GREENPEACE T-SHIRT DESIGN COMPETITION
*** Attention all artists, illustrators and graphic designers! ***
In the spirit of participation, the Greenpeace Volunteer Unit has launched an exciting design initiative!
We need NEW volunteer t-shirts, and we need YOUR creativity and design expertise to help us make this happen!
Please join the competition and submit an original t-shirt design.
The lucky winner will have their work exposed on hundreds of t-shirts across Canada. Greenpeace volunteers are captured in the media on a regular basis, so your t-shirt design will be as well! We also promise a few other Greenpeace prizes!
DESIGN DEADLINE – THURSDAY MAY 31st, 2012
SELECTION PROCESS
The Greenpeace volunteer unit will judge all submissions and narrow it down to a few top selections. From there, Greenpeace staff, volunteers, and the general public will be asked to vote for their favourite! We will let you know when the vote is on so that you can promote the voting link to your friends and networks to vote for you! The winner will be announced early July!
DESIGN REQUIREMENTS (Please read carefully)
- We will be looking for ideas and creativity, not artistic excellence or technical brilliance, so thinking caps on. Designs must be appropriate for volunteers of all ages to wear and reflect our Greenpeace values.
-The official GREENPEACE LOGO and the word VOLUNTEER must be incorporated in the design - download the high-quality version of our logo to use - GREEN / BLACK or WHITE;
-The phrase “Actions Speak Louder than Words” may be incorporated into the design if desired (but not necessary);
-Your design must be designed for print so that it incorporates a single-colour ink on a single-colour t-shirt - colours of your choice of course i.e. yellow ink on a green t-shirt. If your t-shirt is selected, we will do our best to match your colour choices with the print and t-shirt companies we are dealing with. Feel free to submit a few different colour schemes if you like;
-Your design proposal must come to us just as you intend the t-shirt to look. What colour is the t-shirt? What colour is the font? What is the placement of the design on the shirt? What’s on the back? What’s on the front? All of this must be clear to us from looking at your submission. It’s best to use a t-shirt template. It doesn’t matter what kind of template you use, but basically, you must show your design, as it would look on a t-shirt so we know if the design is printable the way you’ve envisioned it;
- Design your illustration in a vector art program such as Adobe Illustrator®, or design in a raster program such as Adobe Photoshop®. Most importantly, your t-shirt design must be originally designed in high-resolution (300 dpi).
-Vector files, or raster files with higher resolution (300dpi), will produce the best results for printing. Caution ... JPEG/PNG/GIF files must be as large as possible and have as high resolution and low compression as possible.
-It’s very important that your original files are all high-resolution. Lower resolution images (72 dpi) that have been upsampled to 300 dpi will simply take a poor quality image and make it a high-resolution, poor quality image. The original file needs to be high-resolution!
-ONLY USE royalty free fonts in your design;
- DO NOT use copyrighted material in your design. You must have full rights to the use of your work. You still own the rights to your design, but by entering the competition, you give Greenpeace permission to use any material submitted (not just the winning entries) on our website, and on promotional materials etc.
SUBMITTING YOUR DESIGN
Please submit a low-resolution version of your design proposal (72dpi), and please submit your design as a JPEG for web viewing. BUT … Be sure to keep your original, high-resolution version just in case we choose your design as the winner!
All submissions must be emailed directly to 
no later than THURSDAY MAY 31st, 2012 with the subject heading T-SHIRT SUBMISSION!
Please help us spread the word about this competition. Fire this off to all your designer friends and artists. Thank you and Good luck!
Greenpeace Canada Volunteer Unit
