Design Contest: Spread your message!

What do you get when you combine T-Shirt Day 2015 and the most unbelievable design contest to date? Excitement beyond belief, of course, but you may also get yourself an Intuous Pro Graphics Tablet! Seriously! Enter the “Spread Your Message” design contest and you could win a pretty sweet prize. Follow the jump to find out how.

Here’s What You Need to Know

Design Specs

We are looking for your most creative, attractive, impactful and inspiring designs that help spread a message of fun, hope, or feelings. Inspire others to spread fun, spread hope, or spread feelings through thought-provoking, eye-catching, and unique artwork, texts, or designs.

Spread Fun:
For the laughter, the giggles, and the smiles. Aim for the designs that make people look twice. Strip teasing bananas are fun; foofy, lovey-dovey death metal designs are fun; so is a rabbit making human hand shadow puppets! Put some fun into your design and you’ll be on the right track.

Spread Hope:
Hope is strong. Hope is courageous. Hope is contagious. Whether you hope for sexual equality, you hope to show cancer who’s boss, or you just hope for peace, a strong design that shows the power of hope is a good direction to aim in.

Spread Feelings:
Feelings… there are a zillion of them: funderful-ness, national pride, love, excitement, acceptance, drunkenness, boredom—and hey, we’re all human, aren’t we? Chances are there are others out there that feel the way you do. Design something that says, “Hey, I feel that way too.”

Contest Run Time

Submit your design between May 7th and May 28th, 2015. You have three weeks to put your best design forward to be considered for the grand prize.

How Do I Enter?

Entering is easy: upload your design entry to your User Account (Design & Products => Upload Designs) between May 7th and May 28th, and tag it with both “T-Day2015” and the tag you feel best suits your design (“spreadfun”, “spreadhope” or “spreadfeelings”). Create at least one product with your design and activate it for sale in the Marketplace.

What Happens Next?

Once the entry period has concluded, our team of graphics and design experts will narrow down the field to the five designs that we feel really stood out from the crowd. These designs will be put into a poll on the Spreadshirt Blog where visitors can vote on their favorite between June 1st and June 7th.

What Can I Win?

Aside from the envy of your peers, a drastic increase in both your Shop’s awareness, and your recognition as an award-winning designer, you could win an Intuous Pro Graphics Tablet! Use what the pros use and take your designs to a place you never thought possible. The Intuous Pro combines the finest pen and tablet capabilities with intuitive multi-touch support, pressure-sensitive technology, and creative software integration. Trust us; this is one bad machine!

The Contest is open to legal residents at least 18 years of age of the 50 United States and District of Columbia, but not U.S. Territories or overseas military installations. Void where prohibited. No cost to enter and no purchase necessary. Spreadshirt’s Privacy Policy applies to Entrant information. Read the full contest rules  here.

Break out the pens, pencils, paintbrushes and Photoshop. Channel your inner Picasso, Michelangelo, Dali or O’Keefe and submit your designs between the 7th and 28th. To the winner go the spoils!