Contest Overview
USD students and fans are invited to submit their designs for the inaugural USD Spirit Shirt Design Contest. The winning design will be reproduced on t-shirts sold by Charlie’s Bookstore & Fan Shop with a portion of each sale donated to Charlie’s Cupboard, the USD student food pantry. The winning designer will receive a $150 Charlie’s gift card, a free pack of t-shirts (two or more) featuring the winning design and 20 Coyote game vouchers (2023-2024 season).
Participation
The competition is open to all USD students, fans and supporters.
Guidelines
- With the exception to USD logos, all designs must be your original art or design work. Placeholders where USD logos will be inserted are acceptable. By entering the contest, you acknowledge that your submission is your own original design and that it does not infringe upon the copyright or intellectual property rights of others.
- The purpose is to create a fun, new design that inspires USD school pride and spirit - not to redesign any official USD logos or mascot.
- Designs should be in good taste and avoid any use of crude or offensive terms or images.
- Designs may not include any images of or reference to any individual, living or dead.
- The design will be placed on a red t-shirt.
- Maximum of four solid colors may be used in the design.
- Use of gradients is prohibited, and use of textures should be limited. Designs may not feature blue or yellow as a prominent color.
- Images must fit within a 10”x10” space.
Submission Criteria
- Each participant may submit up to two designs.
- Each design must be submitted separately.
- The submission period will begin March 3, 2023.
- The deadline for all submissions is 11:59 p.m. April 30, 2023.
- Designs should be submitted in electronic form.
Electronic submissions should be created digitally (vector art) and sent as an eps or pdf file
Judging
A committee comprised of USD Charlie’s, Marketing and Athletics staff will judge each entry on visual appeal, adherence to the concept prompting the contest, quality of design and ease of reproduction for the purposes stated above. The judge’s decision will be final.
Terms & Conditions
By submitting one or more entries, you:
- are agreeing to all Terms and Conditions of this Contest.
- are declaring that your submitted design(s) are your own original work and does not infringe upon the rights of any third party and that it does not violate any copyright.
- are automatically transferring ownership of your designs to USD (University of South Dakota), and it/they become the sole property of USD. All copyrights, proprietary rights and intellectual property become the property of USD; this extends to any creation of derivative work of the submission.
- are granting USD the right to edit, publish, promote, and otherwise use your design patterns without further permission, notice, or compensation, including but not limited to all Electric Mirror marketing materials and publications.
- are irrevocably and unconditionally assigning to USD, all right, title, and interest to all such materials.
- USD reserves the right to use winning designs for promotion or display. Designs will be credited to the creator’s name when used for promotional purposes.
- If necessary, USD may alter your design to a reasonable degree to fit engineering specifications.
- It is not USD’s responsibility to ensure that an entry is qualified and properly submitted. Please read the submission criteria, guidelines and Terms and Conditions carefully before submitting.
- Entries that do not meet Contest criteria are subject to dismissal and disqualification.