Artevist: Art - Activism - Organic, Ethically Made T-shirts

Design

Artevist is committed to reproducing your artwork only on eco-friendly fibres, using very low-impact printing methods. That lets us sleep better at night, and we think it results in a much better Tee. Learn more and understand what's behind some of our design guidelines in About Our Products.

	Themes Artevist is about bringing amazing graphic design to BIG Issues. Make it local or global, but keep in mind, the more universal the theme, the broader will be its appeal. We're not interested in predominantly text-based designs. Wicked typography and illustration is another matter, and we love that.
	Formats Design in a Vector or Raster format. If you have a choice, Vector is preferable. If designing in Raster format, design final size at minimum 300 dpi.
	Sizes Design for a maximum printable area of 50x50 cm (20x20 in). Designs can not extend beyond a single panel of the T-shirt (either front or back).
	Images Sorry, no halftones, gradients or photographs.
	Print Colours Use a maximum of 7 solid colours of your choice. Some of the most effective T-shirt designs we've seen use only two or three colours.
	T-shirt Colours You can choose from 22 T-shirt Colours. View the Colours Webpage Download the Adobe Acrobat/ Illustrator Colour Chart (590 kb). T-shirts are dyed a single colour. Don't add colours or other garment detailing to your design.
	It's All About You! We encourage you to sign your work (preferably your real name). Though we've started out in English, we want Artevist to be a place for everyone. Feel free to express yourself in any language.

Be sure to save your original files in case your design is chosen.

Submit

We've kept our submission process simple, so that 'you' decide how to best present your work.

Files

You'll need two, low-resolution, .jpeg files:

Your Scoring Image (500x500 px - under 150 kb), must highlight the design, but can include other images.
Your Thumbnail Image (100x100 px - under 50 kb) should be just your design.

Descriptions

When you submit your design, you'll need to choose an Issues Category.

Additionally, you can add depth to your design by writing a good description, which might include:

What inspired you.
Technical notes on technique or elements used.
References if facts are mentioned. That way we can be sure of its accuracy, and visitors can learn more, e.g. 400 Siberian Tigers Left! Source: Wildaid.org

Templates

If you like, download a T-shirt template to visualize your design or use in your submission.

Examples

Here are some ways you could present your work:

Most designs work best centred on the shirt. If so, showing your design as large as possible is best.

If your design needs special positioning, indicate that with a small insert.

Or, present your design on a T-shirt background.

Indicating the colours you've used or optional T-shirt backgrounds is great.

You can even apply your design onto a photograph. *Please be sure you have the right to use that image!

If your design is double-sided, you'll still need to submit it as a single image, indicating which is which.

Copyright Protection

We believe the use of watermarks and copyrights do little to prevent truly malicious use, and they hurt the presentation, so we prefer not to use them. However, you're free to add your own marks if you like.

We 'do' encourage you to sign your work (preferably your real name) for additional protection.

Rejection of Submissions

We try to approve designs within 24 hours of receiving them.

In addition to prohibited content outlined in the User Agreement, your design could be rejected for Quality Reasons. These are some of the most common:

Overall poor presentation.

Pixelation or poor image quality.

You should be sure of your work before uploading it. We won't allow revisions unless the design is substantially different from previous submissions.

Participate

We select designs based largely on visitor feedback (scoring and comments), so get your friends, family and admirers to vote! You can use any means you like to promote your design.

When you submit your design, we'll give you a URL address and a simple to use email form to help you tell people about it.

We usually approve designs within 48 hours of receiving them. Once your design is approved, check-in often to see how it's doing, and while you're here, please comment and vote on the work of others.

Depending on the Contest, your design will be viewable on Artevist for up to six months, which means you have plenty of time to promote it. If you've entered into the Monthly General Selection, your design could still be chosen, even if it isn't selected in the month you submitted it in.

Keep in mind that we're looking for great design, and not personal popularity contests. We look at member activity and voting patterns very carefully when making our selections, and don't look kindly upon vote-rigging through:

Membership Manipulation: the creation of false member accounts
Non-objective Voting: a submission that is consistently receiving only '10's
Malicious Voting: the worst - intentionally giving competing designs a low score