Park Slope Food Coop

The First Ever Coop T-Shirt Design Contest

Submit a design for a cool new Coop T- shirt. Awe inspiring prize for the winning entry.

Submit your design any time between Tuesday, September 8 and Monday, October 5, 2009. All submissions that meet the membership and design requirements detailed below will be considered. Members will vote—online or in the Coop—for their favorite designs this Fall. The winning design will be announced some time prior to December 15, and will appear on T-shirts for sale in the Coop shortly thereafter. We hope to have the T- shirts for sale in the store before the winter holidays. And, finally, the prize: the winning designer (or design team) will receive one year's worth of work credit.

Please read the design requirements and designer eligibility rules carefully before submitting your design. Failure to meet to either design or eligibility requirements will lead to automatic disqualification of your submission.

• How to Submit Your Design
• Designer Eligibility Rules
• Design Requirements
• How the Winner will be Selected
• Voter Eligibility
• A Few Design Considerations
• The Prize
• Ownership of the Winning Design

Designer Eligibility Rules

1. If the design is submitted by a team, all designers must meet eligibility rules.
2. At least 6 months of Coop membership immediately preceding the date of your submission, and 18 years of age or older.
3. Staff, staff immediate family, staff housemates, and signage committee members may not submit entries.
4. Designers must maintain their Coop membership during the design selection process and be current Coop members on the day the winner is announced.
5. To verify membership we will be checking the info you submit against our membership database. If the info you submit does not match the info we have in the membership database, and we are therefore unable to verify your membership eligibility, you may be disqualified. Your submission will be considered invalid until you contact the Coop's Membership Office, correct the info on file in our database, and re-submit the electronic portion of your entry.
6. Designs submitted by members who do not meet all of the above detailed eligibility requirements will be automatically eliminated.

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Design Requirements

1. One design per entrant. Entrants may be individuals or groups.
2. Design must be one-sided (front or back of t-shirt)
3. Design may be 1 or 2 color (design may be any color(s) of the artist's choosing).
4. Design will be for adult sized t-shirts only and must be:
   Width between 5.5–9.5 inches wide,
   Height between 6–12 inches high.
5. The following information MUST be in the design:
   Park Slope Food Coop
   Brooklyn, NY
   Since 1973
6. No profane, foul, offensive language or symbols.
7. The artist may sign his/her design, but in an unobtrusive manner. The signature is not supposed to be the design in this case. Absolutely no designer phone numbers or web addresses.
8. The artist is encouraged, though not required, to include a copyright notice in the PDF version of the design, in an unobtrusive location. This copyright notice will not be part of the final design should your entry be selected at the winner.
9. The artist must submit a 300dpi PDF that is no larger than 7MB and a jpeg or png thumbnail of no greater than 300 pixels in its largest dimension.
10. Designs will be automatically eliminated from the contest if they fail to meet any one of above requirements.

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How the Winner will be Selected

• All eligible design submissions will be posted at foodcoop.com and will be available for viewing in two binders at the Coop. One will be located in the ground floor elevator lobby and the other at the second floor service desk.
• Voting will take place at foodcoop.com and/or using paper ballots available in the Coop. Voters may vote for up to 3 designs, but may vote for any individual design ONLY once. If a voter chooses to vote for more than one design, they will be required to rank their selections from one to three, with one being the most favored. If a voter votes more than once, his/her last submitted ballot will be the one counted.
• If the number of eligible submissions is greater than 50, then voting/selection process will take place in two rounds. The first round will take place in October. If there are more than 50 designs in round one, the top ten vote getting designs from round one will advance to round two, which will take place in November. The winning design will be selected from that group of ten in the second round of voting and announced in early December.
• Round one will begin once all eligible submissions have been vetted for eligibility and made available for viewing, and will continue for 4 weeks. The date and time of final vote casting will be posted with the designs.
• After the voting deadline, all votes will be verified for eligible member status. Eligible votes will then be tallied and either a winner selected, or the top ten vote getters will be re- posted for a second round of voting.
• If a second round of voting is called for, it will commence and proceed for between two and four weeks. The date and time of final vote casting will be posted with the designs.
• After the second voting deadline has been reached, the vote counting will proceed exactly as the first round of vote counting. From this round the winner will be selected.

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Voter Eligibility

You must be a Coop member on the date your vote is submitted and a member continuously through and including the date the winner is announced.

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A Few Design Considerations

• The design is not PR per se for the Coop. This means that certain information -- like our address, phone and web address -- does NOT need to be included.
• If you want to include a slogan in your design, feel free, but understand that members will then be judging your work on not just its graphic but also its literary content.
• For example, the following information could be included in a design:
  "Member Owned, Member Operated"
  "Good Food at Low Prices for Working Members through Cooperation since 1973"
• The design will need to look good on a wide range of sizes from women's small to men's extra large--a one-size fits all design. The size of the design will NOT be changed to accommodate the range of sizes of all the adult t-shirts.
• The artist of the winning design will work with the printing committee to determine which colors of t-shirts to print on. A single color design may be submitted in two versions--one for printing on light colored shirts and one for printing on dark colored shirts.

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The Prize

The winning designer or design team will be awarded one year's work credit. In a case where the design was submitted by a team, that's 13 work shifts per design not per designer. If a team of designers submits the winning design, they will decide amongst themselves how to share the 13 work credits. Those credits will come in the form of FTOP credits, which can be used immediately or saved for future use following the Coop's normal rules for use of banked FTOP credits. If you owe make-ups, the appropriate number of the winning shifts will be applied to the winner's work record until the number of make-ups owed is zero. The balance of winning shifts will be awarded as FTOP shifts.

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Ownership of the Winning Design

The Park Slope Food Coop will own the rights to the winning design and may use the design only in its original format, or amended with the artist's approval, as it chooses. The Coop may use the design for other purposes such as on reusable shopping bags or youth t-shirts.

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