Springleap is (yet) another design competition, excpet this one is from South Africa (I don’t think we’ve ever had an SA company on HYA before). You know the deal, tee designs get submitted, voted on (that starts April 1st on SL), and eventually winning designs are printed and sold (which should happen at SL in May).
The site design is pretty cool, and the prizes are decent (I’m a fan of designers being paid on a per-tee basis on top of a lump sum, even if it isn’t much per tee), and there is a focus upon community that isn’t seen in many other design competitions, but a design competition is only as strong as the talent in its community, so we’ll have to wait until April 1st to see what kind of design quality is available to be voted on.
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2 Responses
Eric
March 27th, 2008 at 4:34 am
1wow!!!
thanks for mentioning springleap. the whole team is STOKED
we think the designs that are coming through are pretty damn good!
but it’s not up to us - can’t wait to see what you guys think…
Eran
March 27th, 2008 at 7:26 am
2Thanks for the mention Andy
Springleap is a really interesting take on the online tshirt voting strategy with an emphasis on empowerment and recognition.
The competition prize you see right now is where we are starting and as the business grows, we are totally committed to growing this prize till we are rewarding artists on our site with the largest prizes on any site on the net.
The things an artist craves is recognition and remuneration.
When an artist wins, their name is printed on the back of the tshirt in a placement print - that’s real exposure. This makes anyone into a potential brand. Furthermore every tshirt is shipped with all sorts of cool goodies, one of which is a postcard with their design on one side and a picture of them and their artist profile on the other.
We are springleaping artist into a new era of galleries without walls.
The other really cool thing is that we have 20 winners each month - and the public decides who they are - not us.
I am really excited to be in a position to empower artists on such a massive level.
It’s my new mission in life.
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