terms and Conditions and other details.

Incubus T-Shirt Design Winners Announced at DBH

Back on June 16th I told you guys about the Incubus t-shirt design contest being held at Design by Humans and I totally forgot that it had happened. Well, no worries because I was reminded today by the annnoucement at Design by Humans. Of all places! Anyway, it is an excellent illustration and I guess a deserved win. I say ‘guess’ because I haven’t seen the competition. Anyway, as the illustration is a little hard to see on the tee I have included a closeup too.

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