Design Competition: Can You Design The Official T-Shirt for 7 Wonders in 7 Days?

by Chi-chi Ekweozor on 28. May, 2009 in Competitions

Calling all graphic designers.

Can you design the 7 Wonders In 7 Days Official T-Shirt?

Here’s the deal. I’m offering one lucky graphic designer the opportunity to design the official t-shirt for the 7 Wonders in 7 Days project. It will be sold on CafePress, the online market place for user-customised merchandise.

It’s the t-shirt I’ll be wearing at each of the new 7 Wonders of the world when I set off in September.

I will also be touring the UK to raise funds for the campaign through a number of crowd sourced concerts on Twitter and I’ll be selling as many as I can at each event.

This is no ordinary T-shirt design contest.

Prize for the winning design:

£50 and a business opportunity.

In these tight economic times, I’m aware that 7 Wonders in 7 Days is essentially asking everyday people to fund a charity round-the-world trip. For that reason, I want to use it as a platform to help as many freelancers and small creative businesses as I can.

In addition to a cash prize of £50, 50% of profits from the sale of each T-Shirt will be split with the winning designer.

The other half goes to the Trip Fund for 7 Wonders in 7 Days. Based on figures provided by travel agents Thomas Cook a few weeks ago, the trip budget has been set at £7000 and I need to raise that amount to even start.

Note that only a limited number of t-shirts will be made in the first instance.

Design Assets:

The design assets for this competition is the 7 Wonders in 7 Days logo, written in the Curlz font.

Design Requirements:
These are based on the requirements for the fantastic WooTees contest.

Wants

The 7 Wonders in 7 Days logo (written in Curlz font) must be incorporated into the template provided in the t-shirt design pack.
You will need to include the following strapline on the t-shirt design:
“Are you following 7 Wonders in 7 Days? I am.”
The design must have a maximum of 7 colours – we find that 3-5 colour designs look best.
The design must be produced in photoshop, illustrator, freehand or coreldraw format.
You can only design on the FRONT of the t-shirt and your design must not touch the hems, collars or sleeves.
The design must be of a maximum size of 38 X 50 cm – the standard screenprinting size.
If the design is created in Photoshop a resolution of 300dpi must be used.
A vector based design is preferred as it produces the cleanest lines for printing. If your design is very tonal though it can be done in Photoshop.

Don’t Wants

No stock imagery in the t-shirt design!
No cheesy microsoft office stationery!
No copyright materials.
No company names, personal names, signatures, email addresses or urls allowed on your design. Don’t worry though you will receive full credit on the 7 Wonders in 7 Days website and blog if you are the winner.

Please make your graphic memorable; the winning design will also be used as a badge for blogs.

How to Enter:

Download the t-shirt design pack (based on the one used in the WooTees contest)
Design t-shirt
Upload a picture of your design to the 7 Wonders in 7 Days T-Shirt Competition Group pool on Flickr.

Deadline: 12 noon Friday 5th June

I will pick a winner on Friday 5th June. Winner will be announced at 2pm on the 7 Wonders in 7 Days website.

That’s it! Any questions, comments or queries, post them in the comments.

Thanks in advance for your wonderful entries! Best of luck.

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Tags: competition, design competition, Flickr, social media, Social Media for Social Change, Social Media for Social Good, t-shirt design, Thomas Cook

9 Responses to “Design Competition: Can You Design The Official T-Shirt for 7 Wonders in 7 Days?”

freddy 01. Jun, 2009 at 11:20 am #

Thanks for all the suggestions. Those are been really good and can be implemented easily. Thanks a lot for the post.
Chi-chi Ekweozor 01. Jun, 2009 at 4:16 pm #

@freddy:

Thanks for your comment. Look forward to seeing your T-shirt design entry!
tshirtTHEMAINE 28. Sep, 2009 at 7:41 pm #

May I know more about how to put your site as part of my rss reader? =)
Chi-chi Ekweozor 30. Sep, 2009 at 6:40 pm #

@Rachel:
Thanks for your comment.
Chi-chi Ekweozor 30. Sep, 2009 at 6:41 pm #

@tshirtTHEMAINE:

Thanks for your comment. Here’s the RSS feed:
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/7wondersin7days

Stick that in your reader
Custom T Shirts 08. Oct, 2009 at 5:11 am #

I am disappointed I missed this contest……..I definitely would love a shot at designing the next t shirt design contest and will add your feed to try and avoid missing it
Chi-chi Ekweozor 15. Oct, 2009 at 11:04 am #

@Custom T Shirts:

Thanks for your comment.

There aren’t any plans for another t-shirt contest but you never know…!

Keep an eye on the feed.

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