Host Your Own T-Shirt Design Contest?
I received a rather exciting email from Eddie Miles at 99designs.com yesterday and it didn’t take me long to clock what all the commotion is about. 99designs is offering anyone the chance to hold their own t-shirt design contest starting at the very reasonable price of $211 per project. 99designs.com is already big on the net, they’re way up there in traffic ratings, but even they’ve noticed a massive spike since introducing the service.
“We’ve been having several tee designers and tee stores crowdsourcing their ideas and inspiration through our design community instead of doing it themselves. ..now that anyone with a general idea of business (not creativity) can start a tee line.”
There’s the beauty of the service, anyone can start a highly popular t-shirt brand, no more begging to commission top designers from sites like Threadless, now they will come to you! 99designs will help you host a “design contest” where thousands of designers compete to create a design you love, or your money back! Here’s how it all works:-
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Launch your design contest
Create a design brief which is simply a clear outline of what you need designed. Post your brief to 99designs and set your prize amount.
Collaborate with the designers
Designers then submit concepts to compete for your prize. Be sure to provide continual feedback to help the designers deliver a concept you love!
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Choose your favorite design
At the completion of your contest, you’ll need to pick your favorite design and award the prize. You’ll then receive the final design along with copyright to the original art work.
There are a whole heap of contests going on now here, if you’re a designer this maybe your chance to make it big, become a regular winner and you’ll be in great demand. Plus the odds on winning are far better than vast crowdsourcing sites like Threadless!
Another Threadless Clone! (But this one has money!)
HereItself.com are starting with a bang! A top prize of $4000 if you win the competition. I’ve become a little jaded by all these Threadless clones, if you have a lot of friends who’ll sign up and vote then do it. If you’re just a t-shirt designer with great talent and only older miserable friends who don’t understand your passion for tees, and can’t afford the time to sign-up for a site to then click your design, then don’t.
As always we’re talking SEO skills here, not design skills. Of course to win outright your design has to be great, but the only way it’ll be chosen is if people know it’s there, hence the whole circle-jerking chicken and the egg conundrum begins. How do you get popular? Make great tees. How do you sell them? Be popular before you even designed them! I’m hoping if I repeat this problem I have with t-shirt voting systems some programming genius will work out a solution (Some Day :/) read more
BlogDumps.com T-Shirt Contest!
I have to admit it I’m getting quite addicted to “T-Shirt Comping”, this is the second site offering a t-shirt competition that’s pulled me in, I was about to sit down and do another t-shirt design for the shop when I came across this great offer from BlogDumps.com
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A BlogDumps T-shirt and 200 EC’s
A feature and review on BlogDumps
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A BlogDumps T-shirt
150 EC’s
THIRD PLACE -
A BlogDumps T-shirt
75 EC’s
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