It was a back-and-forth competition, but in the end, the graffiti-like Shirtprize tag by artist Davie Torres emerged as the final winner of the preliminary rounds.
Now, it's on to the finals for Torres and the three other preliminary round winners, whose designs are pictured below. The voting in this round will be done by secret ballet and can be completed at the Shirtprize website, where the final four designs are exhibited. They're also shown below.
Plus, we'll be printing designs of the final four and putting them on shirts, which will be modeled by people who applied to be "bodies." We'll be reaching out them and letting them know plans later today.
Thanks to all the artists who entered Shirtprize. We'll be in touch later today to thank you personally and tell you about our next Shirtprize contest. And thanks, of course, to all the people who visited the website and voted for the initial rounds.
Thanks to all who voted in the prelims, and be sure to vote in the finals. You can vote here: http://shirtprize.com/vote.html
Monday, September 28, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Three down and only one to go
Congratulations to Scott Gundersen for his design doves > guns that was created in conjunction with Nick Zyskowski!
Their design came in with almost 50% of all the votes. Great job guys! You can view their work by clicking here.
The last round of voting has begun and we are no longer accepting any artist entries. If you are still interested in getting involved with ShirtPrize make sure you apply to be a body. Our bodies will take the streets during the first week of October to show of our four weekly winners designs.
Their design came in with almost 50% of all the votes. Great job guys! You can view their work by clicking here.
The last round of voting has begun and we are no longer accepting any artist entries. If you are still interested in getting involved with ShirtPrize make sure you apply to be a body. Our bodies will take the streets during the first week of October to show of our four weekly winners designs.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Congratulations are in order!
Congratulations to Amanda Zechar! Now let's pause to let Kanye steal the spotlight from you...
Just kidding! All jokes aside, great job! We are looking forward to seeing some bodies sporting your design around Grand Rapids during the first week of October!
Check out the winning design by clicking here.
Thanks to all of our entrants, we apprechiate your participation!
We only have two days left until our last round of voting so get your designs in quick before it's too late!
Just kidding! All jokes aside, great job! We are looking forward to seeing some bodies sporting your design around Grand Rapids during the first week of October!
Check out the winning design by clicking here.
Thanks to all of our entrants, we apprechiate your participation!
We only have two days left until our last round of voting so get your designs in quick before it's too late!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
The People have spoken
Congratulations are in order for our first ShirtPrize finalist: Aaron Strelecki!
His entry "Scream" came in with 269 votes. View his artwork here.
A big round of applause and thank you to all our other entrants, the competition was tough and the designs were amazing.
New entries will be posted today, and voting starts immediately! So put your voting hats back on and get ready for round two.
Artists, don't forget that even though voting is underway, we are accepting entries 24/7, so if you haven't already, send us your design.
Thank you everyone for your participation, you are what is making ShirtPrize fun!
His entry "Scream" came in with 269 votes. View his artwork here.
A big round of applause and thank you to all our other entrants, the competition was tough and the designs were amazing.
New entries will be posted today, and voting starts immediately! So put your voting hats back on and get ready for round two.
Artists, don't forget that even though voting is underway, we are accepting entries 24/7, so if you haven't already, send us your design.
Thank you everyone for your participation, you are what is making ShirtPrize fun!
We all make mistakes... right?
We made an oops.
As some of our loyal, good, rule-reading, fans have pointed out, we have a couple entries this week that have too many colors in them. We allow only 8 unique colors, because if they have more, we can't print them on a t-shirt. These designs with too many colors that are included this week will have to be disqualified, so if they do win the vote, we will award the winning title to the second-place design.
We are very sorry for the inconvenience.
The designs that have too many colors are:
-Awe and Wonder
-The Hard Life
-Michigan
We are leaving the designs up, because even if they can't win, they deserve to be seen. But we encourage you to vote for other designs because these three designs just won't work on a cotton canvas.
Sorry for all the confusion this has probably caused, and we promise to do better in the future.
As some of our loyal, good, rule-reading, fans have pointed out, we have a couple entries this week that have too many colors in them. We allow only 8 unique colors, because if they have more, we can't print them on a t-shirt. These designs with too many colors that are included this week will have to be disqualified, so if they do win the vote, we will award the winning title to the second-place design.
We are very sorry for the inconvenience.
The designs that have too many colors are:
-Awe and Wonder
-The Hard Life
-Michigan
We are leaving the designs up, because even if they can't win, they deserve to be seen. But we encourage you to vote for other designs because these three designs just won't work on a cotton canvas.
Sorry for all the confusion this has probably caused, and we promise to do better in the future.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
ShirtPrize Round #1 - Voting Underway
The polls are open on the first round of Shirtprize. There are only 10 entries to vote on in this first round, but we kind of knew that would happen given that we only started promoting this a few days ago. We stopped taking entries promptly at 9 p.m., even though we got a couple entries not long after the cut-off time. Vote away and please feel free to use the comments to make constructive remarks.
Here's the good news: We'll be taking entries each and every day (24/7) for the next round of competition. So if you didn't get in this round, fear not, you can always submit a design for Round #2 of Shirtprize.
Finally, a word about cheating: Don't.
(Okay, couldn't leave it at one word. So here's the thing: even though we joked about giving away 5,000,000 in prize money - asterisk, caveat, stipulation - the reality is that ShirtPrize isn't about the cash. It's about putting your art out there and getting people's feedback. So please don't vote for yourself repeatedly or try to use technology to outsmart the system. That only makes you good at cheating - not at designing art for a shirt. We've installed Statcounter and made it open for public viewing, so if you're trying to game the system, some other smart technie - ie, not us - will track you and out you.)
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