Springleap’s winning design for our “What you Got?” competition is “All we are is energy” by sebasebi. For this competition designers were asked to show Springleap their creativity on their own terms. Springleap wanted to put innovation to the test, challenging the designers to show what lurked beyond their imagination and to ultimately BRING IT!

Popular demand brought about the decision to introduce an open theme competition. Moving away from Springleap’s regular themed competitions, they hoped to spark more creativity from their designers in this competition. And that is exactly what they got! The response was amazing, the proof lying in the “out of this world” winning design. The Argentinean designer, sebasebi, had this to say about his design: “ …we are all beings of energy….that common energy…. is never destroyed…. it is merely transferred from one thing to the next…” His design was very well-received by the community, making him a clear winner for the “What you Got?” competition.

Springleap’s latest winner has just been announced. The wining design for the Justice League themed competition is ‘Rabobi Rabobi’ by WolFox. For the Justice League competition, Springleap asked it’s community for their interpretation of the Justice League translated into a funky t-shirt design that everyone out there would love to wear. Designers were asked to use the core members of the Justice League as inspiration. Through a design, Springleap wanted designers to show who they identified with. What they got was a design inspired by Rabobi- the South African version of Spiderman- as he is represented in an alternate reality, and what he symbolises in ours. Rabobi is seSotho: ‘Ra’ means ‘mister’ or ‘man’ and ‘Bobi’ means ‘webs’ ie. ‘Mister Webs’.

This design was the clear winner in the competition. It harks back to times past and allows us to reminisce, and flaunt our own inner superhero. Well done to WolFox. I’m sure this T-shirt will be a bestseller. WolFox lends this quote to his design:  Rabobi ba ya gona Dr. Octopus left right iGreen Goblin uppercut KO one time”

Springleap.com‘s latest bi-weekly competition winner is Jott with his funky t-shirt design “My Friends”. Jott is from Germany and has his own BlogSpot which features all his cool designs. Here is the story behind his winning design:

“Me, my friends and I like to party will we start seeing little swirly things floating around our heads! Woo Yeah…It’s always more fun with your team of blue and yellow squishy friends around. Who needs lights when you’ve got those bright ‘fellas to bring color to life!?”

The t-shirt can be purchased at Springleap.com for $19.

A few words from the designer:

“I design to escape the monotony of urban life! Each design packs its own story to tell, and I leave it up to the consumer to find their own meaning from it. If you look deep enough into the designs, you can see that most carry some sort of subliminal social message…or just look really freakin sweet! (at least to me!)”

The tee can be purchased here.

Secondly, Springleap.com’s teen bursary competition, “Pure Imagination”, has finally ended. Secondary school students had the chance of entering a design in teams of two, one to market the design and the other to create it, in the hope of winning two 3-year bursaries to the prestigious AAA School of Advertising. Our lucky winners are Amber Myers (designer) and Liam Kelly (marketer) from Westerford High School in Cape Town. They received the most votes in the competition for Amber’s design “Cock Market: Foul Play on Wall Street”.

The story of the design says “…while the snow covered the hills and everything seemed white and dull, quietly came a man with a smile upon his face. He slowly opened this small bottle without leaving his friendly bull – looked up, down, left, right and said – let the spring reign in this place!…”

The new tee can be purchased in a variety of sizes at Springleap’s website.

The design is described as “Man against the power of nature. The power of nature within the man. When next I have seen the sea, will the sea have seen me, he pondered” and encapsulates a similar style to the classic Japanese Great Wave painting.

Grape Juice Records is partnering with AlwaysUrban.com and YOU to design the best t-shirt in the history of the universe for Grape Juice Record’s 5th Anniversary!

AlwaysUrban.com received 16 stellar designs during the first month of the contest, and now its up to the fans to pick their favorite. Vote between now and August 17th on AlwaysUrban.com. The fans’ favorite design will be unveiled LIVE on stage at the Grape Juice Records 5th Anniversary Party on September 3rd at the Double Door in Chicago, IL.

Vote here today!

Here is a preview of the designs you can vote for:

Heads up guys and girls: Springleap.com‘s Pure Imagination design and marketing competitions voting for the Pro-life T-shirt design winner has started.

You can help two South African highschool learners have an opportunity to win bursaries worth R250 000 to AAA School ofAdvertising. Who wins is entirely up to you and all the t-shirt design lovers out there. Vote for your best ‘Pro-life’ tee designs at: springleap.com/designs/vote.

The mind-blowing array of Pro-Life t-shirt designs portrays the talent of Cape Town and Johannesburg, and the winners of the competition will be announced August 13, 2009. Be sure to cast your vote for your favorite Pro-life t-shirt designs today!

Here is a small sample of some tee designs that have already been submitted and ready to be voted on:

Until the end of July, Official will be running a contest inviting you to use any imagery from their website/blog and mash it up, flip it, re-interpret it, integrate it with other imagery, or just simply clash it up and submit it.

All entries will immediately receive a 20% discount code. A winner will be chosen August 3rd and that person will win the choice of 6 free items from the Official Online Store (fitteds, five panel campers, snap backs, beanies, cut & sew tees). Official will be looking for creativity, inventiveness, thoughtfulness, and humor among other elements during judging. The winner’s image will also be featured on the Official blog with credits.

Some of the company’s most memorable images for their own branding have utilized this DIY mash-up method and so they are pleased to include you and anxious to see what their community of supporters can create. No matter what, all entries are getting a 20% discount code and notable images will be getting some blog love with name credits.

Entries can be submitted by email: info@theofficialbrand.com

Official Website/Online store: http://shop.theofficialbrand.com

Official Blog: http://shop.theofficialbrand.com/blogs/frontpage

Images should be no larger than 72 dpi and 600 x 600 pixels.

Grape Juice Records is partnering with AlwaysUrban.com and YOU to design the best T-shirt ever for Grape Juice Record’s 5th Anniversary!

The winner of the contest will take home a big prize package worth over $500!

You can win:
-$200 cash
-Free one-year Zip Car membership and $100 worth of Zip Car driving
-$100 AlwaysUrban.com gift certificate.
-Huge selection of CD’s from the Grape Juice Records catalog
-A printed version of your shirt presented to you at the 5th anniversary show.
-Recognition as a total bad-ass in all the post-contest press releases and advertising

The winning design will be unveiled LIVE on stage at the Grape Juice Records 5th anniversary party September, 3rd at the Double Door in Chicago, IL!

Click here to submit your design to Always Urban before the July, 17th submission deadline. Once all the submissions are in, Grape Juice Records’ fans will vote from 7/17 to 8/17 on AlwaysUrban.com to pick the winning design.

Submit a design now and become a part of Grape Juice Records’ history!

About Grape Juice Records:
“Grape Juice Records is Chicago’s newest, hardest-working and most unconventional record label. Our goal: to help musicians make a living playing music while simultaneously making a positive social impact on the world around us. We believe that businesses in this country have a responsibility to the communities around them. This world is crazy, but at Grape Juice Records we believe we can make it a little better… one CD at a time. Check us out at grapejuicerecords.com.”

About AlwaysUrban.com:
“Based in Chicago, Always Urban has been supporting underground artists and designers since 2007. Our mission is to help independent artists and designers blow up and we are just happy to be along for the ride. Help us put your local mall out of business, and look fresh doing it.”

Clothing Wire was recently contacted by UPrinting.com, a respected provider of high quality printing services, to give one of our readers the opportunity to receive 250 free custom hang tags to use however they wish.

Hang tags are perfect if you want to brand retail products, and is a great way to showcase a professional image. In addition, they serve as a way to install name recognition and promote various products from a company. Enter this contest for your chance to receive 250 free custom hang tag printing to your specifications. There are two ways to gain entry:

1) Enter by posting a comment at the end of this post, describing how you would use these free hang tags (be sure to include your email).

2) For an extra entry, blog about this giveaway (then leave an extra comment with your blog link).

This giveaway contest will only be open for a week, until Midnight PST on Thursday, July 9th. One winner will then be randomly selected from the pool of entries (they will be announced in a blog post). Please note that shipping for the tags is not included. Good luck everyone!

The handpicked Top 10 Heavyweights for 5/14 can be seen here.

The new $500 Shirt Fight theme for 5/14 is “The Letter T”. This week’s Shirt Fight contest is to design anything you want, as long as it starts with the letter “T”! A winner will be announced May 21st (Thursday) at midnight CST. Good luck!

In addition, Shirt Fight is happy to announce that due to requests, they now have larger print options available (17.25” x 23.5”). Metallic ink foils and full color process printing is also available. So take advantage of all their new shirt designs and check out the difference in sizing here.

The handpicked Top 10 Heavyweights for 5/07 can be found here.

The new $500 Shirt Fight theme for 5/07 is “Good vs. Evil”. The epic battle of Good vs. Evil – Who will come out on top? The only rule this week is that the design must contain an aspect of good and evil in it. Contest starts now, and Shirt Fight will announce a winner at midnight 5/14 CST! $500 cash could be yours!

Cut&Paste has teamed up with Scion to revamp and redesign the website for the non-profit J.U.i.C.E. (Justice by Uniting in Creative Energy). J.U.i.C.E. is an afterschool program in Los Angeles that works to develop youth leadership and technical skills, creative expression, and self-confidence through the artistic elements of hip-hop like breakdancing, urban art, deejaying, emceeing, and music recording. While they do great work with the kids, their website is in need of an overhaul. You can check out the current site here: rampartjuice.com.

The grand prize winning designer will receive $5,000, courtesy of Scion, and will have his/her design adapted by J.U.i.C.E. You can find more details at: http://scionjuice.cutandpaste.com.