In a previous post I talked about a submission I made to Springleap, an on-going t-shirt competition based in South Africa. This is my first ever submission to a t-shirt competition so I am pretty delighted to be able to announce that I was one of the winners. The prizes are as follows:
- Their own tshirt PLUS 2 others randomly selected from that month’s winning range
- A limited edition poster of their design
- Sponsored prizes (these vary depending on who is sponsoring these prizes and what they wanna give you 😉
- R1 for EVERY TSHIRT of theirs that we sell
R1 is about 12 American cents I think.
I think the sponsored prize will just be a skyrove voucher. I don’t really know what that means. Anyway, thanks to everyone who voted for me. I appreciate it. Now you can do even more my heading over there and buying a few thousand shirts to really put a smile on my face. Spam Goes Old School at Springleap.
One thing to note I think. I didn’t receive an email or any notification that I was one of the winners. I think that is a little strange. I am sure that I will get one but I thought that it would arrive before the design goes on sale.
*Update: I received an update and told that they might implement and automated notification feature in the future. I kind of like the personalized touch though. In the email, you are asked to send the following details:
1. the high res artwork for your entry. This file would be have to be in illustrator, freehand, flash or photoshop format. If the file is in photoshop format, please make sure that you saved the artwork in 300 DPI.
2. A high res photo of yourself or an avatar (no copyright images please)
3. Your date of birth
4. What city and country you live in
5. 3 sentences about yourself and how you feel about design.
heya
Eric here from springleap
firstly, WELL DONE on being one of the top 20 and getting your tshirt printed.
At midnight the 20 winners are selected, and people can start pre-buying them (although it takes us about a month to get them printed, as we buy our own fabric, use our own CMT, have them printed etc)
We haven’t got to the stage where we send automatic emails to the winners although we should probably try get this included ASAP. Rather we send a personal email to each winner which should have been sent today from our Operations manager (although she might send them tomorrow).
Their were some extra sponsored prizes for the winning design, but unfortunately we haven’t got international sponsors to put up prizes for the rest of the winners – YET. That is on our to-do list. So if you know of international company’s keen to get involved with springleap, send them our way…
However, we are already being approached by plenty of other company’s to license the designs to use for a variety of other places, and you’ll get a royalty EVERY TIME the design is used. So hopefully years later, you’ll still be receiving royalty payments from us every time your design is used.
Most importantly, WELL DONE for making top 20. We’re really stoked at how many awesome designs there were, and we’re loving everyone of the top 20 that got selected.
Can’t wait to send you your winning Tshirt.
Cheers
Eric
Now that’s a great design – very clever! I’d buy one for my daughter, but I’m afraid she wouldn’t be able to wear it to school.
@Eric – Thanks for the information and I’m looking forward to the t-shirt too.
@Kate – Thanks, I think it may not be appropriate for children in or out of school even though it is just innuendo. Teenagers on the other hand …