Singles Matchup Barcrawl T-shirt Contest REDUX

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN A SINGLES MATCHUP BARCRAWL TSHIRT AT ALL, PLEASE UPVOTE THIS THREAD. This is to gauge interest, so that we know whether or not to have a shirt printed in the first place (and this is a self-post, so I don't get karma lololol).

UPDATE: AS OF JAN 11, NO SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN MADE. This project relies on community input. If we don't get any designs, we won't print any shirts. So, if you want a shirt, cobble something together in MS Paint or on Google Drawings.

Following from honeyandvinegar's original thread on this idea, I'm organizing a t-shirt design contest for the singles matchup barcrawl! This is a chance for you to flex your super-awesome internet drawing powers for all of /r/uiuc to see!

For those out of the loop, honeyandvinegar is organizing a wonderful singles date matchup for us lonely redditors. This contest is to design the tshirt for a barcrawl related to, possibly in conjunction with, said matchup. If you're single or otherwise looking, and you haven't yet signed up for the matchup, you're missing out!

Please adhere to the following guidelines in order to have your submission judged:

• Anyone may submit a design! You do not have to be participating in the singles matchup, nor do you have to attend the barcrawl (see below), to win this contest. It would certainly help, though, to at least attend the barcrawl.

• The theme of the shirt (if not blindingly obvious by now) should be the /r/uiuc singles matchup and barcrawl. Slogans and images related to this, to reddit, to /r/UIUC, etc., are strongly encouraged.

• The design should fit on the front side of a t-shirt in the "usual" dimensions (i.e. don't expect printing on the collar or sleeves).

• Please specify the base color of the t-shirt, and please limit your design to no more than two colors beyond the base. This is to keep printing costs low.

• Avoid using directly copyrighted material. Photo-edits of copyrighted material should be covered under fair use as parody, and work done in the style of other popular works is totally ok, so get creative. For example, an unedited Coca-Cola logo wouldn't work, but something done in the style of the Coke logo would be just fine.

• Avoid direct profanity (because it's just tasteless), but feel free to be creative. For example, Muck Fichigan t-shirts are funny and thereby tolerable because of the word play involved. A giant uncensored dong, on the other hand, would likely not get you far.

• Please send your submissions to me (devmage) as a private message here, with the subject line "Tshirt Contest Submission". For judging, send only an imgur or similar link to an image of your design, and tell us the intended background color of your shirt (if the background of your image is not also intended as the shirt's color). If your design is chosen, we will contact you for the raw materials of your design, e.g. Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop files, or simply for higher resolution versions of your design, so that we can send them along to the t-shirt printer.

• You may submit multiple designs, and you may also submit edits to the same basic design as many times as you need. I would ask, though, that you limit what you send to me to only your finished products. I don't need to see your creative process at work. I would also ask that you condense your messages whenever possible, i.e. that you send multiple design links in the same messages when you are able.

• By sending in a design, you grant us (myself, honeyandvinegar, and anyone else we deem) the privilege to do whatever the hell we want with your design. No givesies-backsies! Realistically, we would only ever need to fix typos and adjust positioning, but this is stated broadly so as to be a don't-sue-us-later catch-all. If you would like us not to credit you publicly for your design, i.e. if you would like to remain anonymous, please also indicate this somewhere in your submission message.

• The contest will run until 11:59pm PST on January 15, 2012. After this point, we will not accept new submissions. NB: this is also more or less the submission date for the matchup itself.

• The winner of the contest will be chosen by myself, honeyandvinegar, and possibly others at our discretion. Our decision is final and cannot be contested.

• The winner will receive a t-shirt free of charge, plus bragging rights! (honeyandvinegar, I'll cover their cost) If you are not present for the barcrawl, and you do not otherwise arrange with us to pick up your prize shirt, we will not be held responsible for its well-being or even continued existence!

• We reserve the right to not use any submission for a t-shirt, in the event that the interest in tshirts just doesn't pan out. We aren't going to make a run of like 3 shirts. In such a case, the winner will receive only the aforementioned bragging rights. C'est la vie.

• We also reserve the right to change any of these rules as we see fit, without notice. We'll try not to be dicks about it, and the basic contest shouldn't change at all beyond this initial post. This is more for like clarifications and stuff. Just sayin'.

honeyandvinegar has suggested a street date of Jan 31 or Feb 1 for the barcrawl. You creative types should get your Photoshops and Gimps running now so that we can look fly as hell in three weeks.

Finally, as for this thread, feel free to discuss designs, post samples and ideas, and so on. Just realize that anything you post here could be used by another clever redditor! In other words, we aren't going to be doing any real plagiarism checking, with exception of completely identical or otherwise virtually indistinguishable designs.

tl;dr design a tshirt, you have one week, get drunk and hookup with redditors in style! AAAAAAAAND GO.