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You are cordially invited to join us for a little Infectious Tee Party. No formal attire. No crumpets. No jam. Just joyous t-shirt fun. You bring the art and imagination, we bring the cotton, inks and all the other voodoo required to introduce community made t-shirts to the Infectious product line. No themes... it's a wide open field for creativity.

You have till November 4th to delight us with the freshest t-shirt designs ever. Each design gets 5 days of community voting and feedback. We'll be announcing winners over the course of the contest. Out of the designs selected for print, the highest scorer gets a tee-licious $2000 just in time for Christmas. You can buy a whole lot of Earl Grey with that.

Some specific rules for this one...
  • You must show us your artwork on a t-shirt.
  • You can only use 8 colors in your designs (white and black count as colors).
  • Metallic inks are allowed.
  • We might turn winning designs into device skins or skateboards.
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$2000 cash

$100 of Infectious Product 5% of royalties
Teeparty_all_winners $100 Infectious Product 5% royalties
DEADLINE: November 4, 2009

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timroberts

Got any questions or comments about the design challenge? We are all ears.

 
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Chertezhniko

Hi! Can we draw on both sides of the t-shirt? What about the sleeves?
Should we design about any particular subject matter? THankS!

 
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iraestudios

oh! yo quiero

 
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timroberts

only on the front, no sleeves. you can do any subject matter you like!

 
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revee

what’s the right size for our submissions?

 
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night_robber

how about the t-shirt base color? should it white or something?

 
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RhysMcDonald

One could buy ALL the tea in the china with those winnings.

Crivens – I might have to enter this, actually I believe I will I may have something in mind.

 
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RhysMcDonald

Also, do we have til the 29th or the 4th?

 
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burbskate

woah – somehow missed this announcement. I’m interested in maximum size also.

 
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joey

@Rhys. Deadline is the 4th. We’re changing the copy right now. Sorry!

@night-_robber – all the colors of t-shirt that you can design on are included in the template when you download it.

 
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mikeyion

@revee and @burbskate

For the submission itself (the image that appears in the voting gallery) your image needs to be 650 pixels wide and up to 800 pixels tall.

As for the art on the shirt, feel free to size it to whatever size you thinks looks good on the front of the shirt (the design must fit on the front, and not wrap around the body of the shirt). If your design wins and your shirt goes into production, we will size your art as close as possible to your original submission. We have the capabilities to go rather big, so don’t feel restricted by size.

 

chico_migrana

siiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!

 
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mtths

that’s a lot of different tee colors….
nice!

 
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doserone

Can we submit in other tshirt sample or template like a photo realistic one?, i think the template is little bored.

 
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manitaaan

awesome competition

 
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timroberts

@doserone yes you can submit your tshirt submission with any other template you like

 
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manitaaan

…and for sure i’m in, thanks

 
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razz007

very cool. I guess these will be silk screened hence the 8 color limit. Any belt printing or over-sized printing capabilities. I have a few I’ll need to submit.

 
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SPYKEEE

how about the gradient colors?

 
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Dolphin

Hi TI,
Is T-shirt must be white?
Not only may a bit out of the box?

 

scottwhiteink

this has got me rather excited :-D

 

earlymemoirs

does the participant retain the rights of the artwork if s/he didnt win this contest ?.

 
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Nah

yeaaah! :)

 
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mikeyion

@razz007
Sorry no belt printing. As for sizing, our max screen size is 17.25” Wide x 23.25” Tall. Do you guys feel like this information would be helpful in the submission template? If so, we can definitely add it.

@SPYKEEE
Sorry, no gradients. Though halftones would work just fine.

@DOLPHIN
All our available t-shirt colors are in the submission kit.

 
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joey

@earlymemoirs – all of our artists own the rights to their artwork at all times. We only have limited licensing rights to reproduce the art on our products if you win. If you don’t win, then you still own all the rights and we obviously don’t have the licensing rights. If you’d like to read the licensing agreement it can be found here: http://www.infectious.com/learn/teeparty_aa?indent=true&printable=true

Hope that helps!

 
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burbskate

belt printing? what’s that? never heard of it before.

 
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elcalvok

i likeeeeeee

 
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zahiddehara

love the prize, haha

 
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joey

@zhiddehara :)

@burbskate – belt printing is when the printer prints over the seams

 
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doserone

perfect tim !!

 
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bakro

nice

 

xtina

Woot! So excited about this one! Good luck everyone!

 
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pili

when you say that we have to show the design on a t-shirt you refers in the template, no?
and this challenge is open for all the world?

 
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design.fool

how many designs can I submit?

 
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Haggar

oh exciting!!! "D

 
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SimoneOne

Hi,
can we check somewhere how much people voted for the design? Sounds way more honest.

 
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SIBBY

HOW LONG BEFORE MY DESIGN IS VIEWED

 
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joey

@pili you can show us your art on the t-shirt template you provide, or you can create your own submission with a personal photo. Any which way you want, as long as we see it on a tee.

@design.fool you can submit as many as you like – all we ask is that you space them out of the course of the contest. It’s not fun for the community to have the voting gallery inundated with the work of one artist and the design tends to not do quite so well in voting. Space ’em out but the more the merrier.

@ Haggar Indeed! :)

@SimoneOne Once the design has gone through its five days of voting then the score and how many votes a design has accrued shows up on the voting page.

 
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joey

@SIBBY all submissions to this contest need to be composited onto a t-shirt. The artist relations crew have also sen you an email asking you that you move your submission to Critique so that you can get a little feedback from the community on your design. You can re-upload it here: http://www.infectious.com/critique/teeparty/get_started

 
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bonniedurham

does anyone have some helpful step by step instructions for getting started using a template? i’m an old school artist with minimal computer skills..
but, i’d love to get involved with this contest!

 

ddd

your panda rules. just an fyi.

 
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Suggymoto

Are there any international regulations on this comp? U.S only for example? Sorry for noob question.

 
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joey

@Suggymoto – everyone everywhere is welcome to join in the fun!

 
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iwakami

I have a little question. I’ve seen some designs close earlier (like mine) then some others that get more time for voting. Does this have something to do with the number of votes a work receives?

 
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joey

@iwakami that’s because all the t-shirts in our Tee Party design challenge get five days of voting. Sometimes we play around with how long designs are in the voting gallery for different contests. Open submissions currently get two weeks, so you’ll find that any Open Submission designs surrounding your submission will be in voting for longer. Make sense?

 
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iwakami

Yup! Makes sense. I guess i didn’t got that clearly. I was thinking about the open submissions settings, and was a little berserk when i saw that there was like 8/9 days until the closure… and suddenly it closes. But i got it now. Thanks for the info :)

 
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JohnnyStakes

Hey Admins,

I was wondering when do you guys announce the winner after one contest ends and how does it basicly work?
If the 1st prize goes to the artist w/ the biggest % of love votes how many “runners-up” follow?
Sorry for askin if it’s already posted somewhere :)

Thanks in advance!
Best.

 
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joey

Hey JohnnyStakes.

Depends on the contest. All of our contests prior to Tee Party have had 2 weeks of voting for every design, so we don’t start selecting winners until the scores are in. We often then have to liaise with judges to get their verdict and then have to get the art in. So typically it’s 3-5 weeks after the contest closes that we announce winners.

For this t-shirt design challenge we’ve changed things up a bit and all submissions have 5 days of voting and we also have the option of announcing winners over the course of contest. There’s no limitation on the number of runners up for t-shirts, we look at the community voting and Team Infectious works out which ones they think will sell and that we want to add to the catalog. The contest closes on November 4th and all the voting closes on November 9th. We’ll be launching all the rest of the tee designs in the month of November. Out of the ones that are introduced to the catalog the one with the highest community vote wins the $2000.

Does this all make sense?

Cheers, Joey

 
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JohnnyStakes

That’s great Joey!
Thanks a lot!

 
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joey

Welcome!

 
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el_square

I’m thinking about doing a type base design. More specifically, I want the design to revolve around a quote. Do I add quotation marks and where I got the quote from on the design?

 
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joey

Hey Loc. Can you email directly about this? joey@infectious.com. I need to know what the quote is and whether there’s any copyright infringement before giving you advice. Looking forward to seeing your tee design! Joey

 
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mathiole

can you make simulated process printing?

 
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mikeyion

@mathiole

Sorry, no simulated process printing

 
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XxBLUEKARMAXx

so can u downlaod the template, and scan a picture to it, then uplpad??cuz idk how to et my pic onto the website with a tee

 
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joey

@XxBLUEKARMAXx – so sorry but you can’t do it that way. The bottom line is if you can’t create it in a digital format, we won’t be able to produce it. :(

 
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bokul

even lately…i just want to say “AMAZING CONTEST”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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joey

Thanks!

 
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Szebenyi

I can’t wait till 9th of november :P Can’t we just say that days are now minutes, and in 5 minutes, I’ll know who won?

 
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joey

:) Haven’t nailed a launch date yet David, but I’ll let you know as soon as we do

 
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joey

Tee Party is now closed! Huge, huge congrats to everyone who entered. We received some truly stellar submissions. I’ll keep you updated on this thread when we’re going to launch them. Should be towards the end of this month.

 
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Haggar

hey admins :D
i have tired emailing your support and press emails and they keep bouncing back… doh :O
must be my aftershave…

 
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timroberts

really? hmm.. you mind trying again. seems to work from this side.

 
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Szebenyi

But when do you start to mail the winners? :P I can’t really hold myself back for such an excitement!!

 
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Haggar

@admins

yeah if i send from my yahoo i get this kinda fail:

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

support@infectious.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
Message rejected. Please visit http://www.google.com/mail/help/bulk_mail.html to review our Bulk Email Senders Guidelines.

do they think i am spamming?

 
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noahsapprentice

Hey – so excited about hearing who has won – when are you contacting people?

 
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joey

Soon! We’ll be launching the collection around the beginning of December – we’re still firming up the date. Stay tuned!
I’ll keep you guys updated on this thread.

 
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Szebenyi

It’s already the end of november D: My nerves are on fire!

 
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design.fool

Have u guys picked who gonna be the winner yet?
so quiet ever since the contest ended :(

 
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joey

Sorry ladies and gentlemen. We’re doing test prints at the moment. We’ve never done t-shirts before and we want to make sure the quality is top-notch. We don’t have a precise date nailed down for the launch. It will either be in next week or at the very beginning of January. We don’ want to launch right over the Holiday period. Apologies for the delay! We’ll keep you updated here in this thread.

 
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joey

The votes (and the tees) are in! Huge congrats to our grand prize winner Kirsten McCrea who receives the community vote and a nice holiday bonus of $2000 with her design Take Me With You! And we salute our runners up as well: Alphonzo Solorzano, David Szebenyi, Hollis Brown Thornton and SteveOramA. Team Infectious are already wearing your tees with pride…

We received hundreds of stellar submissions – many thanks to all who shared their art! You can still join in the fun over in the Incognito challenge and we’ll be announcing a new (and may we boast, rather unique) contest in the New Year. Stay tuned!

 
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SteveOramA

Great news! Congrats to all the winners.
Also, it looks like the shirts are almost SOLD OUT already so you guys should jump on them before they’re gone!

 
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timroberts

congrats to the winners. some awesome tshirts. really great stuff.

 
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CrackedEgo

The Kristina Collantes shirt is epic.

Congratulations to all the winners.

 
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mikeyion

My personal fav is the Spirits tee!

 
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RhysMcDonald

hats off an congrats to the winners – I’m lovin’ all the deigns that were chosen. Congrats again to everyone.

Infectious has super attractive models, by the way.

 
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wotto

Some good choices.
The Kristina Collantes shirt is by far the best.

 
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ThirstyFly

Congrats to all who were chosen. That is a QUALITY lineup if I ever saw one!

 
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RhysMcDonald

Just looking at the tees again, noticed most of the larger sizes have already gone or are almost gone. Is that very telling of peoples sizes/needs or did you expect the bigger ones to go (or the smaller ones in some of the ladies cases)

Will you stock more larger sizes next time around you think?

 
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joey

@Rhys we have been selling more large sizes than we expected and yes we’ll definitely be using sales data to work out what the best combination of sizes will be. Looks like people are seeking out a looser fit.

Oh and the majority of the hot models are actually Infectious staff :)

 
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RhysMcDonald

possibly even offering a size or two larger? for the husky folk…maybe.

That’s one sexified office then!

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