

GearCrave, a blog all about manly stuff that manly-men buy, are giving away 25 tees from super-awesome design compeitition Design By Humans. Usually with these kind of things you’ll tell them your size, get what you’re given and be happy about it, but this giveaway has a little extra treat that you actually get to choose which tee you win.
To qualify for a free t-shirt from DesignByHumans, you must sign up, choose, and comment. Here’s how:
* Sign up for the GearCrave email newsletter. (you can do so here)
* Choose the shirt you want to win at DesignByHumans.com.
* Comment on this page and include a link to the shirt you want to win.
The contest is running until “Sunday, April 27th 2008 at 11:59p.m.”, I don’t know what time zone that is though, so I’d suggest not dilly dallying and leaving a comment now before you forget.

[Note: I’ve never used a t-shirt as a strainer when making jam, though in an emergency situation it may well work]

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.

Win a grand Prize of £1,000 cash and the chance to design a 6-piece t-shirt collection
Designs can be submitted at YouvsBoxfresh.com in the You vs. Boxfresh community. Each month, the design with the highest star rating wins £250 cash and is entered into the overall You vs. Boxfresh 2008 Grand Prize.
If more than one design shares the highest rating the winner will be picked by a panel of independent judges.
The Grand Prize entries will be judged by the panel and the overall winner will receive £1,000 cash and the chance to design there very own 6-piece t-shirt collection.
The info above doesn’t make it entirely clear, but I think that the monthly winner also gets their design printed up as well as the £250 cash prize. I know that the amounts of money being talked about are slightly less than some of our more regularly discussed design competitions, but I think there is quite a lot of kudos to come from being associated by a brand like Boxfresh, I know it would certainly impress my friends more if I designed a t-shirt which had a Boxfresh tag rather than Threadless one.
Graniph, the t-shirt company who have the rather prodigious honour of being the only shop I actually bought a t-shirt from last year (and it wasn’t even for me!), are following up on last years design competition with… well, another design competition. I know that t-shirt design competitions are ten a penny nowadays, but there’s something a bit special about Graniph, their t-shirts are amazing, and they’re Japanese, which we all know makes things cooler by a factor of about seven (seriously, have you seen the Beams T store in Harajuku?). Here’s the details:
graniph design award. 2 Application Guidelines
Application Requirements
The application process is open to anybody regardless of age, nationality, or sex.Application Designs
Design Tshirts Store graniph wants tshirt designs from around the world.
Pictures, illustrations, graphics, and photographs are limited to flat surfaces, but there is no limit on the type of design.Entry Period
February 1 - March 31, 2008Prizes
Gold Prize for one design, 1 million yen (9,000 US$) + Commercialization of the design by Graniph
Silver Prizes for 10 designs, 100,000 yen (900 US$) + Commercialization of the designs by Graniph
Bronze Prizes for 20 designs, 50,000 yen (450 US$) + Commercialization of the designs by Graniph
Yeah, I know, 1 million yen sounds a lot more exciting that $9000, doesn’t it?
If you’re interested in giving it a shot, here’s the link.