How to Enter Threadless.com T-shirt Design Competitions

If you like to design clothes, test skills by entering a "Threadless.com" T-shirt design competition. Through Threadless, you can upload a design onto the server. Then fellow web-lackies and design dreamers rate your T-shirt design. It could win you more than $2,000 in cash and prizes and the pride of having your own design for sale on the website.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Vector design program

1. Download a Threadless shirt template form the "Threadless" website. This template helps you to arrange your design onto a T-shirt shape and prepare your design for submission.

2. Design your shirt in a vector program, such as Adobe Illustrator. You can draw your design in the program and then convert it to a vector drawing using the "Flatten Images" in the "Object" menu.

3. Go to "Participate" on the "Threadless" website. This link will allow you to upload your shirt design onto the web.

4. Enter your design for a Threadless critique before submitting your shirt to the voting public. By inviting criticism, you can gain perspective on your T-shirt design and make any changes to tweak your design into a winner

5. Monitor the "Threadless" website. You might want to tell your friends to give your shirt a high rating, but you'll also want to respond to comments that other Threadless users put on your T-shirt voting page.

Resources

• Threadless website