It's that time again! The Black Friday T-Shirt Contest is here!
Are you ready to unleash your inner artist? We want you to design a Black Friday 2011 T-Shirt that will be sported by FatWallet fans everywhere! Don't be shy. (Like I need to say that to you? You're the wittiest and most outspoken forum fanatics I've ever seen.) But this is for everyone, even those of you who have been lurking and stalking the forums, Facebook, and blog just waiting for your chance to shine!
Here's what you get in exchange for your creative design:
A box of FatWallet premium schwag and bragging rights for your awesome design!
Plus one dozen shirts you can give to others! (I suggest you use 'em for leverage to get favors out of your friends and family.) "Sure, I'll give you a signed t-shirt if you'll wash my car."
Everyone who enters with a qualifying drawing will win a 2011 Black Friday T, so you've got nothing to lose by entering!
You decide the winner! Visit the Voting Gallery to view entries, vote, and see who's winning.
To Enter
Upload your original design image in your reply to this topic
Enter by October 14, 2011, 11:59 PM CT
Design Guidelines
Theme: Black Friday 2011
Max graphic area: 17"(wide) x 18"(high)
3 color max, plus shirt color
T-shirt front OR back (1 shirt side only)
Must incorporate FatWallet.com logo or swirl (below) in 1 of 4 options:
PMS green 376 and white; PMS green 376 and black; all black, or all white
(No alterations, drop shadows, or glow effects on the FatWallet.com logo)
NO Copyrighted material, celebrity images, or tired viral puns
NOTE FatWallet reserves the right to disqualify entries that do not meet design and copyright guidelines. We reserve the right to alter winning design for production suitability.
No sneaky shenanigans will be allowed!
Plagiarism will result in immediate disqualification.
Disqualified entries will be removed from the contest topic and voting gallery with a kind and encouraging note, gently nudging you to try again.
We have a nose for alt IDs and will disqualify any entries stuffing ballots.
Voting will take place between October 17, 2011, 12:01 AM CT to October 20, 2011, 11:59 PM CT
Scope out the competition and see all of this year's designs in the Voting Gallery
How can you get a T-shirt?
Submit a qualifying design for the contest, or
Starting Monday, October 3, check Hot Deals for the "2011 post a Hot Deal topic, get a Black Friday T-shirt" promotion.
Don't forget to brand it!
Click images for larger format.
Updated 9/30/11
I've private messaged you if your design (so far) needed tweaking to meet the design requirements. I encourage you to resubmit your designs, as most of them were great but they simply contained too many colors to print. Remember you can have 3 colors plus your t-shirt color (4 colors total) black and white each count as a color as well as the FatWallet green, so you're technically allowed two more colors if you're using the 2 color (green & white/green & black) fatwallet logo. If you're using the swirl only, you do have a few more options for colors. :)
Let's keep the designs coming in! Please PM me if you have any questions about your design!
It would be a good idea to only allow members who have posted, say 25 times, to vote on a design. This would help discourage the unscrupulous who may ask all of their FaceBook friends to sign up for a FatWallet account just to vote for their design.
For your consideration. I can't believe I ended up primarily using MS Word.
For the BFF shirt, it really would work better as a front/back shirt (equation on front, all else on back), but as that is against the rules, I'll stick with the front only design.
Yes I know they are two separate companies for now. Glad to see this promo is back. Lots of good entries the past few years, hope that its allowed for some of those authors to resubmit their designs (updated to 2011 as appropriate, of course).
Gambit3
Senior Member
posted: Sep. 19, 2011 @ 2:45p
Man, now I have to great creative to win my shirt.... VICTORY WILL BE MINE!!!!
Here's my design this year. See if you can crack the hidden message... (hint... scan the QR code with your phone...)
Just imagine people stopping you on the street, and wanting to scan your shirt... LOL
Okay, I've had enough people ask me. For those of you without an iPhone or Android phone with QR scanning app, what's encoded on the shirt is this limerick:
Black Friday's not for the meek, Camp out to get what you seek. You'll miss turkey dinner, To come out a winner. And fill rebate forms out for a week.
EDIT: I was asked to make the fonts bigger on the original design, so it would be better for the shirt print.
Kunai
Tired Member
posted: Sep. 19, 2011 @ 5:38p
Black Friiiday!
Best I could do without photoshop on this computer. Will perfect it soon without her likeness. Let's face it, this is the ONLY year we could have Rebecca Black on our FW shirts.
For those that might not be aware or new, The artist rendering of the person in the design is the founder of fatwallet.com This design is a tribute to him.
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