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Competitions

This is the space for all you creative and inspiring people! Here we are launching a T-shirt design competition every 3-4 month. (We will give you brief guidelines and themes). A Fifth Column jury will then select the best design and print 50-100 T-shirts which will be sold on our website. See below our current competitions:

'What's up' competition January/February 2006 This is our new competition about culturally, socially and politically issues. Please see details below. We look forward to see your ideas. Send your ideas to creative@fifthcolumnclassics.co.uk Your Fifth Column team

'Slogan' competition November /December 2005 Thank you for all your great entries. The decision for the best slogan was very tough. But here are the winners ... A big thanks to the three winners Charmain Walker Ben Brookbanks and Charles Brockbank and this was the story... We collaborated with London’s unique club night Bring and Share to find the best SLOGAN for a T-shirt. Anything was possible and we had over 50 entries. The three best slogan T-shirts, are now available in our online shop. All takings from the sales of the Slogan t-shirt will be donated to the victims of the Pakistan Earthquake. Deadline: 26. November 2005

'What's up?' competition: details

This is a new competition and your chance of getting your ideas and designs across to a wide audience. But that's not all, we will award the winners a voucher of £50 to spend in our www/fifthcolumnclassics.co.uk online shop for his/hers work and they will receive 5 of their T-shirts for free.

To get started see the competition details below. The first deadline is extended to the 28.02.2006

Background:
Fifth Column has always been politically, socially and culturally concerned about what's happening in our world. Whether by supporting action groups such as NSC in the 1970's or been actively involved with the 'Critical Mass'  today.

Brief:
Design a T-shirt around politically, socially or culturally issues that concern you.

Specification:
The artwork needs to be a 1-2 colour design formatted as jpeg, Illustrator file (ai), TIFF, PDF or Word document(200-300dpi). It should not exceed a size of A3 (29x42cm). A visual showing placement of design on T-shirt is also a good idea, because a print does not have to sit in the middle of a shirt (but make sure the design does not go over the edges or neck of the shirt. There is no specification on the T-shirt colour. You can see available colours on our print website www.fifthcolumn.co.uk

Copyright:
By accepting the winning reward of £50 the designer transfers a temporary copyright to Fifth Column to print a maximum of 100 T-shirts. If our sales exceed 100 shirts we will negotiate a commission or extended fee with the artist. The artist retains copyright of design.

Deadline:
28. February 2006

Sending artwork:
E-mail: you can send your artwork to creative@fifthcolumnclassics.co.uk Please send artwork at a maximum of 2MB and mention 'competition 'What's up' in the subject. Please do not forget to include your contact details in your E-mail.

Post: You can also send your designs to:

Fifth Column Classics
Competitions
276 Kentish Town Road
London NW5 2AA