Artist+Graphic Design Call Out: West Seattle Bridge T-Shirt(s) Design
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This is a historically remarkable time for West Seattle. The stay-home order is dramatically affecting our merchants and the bridge closure is intensifying our sense of isolation. We love living here, but we are getting hit harder than most neighborhoods. It’s been tough on everyone.
Art as an Expression of Solidarity
At the initiative of neighbor and volunteer Scott Ulrich, the West Seattle Art Walk is bringing artists and the community together to create a visual, emotional statement about our reality – as a benefit for our local businesses and local artists.
We are launching a West Seattle Bridge T-Shirt Design Contest to generate three different shirt designs for sale this summer. The artists of the three chosen designs will each receive $500 for their work.
All proceeds of the T-shirt sales will go toward the merchants who will be selling the t-shirts at their stores and to the West Seattle Junction who organizes the West Seattle Small Business Relief fund which, as of June 16, has already provided $104,000 to our local merchants and service providers to help cover essential monthly expenses like utility bills and payroll taxes.
Inspiration for the T-Shirt Artwork
The Art Walk’s goal is to create T-shirts with visual and/or verbal messages that inspire West Seattleites during this heavy time in our history. We would like all artists to consider the following as they create their designs:
- Capture the essence of the situation
- Raise awareness about the importance of the bridge closure to our community
- Convey the love we have for West Seattle
- Humorous
- Proud
- Encouraging
- T-shirt designs will be silk screened and can have up to four (4) solid/spot/flat colors (PMS colors preferred)
- Artwork needs to work on either a white, black or gray T-shirt, and will print approximately 8”x10”
- All artwork submissions need to be final, production-ready files: 300 dpi at print size (vector graphics and/or Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop formats preferred). The printer will do separations.
>>>How do I submit my artwork? Fill out this short form online, where you can also upload your work. We need both the final file and a JPG for use in voting.
Here is the 2019 Summer Fest T-shirt for reference. The four colors are black, pink, red and yellow.
How Can You Buy Your Shirt?
The Art Walk will have a form to pre-order all shirts prior to production, and some merchants, if already open, will have them for sale. Shirts will be $29 (tax and shipping included) if pre-ordered, and $25 at local merchants. Pre-orders begin in late June, and availability will be two to three weeks later.
You can expect this timeline:
| Action | Date | Notes |
| Call for Artists | June 1 | |
| Deadline for Submissions | July 3 | Full four weeks+ |
| Gather Submissions into Voting | July 6-July 9 | |
| Voting Begins | July 10 | Full four weeks |
| Voting Closes | August 7 | |
| Announce Winners | August 10 | |
| Pre-sales Open | August 14 | Full six weeks |
| Pre-sale Closes | September 11 | |
| Release files | September 14 | 5-10 business days |
| Delivery | September 28 | |
| Mailing/Fulfillment | Week of September 28 | Mail or drop to merchants |