We’re delighted to announce that we’re teaming up with local Merseyside charity Open Door to present a special Pride Month t-shirt campaign, the competition will raise funds for both charities, providing the opportunity for a LGBTQIA+ creative aged 16 – 25 to submit a t-shirt design for print!
The theme for submissions is ‘Queer Joy’, and finding ways through peer support and positive action to protect the mental health and wellbeing of queer people. The design doesn’t need to include the Homotopia or Open Door logos – if you’d like to incorporate our names into the design, that is completely up to you.
Here are some general ideas to get you started, however we’d love you to do this in your style and with your own personal approach to the theme:
•What does queer joy mean to you in the current political climate?
•What spaces in Liverpool make you feel queer joy and acceptance?
•What people do you find your joy with?
•How finding queer joy can positively influence your mental health and wellbeing
We are offering a £250 prize to the winning design, and the deadline for submissions is 5pm on Monday 30th March. You will be notified of the outcome via email.
The winning t-shirt design will be promoted during pride month by Homotopia and Open Door Charity, and sold via Everpress, with all profits being split equally between charities to be used in the facilitation of their projects and programmes. We will aim to launch the campaign on Monday 18th May.
The requirements for the design are as follows:
– The maximum print area is 396mm width x 490mm height.
– Any colour included in your design (such as white backgrounds, for example) will be printed onto the garments. If you need help adding a transparent background, follow the step-by-step guide on the Everpress Creator Toolkit.
– Your artwork should be in PNG format, 300 DPI resolution, and max 10MB.
Please note that anything lower than 300 DPI will not be detailed enough. You can check the DPI on Photoshop by selecting ‘image’, then ‘image size’. Bear in mind that when a file is exported as a PNG (instead of being re-saved as a PNG) it automatically saves at 72 DPI, so be sure to ‘save as’ (not ‘export as’) when saving from Photoshop.
For more information about the competition, or to submit your design, please visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSca0ROdAyoWwYtM1JVh8Y77HkTOygUkU7tLAnZBATRA6kMz9w/viewform
Good luck – we can’t wait to see your designs!
