This is a special day. It will be remembered as the “The day when the OLP 1.6 Losers Shirt shop was finally opened to the public after only three months of waiting” by our descendants.

You´re invited to visit our chique boutique right here and get your piece of the losers pie for a laughable fee of 13 EUR.

OLP participants can even get theirs for free. Just login like you used to do in the good old days of upping logos, STRG-C (or APPLE-C for you designer folks) the coupon-code from the dashboard, paste it where it belongs to and let the magic happen.

In any case - be quick: there are only 100+1 shirts out of 140 left in our stash.

P.S. Here´s a message for all those who´re not from one of the countries we ship to from Europe: please write me an email (thu[youknowwhatbelongshere]spreadshirt[punkt]net) with your name, shipping address, sex and shirt-size and I will handle your order manually.

The shirts are here! I can tell you: It was never so attractive to be a loser - I could imagine that even our finalists are eager to get one of these shirts. Check them out:


Send out to start soon.

The Losers Shirt contest was a lot of fun. Some really nice entries came in, as you probably saw as I posted them here.

Now we’ve created the final collage and it looks really great :)

There are 8 or so OLP designs that didn’t 1st place included. Mixed up with entries from the la Fraise contest in a frame provided by Lufograf.

Find out more here in the post I just wrote for the la Fraise blog. (if that link doesn’t work go here, you’ll have to scroll down a few posts)

Hey everyone, I’m back from my little break in England.  It was awesome to be in the home of prepacked sandwiches and junk food. I had a lot of fun staying with friends in London, Cambridge and Nottingham where I studied. Now I’m back and I have lots of news:

1. I was a judge on Computerlove’s t-shirt design contest. I’m delighted that our very own Mootsie and his Moustache Man scooped 2nd place.

Its a really funny design, congrats Mootsie!

2. Our friend Dr Frank Piller is involved in a new design contest with a twist. This one allows you to design the shoe of your dreams, which will give you all a nice break from logos and t-shirts.

Here is the blurb

“Your task is to design a shoe model along a theme called “Original Origin”. This category of aesthetic trends expresses cultural values, regional roots and techniques and at the same time uses authentic materials and innovative shapes. The contest asks everyone to play with the theme and interpret it in the most creative, but still feasible way.”

If you submit something mail it to me and we can show it here.  Read Franks post about it here, or jump straight to the competition here

3. The Losers shirt design is ready. I’m not sure if i’ll blog it here or keep you waiting longer :)

I’ll talk to the printers today, we only have 4 weeks until I leave so hopefully it will all be ready and sitting on your doormats by then.

4. The Logo Design CA special is out. With interviews with Kim and Nicolas. I picked it up in London at the weekend. They’ll be a full post about this in the next days :)

5. Page the German design magazine did a whole article about Crowdsourcing but didnt mention the OLP once :( Boo, hiss, boo!! Still if you want to read more about Crowdsourcing in Germany give it a read, we’re not bitter (much).

6. Spreadshirt has nice little anti-christmas design contest running. All you have to do is create an anti-christmas design and submit it to the Spreadshirt Marketplace with the tag “Anti-Christmas”. Prize is approx €350 in Spreadshirt gift vouchers. Deadline is this Friday. Again if you take part mail me the link to your design so we can show the other OLP peeps here on the blog!

Have a good week gang!

Here is whats going on at the moment:

- Yesterday some small giftpacks went out to the Grand Finalists, Panel Winners and friends of the OLP.

- Tonight at midnight the losers comp ends. So far we’ve had about 30 entries. You can check them out here.

- Tomorrow Norbert and I will work on the design of the losers shirt based on these entries.

- Tomorrow Ami is preparing a post to tell you how the winning logo development is going

- Friday I’ll blog the project review I’ve just completed for the OLP and you can see how we thought it went internally :)

Then I’m on holiday for a week! Woohoo….

How you all doing? Whats occupying your time now OLP is all but over?

A heads up that the Losers contest closers to tomorrow evening folks. If you want to take part you should get moving. Another six entries today, including these great one by fatboyjim and motorsex:

And a loser labelheads special from Legofish:

Check out all the entries here 

Actually they are OLP Winners (buit ssshhhhh) ace losers Laurent and Nelson have now submitted some great designs to the la Fraise competition.

The terrifying Superhero nemesis Badwool defends his honour with “I’m not a loser, I’m a villain!”. Judge for yourselves.

Laurent submitted a great Losers United dice shirt :)

Other entries I’m digging:

Xantha and Savled’s entries

Check out all the entries in the gallery.

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So we’re about 3 days into our loser shirt contest on la fraise. I’d say the entries are under-whelming. The problem is that they don’t really represent what happened at the OLP. Maybe I didn’t communicate the idea well, i’ve emailed with some of your and you’ve been a little confused. So lets go back to the start and i’ll try and re-cap my idea for it.

Brief:

- Be collaborative, made up of lots of submitted designs. So you only have to submit a graphical element (eg one animal) and we’ll collect them all up (and make a zoo).

- Reflect or have meaning for the people that took part in the OLP.

I’ve had an idea for the shirt in my head for the past few days. I got Norbert to draw a rough sketch of it for me as I draw like a blind chimp. Basically it would show all the mascots, or logos that had caricature elements. They would be running as a group away from the finish line and trophy. As if they didn’t want to win the prize. So all that would be needed is for you to submit those parts of your design that would work for this type of design.

Some logos which had parts that I think would work well for this design are:

Play with the forms (like the skull or another element), Against Nudity man,  Spreddy Shirtdawg, Superheroes, Labelheads, Moustache Man, Fish Shirt probably many more if I spent the time hunting through the vaults. Of course this is just one idea you don’t have to do this, you can create whatever you like. I just thought this was we could try and sneek in parts of the logos so the shirt had a bit more significance.

Does that make things clearer or just more confusing?

See all the entries that have come in so far..

Are in!! Quicker than I imagined, great to see some of helping to create what will be one of the lasting memories of the contest (obviously as well as the winning logo :)

So far we have 5 entries for the contest.

CC submitted a modified version of his OLP logo, a losers special:

My favourite so far is  Failed On Purpose by Zapper. Not sure if he took part in the OLP so I hope he/she knows there is no €1,000 prize if we use your design in this shirt :)

I’m at web2.0 expo in Berlin the next two days, so slow to respond to mail. Keep those entries coming guys!!!

Check out the gallery of entries here