T-Shirt Design Contest
Moheeb Zara
We haven't had an official HeatSync t-shirt in a long while. Share your best or most fun design!
One ask: no AI slop. Put some effort in, and use the official logo file if you use the logo but I don't want to discourage drawing your own version. Tasteful derivation is acceptable, the style-guide is a guide not a cudgel to force conformity. Use common sense.
For reference, our early shirts were light grey HSL meatball on grey and metallic black on black (blame Rix), since then we've had the stamped shirts and bespoke vinyl cut in various combos of color.
Prizes:
- 1st place: hardware + a shirt with your design, roughly $100 value
- 2nd and 3rd: runner-up prizes, TBD
To make submissions easy (and with a small ulterior motive of getting some testers), I've spun up an instance for us using the open-source federated publishing platform I've been building, CommonPub. Think Hackster, but our own version that fans out to other instances.
Sign up at https://heatsynclabs.io and post your design, ideally with a writeup of how you made it. There's a contest system built in, so if you want to be a judge, let me know. Bonus points if you actually put it on a shirt: vinyl, screenprint, 3D print, whatever wacky bespoke method you can come up with.
Beyond the contest, I'm hoping folks in the community will use it to publish blogs about cool stuff they're working on. Our main .org site used to be a blog where we did "This Week in HeatSync," and I want to bring that back.
On the inevitable "where is this hosted, who owns the domain" question: for now, I do-ocracied it. It's an experiment. If people enjoy it enough to keep it around, we can have a conversation about migrating it to our servers and registrar, or axing it. (it all runs on docker in a single droplet so fairly easy to move)
