T-Shirt Design Contest 2025
Show off your creativity & enter the 2025 State College Pride T-Shirt Design Contest. (rules below)

CONTEST RULES
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All designs must be original creations of the contestant and incorporate all of the required design components outlined below and encompass State College Pride logo. Submissions must not have been previously published and must not contain profanity, trademarks, other organization's logos, or any copyrighted works of any other person or business.
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Design(s) must be submitted to cat@centrelgbtqa.org by 11:59pm (ET) on March 30, 2025.
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Winning designer agrees to sign a waiver to allow Centre LGBT+ the use of their design, free of charge, for any and all printing and promotional purposes. Designer will not be compensated.
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Use of AI is NOT permitted.
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See theme below so ideas and preferred incorporation into this.
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A limit of no more than 5 colors. In order to ensure we can keep costs inclusive.
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Any submissions MUST align with the mission of Centre LGBT+, any submissions deemed unfit will not be considered.
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By submitting an entry, you are agreeing to all contest rules. If you have any questions, please email cat@centrelgbtqa.org
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REQUIRED DESIGN COMPONENTS
The winning design will be placed on the official State College Pride 2025 T-Shirts. (Please note: all t-shirts will be white, not subject to change.)
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THEME: the design must incorporate the official State College Pride Logo and should include the year 2025. Designs should take into consideration that our organization is celebrating our 10 year anniversary during Pride.
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ARTWORK: all artwork submitted must be submitted in .pdf format.
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Font is subject to change, artwork will not be altered.
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SELECTION OF WINNER
Entries will be evaluated by an independent internal panel of judges and will be reviewed for:
Concept and originality of design
Visibility from a reasonable distance
Adherence to design and submission rules and guidelines
Adherence to State College Pride branding guidelines, including logo usage
Successfully capturing the spirit of State College Pride and the overall mission of Centre LGBT+
Winner will be publicly recognized and receive a $100 prize and T-Shirt
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THE FINE PRINT
Publicity and Agreement: Contest entry constitutes an agreement by the submitting designers to grant free license of all copyrights of the submitted works to Centre LGBT+ in perpetuity, for publicity and promotional purposes.
Media Release: By submitting artwork, you agree that if your design wins, Centre LGBT+ retains first printing rights and a free license, in perpetuity, to utilize the design on t-shirts and other promotional items, and marketing, fundraising, and public relations materials. You are guaranteeing that your design does not contain any copyrighted material, including images/copy found on the internet, unless clearly marked as published under a Creative Commons (cc) license. Contest entrants who are not selected as the winning designer(s) retain all rights to their artwork.