November 2011

The 100% Natural t-shirt winning t-shirt design from this year’s T-ShirtForums t-shirt design contest is now for sale through Storenvy. All proceeds will be donated to a local food bank charity

The Contest

Each year, T-ShirtForums.com holds a t-shirt design contest (extravaganza) that asks designers to come up with a design based on a certain theme. The designs don’t have the t-shirtforums.com logo on them, as they are supposed to appeal to a universal audience.

The Voting

Once all the designs are in, they are voted on ANONYMOUSLY. This anonymous voting proces avoids vote campaigning or votes based on the popularity of the designer. Each design must stand on its own merits

The Design Theme

Since I’m a (literally) big fan of great food, this year’s design theme was “FOOD”

The WINNER

The “100% Natural” design by forum member Whyball (of 1400 Designs) devoured the competition through 2 rounds of voting.

Here’s what the winner “Whyball” had to say about his design:

“The idea came while thinking at all those “natural” products, and seeing how they look in those days, with all the genetic modifications on animals and on all those vegetables in unusual colors,are far from what they where in the past, so maybe in the future we can customize our food at home starting mixing CMYK.”

The T-Shirt & Printing Process
This t-shirt was professionally screen printed as a 9 color oversized design on super comfortable ringpun natural American Apparel brand t-shirts using a combination of water based inks for the background details and plastisol inks for the bright CMYK colors to bring out the highlights in the design. The printer also added a gel ink the the ink splatters to give the t-shirt a cool “wet” look that really stands out.

The Charity

All proceeds from the sale of this t-shirt design will be donated to River City Food Bank in Sacramento, California. That means the WHOLE $15 of every $15 t-shirt sale will be donated to the charity. For 40 years, River City Food Bank has been sharing its philosophy of “No one should be hungry” with the Sacramento community. They are open every weekday providing nutritionally balanced meals, compassion and hope to those in need. T-ShirtForums.com is proud to partner with RCFB to do our part in giving back to our community.

Andy: Ummmmm, most professional submitted post in HYA history?

This post was submitted by Rodney Blackwell.

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