Below are 9 t-shirt designs submitted by chinaSMACK readers from around the world for our 1-year anniversary t-shirt design contest! Thank you, everyone, for your support and creativity! Now, it is time for chinaSMACK visitors to vote on their favorite designs, which we hope to make into our new chinaSMACK t-shirt (and replace our original t-shirt). First, please go ahead and review each design. You may click on the images to view larger versions of the designs.
1. We Love Jiong
Designer: Luis Zhang
Design Details: It’s a inspiration, and I feel that’s what we wanna.
We love JIONG, Just love it, that’s all, nothing else.
Designer Bio: 22 years old, born in a town near Chengdu, major in Industrial Design, Northeast Dianli university in Jilin, will study aboard next year.
2. Stamp of Approval
Designer: Derek Smith
Design Details: Just a simple commentary on how I feel when I read this website. Works best on these four colors.
Designer Bio: Twenty-three year old American currently working as an English teacher in Shanghai.
3. chinaSLAP
Designer: Derek Smith
Design Details: Just felt it went well with the website name. Works well on these colors the best, I think, and looks fine with either the read or white background behind the hand.
Designer Bio: Twenty-three year old American working as an English teacher in Shanghai
4. chinaSLAP Super Sized
Designer: Derek Smith
Design Details: Just a bigger version of my original chinaSLAP design. Again, works best with colors, in my opinion.
Designer Bio: Twenty-three year old American currently working as an English teacher in Shanghai.
5. chinaSMACK Certified By Netizens
Designer: Peng Guo
Design Details: Most websites based on Mainland China often have the ICP registered number and red shield badge at the bottom of their page, e.g. “沪ICP备05000001号” (registered #05000001 by ICP of Shanghai) and “京ICP证080274号” (certified #080274 by ICP of Beijing). They are required to have the ICP license or they will be blocked in Mainland China.
To mock Chinese government-controlled internet and to “represent” Chinese netizens, I replaced the original red shield badge with Jiong badge, “沪ICP备/京ICP证” with “网民证”, “numbers号” with “chinaSMACK号”. So it’s something like “#chinaSMACK certified by Netizens”…
Designer Bio: Native Chinese raised in Canada and United States, currently majoring in art at a graduate school.
6. Hear The Voice of Daily China
Designer: Wesley Lai
Design Details: Through chinaSMACK everyone in the world can hear the real voice of daily China. No prejudices, no politics, but just the real voices of Mr. and Mrs. China.
Designer Bio: Dutch born Chinese. Product & Graphic designer living in Shanghai.
Can’t read chinese so well, therefore happy to read all about the translated news on chinaSMACK.
7. Attract
Designer: Umer Farooq
Design Details: It is feeling, with quality graphics to attract people
Designer Bio: I’m 30 years old, born in Karachi, and live in Karachi – Pakistan. I have 10 years’ experience of graphics works.
8. People’s JIONG!
Designer: Ghotane Dhiraj
Design Details: I know I am not the only ONE who jiongs every time while browsing chinaSMACK. From the People, for the People, it’s the JIONG! of the People.
Designer Bio: Medical student in Int’l college of Tianjin Medical University, soon to be graduated. Love photography & designing :)
9. Splat
Designer: J Hach
Design Details: Conceptually, the design is very simple – the chinaSMACK logo, enhanced with an ‘ink splatter’ version of China. I think this is the underlying connection of all stories that are seen on the site – they are all a bit jarring, like when smack yourself against a wall.
Mechanically, the design is easy to print and iconic – should be easy to spot anyone who’s wearing it, regardless of the color combination chosen.
Designer Bio: A guy with a graphic design company in Shanghai, who has been doing the art thing (especially tshirts, posters, mag covers) for about a decade. Also, even though I don’t comment on the stories, I love reading them… always a great way to take a step back and observe what I already know from a different angle.
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Voting will close on 2009 July 8, Wednesday 23:59.
The winning design will be announced 2009 July 9, Thursday.
Everyone is encouraged to offer their feedback about the designs in the comments below. Share with everyone what you like and why!
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