Path of Exile and J!NX Shirt Design Contest

Edit: The competition is now over!


Purpose of the Contest:
It's really hard to come up with awesome T-Shirt designs! The Tabula Rasa design (used in the Open Beta supporter packs) was actually suggested by a community member. The goal of this contest is to find the next awesome design for a T-Shirt. Submit your ideas (in text or image form) and we'll pick our favourites. J!NX have offered to help us turn the best idea into a shirt that will be made available on their store. They're also helping out with heaps of prizes for this contest.

We're looking to create a shirt that will be awesome to wear out and about in the community, while still being instantly recognisable to other Path of Exile players. Maybe it'll have a clever slogan, a funny image or an in-joke that only our community would understand. We're really excited to see what you'll come up with!

Contest Rules

5 Grand Prize Winners:

• Champion Supporter Pack ($280 value)
• 5 Winning Design Contest Tees from J!NX ($110 value)
• $100 J!NX Gift Certificate Code
• 1 Path of Exile Vintage Logo Premium Tee ($22 value)
• 1 Path of Exile Vintage Logo Hoodie ($40 value)

5 Runner Up Winners:

• Warrior Supporter Pack ($120 value)
• $100 J!NX Gift Certificate Code
• 1 Path of Exile Vintage Logo Premium Tee ($22 value)
• 1 Path of Exile Vintage Logo Hoodie ($40 value)

Submission Guidelines:
Your entry doesn't have to be an image. While images are of course preferable, even a textual description is good enough if it's really clever and would make a great T-shirt.
Your submission must be 100% your own work. You're allowed to refer to Path of Exile content and use its art assets, but please don't submit full screenshots from the game. Your design should be easily identifiable as a reference to Path of Exile. All designs must be appropriate for an audience of most ages. No nudity, profanity or overtly mature themes. Keep it classy!

Remember that various constraints apply to the physical shirt creation process. While a shirt that consists of the entire Skill Tree wrapped around your body may be awesome, it's not necessarily something that we're able to print easily. We'll be taking these considerations into account when selecting winners. Also, we're hoping people will be able to wear these shirts in public without feeling silly. A realistic picture of a Templar with no pants might be an awesome in-joke, but people might not want to actually wear it outside.

How to Submit your Entry:
Submissions will be accepted until Jan 10th, 2014 at 11:59 PM PDT. You must be a member of the Path of Exile forums to enter. Once your entry is ready, please post it in this thread (clearly marked with the words “This is my submission”). You're able to enter multiple different designs (in the same post or in several) and we encourage people to discuss each other's submissions as they're posted. Seeing the community's reaction to submissions may help us in the judging process.

Selection of Winners:
Winning entries will be selected via the creative teams at Grinding Gear Games and J!NX. We'll be selecting entries that we feel would make great shirts and are able to be produced. The winning designs will be announced within two weeks of the end of the contest. We'll then work with J!NX to create a shirt inspired by one of the Grand Prize winner designs and will make it available for the community to purchase on J!NX's store.

Fine Print:

• You may use Path of Exile intellectual property in your entry.
• Do not submit anything that includes other people's intellectual property. Don't reference trademarks, brands or characters that Grinding Gear Games doesn't own.
• It's fine to submit multiple entries. Just make sure they're all marked with "This is my submission".
• Selection of winners will be performed by Grinding Gear Games and J!NX. All decisions are final.
• We'll ship the prizes internationally for free, but you are responsible for any taxes that need to be paid to get them into your country.
• By submitting an entry, you grant us (and J!NX) permission to use that entry for any purpose. We'll post about it in the news and may make a shirt out of it.

If you like a design that you see in this thread, please post to let people know!