posted 07-13-2011 04:18 PM               

NASA T-Shirt Design Challenge

Your Challenge: Design a t-shirt around the theme of the final frontier

Since NASA was founded in 1958, the space program has successfully launched all kinds of things to space and back again, including humans! The shuttle program has defined human space flight for decades, and NASA astronauts have long been pushing advances in science and space exploration. Performing its missions with great success, the shuttle program now steps down to push exploration to the next frontier.

To honor all of the shuttle program's contributions to the world of space travel and beyond, we have a design challenge that's out of this world! Celebrate the space shuttle launch by creating a design around the theme of final frontier. If chosen, your design could be worn by real and aspiring astronauts for light years to come. So zip up your space suit, strap on your moon boots, and get designing! The chosen design will be available for sale at Threadless.

The purpose of this challenge is to create a stand-alone design inspired by the theme, not a brand tee. Your design should not have brand names or logos on it.

Up For Grabs

1. $500 Cash
   
2. $500 Threadless Gift Certificate
   
3. A patch from your home country that has flown millions of miles around the Earth! Provided by the Harvard-NASA Tournament Lab.

posted 07-13-2011 04:25 PM               

NASA Supports Competition To Create Out Of This World T-Shirt Design

NASA, through Harvard-NASA Tournament Laboratory, is supporting an online challenge for artists to design a T-shirt commemorating the final space shuttle mission and the shuttle program's contributions to exploration.

The challenge is run by Threadless, an online design site, and the Harvard-NASA Tournament Laboratory. The lab is administered by Harvard University, which is under contract to NASA to study crowd sourced innovation that leads to tournaments for scientific and engineering challenges.

Threadless, a community of amateur and professional designers, is challenging its 1.5 million international artists and the public to design a shirt about "The Final Frontier" by July 22. Threadless will produce the design chosen through online votes. The chosen designer will receive a $500 cash prize, a $500 Threadless gift certificate and a shuttle-flown patch from his or her home country. The Harvard-NASA Tournament Laboratory will provide the patch.