T-Shirt Design Contest

Every year in September, ACM hosts a T-Shirt Design Contest for our members-only t-shirt. This section will discuss how to run the t-shirt design contest.

Design Contraints

We usually only allow contestants to design the front of the ACM T-Shirt as the back of the t-shirt should contain:

  1. Mention of the ACM Website
  2. Logos of the sponsors

However, if the student does design a really stunning back, please work with them to integrate these features into the design.

General Preperation

September

  • Advertisement - Create a poster and place it around the CS building at the end of September. Previous examples of fliers can be found in figma.

  • Prizes - Students should be rewarded for putting in the time and effort to make a good looking t-shirt for us. The prize structure we have used in the past is:

    • $50 Amazon Gift Card
    • The designer’s signature on the t-shirt
    • A free t-shirt of their design.

October

  • End Submissions - End t-shirt design submissions sometime in early October. This is usually chosen as the second Friday in October.
  • T-Shirt Voting - Perform all of the voting for the best t-shirt. The voting structure will be discussed in the Voting section.
  • Order the New Shirts - The t-shirt order should be put in, at the latest, the last week in October to ensure the t-shirt can be handed out before the semester gets crazy. Be sure to finalize all sponsorship confirmations about being on the shirt before ordering.
  • Send Out Sizing Survey - In parrallel with voting/ordering the shirt, send out a sizing survey to make sure that you order to right number/sizes of t-shirts. It is usually best to order exactly or less than this number as sometimes students do not pickup their shirts (but be careful with this).

November

  • Hand Out T-Shirts - Host something like ‘ACM Office Hours’ where you have ACM officers sit in the CS Lounge and hand out t-shirts for a couple of hours each day for a week.

Voting

Voting for the t-shirt happens in two stages:

  • General Voting - In this stage, send out all design submissions to ACM members and have them pick their top 3 (or use some kind of approval voting). Try to allow for 1 to 2 weeks for voting.
  • Executive Board Voting - The executive board will then take the top 3 student-chosen designs and pick the best one at the executive meeting following the General Voting.

Previous Designs

Previous designs can be found in the below table:

Year Vendor Site Design Raw Design
2018 - 2019 Custom Ink See old Custom Ink orders raw fs18