I love this, although I think the centre of the circle, rather than the centre of the full design, should be centred on the T-shirt.

I’d be interested to see this on red or black.

I really like this but remove the text and bubble and take it out of the Springleap competition.

I’m not sure about double cash prize – it’s not exactly fair (winners should all be entitled to the same amount unless it’s a special competition). I’d rather see it put into a pool and then at the end of the year maybe half of it is paid out equally to all that year’s winners and the other half is used for something else (I’m just not sure of the something else – charity? New-product/apparel development and testing?).

I’d also like to see a permanent open contest with the themed contests being more of a “bonus” thing.

I love the design but I’m not sure I like having text on it (although the design of the text is well done).

I quite like the circle. I’m not so fond of the text (or the white shirt but I just don’t like white shirts). Awesome job though!

Don’t cut off the design at the bottom.

Er, Eran, a commercially bought (and, in other words, also bought with the rights to reuse and rework – am I right, Integral?) vector graphic is completely different to taking someone else’s image and using it (in the graphic sense of “verbatim”) without permission, and not in a derivative way that alludes to the original or makes a statement about the original, which is the only way that would be legally permissable (and then it’s still a muddy area). Glenn Jones’s Darth Vader, as a Threadless example, is his own original work using a recognisable pop-culture figure (not someone else’s original Darth Vader work reused in his work).

This Care Bear image is illegal. It is a stolen image. The disclosure issue (while morally reprehensible), is irrelevant.

You are scaring me with your stance on this.

Inspired by Glenn Jones, perhaps?

http://store.glennz.com/cannibal.html

I don’t think this is valid as a derivative work (and is therefore copyright infringement), even though you better executed a concept, because there was no reason why you had to retrace someone else’s bear in order to make the visual statement in your design, as you are not making derivative statement about the original work. You could (and should) have made your own original bear to execute the concept.

So it’s a damn good visual statement, image, and idea, except I would never wear it because in my mind it’s copyright infringement, and I don’t want to be associated with that.

Also, bribery? Not. Cool. You devalue yourself further.

I think it would look better if the design was made much smaller and placed slightly higher up and slightly off centre.