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Rodney · February 16th, 2007

T-ShirtForums.com officially launched on April 4, 2005. In just two short years, it has become a truly unique source of shared information on the T-Shirt Industry.

From just a handful of members back then to now quickly approaching to 9,000 helpful, experienced, friendly t-shirt community members. We've come a long way (and we've got big plans for the future

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Although 2 years only qualifies us for toddler age in website years, there's no reason we can't have a 2007 T-Shirt Design Extravaganza.

Yeah, I said extravaganza...sounds exciting right?

Last year's anniversary t-shirts turned out great and I'm hoping for an even bigger response to this year's design contest.

I've sort of dubbed 2007, "The Year of the T-Shirt". It just seems like big things are happening this year in the industry. T-Shirts seem to be getting more media attention lately.

So the loose theme of this year's t-shirt design contest will be "The Year of the T-Shirt" (a t-shirt design about the t-shirt industry).

Get your creative engines cranking!

Here are the T-Shirt Forums 2 Year Anniversary T-Shirt Design Extravaganza contest rules:

You can discuss the contest here.

Rule number one: don't limit yourself to the design placement or size on the shirt. All over, over sized, wrap around, standard placement, small size will all be considered. If your design wins, we'll figure out a way to get it printed (and document the process here to help others)

Rule number two: don't limit yourself to my cheesy design theme (A t-shirt design about the t-shirt industry If you get a creative inspiration for a design that's semi related...go for it.

Rule number three: the entries don't have to use the T-ShirtForums.com logo (last year's contest did).
Design should be 1-4 colors.
JPG previews/mockups should be sent to
(keep the source vector/psd/eps/ai/cdr/high resolution file on your computer until the winner is named)
Contest Entry Deadline will be April 4, 2007 11:59:59 PM PST.
Entries will be voted on anonymously by fellow forum members for 2 weeks after the contest.
The winning design will be the one with the most amount of votes, with the final decision being made by your's truly (like last year, it will probably be the design with the most votes that gets chosen).
You must be a registered t-shirtforums.com member with at least 5 posts in order to enter.
Limit one entry per member
Winning design will be printed on a limited number of individually numbered high quality t-shirts and given away to T-ShirtForums.com members with X number of posts (to be defined later )

Unlike last year's design, this year's design will also be made available for sale to members who don't get a free one (and anybody else that digs the design)

So what do you win? In addition to super mega awesome bragging rights, the winning designer will receive the following swag:
(the list below will grow as I think up more cool stuff to give away)

$350 USD cash
30GB iPod Video
5 t-shirts with the winning design
A copyright application filed with the US Copyright Office for the winning design
A unique forum shirt avatar color

All submitted entries remain the intellectual property of the designer. The designer will retain ownership and copyright of the winning design, however T-ShirtForums.com will have exclusive rights to printing and giving away/selling the design on t-shirts as well as using the image for promotional purposes regarding the shirt and contest.

Entries should be sent as JPG previews/mockups and emailed to .

Please include your forum username with your entry (although it will be kept private during the voting)

Keep the source vector/psd/eps/ai/cdr/high resolution file on your computer until the winner is named