Enter the Engadget T-Shirt Design Contest and win a Sony Ericsson W800 Walkman phone!

UPDATE: Contest is closed! Thanks for all your entries, we're going to try and judge them as quickly as possible.

We had to choose between either doing some laundry or having some new Engadget t-shirts printed up, so we figured it was high time we launched the Engadget T-Shirt Design Contest. That's right, we're looking for a closet fashion geek to whip us up a t-shirt so fine that we'd actually try to remove the inevitable Dr. Pepper stains. Of course, we're not expecting you to give us your handiwork for free, so the winner will receive a little something for their trouble: a brand new unlocked Sony Ericsson W800 Walkman phone courtesy of our pals over at ImportGSM.com. First runner up will score a Sony Ericsson HBH-662 Bluetooth headset (the one with the caller ID display), our second runner up will receive a $20 gift certificate to the online music download service of their choice. Oh, and if your design wins, you'll get a free shirt, too.

Some ground rules:

• The design must somehow incorporate our logo in some way (we've provided images below for you to work with—we prefer vector!).

• You can enter as many designs as you like.

• The design cannot violate any copyright laws or existing trademarks (we don't really mind, but you know how people can be about this stuff).

• The design itself can have a maximum of two colors and encompass both the front and the back of the shirt if need be (just make it clear in your submission which part is supposed to be on front and which part is supposed to be bringing up the rear).

• By submitting your design you give us non-exclusive rights to use the image in the design of an Engadget t-shirt as well as for other Engadget promotional materials.

DEADLINE: 11:59PM EST, Sunday, August 28th.

There are two ways to enter:

• You can send your design to us at [e-mail],

• Or if you want to be slick you can head to www.CustomInk.com and create your design there (even if you don't win you'll get a coupon saving you some bucks on a future CustomInk order). Just make sure that once you're finished you use the save/send option to save the design under your email address and then send it to [e-mail].

And yes, these should be the colors for our new logo in our upcoming redesign.

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One more thing: The design of the shirt matters more than the production, we�ll work with the winner to do all the vectorizing and other preparation necessary to get the shirt ready for printing, ok?

UPDATE: By (very) popular demand we�ve added the logo files in EPS. Have fun you guys!

[Seth @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Could you post a vector version of your logos? That way the design can stay really clean.

[james @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

"The design itself can have a maximum of two colors"

but the logo has 3 colors?

[Rob @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

^If you have access to Illustrator CS2, you can just use live trace feature to make a vector, if they don't post one. Or use the Magic Trace feature in Freehand.

[Ryan Block @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Our graphic designer asked that we don't release the vector version of our logo for a number of reasons, the most important being we don't want anyone able to use our logo graphics for reasons other than a simple t-shirt design. The design of the shirt matters more than the production, and if the designer whose shirt is chosen doesn't want to redo it in vector when we've announced they won, we'll make sure our designer vectorizes their work. Thanks!

Best,
Ryan

[Richard @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Yeah, I wondered about that myself.

The logo is 3-colored!

[madc @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

engadget logo is only 1 color. you can change the grade of color and it still be only 1 color.

[wonjeremy @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

i didnt notice it till now, but the source (formerly radioshack) has ripped off your logo.

[Thom @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

I work for a Fortune 50 company as a Creative Director.. I can understand to a degree why you wouldnt want to give us a vector logo but... do you really think someone is just waiting around to misrepresent you and the only thing holding them back is getting their grimy hands on a vector logo?

Besides any artist can easily trace the logo in Freehand, Illustrator CS2 or Flash and make it vector�. And I guess this begs the question.. why are we getting a 3 line radio emission version when your site header only uses 2 emitting lines.

[Alex @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Are you accepting entries from readers world wide?

[Thom @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

*shakes head realizing he was being critical*

I guess I just got hung up in the excitement of doing a t-shirt for my favorite web site. It's cool.. no vector... not a problem. Feel free to demote, delete, destroy my previous post.

[Ryan Block @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Karl,

We're giving you the full color version of our graphic to do with it what you will. The final product, however, must be for a two-color screenprint.

Best,
Ryan

[A @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Can people in the Uk enter?

[oy! @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Just shaddup and design, this is starting to sound like an Apple thread.

[Peter Rojas @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Yep, anyone anywhere can enter.

[Mr. Wright @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Is it that hard to just follow directions and work with what you are given? Quit the whining...Geesh.

[Sam @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

have you decided on the color of the shirt? White, black, navy? or does the logo determine the shirt color? this just so i can work on a design that compliments the color of the printed shirt thanks!

[Russ @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

do you have a set pantone color for more accurate recoloring of your logo? the closest i can tell is solid coated 2985. If your designer used one this would make everything much easier for everyone. I look forward to winning. thank you.

[Peter Rojas @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

The color of the shirt is up to you guys, we'll try and work with whatever color you want for the shirt.

As far as the Pantone color of the logo, we'll ask our designer what it is and get back to you, but in the meantime just use the given RGB value.

[Todd @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Has anyone ever heard of ImportGSM? I'm looking to buy an unlocked phone and if Engadget's recommending them, I'll take a look. Their lifetime warranty looks pretty cool... so let me know if you've had a personal experience buying from them

[EdZ @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

What font does the engadget logo use? It'd make it easier to match text.

[Peter Rojas @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

The logo is custom designed, it's not a font.

[MrTeacherMan @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Are you attached to easy to print? I have a really cool idea, but it would be a ring tailed bitch kitty to print (I've designed for screen printers before). Can a design win that is impractical/too expensive to print?

[EdZ @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

>23

Ah, so it'll have to be the hard way then...

[Peter Rojas @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Yeah, sorry about that. Believe me, there are plenty of times when I wish we'd used an actual font.

[ben murray @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

do i get instantly disqualified if the design features our true overlord Hello Kitty?

ah screw it

i'll just make the t-shirt usb-compatible and you wont even notice

[rm @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

hey designers and creative directors, this contest is not about vectors, pantone colors or the number of radio lines ...

[arthur @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

is there a cdma prize equivalent for those on verizon or sprint?

[cream0fcow @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

mine's going to be a Scratch 'N Sniff... it's going to smell like geek.

[ian spain @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

i'm not really a graphic designer, but i like my idea...you want it in .EPS format?

[Peter Rojas @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

You can send your idea in whatever format you want and we'll try and work with that. You could mail us something scrawled on a cocktail napkin and if we loved the idea we'd work with you on that.

[ian spain @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

yesssssssss...cocktail napkin's just happen to be my medium of choice.

[fung chi minh @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

how many pixels are we allowed to use? Prease, prease say 43 minimum!

[Hans @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Is the logo color part of the 2 maximum color design?

[barnz2k @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

cool - do you have an example of the last e)) shirt to get some ideas??

[jaak @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

hehe, it isn't easy working with graphic guys is it.. you think you give them a simple task and more info than needed and end up with 20 complaining/whinin guys :). I suspect thats why tehere are projetct managers out there.

[Ryan Block @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Ok everyone, our designer shot over the necessary EPS files, which are hosted and added. Have fun!

Best,
Ryan

[kiddanger @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

mines sent

[Slofsky @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Mine too, hope you guys like it ;).

[Bernardo Kuri @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Is it "legal" to submit designs for non-standard t-shirt designs (e.g. long-sleeves)?

[icebin @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

oh,coooool,I will take part in too.wait a moment......

[fred @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

here's a t-shirt template

http://www.archinect.com/tshirts/templates/t_shirt_template.eps

http://www.archinect.com/tshirts/templates/t_shirt_template.jpg

[MGerlach310 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

I was wondering if the shirt can be a different color?

I understand the screen print has to be 2 color, but what about the shirt?

[Peter Rojas @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

The shirt can be any color you want it to be.

Also, the screen doesn't have to be two colors, just that you can use one other color in addition to the logo.

[funnelbc @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Wow, this sounds like it might be a bit of fun. Looking forward to seeing other entries, and maybe putting something in myself!

[Eric @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Can things be printed on the back or is it front of tee shirt printing only?

[worton @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

how simple is this to do?! all i see on these posts is people moaning like 12 year old schoolgirls! just do what i do and scrawl your design on mspaint! engadget judges cant be that picky can they? ......... :|

[Blair @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Does the two colours include the base colour of the shirt and does that base colour have to be a certain colour.

Example could i have a base colour of white then have blue and black on top for the design or would that count as three colours.

[Peter Rojas @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

You can use any color for the shirt that you like, it doesn't count as one of the colors.

[Ninetean @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

"You can use any color for the shirt that you like, it doesn't count as one of the colors."

Wow, I didnt know that. But anyway mine still probably looks best in white. I designed a shirt that I would actually want to wear so if I win nothing else I hope I atleast get a T-shirt haha.

On another note, did anyone else have troubles with their browser closing on them while the CustomInk.com's LAB page was open? I had to do my design over and over again because of this. Another strange thing would happen also. With the LAB opened in 1 tab while I tried to type something in an e-mail my words would get jumbled. Some letters would jump in front of the cursor and some would fall behind.

[Rabbia S. @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Well, i sent my design

i hope there isn't an age limit for contestants...