T-SHIRT FINALISTS!!!!!!

Okay, I'ma make this short and sweet because (i may or may not have about 3 paintings due at 1pm...and haven't made it far....*cough*) I don't want you to have to wait in any more suspense about our t-shirt finalists!

Okay, in no particular order, they are:

Entry #1

Entry #2

Entry #3

Basically, no matter who wins, our t-shirts are gonna be SWEET this year.

So, for all you BYUIA club members, here's your simple steps: 
1) Pick your favorite
2) E-mail it to us at byuillustrators@gmail.com either TODAY OR TOMORROW (Tuesday Nov 23) by midnight!
3) (optional) Visualize how hotttt you're gonna look in these

If you are any of the creators of these final designs, please have your image in vector format so it'll be ready for printing (just in case) :)

We will also enter these finalists into an online t-shirt contest! More on that to come. Thank you and good work to EVERYONE who submitted...it was a close vote and we had amazing entries this year!

T-Shirt Contest Entries!! Finally!

Hello BYUIA members! We finally have some beautiful options for your FREE T-SHIRT. Since we all like the democratic process (well, any Marxists out there?), we will have one or two voting sessions so YOU can choose what image represents us best in body and spirit! (Did you notice how I italicized spirit, to convey its abstract nature? Clever, eh?)


Here's what you do:
1) Be a BYUIA Member (e-mail us if you wanna be! byuillustrators@gmail.com)
2) Mosey on over to F-455 HFAC (BFA Studio)
3) Pick a piece of paper and write your NAME on it, along with your VOTE
4) Repeat step 3. (THAT'S RIGHT. YOU GET TWO VOTES!!!! so make 'em good)
5) Do all this before Saturday, Nov 20.

On Monday, Nov 22 and Tuesday Nov 23, check your e-mail and this blog because we will have our TOP THREE DESIGNS battling for the coveted club t-shirt design for this year. Then, you may E-MAIL ONE VOTE out of those final three.

Make sense?

Keep an eye out, and have a wonderful week-before-Thanksgiving. Stay sane! Anyways, here are the anonymous entries in no specific order:

These were all entered into the contest with thought and care by your fellow illustration students, so please look over these options carefully! Click on the photos to check out detailed, larger images.

ART JAMMMMMZ TONIGHT

friends-- everyone come to the ARRT JAAAMM tonight.

illustration studio, f-455 h-fac.
7pm.

bring foods. or don't. whatever. music will be provided.

oh...and our T-SHIRT designs will officially be announced and voting will begin! WHACHOW!!! (you can interpret that sound effect however you'd like). 

but. yeah. be there.  

what the T-SHIRT DEADLINE EXTENSION!?!?

yep. you guessed it, as the title of this post may have subtly hinted to your ever observant eyes - the t-shirt contest deadline has been extended.
what does this all mean??? duh. you know what this all means, so let's get down to business:

Tuesday, November 9TH. submissions must be in by midnight, because everything's more dramatic the darker gets.
there's been some confusion, some stress, and maybe some other stuff. this post is to here to squelch (cool word..) any of that. *ahem*

what this contest is all about: you're a club member - if you want, you make a shirt design for the club - if you win, your shirt design is mass produced for all the club members. pretty simple right? right.

so if you're one of those cool club members who is just dying to get in on this shirt designing action, but has no idea what to do... allow me to provide some helpful tips so that you can remain amongst the living:
-it would probably help if you did something..
-the design can be ANYTHING. for example: a cream cheese danish, Godzilla feeling kinda bad about all the stuff he did to Japan, a shiny tin can, an explosion, 4 explosions, sean connery's mother - beard and all... wait, what?
-if you NEED direction... start with putting the following combination of words/letters/and or numbers together "BYU-IA 2010-2011" ... or "BYU ILLUSTRATORS' ASSOCIATION" i'm not saying any of that NEEDS to be on the shirt... but it would definitely help identify what the shirt is all about. but seriously no need to worry about that part if you are indeed worrying at this very moment. just stop it. you're not doing yourself or anyone else any favors if you keep that up.

you get the idea. the cooler the shirt, the cooler a chance it has at winning. cool? cool.
as extra incentive, we'll be submitting the coolest shirts into other cool shirt contests via the information superhighway. no strings attached. except if you win anything, you get to win that thing. that's pretty much the only string attached. the string that connects you and winning together. yeah, that string.

also, below i've provided a helpful diagram i constructed in the event that some of you require visual aids to help understand the complicated inner-workings of the t-shirt contest. enjoy.

THE T-SHIRT CONTEST

"The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it's the sand of the Colosseum. He'll bring them death and they will love him for it."
. . . And here we are yet again, with another tournament of sorts.
Graphically pitting hungry illustrator against illustrator in epic gladiator fashion as all compete for the iconic 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down' through grit, sweat, tears, vectors, and maybe even a few expletives -- the T-Shirt Contest is upon us. Let us KILL IT!!


Colosseum Rules:
- Only BYU Illustrator's Association (BYU-IA) club members may enter
- Final T-shirt designs MUST be in vector format
- You may submit as many designs as you'd like, to enhance your chances of survival/ultimate victory
- 2-3 Colors.
- DUE NOVEMBER FIRST!!
- Submit all entries to BYUILLUSTRATORS@GMAIL.COM
- Death smiles at us all. All [we] can do is smile back

With all these references to the 1992 motion picture, "Gladiator," I'm almost starting to wish I had a similar theme with the flier. . . but I digress.


Upcoming Art Jams:
As the flier indicates, we've also got some upcoming art jams.
Unlike the exclusive nature of the t-shirt contest, everyone who exists on planet earth is invited to come. sorry martians. we're just too cool for you guys . . .

Art Jam Dates ** Oct. 15th, and Oct. 27th, 7PM, room F455 of the HFAC **
Come work on assignments, or procrastinate them by participating in the art jam "theme" we'll be having, say things at people, interpret sound waves with your brain and understand them as music, other people talking, etc. and so forth. Legend has it that those who come will have a good time.

T-SHIRTS!

Hi people! Our T-shirts are HERE! If you're in the studio, I'll just put yours on your desk so look for it. If not, please pick it up tomorrow, April 20 at the BFA studio, F-455 of the H-fac. I'll be there between noon and 2 pm so I can check you off the list. If you can't make it at that time, I totally understand. Just let me know and we can work something out. Thanks!

T-SHIRT winners!!

I know...it's been forever. Things got super crazy there for a while; I apologize. Anyway, we have t-shirt design winners! It was a very close competition, but here is the final design:


[insert drum roll]


...

Ta-dah! Michelle Weaver is the designer of this lovely owl. Well done! Thanks to everyone else who participated. Really. The designs this year were amazing!

Because the designs were compatible, we will use Sarah Bowthorpe's oh-so-clever (and oh-so-true) phrase on the back of the shirt:

Again, this was such a fun competition. Thanks to all of you who participated and sent in designs! (Not to name names, but...thanks to Keri Dockter, Claire Plimpton, Nicole Hengen and Miranda Whitten, who designed our awesome runner-up!)

To all BYU-IA members: please e-mail your t-shirt size to byuillustrators@gmail.com on or before midnight on March 26th! I think they're normal mens' t-shirt sizes. If not, we'll let you know. Thanks!

It's Weekly Doodle Time!

Hey party arty people~

Just so you know, we have not forgotten about our T-shirt contest designs! We're just waiting to hear back from the ultimate t-shirt man (aka dude who prints the shirts) on the word if we can print both sides. Then we can let you know which design(s) won. :)

To start off this week, we've decided to resurrect weekly doodles. The theme this time around?

introductions.

Everyone in! Have at it!

they're here: t-shirt FINALISTS!

Okay, here are the finals! Thanks SO much everyone who entered. We had excellent designs this year and we appreciate your participation! We're looking into printing on both the front and back of the shirts, but haven't gotten a price yet. So hopefully, we can get two of these designs on the same shirt. Anyway, cast your vote! Instructions below.

How BYU-IA Members vote::
1. Check out these designs and pick your favorite

2. Wander on over to the hall in front of F-455 in the H-fac (the Illustration BFA studio)
3. Take a yellow slip of paper (on the wall) and write your name and favorite t-shirt
4. Put the paper in the folder with the rad drawing of a dude saying "VOTE HERE" before THIS Monday, February 15th.
5. Wait in stunned excitement for your most awesome t-shirt.

T-SHIRT VOTING!!

All right, people, look alive! On behalf of the BYUIA officers, I apologize for our month-long blog/communication hiatus. I submit that we compensate by presenting these awesome t-shirt designs submitted by such rad folks as yourselves!

the five t-shirts below are different entries-- the backs and fronts of shirts are shown:

How BYU-IA Members vote::
1. Check out these designs and pick your top TWO favorites

2. Wander on over to the hall in front of F-455 in the H-fac (the Illustration BFA studio)
3. Take a yellow slip of paper (on the wall) and put your name and two favorite t-shirts
4. Put the paper in the folder with the rad drawing of a dude saying "VOTE HERE" before january 26th
5. Wait to hear what our top 3 finalists will be!

For everyone else::

If you'd like one of these snazzy t-shirts, go on up to E-509 RIGHT NOW and sign up with the secretary to be a BYU-IA member. Cost is $35 per year, and it includes awesome discounts at places like dickblick.com, Artist's Corner, and access to our wholesale framing account. For details, comment on this post or e-mail us at byuillustrators@gmail.com. If you join, PLEASE let us know so we can add you to the list.

THEN you, too can vote and walk around wearing a sweet shirt, saving of money on all sorts of artsty stuff. Aaah, yeeeah.

We were so happy with the turnout this year. Thanks to all of you who submitted entries!

Deadline Extended!

Okay, because Thanksgiving Break was actually a break for some people (and rightly so) and a time of chaos for others (*raises hand*), we decided to extend the deadline for T-shirt entries. They are now due in ONE WEEK---

Again: T-shirt contest entries are due on Tuesday, December 8th. For now. :)

T-shirt REMINDER!

Happy Thanksgiving Break! While you're soaking up the relaxation (or hastily putting together projects...heh) this week, remember to doodle up a design for the t-shirt contest. I've only received a couple (2) and we want a wide selection! Last year's was awesome.

We decided that you don't have to submit the actual Adobe Illustrator file, as long as your design has the capacity to be made in Illustrator later. We can help you with it if you don't know how. So just send me what you've got! Details below.

Also, ANYONE can submit a design, and it's FREE to enter so you've got nothing to lose.


Happy designing. :)