If you don’t know what I’m talking about check out our T-Shirt Contest Rules.

I keep hearing from people how they are working on it, well quit killing time if you want to win some free gear and send us your doodles. Remember, it doesn’t have to be pretty, just creative!

Stick Figures are Cool

For those interested in getting our 2008 Summer Competition Series T-shirts check out our Cafe Press Apparel. You can buy them online there or better yet come to the International Climbers Festival or to the Horseshoe Canyon 24 Hour Competition and get one in person. When the contest is up in August we hope to be using your design!

Balance In Life

Joe Kuster

Ideas we’ve used in the past:

Front: stick figure slacker / Back: “Professional Slacker”

Front: Blue Triangle logo / Back: “Keep Watching, I might do a Trick!”

Front: Stick figure slacker / Back: A slackline comic strip

Front: “Professional Slacker”

Rules & Guidelines:

Colors: We’d like to stay away from the usual white T-shirt as they stain like crazy thus making them unsuitable for climbing and hiking. If anyone knows of a good source for decent athletic wicking (non-cotton) t-shirts that are affordable and compatible with printing that’d be awesome as well. We’ve been kicking around a light blue, medium green, black, dirt shirt reddish brown or heather gray color scheme for the shirt itself.

Don’t feel limited by our previous crappy ideas or logos. That said, your welcome to use them for your design so I’ve posted a few of our graphics below.

Apparel Format: Long sleeve shirt and other apparel designs will be accepted but we prefer it to be flexible enough to work on T-shirts and women’s tops as well. It would be extra cool if you can make it work on Slacker Panties.

Graphics: Simple rough sketches, sayings and logo drafts will be fine, I’ll do the color separation and such on our end before we send them in to be printed. Tip: full color photos & graphics don’t turn out so well, stick to 4 colors or less per side for best results. Please submit ideas in JPG, GIF, PSD, AI or PSP files and keep the combined email attachment size less than 10mb. We’ll be judging on creativity for a clean and simple shirt design, not your prowess with Illustrator of Photoshop.

Legal Stuff: By submitting your artwork / ideas you are agreeing to let us use your copyrighted ideas / works for our promotional stuff. It also means that you can’t rip off other people’s copyrighted works and send it in; it has to be your design / saying. As part of the contest you also have to agree to let us mention your name in the contest results.

The slackline system will be the winners choice of either a Primo 50 w/ padding or a Primitive system with sewn loop and 5 carabiners. The top 3 designs will receive a free shirt in whatever design we end up going with.

The contest will close on August 1, 2008 at midnight. We’ll announce the winner by August 7th.

Submit your graphics & ideas to tshirts@slacklineexpress.com

All of the photos below are copyright of Slackline Express and can only be used for this competition and sent to us, not for other purposes.

Balance in Life,

Joe Kuster