Help TMM win $250

[TheMuffinMan]

Edit: apparently since it's not extremely obvious, the "Help TMM win money" is a joke. If you do the work, and it goes to the contest and it gets into any sort of prize bracket like 3rd, 2nd, or even 1st place, then within my ability the prize would go to the designer.

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So, my school (Drexel University) is hosting a T-Shirt contest to design the logo that will represent my entire class of engineering. Winner gets $250, SO WHO WANTS TO BE A UNIQUE TALENTED BUTTERFLY (and have your work represent an entire class of one of the top 20 engineering schools in the country?)

Entry Rules:

Must include “Drexel Engineering” in design
Must be a one color design, one side of shirt
Must be submitted in JPEG format
Deadline is August 19th

To give you an idea, the 2010 winner was:

And the 2009 winner was:

as seen in both designs, Drexel seems to love this dragon guy:

 

[TheMuffinMan]

People who don't like dragons are gay

you guys ain't gay

are you?

 

[Ulti]

wait

are you asking people to submit designs so you can cash in on them?

fsks i want easy 250 like that

 

[TheMuffinMan]

my thought process was that this section has a bunch of people who enjoy the whole graphical design thing, some possibly doing graphic design for a career, and Drexel kind of has a history of getting really lame entries (see: engineers, wtf do we know about art?), so this would be a cool project to take on and have your work become an actual product in the real world. It's up to you if you want the $250 for books or w/e, or if you wanted to use this project for portfolio work for school/jobs, or if for once you just wanted to be apart of something that didn't just sit on the internet as nothing more than a post on this forum.

The whole "Help TMM win money" is a joke, which apparently is not implicitly obvious.

 

[Deleted member 36435]

muffins as soon as my computer is fixed (AHAHAHAHHAAH yeah that will happen) i'll make you something neat

 

[Ðari]

Yes. More typesetting practice.

 

[Reflection]

despicable

 

[Ðari]

How's that?

 

[Pablo]

Yo dood ill give that poop a shot

 

[TheMuffinMan]

How's that?

That's pretty okay, though minimalist "shirt with the college name on it" kinda style. I think for the contest people tend to go adventurous, with unique typeface and organization, and played around with the Drexel dragon logo to include cogs, etc. so really try to be creative with it

I found some examples of winners of a different drexel t-shirt contest:

http://www.drexel.edu/orientation/assets/images/teeA-big.png

http://www.drexel.edu/orientation/assets/images/teeC-big.png

 

[Marly]

someone should totally do one like example C but throw in a dash of typography to where the flame spurts spell Drexell University. something like that. that would be awesome.

 

[TheMuffinMan]

someone should totally do one like example C but throw in a dash of typography to where the flame spurts spell Drexell University. something like that. that would be awesome.

that would be pre boss

the most limiting factor I think is the whole color thing. I think based on past designs and the rule outline, I think they're looking for 2 color design (shirt is 1 solid color, design is 1 solid color). so most of the creativity really has to come from being adventurous with the design

 

[Oberon]

I'll go ahead and take a swing at this. It'll be good typo practice.

I don't know about what color I should use, but here's an idea I had. I figured it might work because it's like you're "drafting" a concept. idk I think I should add more to the dragon but I'm not sure what all to use. It's supposed to be a blue print of sorts.

 

[Orion]

im not even involved in this but i just want to say both of those look bonking cool

 

[CaptainMarvelQ8]

yeah defo awesome but why blue background?

 

[Oberon]

I don't know. haha. I couldn't decide on a color so I just picked one. I was more concerned about the design.

 

[Jesus]

The blue background could represent a blueprint.
I think that's a cover thing you did there lol

 

[Marly]

If that's the case then the black should be white instead. that would actually be pretty cool.

 

[Love Machine]

I feel like the blue could be a tad darker as well, but w/e.

 

[Oberon]

Tried white and with a darker blue. I do like it quite a bit <: