win free stuff

by mg at 12:16 PM on June 11, 2001

A couple months ago I’d asked Snaggle, as the resident design guru, to come up with a new logo for the site. Unfortunately Snaggle is one lazy MoFo and he never got around to it. The bastard! His laziness is why you’ve all been inflicted with my poorly hacked together “BS” box logo thing. You should yell at him about it.

Anyway, I’ve been kicking around the idea of selling Bad Samaritan swag through Café Press. I don’t expect to make millions off of mugs and mouse pads, but DAMN, how cool would it be chilling around town with a bad sam t-shirt?

So, what I’ve decided to do, both to encourage Snaggle to move his ass, and to increase the “stickiness” of this site, is to run a contest. Yes, that’s right, a contest.

Here are the details: there will be two categories, logo design and t-shirt design. I was thinking there would be only one winner, but there might be several really good t-shirts, in which case I’d want to offer several different shirts.

I will make the final decision about who wins and who is a loser, unless there more entries then I am expecting, in which case I will whittle down the list to a couple of favorites and then allow you to make the final decision.

If you aren’t a kick ass designer, don’t fret. For the t-shirt design the quality of your concept will carry almost as much weight as the quality of your execution of that idea.

Winners will receive 1) a free whatever it is they’ve designed, 2) my eternal gratitude, 3) the adoration of millions and 4) a percentage of profits from sales of the merchandise. If you win the logo design, your logo will be used here on the site, and I guess I’ll have to figure something else for you to win since there won’t be any sales or profits. You’ll get something and it’ll be good, whatever it is – probably a pile of money.

The contest will be open for two weeks. All entries should be in by Monday June 25. You should should mail me for details about how to submit your work

Keep in mind the site’s official tagline, which is “Last in line for the Nobel Peace Prize. First in line for pie,” and the current color scheme, though, I want people to go crazy. If someone creates a kick ass idea/execution that I would never have come up with on my own, I will be equally as bowled over as by someone who seems to have read my mind and comes up with the same thing I would if I were better than a half-assed designer.