Wheelgirl.com Bike Shop 2008 T-Shirt Design Contest

*Please read all sections. All of the information you need should be here on this page. If you are new to design contests, take a professional graphic designer to lunch and ask some questions.

What You Get If Your Win

1. The winner of the Wheelgirl.com 2008 T-Shirt Design Contest  gets a set of 2008 Phil Wood fixed / free track hubs 120mm spaced in the color of your choice shipped to your door anywhere on the planet. Oh yes, my friends, we are not fooling around here.



2. The winner gets a commission of $1.00 USD from every t-shirt that sells with the winning design on it, as long as the shop decides to manufacture, retail, and distribute the design in the brick and mortar store and on line at Wheelgirl.com. You also get .25 cents USD commission for any items, for example, coffee mugs, water bottles, etc. that are sold with your design on them. You get paid this commission twice a year Jan. 1st and July 1st. So, don't quit your day job. But if you are a t-shirt design genius, you should be able to buy yourself some sweet bike parts and pizza slices with your money.



3. The winner gets two t-shirts in the sizes of your choice printed with your design.

What You Get If You Enter But Don't Win

1. All those who enter the Wheelgirl.com 2008 T-Shirt Design Contest will have their design put on the site August 3, 2008 to live forever in an album of all designs submitted for the Wheelgirl.com 2008 T-Shirt Design Contest with your name and email (if you like). What does that do for you? Well, we track all of the traffic stats to the site. So, if your design gets a ton of legitimate hits, we may contact you for future design projects. (Note: *We can tell if you and your cousin are sitting in your basement drinking cases of Red Bull clicking repeatedly on your design, so don't try anything sly.)



2. You get to show your friends, family, prospective employers your designs in the context of a community of designers who love bikes.



3. Adoring fans who completely dig your design style may contact you for other design projects. 

Deadlines

1. We are accepting entries from June 16, 2008 until the deadline midnight August 1, 2008, Pacific Standard Time. This gives you plenty of time to work out a great design.



2. Any entries received after the deadline are not qualified to enter the contest. We will pick and announce a winning design on August 3, 2008 and post this info. on the site. So there is no need to email and ask who has won. Watch the site, and August 3rd you will have your answer.

Submission Rules: General

1. The Wheelgirl bike shop services, tunes up, and builds bike of all types for males and females of all ages, occupations, and abilities. So, the t-shirt design has to appeal to any cat who loves to ride any style of bike.



2. The Wheelgirl bike shop logo has to appear at least once on a visible part of the t-shirt. Keep reading, and you will see where to download the logo. You can size, color, and augment the logo as you see fit.



3. The text "Wheelgirl.com" has to appear at least once on a visible part of the t-shirt in any size font or as a visual design element in any size of your choosing.



4. This design must be completely original. You can't use any trademarked logos (except the Wheelgirl logo) or graphics from other companies, or you will be talking with Perry Mason and Della. Keep it all as original as design can be in 2008. Different countries have different copyright laws. So, we can avoid all copyright issues if what you draw or create is 100% original. ("But what if you change 33% of a design?" You can still lose in court. All original. Be the star you are. Of you use a photo, make sure you are the one who took the photo, and there are no copyright /licensing issues.)



5. You can submit one complete t-shirt design per person. This includes a design for the front of the t-shirt and a design for the back of the t-shirt. You can discretely sign your fabulous design in the bottom corner.



6. The winning design will be printed in 1 color of ink on differently colored t-shirts. For example, we may print white ink on a black shirt, or dark blue ink on a orange shirt.



7. By entering your design into this contest you agree to all of the Submission rules and give Wheelgirl.com the permission to print your design on the shop t-shirts, and on other items that are related to the shop, such as water bottles, mugs.  We will communicate with you via email, and most probably, you will be stoked to have your design associated with bikes and those who dig your work.



8. You understand that we may need to alter your design only if changes are needed prior to printing; for example, the size of the design needs to be scaled for XSmall or XLarge t-shirts. You will be consulted about changes. You agree that Wheelgirl.com will publish your design on our website and in any other Wheelgirl.com related shop and web-based materials and may display it at Wheelgirl.com events, etc.  You also understand that you will not receive any royalties for the reproduction of your artwork, per se. (See "What You Get If You Win" for info. about coin.)



9. Your entry must fulfill all aspects of the all submission rules in order to qualify for the contest.

Submission Rules: Technical

1. You can make the Wheelgirl logo any color, size, pattern you want, but remember that it needs to appear at least once on the t-shirt. Download the PhotoShop file of a 300 dpi Wheelgirl Logo 



2. You have two areas in which to design: The front and the back of a short-sleeved American Apparel t-shirt. The design on the front of the t-shirt must fit within a 10 x 10 inch area (25.4 cm x 25.4 cm) on the front of the shirt, and the design on the back of the shirt must fit within a 10 x 10 inch area (25.4 cm x 25.4 cm) on the back of the shirt. This means your design can be smaller than, but it cannot for any reason be bigger than 10 x 10 inches (25.4 cm x 25.4 cm)



3. The winning design must be available as an Adobe Illustrator file or PhotoShop file set at 300 dpi in CYMK suitable for use by a commercial silk-screen printing company. So make sure you set up your file correctly before beginning to design. (If you are new to this, trade someone a slice of cake and a cup of tea to check and make sure you set up your file format correctly.)

Submission Rules: Entries

1. Send your Wheelgirl.com T-Shirt Design Contest entry to this email ( service at wheelgirl dot com.)



2. In the Subject Line of the email, type in "T-Shirt Design Contest, NameOfYourDesign, YourTown andCountryOrTerritory. For example, the subject line might say: "TShirt Contest, Tea with a Wheel and Dinosaur, Berkeley, USA"



3. In the text of the email, enter your name, phone, mailing address, fax number. *You can't win if we cannot contact you. So you creative cats be mindful of making sure the contact email you give us is going to be in service and your mailbox limit is not completely full.



4. Do not send us your fat Illustrator or PhotoShop files. We won't open them. We will contact you if we need your fat design files.



5. Instead, save each fat design file (the front and the back designs) for the t-shirt as a JPG file that is not larger than 650x650 pixels at 72 dpi each. These files for all those who enter the contest are the ones we are going to put on the Wheelgirl.com website.



6. Remember to attach both JPGs (the t-shirt front design and the t-shirt back design) to your email. (Copy yourself on the email, so you know that you sent both files.)



7. If you win, we will contact you via email for the original high-resolution Illustrator or PhotoShop files suitable for silk-screening t-shirts. So make sure to back up your original file. We don't want anything to happen to those golden files.

Example of Current Wheelgirl Bike Shop T-Shirt Design

Here are a few examples of the current t-shirt design. We also have red on black and black on brown. We want to offer bike riders who support the shop another t-shirt design that shouts hip and fresh. The current design shirt is a one-color design on an American Apparel t-shirt. In keeping with the rules, the logo appears on the shirt, as does the bike shop name. The t-shirt has a design on the front and the back. No one is suing for copyright infringement, and we sell a bunch of this design in different inks on different shirts to cats from all walks of life. Please do your best to make something that looks really different from this design. Let's see some international design genius. Take some time and create something that makes me grin with awe and respect, you crazy talented bike-loving cats who live on planet Earth.

Photos taken by Wheelgirl. Current Wheelgirl bike shop t-shirt modeled by Assistant Bike Mechanic, Jeff, who would rather be building a fixed gear, but was kind enough to change into a bunch of Wheelgirl t-shirts for these photos.