Please be patient while we get ready to set up voting! No more submissions will be accepted.

We are looking at getting some new t-shirts in the osu! store (hopefully on higher quality cotton) and are in need of some great new designs. With so many great artists in our community, who else would we look to! Submissions will be open until July 1st, 2012, so get drawing!

Criteria for Submissions:

1. Designs are to be G-rated
2. Submissions can be any resolution, but winners must provide 300+ DPI proofs (.ai or a similar vector format preferred)
3. You cannot use any copyrighted artwork or slogans in your design
4. You can have more than one submission, but post them all in a single post.
5. There is no limit to the number of winning entries; we hope to use as many designs as we can (that are of appropriate quality).

Prizes for winners:

1. A t-shirt with your design on it
2. $20 in spending money on any available merchandise

Deadline: July 1st, 2012

Judging will be done through a combination of public voting and selection by the osu! team. This will be announced after submissions close.

Post your design in this thread (one post containing all your designs).

PLEASE use constructive criticism.
Please do NOT use this as a discussion forum.
Please do NOT put your design on a photo of a t-shirt. Provide the actual raw artwork.
Please do NOT use spoiler tags.
Please do NOT quote other people's images.

We wish you the best of luck!

Links to submission posts:
Lolicore Flandre
ManuxP
Doodley
Mirry
Kert
theowest
jedric
Liiraye
BounceBabe
Kei
Mink
Nekoroll
Daru
Skipper 'n Tiffers
Yukikaze Panettone
endless957
JonnyThatJonny
akrolsmir
Ballance
sherrie__fay
Index-San
strawberrymoshi

I wanna see some taiko shirts

Ya! Taiko shirts would be AWESOME!

I'd probably buy a shirt if they weren't all girly pink... *hint hint*

FYI ideal graphic width is 10in to 12in any wider it will start to curve into the sides on small sizes when using a static graphic size for all T sizes but considering this is probably being done through cafepress wont have a choice in the matter. All things aside its a width to template off of.

are there any special requrements for characters, if i'll draw them?

i'd like to try to make a taiko tee

jmaeshawn wrote: 4f2t5d

I'd probably buy a shirt if they weren't all girly pink... *hint hint*

this

jmaeshawn wrote: 4f2t5d

I'd probably buy a shirt if they weren't all girly pink... *hint hint*

real men wear pink

YodaSnipe wrote: 2x2q5d

real men wear pink

This.

I will try and whip up a couple designs. I love these kinds of contests. Who do we PM our designs to when we finish? I'm not sure if posting designs on the thread would be in proper taste in of professional competitiveness.

RBRat3 wrote: 11c4c

FYI ideal graphic width is 10in to 12in any wider it will start to curve into the sides on small sizes when using a static graphic size for all T sizes but considering this is probably being done through cafepress wont have a choice in the matter. All things aside its a width to template off of.

it will not be through cafepress

Nekoroll wrote: 2z5jb

I will try and whip up a couple designs. I love these kinds of contests. Who do we PM our designs to when we finish? I'm not sure if posting designs on the thread would be in proper taste in of professional competitiveness.

post in this thread and I will update the main post

Combination of Public Voting. D:

Philippines wrote: 1ep2g

Combination of Public Voting. D:

Just as long as an impending "popularity contest" from public voting doesn't outweigh the "osu! team" judging, I will be fine with this.

Nekoroll wrote: 2z5jb

Philippines wrote: 1ep2g

Combination of Public Voting. D:

Just as long as an impending "popularity contest" from public voting doesn't outweigh the "osu! team" judging, I will be fine with this.

I can guarantee you that won't happen

Shirt with 'Whos Afraid of..." and on the back "..the big black"

|D *cheesy*

Id rock this XD

RBRat3 wrote: 11c4c

Id rock this XD

SPOILER

ahaha so cool XD i saw that pippy taiko also on the fanart thread XD

for those that have a problem with the shirt.
i got this Deviant Art T-shirt asset. Black,white,grey,blue and red asset.



original by Deviant Art
feel free to let out you creativity on tis shirt asset.
:sorry for bad english:

YodaSnipe wrote: 2x2q5d

jmaeshawn wrote: 4f2t5d

I'd probably buy a shirt if they weren't all girly pink... *hint hint*

real men wear pink

Reads replies

- Real men wear pink

Duly noted, comrades.

i think i got some ideas for osu! , taiko , & CTB in one shirt XD cya then XD

o3o Ooo...I wanna in this contest.

Also, a suggestion, How bout a girl style clothing too? For the girls who play osu! may want to wear something like a v-neck lining....just saying.

Ba Dum Tish, heres my stuff - simple as it gets.

osu! will be 5 years old on July 1st, 2012.

emergist wrote: 65s2v

osu! will be 5 years old on July 1st, 2012.

go scream \:D/

hmm.
LE THINKING: I could always get off my lazy butt to do something for the contest....
Outloud: *laughing* oh I'm too lazy to do that.
Anyways Good Luck peoples!

(QUICK SOMEONE MAKE IT PURPLE.)

Lolicore Flandre wrote: 4f3l32

black with osu logo

black with osu logo (darker version)

This is the osu!stream logo. Please do not use this for submission.

I'm determined to win

You've already won. Take all my prizes.

Haha, just make Ballance an official graphics artist already

Ballance wrote: 5r1920

I'm determined to win

Can't wait to see that determination in practice!

peppy wrote: 73101g

Lolicore Flandre wrote: 4f3l32

black with osu logo

black with osu logo (darker version)

This is the osu!stream logo. Please do not use this for submission.

Roger!

can i use osu! logo and osu! original skin for T-Shirt design?

Z666ful wrote: 5m3j73

for those that have a problem with the shirt.
i got this Deviant Art T-shirt asset. Black,white,grey,blue and red asset.

SPOILER

SPOILER

SPOILER

SPOILER

SPOILER

original by Deviant Art
feel free to let out you creativity on tis shirt asset.
:sorry for bad english:

thx for the template

JMC wrote: 5e31d

can i use osu! logo and osu! original skin for T-Shirt design?

You can use whatever you want, just do it in a creative way. For instance, I can slap the osu! logo on a shirt, so if you're going to do something like that make it creative.

The design is what matters, not the components used.

why u delete me submission ?

D: i feel so bad

I'm gonna get this!!

Ok.

I never thought to ask this earlier, but are front/back designs ed, or can graphics only appear on the front of the shirt?

I think Skyripper said "why not"

My biggest concern is that the t-shirt itself isn't fashionable enough. The clothing design on the other hand usually always works best with minimalism.

An osu! logo is a must for this t-shirt. Everything else could be too subjective and keep some customers away from buying the t-shirt.

I hope u like it :$

I can't draw...

theowest wrote: 4f5b4v

My biggest concern is that the t-shirt itself isn't fashionable enough. The clothing design on the other hand usually always works best with minimalism.

An osu! logo is a must for this t-shirt. Everything else could be too subjective and keep some customers away from buying the t-shirt.

are you saying that a t-shirt with just my avatar wouldn't automatically make people think about osu

blasphemy

ok. here's some IDEAS (not any final design)

it's up to you (the designers) to make this look better. Which one do you think is the best?



I really like the modder/mapper one. Maybe have a cursor over the hitcircle too?

Sloppy handwriting due to stress. I'm in a hurry! bye

i'll have a try xD
my tablet is not just for osu!(..
theowest you handwriting is so MAN!! +_+ahaha it's awesome♥

ManuxP wrote: 1l123x

I hope u like it :$

Osu design

"Rhytym is just a click away!" q.q

This contest is so interresting.
I wish I knew how to make awesome designs.

What is the font used in the default hit circles, and are we allowed to use the osu! logo? Wait, that's a really really stupid question.

Gabe wrote: 4i6g6f

ManuxP wrote: 1l123x

I hope u like it :$

Osu design

"Rhytym is just a click away!" q.q

This contest is so interresting.
I wish I knew how to make awesome designs.

Sorry I didn't notice I missed the 'H' and put the 'Y'. I feel so embarrassed .
Now It's okay, I think!

I've got one design for you right now.

This design is supposed to be as informational as possible. It shows off the osu! logo, hit circles, slogan, and even the website URL, all in a super pink palette that looks best on three different colors of tees! All of it is at an extremely high resolution.

I believe it's important to present the website URL, as anyone who sees your tee will be able to know just what to do to get more information!



The design itself, at a super high resolution with transparency. The logo and hit circles are all made to look as if they are at an angle, and popping out.

The design can use two pink colors, a dark reddish pink and a white.

This looks best on a bright blue tee.

I may return later with another design.

Doodley, you forgot of the "just" word

Galkan wrote: 543d5l

Doodley, you forgot of the "just" word

I had a feeling someone would point that out.

EDIT: Fixed.

good stuff so far.

@awp, pretty sure we will front/back (assuming the stuff is worth it)

hoping this isnt a stupid question, but are we allowed to draw our posts?

That's mine :3

I am not sure if it even could be considered as original artwork...
But at least I think this placement looks minimalistic and neat on a t-shirt



Also mod pictures can be placed near the collar on the back or on the sleeves
Like Hidden+Doubletime, Hidden+Hardrock, Hidden+Flashlight
If anything I think it's more likely that experienced players are going to buy such t-shirts

It's possible to play around with colorizing everything. Like making osu! logo black/bright yellow glowing
I am just not sure the creator of this game wants that

Please do NOT put your design on a photo of a t-shirt. Provide the actual raw artwork.
Please do NOT use spoiler tags.
Please do NOT quote other people's images.

Please do fix your previous posts with this in mind.

Keep in mind that you can't use huge colour gamuts when printing on shirts. The fewer colours, the better. Also keep in mind fine line artwork will not print well (and the lines may be indiscernible from each other).

Also please keep comments on other people's designs from this thread. We will begin to delete these just to keep things in order.

I'd buy a "Big Big Yeah" shirt if anyone actually made it.

Here's a submission. Feel free to remake it if you think you can do better.

Big version (just increased in size by 600%)


Smaller version:


This would not work well with some colours. Works well with white, silver, Heather Grey, Turquoise, Blue, Blue Jean, Ocean Blue, Light Blue, Jade, and Lagoon. I'm not sure what size of this design would work best on the t-shirt.

Doodley wrote: 6y6x5i

I use templates from Threadless, as they provide me with more colors and a better look at what the design would look like on a tee. The templates are available here!

The reason why it's pixelated is because it's harder for me to work with non-pixelated fonts. The reason why my avatar looks the way it looks.
Here's what was going on in my head, first I was thinking about just osu!, but that was boring and old, so I put .exe on the end: "osu!.exe". This however looked weird with the two punctuation symbols right next to each other. So I created another line. Now I wanted to add something else, so I thought of putting an osu! cookie in the background, still a possibility but it was so much easier for me just to put two pink lines around it. The colour matches the website pink.

I drew mine and took a photo with a camera, so sorry if it looks crap, but here's what i got so far...

YodaSnipe wrote: 2x2q5d

jmaeshawn wrote: 4f2t5d

I'd probably buy a shirt if they weren't all girly pink... *hint hint*

real men wear pink

Actually, real men traditionally wear red. Pink, being a weaker version of the ionate red, was for boys. And blue, as the cooler emotional colour, was for women... light blue, as a colour of purity (and associated with the Virgin Mary), was for girls. Sometime last century (which is within living memory, talk to enough old people and you'll hear stories of this... you can also see references to this by going through magazine archives from the early 20th century), the associations for pink and blue got switched. Of course, this is also limiting things to modern western culture... things vary quite a bit across the world as well as through time. The point being, that there really isn't any gender significance in colours beyond what you put there yourself.

-after some guidance by theowest-

Finally done ^-^

This is my design, all done by myself. I love TLOZ games so that's why I did this crossover.
Also, thanks Doodley. That tshirt template is awesome. I used spoilerboxes because the drawing size is.. very big.

THAT-IS-MY-KEI
SO AWESOME

bwross wrote: 5v6b4p

Actually, real men traditionally wear red. Pink, being a weaker version of the ionate red, was for boys. And blue, as the cooler emotional colour, was for women... light blue, as a colour of purity (and associated with the Virgin Mary), was for girls. Sometime last century (which is within living memory, talk to enough old people and you'll hear stories of this... you can also see references to this by going through magazine archives from the early 20th century), the associations for pink and blue got switched. Of course, this is also limiting things to modern western culture... things vary quite a bit across the world as well as through time. The point being, that there really isn't any gender significance in colours beyond what you put there yourself.

real men wear pink

updated

YodaSnipe wrote: 2x2q5d

bwross wrote: 5v6b4p

Actually, real men traditionally wear red. Pink, being a weaker version of the ionate red, was for boys. And blue, as the cooler emotional colour, was for women... light blue, as a colour of purity (and associated with the Virgin Mary), was for girls. Sometime last century (which is within living memory, talk to enough old people and you'll hear stories of this... you can also see references to this by going through magazine archives from the early 20th century), the associations for pink and blue got switched. Of course, this is also limiting things to modern western culture... things vary quite a bit across the world as well as through time. The point being, that there really isn't any gender significance in colours beyond what you put there yourself.

real men wear pink

@bwross your argument is invalid.

Kei wrote: 2u4r5m

This is my design, all done by myself. I love TLOZ games so that's why I did this crossover.
Also, thanks Doodley. That tshirt template is awesome. I used spoilerboxes because the drawing size is.. very big.

You won, Take all my Internetz

no copyrighted images, link is copyrighted to nintendo

Oh well, damn. I didn't had that in mind. I'll have to edit all the drawing and make it look like pippi, I guess.

You could draw a Link-like character. Just not specifically his image because we cannot legally say that it is Link.

on shirt.woot.com they use characters that have a copyright at times, but they do it in a manner in which it could easily be said the character is someone else.

Also this:

Snepif wrote: 5o5wu

Selling fanart drawn by yourself is illegal? I'm not sure about that. You are not claiming the character is yours, nor the game series. You are claiming the drawing is yours. Correct me if I am wrong, but that's my logic?

Selling fanart drawn by yourself is illegal? I'm not sure about that. You are not claiming the character is yours, nor the game series. You are claiming the drawing is yours. Correct me if I am wrong, but that's my logic?

Edit: @the above post. That would mean it is legal and ok to sell that t-shirt? The drawing itself is just a fanart, it doesn't say it is Link or something

Well then, with that said, my artwork is accepted/legal or not? I don't really want to re-do it, because I like it a lot as it is.

Snepif wrote: 5o5wu

@the above post. That would mean it is legal and ok to sell that t-shirt? lol

If it's fanart, I don't see a big deal. If you copy-pasted an image of Link that was a Nintendo design, well you would have an issue.

I personally sell fanart... I've never been in trouble for it.

EDIT: Keep your submission, I like it. We will see.

Also, I would wear that shirt all day long.

Then the artwork is valid. It is self-made, she didn't copy anything

ME TOO GOGOGOGOGO YES I AM HAPPY

Please do NOT put your design on a photo of a t-shirt. Provide the actual raw artwork.

Ummm... unless I missed something? The T'shirt bit was just to show its best contrast color and to give better reference of look which you cant get from just an image and a raw as a submission wasn't a requirement...

Submissions can be any resolution, but winners must provide 300+ DPI proofs (.ai or a similar vector format preferred)

Keep in mind that you can't use huge colour gamuts when printing on shirts.

Not true this depends on the method of transfer. If the business does their job right that should never be an issue.

Please do NOT use spoiler tags.

If the image is stock spoilers should stop a potential 20mb+ png from loading until its clicked, I dont wanna see what a full page of 20mb images is like loading all at once XD

peppy wrote: 73101g

Please do NOT put your design on a photo of a t-shirt. Provide the actual raw artwork.
Please do NOT use spoiler tags.
Please do NOT quote other people's images.

Please do fix your previous posts with this in mind.

Keep in mind that you can't use huge colour gamuts when printing on shirts. The fewer colours, the better. Also keep in mind fine line artwork will not print well (and the lines may be indiscernible from each other).

Also please keep comments on other people's designs from this thread. We will begin to delete these just to keep things in order.

Are you asking for icons, logos or something like that? because if not, the design must be in t-shirt ...

If someone makes the design purple, I shall forever love you.

iYoonaRawrx wrote: 7043i

If someone makes the design purple, I shall forever love you.

Already done, kinda :3

Front:

The "Click" in the circle is kinda meant to suggest a hit circle. The representation is really vague, but I wanted to make the design both simple and creative..

eldnl wrote: 2g1ve

Are you asking for icons, logos or something like that? because if not, the design must be in t-shirt ...

Just provide the design. Not the design overlaid on a photo of a t-shirt.

RBRat3 wrote: 11c4c

Ummm... unless I missed something? The T'shirt bit was just to show its best contrast color and to give better reference of look which you cant get from just an image and a raw as a submission wasn't a requirement...

It makes submissions unequal. I will be deleting any that are on templates. If you want contrast, change the background colour of the image.
For judging, they may all be placed on templates of equal nature by us.

RBRat3 wrote: 11c4c

Not true this depends on the method of transfer. If the business does their job right that should never be an issue.

I am asking based on the requirements I have. Unless you want to handle the printing / store / distribution process, please accept these .

RBRat3 wrote: 11c4c

If the image is stock spoilers should stop a potential 20mb+ png from loading until its clicked, I dont wanna see what a full page of 20mb images is like loading all at once XD

Spoiler tags do not stop images from loading. No one should be posting 20mb images in this thread (as the raw does not need to be provided, and osu! forums will scale it back to 600x anyway).