updated tshirt design competitions
It’s well over a year since the last survey of tshirt design competitions. Back then it was all about threadless. It’s still all about threadless. But there are others. And some of them are big. Really big. Here are a dozen notable ones!
uneetee - if theres a second place to threadless, uneetee probably have it. Huge community, great designs, $1500 prize. and I love some of the shirts over the past few months.
la fraise - french site, 15000 Euro contest, what’s not to love. They even let you spill our design over onto the underwear!
design by humans - $3500 plus residuals and one of the most comprehensive guides to designing a tshirt you could wish for - even down to ink types and tiny TINY considerations. great site.
wooshka - a good old fashioned design vote print site with $500 prize. Quite a turnaround on designs too - well worth a visit.
a better tomorrow - another language barrier - another great competition 500 EURO - google traslate is your friend!
bad as hell - interesting site, lots of activity, great community, scary tshirts, good blog - as long as you can cope with the gore this is a great site. $250 if you win the competitions to get printed.
collar free - $200 may not be the biggest prize on offer here - but the vs style voting is nice. I just say which of 2 designs I like best - so the best should spill to the top - voting is the most fun of all the comp sites in my opinion.
shocker - shocker are the bad boys of tee land. If you want to offend your mom - buy a shocker. If you want to REALLY offend your mom buy a shocker you designed yourself - and make $150 while you do it.
j!nx - gamer gamer gamer - huge community, more of a community site with some tees than a teeco - but a great competition / submissions location for gamer / geek related tee ideas.
itself - $4000 isn’t too shabby! and some of the designs on the site are great, creative, and clean. Arty, jokey, crispy.
teetonic - a great wee site with a nice competition paying out £100 and 50p per shirt sold (I won’t even bother converting that into $ with the current economic meltdown ramming sterling into the ground it’ll probably be worth about $0.01 by Christmas!)
Almightys - if commission is enough for you - almightys is a neat site - 2 euro per tee sold (again - convert this using your favourite credit crunch calculator if you live outside the eurozone)
Obama bandwagon jumpin’
Stolen Goodies have a particularly sinister floaty Obama shirt at the moment, which reminded me I’d been meaning to link them up for a while. Lesson of this shirt - never clutter a good image up with stupid lettering!
They should sell this shirt on the Barack Obama . com site. Much better than this official obama 08 shirt.

Rock Hair Tee Competition
A new twist on the Tshirt competition. This time instead of designing one or taking a pic of yourself in one, you have to guess what’s ON a tshirt. Over to the designer at No Demo. “This is by no means a comprehensive collection of the history of Rock N Roll hairstyles. This is just a collection of a few that I thought were interesting and noteworthy. I am willing to give a free shirt to the first person who can name all the people on the shirt. (some are kinda odd ball picks (and not technically “Rock N Roll” to the purists) so I really don’t think anyone will figure them all out).” I like the idea. Show him some love, have a guess!

burning paper plane
People Like Us Collective have some great shirts, and one that’s back for a run of just 200 is the burning paper plane. Need I say more? Buy one. You won’t find a better looking light blue tee. This other tee terrifies me though.




















