Hey! I’m sure I met this guy at a New Year’s Eve party one year! He was trying to convince me that it was just a matter of time before he went back…Must admit he was pretty spaced ;)

Lovely IA…I am officially a fan! The background is a bit busy – detracts from your awesome design. You still got my vote!

Hang on — did I just jump to the Markham’s comp?

I missed a beat completely…I was so excited to come online this morning – see if I had a happy email in my in-box & order ‘HEAVEN TO HADES’ as it was my absolute fav. T from the last 2 weeks (and a lot of other people’s by the comments left)…only to discover this one winner thing….What a nasty surprise!! I’m totally disappointed with the re-structuring of the site… I totally agree with Tu (thanks Tu for all your comments) – I’d rather be printed than win more money…the thrill of maybe seeing someone in a T of my design & wearing my own design would be enough reward for me.

SpringLeap has been a little indulgence — I’ve spent a couple of days on one design to enter a month in the hope that I will be one of 20 — then one of 10…now one of ONE!(?) to be printed …I’ve spent time voting for all the designs & leaving comments etc. Is it worth playing for such bad odds. One in 5 every 2 weeks would even be better…

All the T’s I’ve ordered have not been the number one winners. I don’t think I’d like to order Tshirts that are being mass printed because of lack of variety – lack of options for the buyer. With the designers who enter being the main voters (I presume), the same(ish) people will be voting in every competition. This means that so it will be a design chosen of the majority designers taste & not necessarily the ‘buyer’s taste (unless the majority of designers are the buyers?)…
Will the votes honestly reflect the true buyers taste as everyone will be wanting their design to win? SpringLeap will become a cut-throat competition rather than a celebration of design as I feel it has been up till December.

Designers have a variety of styles & limiting the competition like this perhaps squishes the chances of really good designs being printed…eg: a really girly design would not be chosen if the majority of voters are guys (who may buy the T for their girlfriend)??

Now, not only can I not have a REALLY great T-Shirt that lots of people also loved (Heaven to Hades), but I am also feeling as if its not really worth my time to spend time on the site / enter competitions.

Perhaps there should be a poll on the home page for the designers & buyers to vote…?

Anyhow…that’s my 2c

killerminibus: Someday I Will Rock by Boots was the one that won

killerminibus: no prob! :)

Tokkelos: Hmm..I see you wrote that comment before the results were in ;)
As far as I am concerned – your design – Heaven to Hades – was PERFECT – for girls or guys; any age group; as a design in itself & it works so well on a Tshirt…it would have sold a lot of T’s for SpringLeap…It is such a shame, for you as well as for SpringLeap, that it is not going to get printed for them. How many more designs as good as this might not get printed? …please let me know if you get printed elsewhere because I REALLY want a Tshirt with your design!!

:(

PLEASE let me know if you get printed elsewhere because I REALLY want a T with this design!!

Thanks Eric — Still trying to recover from this morning’s shock.
I look forward to future competitions & hopefully getting printed somewhere along the way.

Had zoo biscuits this weekend…they’ve brought the pictures back!! ..and I think they’re even clearer than before — no guessing: duck, dolphin — and seriously clearly defined springbokkies! They are still made in SA but have Russian and French and Chinese writing on the packaging now – I guess people in other countries were going ‘huh?!’ so they had to sort them to look like something :)

I like this design a lot – great detail – really nice placement on the Tshirt..
Two things bug me a lot though:
1: the white area under the chin
2: I just can’t get over the absence of a nose!

quite cool….but why is it placed so strangely on the shirt?

nice

I really love the vibe of this T-Shirt – halftone heaven…Nice range of tones :)
It is really a pity that it doesn’t read well at all – I had to cheat and look at the title…can’t help thinking that if I wore this T, people would never be able to figure it out unless they stared at my chest for longer than is polite!!!! :)
It immediately made me think it is a Christian T-Shirt with the king-being-born-Jesus-Christmas-vibe – you’ll probably get some serious support votes on that score.

Awe struck. Seriously: well done.

Sublime.