Hack a Day T-Shirt design contest

posted Aug 18th 2008 6:30pm by Eliot Phillips
filed under: contests, news

We need a new t-shirt. The current design is entering its third year. Help us out by designing a new shirt to give away at conferences. Dash has donated a Dash Express for first prize.

Some ground rules:

You must incorporate the skull and wrenches logo in your design. You’ll find a larger version below.
You can enter as many designs as you like to hackaday.shirt@gmail.com (JPG, GIF, or PNG mockups only please)
The design can’t violate any copyright laws or trademarks.
The design should be one color and the shirt doesn’t have to be black.
By submitting your design you give us non-exclusive rights to use the image in the design of a Hack a Day t-shirt as well as for other Hack A Day promotional materials.
We reserve the right to choose no design at all if we don’t like any of the submissions.
The contest ends September 15th.

UPDATE:

[loopymind] has provided some files to help you out. [ EPS | PDF | DXF ]

[Phesarnion] found the long lost Hack a Day font.

Yes, the contest is open to residents outside the US; we’ll come up with an appropriate prize.

Comments [27]

tagged: contest, dash, dashexpress, designcontest, tshirt

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Can we get a vector image for the logo?

Posted at 7:51 pm on Aug 18th, 2008 by SamAdam

Anyone know what font the hack a Day logo is in?

Posted at 8:47 pm on Aug 18th, 2008 by ghos7man

Oh come on, learn to use the pen tool! =P

Posted at 9:17 pm on Aug 18th, 2008 by EllisGL

What is the font for the text in the site logo?

Posted at 9:47 pm on Aug 18th, 2008 by electric.jackass

what font is the “hack a day” name?

Posted at 10:22 pm on Aug 18th, 2008 by sisco

is this competition open to anyone or just US only?

Posted at 10:46 pm on Aug 18th, 2008 by deathwombat

I just finished and sent my designs in, I’m excited I think they came out well! Good luck all!

Posted at 11:08 pm on Aug 18th, 2008 by Dave Spirito

I don’t know the font, it looks similar to terminal. I just used verdana so they got the idea of the placement. I’m sure they plan on changing to the official font when the design is chosen anyways.

Posted at 11:10 pm on Aug 18th, 2008 by Dave Spirito

Ok… so the shirt doesn’t have to be black… or **can’t** be black???

Posted at 11:19 pm on Aug 18th, 2008 by JuanCubillo

Sweet, something I can try for once….I like to hack, but I’m not all that good right now. I’ll see if I can get this one finished before I go back to school.

Posted at 11:54 pm on Aug 18th, 2008 by blizzarddemon

Font’s Name is Checkbook – can be found here: http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts/checkbook.html

p.s. Google is your friend, 2 minutes of searching.

Do we need to suggest colours for the shirt and design or will it be printed on a range of colours?

Posted at 12:25 am on Aug 19th, 2008 by Phesarnion

Hey, I used this site for the last batch of shirts I got. They were the cheapest I could find and were pretty fast. There are some pictures of the shirts in several cameras, but we haven’t gotten around to putting them up anywhere.

http://printhero.com/

Posted at 1:22 am on Aug 19th, 2008 by fahhem

dafont.com is your friend too. Good luck guys

Posted at 3:42 am on Aug 19th, 2008 by 1

Hey everybody,
I thought, let me help out, i present you in EPS and PDF, the Hack-a-day logo.

Enjoy!

The PDF version…
The EPS version…

Cheers

Posted at 7:07 am on Aug 19th, 2008 by LoopyMind

Crap! forgot you can’t use HTML… here’s the links
The EPS:
http://www.loopymind.nl/download/hack-a-day_logo.eps

The PDF
http://www.loopymind.nl/download/hack-a-day_logo.pdf

The DXF (for those who love Autocad-ish software:))
http://www.loopymind.nl/download/hack-a-day_logo.dxf

Posted at 7:14 am on Aug 19th, 2008 by LoopyMind

Are the t-shirts actually going to be available to the poor slobs who check the site religiously but aren’t lucky enough to be anywhere near any convention?

Posted at 8:30 am on Aug 19th, 2008 by twistedsymphony

the font was already posted above by another poster.

GL everyone make something I want to buy.

Posted at 1:47 pm on Aug 19th, 2008 by heatgap

for a white t-shirt(hmm, maybe blue text border isnt the best, white border would be pritnable with 2 colors)
http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image1vy9.png

for a black shirt(who buys white anyway?!)
http://img172.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image2wy4.png

dedicated to one of the first hardware hacks, the apple 1

Posted at 6:59 pm on Aug 19th, 2008 by Frogz

What format would you prefer submissions in?
I’m assuming that png is fine?

also, if our submission involves multiple files, do you mind if we zip/rar them?

Posted at 10:43 pm on Aug 20th, 2008 by Phesarnion

Soo hows everyone designs coming :D? I made one. I think it came out really good, clean and simple but I want to make a few more

Posted at 7:30 pm on Aug 22nd, 2008 by Nick

Question do we have to provide the back of the shirt too?

Posted at 7:32 pm on Aug 22nd, 2008 by Nick

dude thanks much for the .dxf and font will certainly help.

Posted at 1:26 pm on Aug 25th, 2008 by Edward Nardella

http://reversial.com/hack-a-day_logo.svg

There’s the logo in SVG.
I don’t have photoshop, and a PDF is not exactly ideal for this kind of thing. I assume I’m not the only one in this situation.

Plus, this works for all those cool kids not running any proprietary software.

Posted at 11:34 pm on Aug 25th, 2008 by dylan

Does this logo have to be used directly in the design?

Thanks.

Posted at 2:29 am on Aug 26th, 2008 by surrealight

just one hour ago i started to make my tshirt… what time we accept the t-shirt??

Posted at 4:13 pm on Sep 14th, 2008 by carloscorp

ill have a whiz in an hour

Posted at 5:54 am on Sep 15th, 2008 by Mr_LeE

so wtfs going on? Did anyone win?

Posted at 9:27 am on Sep 27th, 2008 by wtf

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