Schools back, and we know you need to get your biking self organized. So take a break from your homework by designing a t-shirt and winning a Chrome Citizen messenger bag!
The design on the shirt can be anything you want relating to bikes as long as it's appropriate for viewing by the general public. The design has to be 100% original. It will be printed on front and back of an American Apparel t-shirt in 1 color ink, and it must have the word "Wheelgirl" and the Wheelgirl logo somewhere on it. You can submit 1 design per person. The deadline is midnight October 2, 2009.
Click here to see the great designs submitted for last year's contest.
We will celebrate the winning design with coffee, donuts, and a bike
swap 12pm-5pm on Sat. October 10th at the shop. Also everything in the
store will be 10% off Saturday, October 10th only! Stop by on 10/10 to
get something special for your ride and enjoy a cup of coffee! (Jump
for t-shirt design submission guidelines.)
Here is last year's 2008 Wheelgirl Bike Shop T-Shirt Design Contest winning design by Greg of Brooklyn, NY.
*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
The winner gets a Chrome Citizen Messenger bag and two t-shirts in the sizes of your choice printed with your design.
What You Get If You Enter But Don't Win
- All those who enter the Wheelgirl.com 2009 T-Shirt Design
Contest will have their design put on the site Oct 10th 2009 to live
forever in an album of all designs submitted for the Wheelgirl.com 2009
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 second cousins are sitting in the family room talking about what bikes will look like when we colonize space and
clicking repeatedly on your design, so don't try anything sly.) - You get to show your friends, family, prospective employers your
designs in the context of a community of designers who love bikes. - Adoring fans who completely dig your design style may contact you for other design projects.
Deadlines
- We are accepting entries from now the deadline at midnight on Oct 2, 2009 Pacific Standard Time.
- Any entries received after the deadline are not qualified to enter
the contest. We will pick and announce a winning design on October 10,
2009 and post this info. on the site. So there is no need to email and
ask who has won. Watch the site, and October 10 you will have your
answer.
Submission Rules: General
- 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. - 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. - 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. - 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.
Be the star you are. If you use a photo, make sure you are the one who
took the photo, and there are no copyright /licensing issues. - 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. - 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. - 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. 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. - Your entry must fulfill all aspects of the all submission rules in order to qualify for the contest.
Submission Rules: Technical
- 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 - 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) - 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
- Send your Wheelgirl.com T-Shirt Design Contest entry to this email ( service at wheelgirl dot com.)
- 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 Teradactyl, Berkeley, USA"
- 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. - 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. - 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. - 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.) - 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.
