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The Open Theme competition returns at Springleap with a $1000 prize!

by Andy on November 21, 2013

You might have noticed that I haven’t mentioned the South African design competition Springleap for a while, and whilst I’m sure they were releasing tees regularly the whole time, it felt from their e-mails like they were focusing more on the branded contests that weren’t necessarily clothing based so I stopped paying good attention to them. However, now that they’re going to be releasing tees on a regular basis again in an open format I’ll be keeping tabs on them again.

For some time now, Springleap has been attracting a wide spread of designers to their branded contests, but designers interested in open theme contests have waited for their open themes to resume. The good news is that they’re back, with a sweet prize.

Having relaunched the contests with ‘Open Theme Strikes Back!’, designs have been rolling in and if those submitted so far are anything to go by, the $1000 prize for the winner of the contest is getting the attention of some top tee designers. These contests will be held every 3 months, in addition to branded contests that offer even bigger prizes. On top of this, the Springleap team has also launched Voxpop – their monthly prize of a $50 tee voucher for the design fan that votes, shares and comments the most.

If you’ve got design or want to share the love, get over to Springleap and check out the work on show!

I do like that idea of rewarding commenters, that should help with community engagement.

Shrt has some new designs and a Great competition [Submitted]

by Andy on November 20, 2013

Shrt clothing has been going for a year now. They have numbered tees so you always know that your t-shirt is unique.

They’ve now come up with some great new designs and plan to realise them next year along with the sun.

On top of that they have launched a amazing competition over the next month. They are offering to design and make a one off original t-shirt to the winner.

Go check out their blog here for details.

http://shrtclothing.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/competition-time-free-unique-one-off.html

Andy: I don’t really like them referring to themselves in the third-person in the submission, Andrew Bowness does not care for that at all, but the new designs look great!

WeLoveFine.com launch a Sesame Street t-shirt design contest judged by Big Bird and the Cookie Monster!

by Andy on November 12, 2013

Whilst I don’t watch Sesame Street (I think I’m a little out of their target demographic) I do think that the guest judges on this design contest are my favourite ever, Caroll Spinney (Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch) and David Rudman (Cookie Monster, Baby Bear). Their characters are household names with an undeniable influence upon many childhoods, and yet the actors behind them could walk down the street and be recognised by no one, it’s kind of fascinating really.

Also interesting is the prize package for this design competition, you can make your choice from $2,000 in cash (useful for everyone), a Wacom Cintiq HD 13 tablet (useful for designers), or a trip to New York to visit the Sesame Street HQ (awesome for super-fans). Caroll and David will also make a couple of judge’s design picks which will receive $400 in cash. Here’s the details for the Sesame Street Design Contest:

ABOUT THE CONTEST
Can YOU tell us how to get to Sesame Street?! Chances are, if you’re a breathing human, you can! For more than four unprecedented decades, the gang at Sesame Street have entertained and educated young children in a multitude of languages all over the world, making them a global formative experience – one which remains beloved well into adulthood, proven by how popular the characters remain in our online store! We can’t resist the opportunity to team with our friends at Sesame Street on a contest in which you, the fans, can let your imaginations soar and show us through your artwork how much Sesame Street means to you. And the winning designs will not only get great prizes, but be made into officially licensed merchandise! Get those ideas going, we want to see your creativity shine – go for it, and good luck!

THE RULES
-Submissions must be received by 11:59:59 PM (PST) on December 3, 2013.
-You may submit up to 5 entries per person
-All entries must be in one of the following file formats: GIF/PNG/JPG.
-By entering the contest (”Promotion”), you indicate your full and unconditional agreement to, and acceptance of, (a) the Official Rules and (b) Mighty Fine’s (”Sponsor”) decisions, which are final and binding. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.
-Please see the Terms of Service for more rules and regulations.

What If The Incredible Hulk Hosted A Summer Camp For Aspiring Scientists?

by Travis on July 3, 2013

I’m not sure I’d send my kids there — that is, if I had offspring — but here’s what one designer, Andrew Gimeztco, imagines the logo might look like.

New at Threadless for $24.50.

Read more of Travis’ work at BuzzFeed, The Pet Collective, and It Goes To 11.

$200 for your Ugly Christmas Sweater design [Submitted]

by Andy on June 25, 2013

UglyChristmasSweater.com opened a design competition for their next holiday sweater. You’ll receive $200 if your design is chosen. Entries close July 17th, 2013 so submit your design as soon as you can! Multiple winners to be announced. As a bonus, you’ll also be the first to receive a FREE copy of the sweater you helped design. Just wanted to spread the word!

Andy: I guess it takes a quite a long time to have Ugly Christmas Sweaters produced.

Graduate T-shirt Design Competition at Icon Printing with £3500 worth of prizes!

by Andy on June 13, 2013

Icon Printing have a great opportunity for a UK graduate to kickstart their dreams of running a t-shirt label with this huge t-shirt design contest running throughout June. Here’s what’s up for grabs:

- £1000 worth of printed t-shirts with their design, courtesy of IconPrinting and Continental Clothing

- 1 years subscription to a Shopify store

- An ASOS Marketplace boutique rent-free for 1 year

- Mentorship from successful t-shirt brand Millionhands

- Exposure from It’s Nice That

- A t-shirt stand at the next Glug event

- £100 worth business cards from Moo.com

That’s an impressive prize package, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything of it’s size from a UK competition before so it’s great to see Icon pushing this forward and getting some impressive partners involved with the contest, and hopefully in the end of it all we’ll end up with a cool t-shirt brand in a couple of years. The deadline for submissions is July 1st so you have a month to put together your finest t-shirt design before it goes in front of the judging board.

Win a Stanley Kubrick t-shirt designed by Stan Chow at Socialfrabrik

by Andy on June 5, 2013

I’ve written about this Stanley Kubrick t-shirt from Socialfabrik in the past, and now it’s your chance to get one for free in their Facebook-based competition. Here’s the details:

To be in with a chance of winning, entrants need to simply follow the link http://bit.ly/11HG7kl
or click the ‘Win a T-shirt’ app tab on the Socialfabrik Facebook page (www.facebook.com/Socialfabrik)
and “Like’ the page via the app.

The contest runs until July 1st 2012, the winner will be drawn at random and will be notified 48 hours after the draw.

I’d say that it’s worth a ‘like’ wouldn’t you?

“Totem King” t-shirt from Reactor-88 at Brand New Intention, and a custom vinyl toy giveaway!

by Andy on May 15, 2013

I like it when infographics make my life easier, I don’t haveto waste my time awkwardly trying to re-write the press release I got since you guys have almost all the info you need in the image right there. You’ve got until June 1st to pre-order the shirt, pre-ordering automatically enters you into the contest to win the custom Kid Robot Foomi designed by Reactor-88, but even if you don’t win the Foomi at least you can console yourself with a really cool t-shirt.

You can find more details about the contest here.

Costiness=$24.95 Buy it at Brand New Intention

Buy for your chance to win at Trivial Apparel! [Submitted]

by Andy on March 23, 2013

From now until April 1, 2013, all orders on our website will be entered into a draw to win a free shirt of your choice! So, if you’ve been hesitating to buy, no is the best time to do it!

Hurry, while supplies and sizes last and keep your eyes open to see what we have coming up in the near future!

Andy: Thanks for the submission!

Boba Skates – history and contest

by Andy on March 6, 2013

I’ve never really thought of submitting to HYA before – but today Unamee are running my Boba Skates design.
This in itself is not intrinsically exciting – but there are two reasons I’m posting this.

a) Boba Skates was actually my first ever tshirt design – I did him way back in early 2000. Made it as a horrible iron on transfer on a cheap C&A tee and blam! A happy me. It’s exciting (to me) to see the newer version of the design hitting one of the daily sites.

b) I’m running a contest to win a custom made vintage Star Wars looking toy – and I am super chuffed about this

That’s it really.

Andy: I usually wouldn’t post individual daily tee site relelases…. but that competition is pretty neat.

Win a Little Lazy made by our very own Leah

by Andy on February 28, 2013

Leah is too modest to post her own stuff on HYA even though I tell her it’s okay, so I’ll take it upon myself. She’s hit the milestone of 2,000 fans on Facebook with her Little Lazies, cute polymer clay characters that are ridiculously adorable, and she’s giving away four of them to random fans. All you have to do to enter is like the Little Lazies page on Facebook and then tag yourself in an appropriate picture. Simple as that!

Winners are to be announced on March 3rd so you’ve got a few days to enter.

WeLoveFine.com are running an X-Men & Wolverine Design Competition

by Andy on February 6, 2013

x-men design competition

You know what’s nice about doing designs for WeLoveFine.com? The contests are always legit, the prizes sizeable, and they attract some impressive brands too. If I were an artist that liked to pop culture designs I’d be subbing to them quite a lot, because making a fun X-Men design is one thing, but making one that is actually licensed and approved by Marvel is another. In this particular contest the Grand Prize winner is going to be sent to San Diego Comic-Con later in the year… that sounds pretty cool.

For more details head over to WeLoveFine.com

Win 365 t-shirts from RIPT and don’t do laundry for a year!

by Andy on January 24, 2013

RIPT t-shirt competition

RIPT have quite a big competition going on at the moment, with 365 shirts going to the grand prize winner and lots of other prizes up for grabs too. Go to their Facebook page for more information and to enter.

Foodies, get ready to enter Suger Steak’s “Show Us Your Meat” contest

by Andy on January 15, 2013

sugar steak contest

I got a Sous Vide Supreme for Christmas, so I’ve been pretty food mad recently, with 22 hour pork shoulder being one of my favourite so far, though the scrambled eggs that took more than an hour were… interesting, but this competition from Sugar Steak is for culinary creations of an altogether different kind. All the info you need is in the infographic above, so get creating!

WeLoveFine.com are running a Power Rangers Design Contest!

by Andy on December 18, 2012

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Is Power Rangers just nostalgia or is it still a thing that is being made at the moment? I have no idea.

Either weay, I’m sure there will be some designers amongst you that will be awfully excited to hear that WeLoveFine.com are running a contest to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Power Rangers and find some great t-shirt designs in the process. As the banner says there are up to $2000 of prizes available, which should be enough to clear your Christmas credit card debts, and you guys have until February 4th to get your entries in.

WeLoveFine.com x Power Rangers Design Contest

Golden Latte Hunt: Lifetime of Free Clothing and a visit to F4C’s screen printing factory! [Submitted]

by Andy on December 6, 2012

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What do an organic clothing company, a coffee beverage and Willy Wonka all have in common? Famous Four Colors clothing, based out of Oakland CA is hosting a “Golden Latte” hunt based on good ‘ol Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Sign-up is free @ www.golden-latte.com – and 5 Golden Latte finders will win a Lifetime of Free Organic Clothing & a tour of their screen printing factory in downtown Oakland. The Golden Latte will be found in each of 5 areas of the Bay Area (Marin, East Bay, Oakland, SF & South Bay). 200 coffee shops have been pre-selected to potentially house the winners. Check out their map online to see if one is near you! You ain’t gotta do much to win – just buy a Latte on the right day – but you have to sign up to be eligible.

Famous Four Colors clothing just dropped in July 2012 and are already gaining rave reviews for their amazingly soft, organic fabrics. If you think Chinchilla fur in a super-thin tank top you are in the correct mind-set for how their 100% Lyocell fabric, made of Eucalyptus tree pulp feels on your body. Famous Four Colors utilizes advanced printing techniques to capture vivid colors with a soft-hand feel. And it’s all 100% made in the USA, from Organic materials.

Andy: Sounds like a pretty cool competition to me, thanks for the submission!

Up to 10 Cowboys vs. Indians tees up for grabs! [Submitted]

by Andy on November 8, 2012

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We’re excited to tell you about a competition we’re in! The Embroidered and printing clothing co. are giving us the chance to win 100, 50 or 25 free tees.

We need your help to win which is why if we come first to win 100 we’ll give away 10 free unreleased Cowboys vs. Indians tees! If we come second and win 50 there will be 5 free tees and 25 – 3 tees.

Just click here http://on.fb.me/SiTJtc

Thank you for the help and you could have a very good chance of a free tee. Alex.

Andy: There’s nothing like bribery to help win a competition!

WeLoveFine & Cheezburger Present the “I Can Has Cats” T-Shirt Design Contest!

by Andy on October 30, 2012

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It kind of amazes me that this is a thing, but when you consider that I spend all day writing about t-shirts and looking at camera straps (Rigu!) then I guess that it isn’t that weird. However, if I were an artist I’m not entirely sure I’d want a cat, and a grumpy cat at that, deciding who gets awarded the prizes. Here’s all the details:

ABOUT THE CONTEST
They are either your adorable, easygoing non-descript house pet… or they are our fluffy overlords who have taken over the internet, and soon, THE WORLD! Well, maybe, but we sure know which we would bet on, which is why we decided to launch our latest themed design contest on all those crazy CATS! Whether they are part of Cheezburger.com’s extensive (and hilarious) LOLCats archive, or a regular staple on your Tumblr feed, or an actual silly, awesome cat that belongs to YOU (and totally sits on your laptop every time you’re trying to work. Maaan, come on!) – take inspiration from the feline phenomenon and show us your most outstanding cat-based artwork! It can be funny, it can be just plain rad… it can feature kittens, old cats, fat cats, hairless cats, munchkin cats…. cats with frickin’ LASERS shooting out of their eyes! Anything your imagination can come up with, it could win you up to $2,500 and the chance to have your tee added to WeLoveFine’s shop! We and our pals at Cheezburger can’t wait to see what you all come up with, so go for it. From here until the winners’ announcement, every day is CATURDAY!

ABOUT OUR GUEST JUDGES

Ben Huh is the CEO and Founder of Cheezburger, Inc. one of the largest humor networks in the world. Ben and Cheezburger have been credited with bringing Internet culture and memes to the mainstream. Ben credits the success of his company to the users and fans who create the content. His goal, and Cheezburger’s mission, is to make the world happy for five minutes a day. Ben graduated with a BSJ from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and is also a co-founder of Circa, a startup that is trying to redefine how we consume news. Ben and the I Can Has Cheezburger staff will be featured in LOLwork, an upcoming documentary series on Bravo. You can follow Ben on Twitter at @benhuh

Tardar Sauce The Grumpy Cat was born on April 4 this year to her mother Callie (Mama Kitty). Tard loves eating mice and tuna and taking long cat naps in the sun or under the bed. She became an internet sensation first with Reddit then on YouTube thanks to her owner’s brother when he came to visit, and her recent exciting adventures include appearances on Right This Minute, CBS 5 Phoenix, and Fox 10 Phoenix. She lives in Morristown, AZ with her brother Pokey, three dogs and her owners, Tabatha and Chrystal Bundesen. Follow Tardar Sauce on Twitter at @GrumpyCatTard, or at grumpycats.com.

Get your entries in now!

Competition to win two tees and a BOGOF code at Three Pillars [Submitted]

by Andy on October 19, 2012

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Three Pillars have just released their competition to win any two tees of there sprint/summer range, they are just finalising their autumn/winter range, they also have a buy one get one free offer on at the moment just type in the discount code: BOGOF at the checkout. Three Pillars throw parties and make threads. One fella from the Steel City and two bums from regal Cambridge are behind the scenes, making it happen. Between djing, throwing parties and sleeping, we like to design clothing for the discerning clubber.

Check out our blog for musings on stuff we like – fashion, art and tunes.

Andy: Thanks for the submission guys!

Classic gaming characters as zombies, Star Wars goes frat boy, and a pumpkin carving competition at Split Reason

by Andy on October 11, 2012

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The few times I’ve attempted to carve a pumpkin I’ve been ecstatic if the result looks anything like a face, so I don’t think I’d fair particularly well in this contest at Split Reason, but I bet you creative guys can do a lot better than me, and if you’re carving a pumpkin anyway you might as well submit a photo of it considering the prizes are pretty impressive.

I like the zombie takes on the classic gaming characters (the shirts are on pre-order, shipping in one or two weeks), but the quality of those designs just serves to make that Star Wars design look poor.

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