So, just who will be cashing in on all these people's designs?


If someones makes a T-shirt with Hurley that says (and to quote Polly) "I'm sad when Hurley is sad." I will vote for them!

K...my 2 are posted. In both cases, I'd wanna tack on the URL, "lost-tv.tribe.net", on the back. Cafepress and Zazzle both allow this on many of their t-shirt designs.

Oh yeah...what's posted there are flattened mockups. I have the Photoshop files with all layers and transparency intact so we can re-jigger 'em for various design constraints (e.g. reverse for black/dark tees, add in URL if back not available, stuff like that...). So, in the case that one of mine wins, just ask me for the originals or help in publishing 'em to the t-shirt site, since I have some experience with that, and am reasonably competent with graphics and publishing files despite not having been active as a graphic artist for some years now.

As per Joanna's request, lack of multiple entrants thus far (and possibly the unspoken desires of others), I am extending all the dates from the original post by 1 (ONE) week. I've deleted the original rules above to avoid confusion. Everything else apart from the dates is IDENTICAL to the rules as they originally appeared last week.

So, get to it! Be creative, and give us your best LOST Tribe shot!

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Okay, here it is...the official tee shirt contest thread!

So, I started bouncing around an idea in this thread:

lost-tv.tribe.net/thread/be...88a5013a3b

And I'm thinkin' it's a good idea! Or at least fun and interesting... :)

Tribe was supposed to make tees for its "premium" members, but it seems to be fairly low priority for them, so I was thinking, why not a LOST Tribe t-shirt? I know I spend at least 50% of my time on Tribe checking in over here and most of the people I interact with on Tribe on a regular basis are LOST peeps, so let's celebrate our great tribe in high fashion (or low fashion as the case may be).

Beginning today, May 4, 2008, LOST Tribe members may submit designs for an official LOST Tribe Tee. Here's how this will work:

1) Entrants may submit up to 2 designs each.
2) All entries will be posted in the photo gallery section of this tribe.
3) You will also include a LINK to each submission in THIS thread so people can find your designs easily.
4) Designs can be submitted until Monday, May 19 at 11:59 PM PDT.
5) Designs submitted after that will be ineligible for contest consideration.
6) Starting at midnight on Tuesday May 20, LOST Tribe members may vote for their 2 favorite designs by leaving a comment under the relevant design in the photo gallery.
7) Voting will be open for 1 week, until 11:59 PM on Monday, May 26.
8) On Tuesday, May 27, 2008, I will add up the number of votes for each design and announce the winner.
9) The winning design will be made available to order via an online t-shirt distributer (zazzle?) and you will be able to order this design on a few different styles of shirt.
10) The winning design will also be the official LOST Tribe icon.

PLEASE NOTE: Please create your design at a high resolution using clean lines and high res art so it prints nicely. If you are only familiar with creating images for the web, please be aware that print resolution is much higher. I would recommend that you create your image at a minimum of 5 in X 5 in at 300 ppi which is equivalent to 1500 px x 1500 px. A bit higher than this works too, but anything less will look like poo when printed.

Some ideas that have already come up in the other thread that i would love to see brought to fruition are:
1) The Dharma Initiative (Dharma logo) wifebeater tee
2) The ultra cheesy Tiger Beat/Teen Beat tee with pix of Jin, Sayid, Desmond and Sawyer in neon hearts
3) The Desmond "See you in the next life, Brutha!" tee

Also, although there can only be one winner, it may be possible to upload the second and third favorite designs to be available for purchase as well.

Oh, and the winning shirt will have some small text on the back (between the shoulders) that says "LOST Tribe."

Best of luck and have fun!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)