Grab your pens, the 2024 Design Contest is here!

Who’s that knocking on your door? Could it be the first design contest of the year? Let’s find out!

It’s been a while! Fancy adding a sprinkle of competition to your life? A step up in the Star Academy? Then the 2024 Design Contest is exactly what you’re looking for. We’re more than ready to see all your inspiring designs. You’ll find out everything you need to know here.

The theme of our 2024 Design Contest: Pride (LGBTQIA+)

Tag it! The contest keyword: pridedesigncontest2024

Timeline & important dates

23.04.2024. | Start of the design contest
21.05.2024. (by 23:59) | Entry Deadline
28.05.2024. | Announcement of the 20 finalists and start of internal voting (selection of the Winners)
03.06.2024. | Voting Deadline
05.06.2024. | Announcement of the Winners

Congratulations to our Top 20

“Only Humans are homophobic” Pride Tiere designed by Huette Kunterbunt

“LOVE LOADING Please stand by” designed by PrideHEROES

Shine Pride designed by minavi

Love has no gender designed by Tizika

Colourful LGBTQIA+ designed by PIEP

Cute Bee Rainbow (LGBTQIA+) designed by byFey

Love is like art – colourful – LGBTQIA+ designed by Ellen Tune

Diversity designed by T-Shirt Welt

Pride (LGBTQIA+) designed by Bexx

Pride black cat designed by Kaelva

Optimistic Pride designed by Fluse-san

“I am in the mix” designed by Me And My Tee

Pride in the city designed by Lucky State

LGBTQIA+ designed by ramoncravel

Love always wins designed by Tausendfarbig

United for the right to be you designed by Illustranka

Peace Love designed by Juicy Design

Rainbow pride designed by Zordi

Pride Month – Love is Love designed by Kattos

We are real designed by ArtCreativa Multimedia-Design

1. Why should I take part?

Every day we see your breath taking, creative designs. It’s time to channel that creativity into competition and give your creations the chance to get a proper marketing boost. Push your creativity to new levels and sharpen those additional skills you’ve been wanting to practice! Plus: the more creative your content, the more likely you will be able to move up to a higher star class, increasing the visibility of your designs and sales.

Oh, and not to mention the cash prizes, campaign features, and vouchers to be won, but more on that later…

2. How can I take part?

Here’s the low down, short and sweet:

Each participant may only submit ONE design. If we receive several designs from one person, our jury will only consider the first design.

Designers of all star classes are eligible to participate

The participating design must be uploaded within 4 weeks (28 days) after the start of the contest

The participating design must be tagged with the contest keyword to be considered by the jury. The keyword will be announced with the theme of the design contest and will also be available on the design contest page

Designs uploaded before the start date of the competition will not be considered by our jury

For a fair competition: We reserve the right to exclude AI designs that we can directly recognize and classify as such from the competition

Further information can be found in the attached terms and conditions (see below)

The contest starts with the announcement of the design contest theme and lasts 4 weeks (28 days). We will update this page as soon as there’s news about the contest. You will find the most important information at the top of the page. So make sure to check back regularly!

And as always: by taking part in our design competition, you automatically accept our conditions of participation and our privacy policy.

3. How are the winners selected?

Step 1: Our design experts will review each and every design of thousands of submissions. Then they’ll select the top 20 based on the following criteria:

The effect on the product: does the design come out well on a Spreadshirt product?

Relation to the topic: how relevant and appropriate is the design for the competition?

Very important – creativity: is the design unique and original?

Art is about skill: does the design show solid creative skills?

The jury will award points for each criterion on a scale of 0 to 3. This means that a design can receive a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 12 points from each jury member. To determine the total score, the points awarded by all jury members will be added up. This will determine the top 20.

Schritt 2 : From the selected top 20, the 10 top-rated designs automatically make it to the second step of the voting. The three winners will be determined by an internal vote by Spreadshirt employees. The first three places go to those whose design received the highest rating. The top 10 designs are also determined according to the rating results.

When announced, you’ll find all the winners here: The Top 20 finalists and the winners of the Top 10 will be announced publicly both on this page and by e-mail.

4. What are the prizes I can win?

The top 20 finalists will be presented on a promoted page on our website and in the newsletter

The top 10 will win a €25 Spreadshirt voucher

The top 5 will also be featured on Instagram

The top 3 winners will be featured on our blog and win these prizes

1st place: cash prize of €150 AND a feature in one of our biggest campaigns, the T-shirt of the week!

2nd place: cash prize of €100

3rd place: cash prize of €70

See Terms of Participation

Are you already as excited as we are? We can’t wait to officially announce the contest theme and discover all your creative designs. As always, feel free to ask us any questions or leave comments on our forum or in the comments below.