Do YOU want to have your design featured on Va NORML’s new t-shirt to be released this summer!??!? Submit your design now to be entered in the contest! We will select our favorite 10 designs, and then let the people decide!

Email YOUR high-res submissions to:

virginianormltshirtcontest@gmail.com

Recommended Donation of $25 per entry, but not required.

Winner receives a copy of their shirt, and 10% of all donations raised on this page!

All funds raised will go towards the payout, printing expenses, and the general advertising fund, to influence public support in Va!

*****The winning design becomes the sole property of Va NORML and no compensation is implied or offered if not specifically listed on this page*****

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DesignByHumans is hosting The Dark Knight Rises T Shirt design contest, awarding $13,000 for the best designs. Batman is in need of designers help now, in the official design contest for the launch of the new movie. Christopher Nolan the writer, director and producer with be judging the final winners. This is an opportunity for designers to add their mark to the Dark Knight Legacy. Be the Dark Knight hero and submit creative, conceptual design with your style. View more information about the contest at DesignByHumans.com.

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Want to enter?

Create an original T-shirt design that answers Pete Wentz’ challenge theme of “Power.” Think out of the box. Get deep. Let self-empowerment, the genesis or evolution of power, a powerful cause, amplification, etc., inspire you.

Artists: submit an entry for your chance at one of five $1,000 prizes. Everybody: let the artists and Pete know what you like or how the tee designs could be even better. Pete Wentz will pick the 5 winners from your top 20. Winning designs will be sold as limited-edition T-shirts with proceeds benefiting Invisible Children.

My Chemical Romance and MASScanvas have teamed up to bring artists, fans, and T-shirt design enthusiasts the “My Chemical Romance T-shirt Design Contest.” The band is looking for people to submit a T-shirt design that represents the theme “Good vs. Evil.” Best part: not only do winning designers earn some serious cash and recognition, but proceeds from the winning tees support the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Watch the video of Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance

Here are a few key details and dates:

·         Design submission dates are from July 1-22.

·         In-progress designs and qualified contest entries will on display at http://apps.facebook.com/masscanvas/challenge.

·          Public voting takes place from July 23-31.

·         The band will pick the ultimate 5 winners based on the top 20 designs from the public vote.

·         The 5 winners will be announced via video by the band on or around August 18th.

·         Only these top 5 designs will be printed and sold in highly limited editions at http://apps.facebook.com/masscanvas/shop.

·         The 5 winners will each receive $1,000, and the top seller will receive an additional $1,500.

·         For every winning T-shirt sold at the end of this contest, MASScanvas will donate $2 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

·         It only takes $7,500 to grant one child’s wish, and the ultimate goal is to grant as many as possible.
Check out MassCanvas for more information on the My Chemical Romance t-shirt design contest.

The contest is to create a design for the Valleypalooza Music Festival on September 17th 2011. There is no theme, basically you just have to create something the festival attendees might like but take into consideration community, charity, giving, neighbors, Valley Park and great music (and reference the 2011 ValleyPalooza Music Festival. The ValleyPalooza organization reps will be the judges and the winners will be announced on March 4th, 2011. Designs can be pretty much anything that is up to two colors, up to 12″x14″.

Design submissions must be sent to ValleyPalooza@yahoo.com (subject line: 2011 DESIGN CONTEST) no later than February 28th, 2011 at 10pm CST in the format of a jpg or png, and should be no larger than 2 MB.

For more information please visit www.valleypalooza.vpweb.com

Check it. It’s Father’s Day really soon.. have you got him anything yet? Fibers.com has launched a Father’s Day Contest where you can win dad (or yourself of course) an Apple iPad and receive it in time for Father’s Day. The contest has already started, but the best part is there are only 100 designs submitted thus far which means you have a 1/100 chance to win the prize! Gotta like those odds. There are over $650 in prizes including winning designs of your custom t-shirt, but hurry, the contest ends June 9^th!

Fibers.com has everything you need to get designing and if you are savvy in the arts, you can even upload your own artwork. My favorite part is the contest sports a great cause! The winning designs will be available for sale on Fibers.com and $5 from each sale of the three winning shirts will be donated to National Fatherhood Initiative, a non-profit that is dedicated to improving the well-being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, responsible, and committed fathers.

Beginning April 12, users may submit designs using the simple yet powerful Fibers.com design tool. No design skills necessary! Fibers.com has everything you need to create your own contest entry with over 400 fonts and 10,000 images. The contest ends May 12, the birthday of the founder of modern nursing Florence Nightingale. Three winners will be chosen to win over $500 in prizes. Vote for your favorite design today!

Visit the following link to view, participate, and vote in the t-shirt contest:

Analog Photography Organization Encourages Designers to Create Happy Accidents.
Community-centric tee shirt company Threadless.com has partnered up with The Lomographic Society International, a globally active organization dedicated to experimental and creative analog photography, for its latest “Loves” campaign.

Lomography and Threadless are challenging designers to create a tee inspired by one of the “10 Golden Rules of Lomography” including:

Lomography Rule #1: Take Your Camera Everywhere you Go

Lomography Rule #2: Use it Anytime, Day and Night

Lomography Rule #4: Try the Shot from the Hip

Lomography Rule #6: Don’t think

Lomography Rule #7: Be Fast

Lomography Rule #10: Don’t Worry About Any Rules

“Threadless Loves” challenges give designers an opportunity to flex their skills and design to a particular challenge. Challenges are sponsored and supported by companies relevant to the idea. Lomography, boasting half a million members across the world, encompasses an interactive, vivid, blurred and crazy way of life.

Up for grabs are the ultimate tools needed for photographers to commmunicate, absorb, and capture the world including the iconic Lomo LC-A+ camera with LC-A+ wide-angle lens, the DianaF+ with fisheye lens, the world’s first compact fisheye camera (Fisheye 2), 10 rolls of LomoX-Pro film, and a lot more. In addition, the designer chosen gets $2k in cash.

Deadline for entries is July 5, 2008. For more info and the 10 Golden Rules of Lomography visit Threadless.