“Funky, ThreadeD experiment”

Thanks Guys for ur comments- Appreci8 it!! Will definitely look in2 tht 4 next time.. cheers shoutBack 1 week, 2 days ago by

yeah if there was a pop of colour added into it then i would dig it more. shoutBack 1 week, 5 days ago by

Not a bad design, just could use some colour. shoutBack 1 week, 5 days ago by

SPRINGLEAP.COM and the AAA School of Advertising are inviting all high school pupils in Cape Town and Johannesburg to take part in the Pure Imagination campaign.

What’s it All ABOUT:

The PURE IMAGINATION campaign is aimed at creating awareness for high school students about the chance to build a bright future without drugs.

The AAA School of Advertising will be awarding the winners of the T-shirt design and marketing competition a three year tuition free bursary each.

Creativity is what we’re looking for and if you’re heading toward a future where fame and fortune is a reality this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for!

We want you to EXPLODE with PURE IMAGINATION and turn your inner imaginative world into the most awesome T-shirt designs ever!

Our aim? To promote raw talent and provide a vibrant and meaningful platform for youth to turn their dreams into a reality.

How it works:
To enter the competition you need to be a team of two. One designer. One marketer.

The designer needs to submit a t-shirt design to the competition, if it is digitally created, the design should be submitted to the Springleap.com website.

If it is hand drawn, submit it to your teacher. The marketer’s function will be to promote the design ‘product’. The marketer will do whatever they can to get people to vote for their team’s design. For example: making posters, creating Facebook groups and creating a buzz around the team’s design.

The overall winners of the competition will be based on the amount of votes their design receives worked into an average. The design with the highest average on the official Springleap.com website at the very end of the comeptition wins. That means, the more people the team gets to register on the Springleap.com site and vote for their design, the greater their chance of winning.

Dates to remember:
Hand drawn designs to be submitted before 30th June 2009.
Computer generated designs to be submitted before 30th June 2009.
Voting starts on 07th July 2009. Voting ends on 07th August 2009.
The winning team will be announced on 13th August 2009.

All designs must adhere to the Springleap.com design submission rules
and regulations or they will be disqualified. You can download the Springleap t-shirt template kit

The winners will be chosen according to the amount of votes their design receives on the official Springleap.com website.

Marketing and design guidelines

For the marketers’ hand book on how to market a t-shirt design, please contact Eran Eyal: eran@springleap.com

Entries will not be accepted if they do not meet the following requirements.

Specifications for digital submissions and hand drawn submissions:
1. NO company names, personal names, signatures, email addresses or URLs are allowed on your design - don’t worry, your name will feature on the back of your T-shirt if you are one of the winners.
2. Only ORIGINAL works are accepted. No copy written material may be used either. If you steal someone else’s design your design will be rejected and the offended artist will be notified.
3. Inappropriate creations will be rejected. The idea behind Springleap.com is that of empowerment and upliftment. We have really open minds - but outright profanity or absolutely tasteless offensive images are not cool.
4. You must first select one of the formats from the Springleap.com Submission Kit as well as a T-shirt colour from the 12 possible colour options provided therein. This will become your design’s background colour.
5. Duplicate entries will be rejected. For example: if you submit the same design in different colours or on different colour backgrounds, one will be rejected by us. We will also reject a design if you have submitted it twice with very minor changes from one to the other.

Colours:
Only 7 unique colours may be used. Whilst we give the opportunity to use 7 colours, most often we find that 3-5 colour designs look the best. Balancing 7 different colours can be quite a task. Please do not submit photos or full colour pictures as designs.

Specifications for digital design submissions:
1. You cannot submit paintings or photos unless they have been vectorised.
2. Representations of well-known persons will also be rejected due to copyright infringement. You can only design on the FRONT of the T-shirt.
3. Your design cannot touch the hems, collar or sleeves.
4. Designs can be up to 38×50cm - this is the standard screenprinting size.
5. You will need to submit a thumbnail 124 pixels wide by 88 pixels high. Please keep the file size under 100kb. It can be submitted as a GIF, JPG or PNG format. Save images at 150dpi.
6. You will need to submit a large preview image 640 pixels wide by 800 pixels high. Please keep the file size under 260kb. It can be submitted in GIF, JPG or PNG formats. Please save images at 150dpi.Please make sure that the background colour for your large preview image is the same colour as your T-shirt colour you choose.
7. You will also need to submit a T-shirt preview image that is 600 pixels wide by 600 pixels high. Please keep the file size under 260kb. It can be submitted in GIF, JPG or PNG formats. Please do not change the gradient background provided and keep only to the T-shirt colour options provided. All you need to do is convert the file to one of the formats allowed. Do not resize the T-shirt image provided. Please save images at 150dpi.

Specifications for hand drawn designs:
1. The image must be to scale, meaning the design must be the size you want it on the T-shirt.
2. You must specify the T-shirt colour and where the image will be placed on the T-shirt.
3. You must be registered on the Springleap.com website and provide your Springleap username, email address and other contact details along with your hand drawn submission.

Please make sure your design meets all the relevant requirements and is handed into the designated teacher before the 27th April 2009. The school should send all hand drawn designs to the Springleap.com offices by 28th April 2009.
Email eran on eran@springleap.com for the Springleap.com postal address.

The Prize:
Each member of the winning team will receive a three year full tuition fee bursary to study Visual Communications,Copywriting or Marketing at AAA School of Advertising.
The bursary is not transferable or refundable for cash.
There are also Virgin Spa hampers, T-shirts and sunglasses to be won.
These winners immediately qualify to be entered in the Springleap.com main bi-monthly competition and will be up against local and international artists competing for the R7 482.18 in cash and prizes as well as the chance to have their design printed and sold in various retail outlets. This is a great opportunity to create a design piece for your portfolio and take the step in the direction for ensuring that your life is set for success with a AAA School of Advertising bursary.

There are no obstacles, only challenges!

For more information on the competition, please contact:

Eran Eyal: 082 717 3802 eran@springleap.com
Dianri Malan: 011 781 2772 dianrim@aaaschooljhb.co.za

A VERY BIG HEADS UP TO TokyoGoGo - these designs are from his awesome work in MyFace

*Hey Springsters!! Voting is officially live! Woah can you believe it, it took a long time to get to this point and no it’s all up to you guys. Make you sure you cast your vote for your favorite design. The Pure Imagination Campaign was headed up with the Springleap.com and AAA School of Advertising to offer students the opportunity to study in this recession economy.* shoutBack on 7/7/09 by

Its 1 July 09! You know what that means right? The submissions for the bursary competition are now closed. Our Springleap.com team are in a buzz - right now they’re busy scanning, registering and blogging ‘Pure Imagination’ within an inch of its life so that Springleap.com is ready to roll in the votes, tally them up and award: Totally AWESOME Virgin Spa Hamper! Uber Trendy Voucher from Trigger Clothing! Fashion Sunglasses! Grand Prize: AAA School of Advertising bursaries worth R250 000.00! Voting starts on 7 July 09. So logon and vote! Then get your mothers, fathers, aunties, uncles, rabbits, grannies, friends and neighbours to register and vote for your submitted design! Remember that the competition is based on whoever gets the most votes for their t-shirt design, so get that marketer in the team working his/her butt off to get people to vote for your team’s design. Good Luck and Happy Voting! shoutBack on 1/7/09 by

NEW EXTENTION BY MASSIVE POPULAR DEMAND It seems a lot of students are writing exams so we have to put a ‘lil delay on our Pure Imagination Competition. New dates : Submissions : 30 July 2021 *Voting Starts * : 07 July 2021 Voting Ends : 07 August 2021 Winner Announced : 13 August 2021 Good luck guys and gals! shoutBack on 27/5/09 by

Hay Guys, Due to the huge demand by students and teachers we have decided to extend the competition by a month, so the new dates will be as follows: On-line and hand drawn submissions need to be in by the 13th June 2009 Voting will start on the 20th of June and run until the 20th of July Winners will be announced on the 26 July 2021 For those of you who have entered this is an excellent opportunity to submit more designs and improve your chances of winning. Good Luck and if you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me josie@springleap.com shoutBack on 18/5/09 by

im so glad our teacher made us do it even though we argued with her im glad we did it. good luck every body! shoutBack on 16/5/09 by

Three years at AAA School of Advertising for free! Guys and Girls this is an awesome opportunity. It’s not too late to get cracking on that design…losing a night of sleep is soooooo worth getting your submission to us by May 13th! Good Luck :) shoutBack on 11/5/09 by

I can’t begin to tell you what an awesome opportunity this is! I wish i could just enter a t-shirt design to win such a huge prize! It’s a t-shirt competition like this that will change two students lives forever, and that gives me great comfort. shoutBack on 11/5/09 by

I just got off the air on Radio 2000 with the wonderful Angela who really helped us promote the Pure Imagination Campaign in a big way - Thanks Guys - remember - the deadline is next week 13 May - It’s close! shoutBack on 9/5/09 by

This is one Heck of a great opportunity for kids in SA, not to mention a fanatastic inintiative between Springleap, AAA and the DEA. This is a mega prize, art students get cracking! shoutBack on 8/5/09 by

It’s AMAZING - the whole of the SA Internet seems to be abuzz with this t-shirt competition! shoutBack on 7/5/09 by

Have you got something to say?

We sure do, and we ain’t shy about it either!

...Which is why the springleap team has set up a whole bunch of areas, where both you and the springleap team can write about STUFF.

The awesome part is that EVERYONE can comment on all the different STUFF that’s written.

So whether you agree, disagree, or wave your hands in the air like you just don’t care… you can SPEAK OUT - your voice WILL be heard! (even if you sing like a canary four notes short of an octave)

We’ve set up a couple different places to write:

1. theWorks - this is EVERYTHING - if you want to see ALL the STUFF in ONE place, go here

2. peeps - Give a shoutOut to your peeps - if YOU want to write about ANYTHING, this is the place to do it

3. wordUp - what is the springleap team thinking & doing? Keeping you in the loop with the latest features as well as what’s going down at Springleap.com - This is the place to look so your heart can skip that beat, but never the lowdown. We love to keep you involved AND informed.

4. paparazzi MAN! It’s EXCITING to hear and see Springleap.com plastered all over the internet on other websites or mentioned on the news. TV, Radio, Above the Line, Below, the Line, New Media, Old Media, New School, Old School, it’s all here and we want to share it with YOU... because YOU ARE SPRINGLEAP.

Oh - one other thing - if you start a topic we decided to call it a shoutOut. If you comment on anyone else’s topics, we’ve named it a shoutBack.

Totally clear on everything now? If you’re not, just shoutBack below....

I am wondering how come nobody has replyed to my emails regarding my design. I have emailed twice with no reply. I don’t like to complain but don’t like being ignored either. thanks shoutBack 1 week, 4 days ago by

Why do you guyz in-cluding you to women…write shout-outs the length of a essay,I dont like reading that why i joined this sight..so please keep it plain and simple but not boring like some t-shirts designs i have seen on the site-lol shoutBack on 13/8/09 by

Hey guys, this might sound slightly random, but why haven’t you got a search engine on the Springleap site? If I want to go find, for example, Tokyo, then I have to mission around the site to find one of his current shirts, then I can only click on his name to check out his profile and stuff. Can’t you get a simple search engine in please! shoutBack on 10/8/09 by

Hello How do we know how the voting is going on the Pure Imagination competition ? Any listings on this any where ? Thanks for a great site to visit. shoutBack on 27/7/09 by

Watchow! I’m Justifyd til da day I die, gonna touch da sky! Jogande toe eyo futebol! Joga Bonito shoutBack on 17/4/09 by

@Chantel, you’ll be delighted to hear that the ones you saw were our generations 2 and 3. Our generations 4 have MUCH lower necklines and are slightly bigger. And we’re working on our generation 5, which will be used from July or August onwards, and the sizing is MUCH bigger, and sorting out all the problems we’ve experienced so far…. shoutBack on 1/4/09 by

I would just like to thank and congratulate the springleap team for continuing with this great initiative. I came across you a while ago while looking for online clothing stores in SA and also saw you at the IFS. I just loved your designs and bought seven t-shirts on the day. I wear a size 8 so naturally assumed that the small would fit me and bought without trying it on. Unfortunately, the cut is all wrong. The neckline is too high – I feel like I’m choking all the time, and a bit of stretch would be a good idea. I don’t think the medium will fit me any better. I had a look at the photos today and it seems like you’re still using the same cut. I beg you to bring out an alternative cut that has a slightly lower neckline and with a cotton lycra mix for that little bit of stretch. So, even thought my daughter (who is seven) is enjoying wearing my t-shirts, I would like to wear some of your designs too! shoutBack on 1/4/09 by

slakk, rimbaud - please email me at eric@springleap.com so i can investigate what’s happening with your orders. there are VERY few outstanding orders, and nearly everything has been caught up, so send me details and let me find out what is happening with yours. @leighface - registered users have a vote each for each design. the highest average vote wins. @malb - we’re building a more advanced system so you can track your orders. you can already see if we’ve approved them, and whether they’ve been sent, but we’re building a system to make it even easier to see what is happening. shoutBack on 31/3/09 by

@everyone if you have questions about designs or delivery of your T’s etc, please contact us on the contact form. This page is really just for people that aren’t sure what the different blogs are. We’re starting a redesign in the next few weeks which will make everything a LOT clearer. And the tshirts are streaming out of the printers – we’re getting everything sorted really fast now. we still have about 20 designs to catch up on. TWENTY designs were printed over the last 2 weeks, and they’ve all already been sent. if you haven’t received your tshirts, please contact us, as it might be a problem with the post office. shoutBack on 31/3/09 by

Hey guys, Just a suggestion - would it be possible to create some sort of an order tracking / history system on the site - I placed an order a while ago, spent a couple of weeks wondering what happened to it (it appears to just drop into the bowels of the system) - I then received an e-mail telling me the parcel had been sent - two weeks later I’m wondering what’s happening as I’ve yet to recieve it & have no way of trying to track it down… Just a suggestion… shoutBack on 31/3/09 by

Lightweights can be powerful too! Not just front flips and fast feet. Wanted the design to be filled with detail and colour. A bright semi-full print that can be looked at for ages!

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i want one of these also!! sooo cool!! shoutBack 1 week, 4 days ago by

i love you tokyo!!!!!!!! shoutBack on 29/4/09 by

just waiting to be able to say “so so Tokyo” but no, this ain’t so - another Whoa! shoutBack on 28/4/09 by

the colour the design..perfect combinations.. :) shoutBack on 25/4/09 by

cool one shoutBack on 24/4/09 by

Tokyo you legend! well done :) shoutBack on 23/4/09 by

wow! love it. interesting choice of colors, it reminds me of vincent van gogh’s sickly color palette. shoutBack on 21/4/09 by

Thanks everyone! Glad you all like it (: shoutBack on 21/4/09 by

i also like how it isnt block format. awesome shoutBack on 21/4/09 by

very nice! like it! :) shoutBack on 21/4/09 by

One of my favourite t-shirt websites aside from Springleap.com ofcourse is none other than I AM THE TREND

I know, I know, I’ve done a post already about them saying how cool I think there are but upon delving deeper into the website I discovered some really informative postings written by Adam and Beau.

So now im not only left thinking that they’re cool for having and updating such a rad website they’re awesome for having really vital advice that can be adapted to any business.

I found this post written by Adam, he explains the importance of taking good pictures of lets say you t-shirts for your website. He gave awesome explanations that do seem to make loads of sense. For example, the main disadvantage to online companies is that the customers essentially lose interest because they do not use all of their senses when browsing through their products. This got me thinking…because I never really looked at it like that, I always thought the main reason for me not buying more online is because I don’t trust that I will get the product.

I started to think back to my last shopping trip to the mall and realized I always touch things and based on touch you somehow make a connection with that garment, it applies to you or it doesn’t. This factor is missing when it comes to online shopping.

I urge you to read his full article and tips on taking awesome photographs follow the link below!

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Post your views below!

I AM THE TREND is awesome!!! They have some of the coolest t-shirt features on their site! Yeah Amy, good pictures is essential for your companies image and corporate brand as well… MAJORLY! Keep up the great work Adam! Peace shoutBack 1 week, 4 days ago by