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We need your sweet skills! Onetribe is inviting artists to submit designs for new Onetribe t-shirts to be sold via our website. Since we started printing shirts years ago with our logo and other simple designs on them, we have had a lot of demand from our customers for some more rad new threads to help show their love for Onetribe and body modification culture. We know we have customers from all over the world with amazing skills in illustration, photography and design and we’re putting out the call for great work to print for our 2010-2011 t-shirts.

“Contest” Rules

We were talking about this the other day and decided that it really isn’t a contest. Why you ask? Because we are going to give rewards for every design we’d like to print! If we get 50 amazing entries that we think would make incredible shirts, that’s 50 prizes (and we’ll probably have to start another company to handle them all.. haha). Submit five designs and we pick all five? You’re getting some serious goodness from Onetribe, buddy!

So here’s the deal:

1. The “contest” runs from June 9th to July 9th.
2. Designs will be selected by Onetribe staff, and we will inform those artists whose designs we wish to use and make arrangements for a compensation package.
3. You may submit as many times as you wish, one submission and art release form per email please.
4. As a condition of winning we must be able to submit a copyright for the design, which requires us to have you sign it over to us (we will provide an art release form). You retain all rights to use it in your portfolio, the claim to fame for the design, etc. but we need to do this to be able to protect both us and you if the design gets stolen and used by some crappy people for crappy things that nobody authorized.

Prizes?!

We are offering a couple of things as a compensation package for good work.

• $25 store credit for each design we put into our print queue, to be released throughout 2010-2011.
• Your name, email or website and short bio about your artwork on the product page for your design once it is available for sale. We’ll also be talking you and your design up on Facebook and our weblog, which is great exposure to thousands of people.
• Your design printed on a shirt in the size of your choice.
• An exclusive t-shirt printed for winners only, in the size of your choice by Onetribe’s in-house jewelry illustrator, Mike Moses.

Design Guidelines

In order to make this as easy as possible for everyone involved, we need to set a few ground rules both in terms of the physical design as well as the file format aspects of this project.

• The design must include either the Onetribe lotus symbol, the word Onetribe (plainly legible) or both. It doesn’t have to be front & center, or the main focus of the design, it just has to be noticeable in the design somewhere. We are providing a high res image of our logo in .jpg format as a base to work from, please email (jared at onetribe dot net) to receive it. Do note that the logo and name are registered trademarks of Onetribe LLC and we are granting permission to use it only for this purpose. The shirts must include a tiny but legible standard trademark symbol (™) immediately to the right of the logo or usage of the name Onetribe. If you need help creating the symbol please email us.
• The printed size must be no larger than 9″ in any direction, one to four colors (CMYK), no spot/pantone colors.
• Files must be emailed (jared at onetribe dot net) and be press ready 300dpi images in .jpg for raster, or vector .pdf or .ai

Here are a couple of things that our customers have expressed interest in over the years:

• Designs incorporating Onetribe jewelry, of course!
• Designs incorporating swastika in various cultural forms (if you’re freaking out about this please know that the swastika was used for thousands of years for peaceful purposes prior to being warped by the Nazis)
• Designs incorporating sacred geometry, Eastern symbolism such as the Dorje, Ganesha, etc.
• Original illustrations incorporating tribespeople donning ethnic jewelry (original is important, don’t copy a photo you don’t own please)
• Floral motifs, plants/flowers/trees and general organic hippie goodness (no offense meant to anyone, we’re guilty as charged on the hippie front).

Getting Started

To get started all you need to do is send an email to Jared, Onetribe’s owner (jared at onetribe dot net) with the subject “Design Contest Request” and he will send you the logo file and a copy of the art release form. He will begin replying to requests starting the morning of June 9th, feel free to email beforehand. Thanks and good luck everyone!