....and the winner is:

Hello ShirtPrizers:

We have a winner, and American Idol’s Ryan Secrest will be stopping by to make the announcement soon, but first a word from our sponsors, REVUE Magazine and Citizen Shirt.

Here’s the word: Thanks.

We appreciate that you took time to vote and to acknowledge the work of these four artists and all the other artists who entered Shirtprize. Plus, thanks to the bodies who modeled, bedazzled and art-ified the shirts during the finals voting.

Now, back to Ryan Secrest and the announcement of the winner, which we’ll get to, right after this word from Coca-Cola….

Okay, seriously, here’s the deal: Doves>Guns won Shirtprize. Artist Scott Gundersen’s peace-loving design nabbed 34.26% of the vote, edging out Amanda Zechar’s cupcake-loving robot, the Cupcakerator, which earned 30.56% of the vote. Aaron Strelecki’s Scream nabbed 27.30% of the votes and Davie Torres graffiti-inspired Got Soul got 7.88% percent of the votes. Congratulations to Scott and to all finalists. The last day of voting was wild, with about 800 votes pouring in, right up until 11:59 p.m. Well done!  Here's a press release. 

BODIES WANTED: We’re looking for 20 STDs (social transmitters of design) to model the winning shirt tomorrow at the ArtPrize final announcement. You can get a free t-shirt by meeting Chris Koens at the Biggby Coffee on Monroe Mall at 6:15 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009). The first 20 peole who show up and ask Chris to be a body, get a shirt to wear at the ArtPrize announcement.

Thanks again to all of you Shirtprize people. You did Grand Rapids proud.

We’ll talk to you soon.

The Shirtprize Team