Contest: Help Design The Official SS T-Shirt! -
Submit your art and win prizes! Summary:
Submit a unique T-Shirt design, with original Harry Potter artwork, and win prizes!
Article:
SS has become so popular that we've decided to make T-Shirts! The design is the only thing holding us back, and since we can't decide, we decided to open it up as a contest and let our many talented members put their artistic talents to the test!
PRIZES 3 runners-up winners will each receive one free T-Shirt with the winning design.
1 Grand-Prize winner will receive three T-Shirts and a special prize!*
RULES
1. T-Shirt design must be your own original artwork (preferably hand-drawn/painted).
2. Design must be limited to a maximum of four (4) colors.
3. Design must be Harry Potter related and mirror a SnitchSeeker theme.
4. Enter as many submissions as you like, but always use the same membername and contact information.
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(new) Submissions must be in by 12 noon GMT on 18 August 2004.
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(new) Images must be at least 300 dpi and in Vector, Jpeg (very high quality) or BMP format.
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(new) Scanned in/hand-drawn artwork is allowed, but NO SHADING. (See color limit in point 2 above.)
Participants from ALL countries are welcome! The winners will receive T-shirt(s) free including free shipping to their country, paid for by SnitchSeeker.com. Any VAT, customs or toll charges that may come will be responsibility of winner. Questions? Post them here!
More info coming soon (like where to send your drawings, etc.)...
* The special prize has not yet been decided but will likely be either cash (through PayPal), an Amazon gift certificate, or merchandise from Alivans wands. UPDATE:
The deadline is August 18th (two weeks from today) and winners will be announced on Friday the 20th!!
The reason for the limit of 4 colors is that they will print well on the T-Shirt. If we had to do silk-screening (full-color prints) the price would at least double, and we want to keep the price per T-shirt under $10, including shipping (price for sale to SS members).
Artwork should be in eps format at 200-300 dpi.
It is recommended to scan in your drawing, or create it in Adobe Illustrator or other Vector drawing program.
Files should be sent as attachments by e-mail to:
t-shirt at snitchseeker dot com (remove spaces and, change at to @ and dot to .). If you need the mail addy spelled out for you, PM me and I'll send it to you in a Personal Message.
Include your sumbission(s), your membername, your e-mail addy, and your country. More information is optional.
If you are don't have access to a scanner, well try to get an address you can mail it to instead (but then you have to be quick because you will need to allow for mailing time of around 5 days).
Please feel free to ask questions if you need help understanding any of this!
UPDATE 2:
The design can be made for any shade of T-shirt (white, black, medium, whatever.) just specify it in your submission, or include a seperate image with the design embedded on a sketch of a t-shirt in the color you think works best as a sample. (choose one of the colors from
this page.
"SnitchSeeker.com" should be included in the design. Feel free to include our slogan, "Harry Potter friends" (or another slogan that you think suits SS) if you like.
Your design can be one of two types: 1) small for the front (
placed over chest to one side) OR 2) larger one for the front or back.
For some examples so you can see your limitations,
check these out. (They are completely non-HP related, but use the basic principles we're aiming for in our design.)
UPDATE 3:
T-Shirts and potentially other wearable items will be available to purchase for an extremely low price. We're aiming for maximum $10 per shirt including shipping (within U.S.) and discounts for multiple shirts.
All information we receive will be 100% confidential and not be sold or given to any other source, but kept private and used only for this contest.
Your design doesn't *have* to be 4 colors! It can be 1, 2, 3 or 4. Also, the T-Shirt (or background color) doesn't count as a color. Only the colors in the drawing itself.
PLEASE NOTE: Submissions will be the property of SnitchSeeker.com to do with as they choose. Contributers will not receive compensation other than the prizes listed above IF they are among the winners.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Just got this from the printing company: Quote:
We can do scanned in/hand-drawn artwork, but no shading.* We can do 4 colors.* The dpi needs to be at least 300.* The format should be vector, bitmap or jpeg.
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Rupert*
I totally forgot about it! 
