This music festival may not break the attendance records set by Woodstock, but the Linton Music Festival does offer a chance for graphic artists and illustrators to submit their entries to its t-shirt design competition.

The winning t-shirt design will be sold at the concert and online. The winning entry receives $500. Second place receives a royalty of 50 cents for every t-shirt sold.

Rules and details of the contest:

• 2 or less “spot” colors! (no blends or shades)
• No white t-shirts!
• Design using vector art…if you win, must provide design in vector format, and in desired print size. (Must be smaller than 1500×1500 pixels)
• No more than 2 designs will be accepted per person. ONLY 20 designs will advance to the “Voting” phase.

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The contest deadline is July 1, 2009.

The music concert takes place in Linton, Indiana, a small town with a population of 6,000. Linton is home to Goose Pond, one of the country’s leading wetland preservation projects. The festival is from August 29-31, 2009. Garage bands, indie artists, jazz, rock, and even bluegrass music rounds out this eclectic selection of entertainment.

Last year, the festival had over 10,000 people attend. The event is free of charge and camping sites are available near the festival grounds.

Phailbucket is a resource exchange for deisgners. The objective of this contest is to create a official Phailbucket T-Shirt. This shirt will also be sold in our Phailbucket Store later on, and the winner would get 20% of the profits. They are looking for simple, elegant design that is bold and creative. Shirt color limited to black or white, and three-six colors for the design.

You also must have an account at Phailbucket and live in the U.S. Deadline is 30 April 2009. Visit the site to learn more about this contest.

Inkfruit helps the designer community by allowing designers to focus upon what they are best at: designing awesome graphic t-shirts. Inkfruit facilitates the process by manufacturing the winning designs and ensure that name fame and money flows to the designer.

At Inkfruit, choice of winning designs is a collective decision of community. Inkfruit empowers the consumer to decide what is indeed good and worth their pennies. The winning designs are printed on 100% cotton t-shirts and printing is done through screen printing methods. Screen printing allows Inkfruit to print various effects like foil, high density, pigment, glow-in-the-dark inks and more with flexibility in terms of design size and placement on the t-shirt.

In terms of choice, customers can be assured of getting excellent graphic t-shirt every time they visit the site www.inkfruit.com site, as voting and comments by community ensures that non-deserving designs are weeded out. Consumers need no longer remain content with humorous one-liner message t-shirts. The winning t-shirts are screen printed and made available for sale online. Designers are paid 20,000 INR worth in prizes every fortnight. Also, the name of designer features on the t-shirt label thus ensuring the designer gets due credit for their creation and hard work. Visit Inkfruit to learn more.

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Design Book Magazine is now accepting entries for their T-shirt design competition. The winning design will be become their official shirt for the 2008 season. Winning designer’s bio and work will be shown in the Summer issue along with a link to his or her website.

Entries will be judged on creativity and originality. There is no entry fee or limit to the number of entries per designer. All designs must be original. Submit your entry by 20 June 2008 deadline. Visit the site to learn more.