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IMPORTANT - NEW T-SHIRT SUBMISSION KIT

shoutOut on 20/8/08 by TheBrigand in wordUp

Hi springleapers!

Please note that we have just uploaded a brand new, new and improved t-shirt submission kit to the website.

Here are some of the VERY IMPORTANT CHANGES :

1. The black t-shirt template is now a solid black
2. There are a few new rules. Amongst these are :
a. Icon pack users can only use the icons as design elements – They need to have bought and own commercially licensed versions of these pack and may be called to provide proof thereof. Furthermore – the use of these icons may only be design elements – not the main focus and they need to be modified substantially enough that you have made them your own. We decide this on a case by case basis and do not encourage the use of these packs at springleap as we believe that they are counter-productive to the development of artists’ talents.
b. Paintings need to be reduced to 7 unique colours and submitted with colour separations or converted into vectors.
c. the 7 unique colour rule still stands – we you to dsign in up to seven colours on white and light fabrics. On medium and dark tone fabrics, white is always counted as a necessary base colour to screen on even if it does not appear in the artwork.

Thanks for reading and springleaping :)

All the best and none of the rest!
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Hi All – a new kit is available (again ;P )

This time the only change is that it includes a super hand dandy springleap T-shirt Design 101 pdf to help you understand t-shirt manufacture and design better!

I Hope this helps everyone – I will blog the contents of the pdf a little later today as well ;)

shoutBack on 4/9/08 by TheBrigand

No probs Eric, thanks :)

shoutBack on 27/8/08 by tay

heya Tay / SilverSabre

i’ve asked Eran to check out your comments about the Red & using the old template.

he’s at Sanlam Fashion Week this week, so a little chaotic, but hopefully he’ll have a chance to reply

shoutBack on 27/8/08 by Eric

eye.

I find I can only put jet black on the red tee, otherwise its just too bright.

And then I end up changing the colour anyway to match the black design.

I think you should put this up on the suggested changes page tay.
SS

shoutBack on 26/8/08 by SilverSabre

I think it will be okay sasquatch.
A suggestion to springleap – to make the very bright red tee a little less bright please? Maybe i should get a few people to agree with me, in case there are more that like the bright red. It’s a tad blinding in my opinion. Any1 with me say eye, those not, say nose.

shoutBack on 25/8/08 by tay

what does this mean if you’ve already submitted for next month on the old template?

shoutBack on 25/8/08 by sasquatchsports

I am happy this is moving forward, most people don’t know that using downloaded fonts are not for commercial use. Dont forget you can contact the artist who created the font and ask for permission to use, they might make you pay for it, but they also might allow it for free if you use a link back to them, so depends on the artist!
I have a good friend from columbia who makes some of the best typesets, real organic but still classy and modern..
Check him out on myfonts.com Carlos Fabian Guerrero
“http://www.myfonts.com/browse/person/camargo/carlos/fabian/”

For under $20 USD you could have some wonderful fonts..
One of his fonts was used for the bejing logo for this years Olympics.

shoutBack on 23/8/08 by IntegralApparel

Hi Guys and Gals

Please remember to download the new t-shirt submission kit!!!

Also please be aware of one of the most important new rules :

Use of clipart is BANNED. We are absolutely against the use of clipart – specifically stuff like animals, vehicles, buildings, people etc.

Arrows or splats/stains is one thing, but using someone else’s work as your own is not on.

I understand many people think that clipart libraries and places like “DaFont” are free.. but this is only partially true ... in truth they are free only for PERSONAL USE

This is a site for meaningful creators and artists. We want to up the standard of art in SA and show the world that we have what it takes to compete on an international level.

The South African industry has done a lot to harm the mentality of artists thus far by allowing them to believe that the use of clipart as their own simply because they coloured in the lines or changed some of the shape a bit makes it their own.

Come on. Can you tell me in your heart of hearts that this resonates truth? No Ways Jose. It’s a slippery slope. In fact it’s an insult to your own talent in my eyes.

Regarding parody eg : the use of popular culture icons to create parody, we think that there is nothing wrong with this. In fact there is a law that protects parody as freedom of speech… but ONLY if you created the work from scratch. So if you created the work and it’s a clear parody – we are going to allow it.

shoutBack on 23/8/08 by TheBrigand