Springleap, the South African t-shirt design competition, has a great post on its blog written by their CEO Eric Edelstein, who is chronicling the the ups and downs that they’re facing throughout their formative months. The account is surprisingly candid, it isn’t all positive anecdotes, but it does make me like Springleap a lot more. I love this kind of stuff, this kind of openness from a company really endears me to them, and having this kind of an insight into the way they work is really interesting to me, and I’m sure it’ll be of interest to some of you guys as well.
Check it out here.

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.