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Feb 09 '07 by tcritic

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international design competition 9k prize

A Tokyo based clothing company is doing a t-shirt competition and the top prize is about $9,000, blogged about it here:
http://tcritic.com/archives/international-t-shirt-competition-feb-1-to-march-31/

Kind of a bummer that you have to submit designs via snail mail but the prize money is pretty good.

tcritic on Feb 09 '07 at 1:43pm

here's the link

J-Ray on Feb 09 '07 at 1:43pm

never enter a contest where you have to pay to enter

sonmi on Feb 09 '07 at 1:44pm

i'm skeptical about this contest ($9,000 for a t-shirt?), but not as skeptical as i could be, because i have a friend who got printed with this site... hmm...

tcritic on Feb 09 '07 at 1:45pm

I don't think you have to pay to enter, unless you consider a postage stamp paying :-)

J-Ray on Feb 09 '07 at 1:46pm

that's good, but you still have to be careful. many -- possibly the majority -- of contests are scams.

J-Ray on Feb 09 '07 at 1:47pm

just check out the company to make sure it's on the level

sonmi on Feb 09 '07 at 1:48pm

it seems weird to offer that kind of money, whereas i'm sure they'd get a similar response to a prize amount thousands of dollars less.

but whatever. good luck to all who enter!

Edword on Feb 09 '07 at 1:53pm

here's the company
http://www.graniph.com/

J-Ray on Feb 09 '07 at 1:56pm

sonmi do you know that company? is it reputable?

tcritic on Feb 09 '07 at 1:57pm

It does seem like a hella big prize, maybe they sell a shitload of t-shirts. It seems like a legit clothing company in Japan, take a look at their site, I have no association with them.

J-Ray on Feb 09 '07 at 1:59pm

They want the original AI/PSD files in print ready format. (raises red flags)... that's a good way to get ripped off.

But their store products are pretty weak.. maybe in Japan they don't know about Threadless quality yet ;) Sonmi should enter!

tcritic on Feb 09 '07 at 2:04pm

Looks like they like urban outfitters, seems like they are as you say "big in japan"

tcritic on Feb 09 '07 at 2:05pm

sorry that got messed up, here's a link to a blog post I found about them http://dooker.com/words/?p=36

25 days later

bigguybigcity on Mar 06 '07 at 2:18pm

Obviously I'm pretty late on this one, but Graniph are definitely legit.

I went to two of their stores in Harajuku and Shibuya in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago. They sell some of the greatest tees I've ever seen, though unfortunately their sizes run SS-L, but I still bought one anyway (for my brother).

They didn't really seem like the kind of company that would rip you off (even making sure I realised the tee I bought wouldn't fit me), so I'd say that if you're a great graphic artist then it might be worth firing off something to them.

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