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Threadless
$2000 cash, a $200 12 Club membership, a $500 Threadless Gift Certificate and membership in the Alumni Club

Design By Humans
$750 Shirt of the Day prize every weekday ($500 cash, $250 store credit), $1000 prize every week, $1750 prize every month ($1500 cash, $250 store credit). Printed artists can earn additional money based on number of t-shirts sold.

Shirt.Woot
$1000 for the first day of sales and $2 per shirt sold after that point. Shirt designs can be submitted directly to Woot or entered in their weekly themed contest, the Derby.

La Fraise
1000 euros

here itself
$1750 in cash and $250 in itself-coins (with the possibility of a further $1750 in cash and $250 in itself-coins if the shirt is reprinted)

Uneetee
$1500 weekly prize

A Better Tomorrow
500 euros, featured in a German design magazine

Springleap
Top winner earns R7482,18 (about $935), copies of all winning shirts, drawing of your design, varying sponsored prizes, and R2 for each shirt of yours that is sold

Artevist
Eco-themed competition site awarding $700, 7% royalty and two free shirts

Chimpogo
£500 cash awarded weekly

Tilteed
$500 cash and $1 per shirt sold (with potential bonuses)

Caponocca
$500 cash

Black Eyed T
$500 cash, $100 in store credit

Scribtee
Up to $500 and a $50 gift certificate

Goodjoe
$300 cash and $1 per shirt sold

Camiseteria
R$600 cash, R$400 in products

Red is White
Christian-themed, prize of $400 cash, $100 credit and $2 per shirt royalty

Scopial
$400 cash and a free t-shirt

Fair and Bare
£200 for a winning shirt design, £50 for a slogan or concept

Bang Bang T-shirts
£125 for winning the themed design contests

BadAsHell Clothing
Earn $200 cash and a $50 gift certificate

tFuse
$200 cash, 1000 fusebucks, and $1 per shirt sold (up to $2300)

Teetonic
100 pounds cash, 50p per shirt sold

SplitReason
$250 and a shirt with your design

Full Metal T-Shirt
$100 cash, $100 credit, and $5 per shirt or art print sold

Random Shirts
Win $100 cash and $100 gift certificate if your design wins the People's Choice contest

Inkhound
Earn $2 per item sold on shirts, hats and hoodies- and retain full rights to your art

Cosmic Soda
Percentage of sales

Code Creations
Varying prizes

These are sites you can submit shirt designs to without having website visitors vote on them.

Cameesa
This crowd-funded t-shirt site offers designers $500 and $2 per shirt sold once their design is fully funded. Supporters who contribute to the printing also receive money for shirts sold. Learn more here.

T-Shirt Hell
$500 and 10 shirts for an idea

ThinkGeek
$250 for a t-shirt suggestion or $500 for complete, finished artwork

Busted Tees
$150 for an idea they decide to use (see their FAQ for details)

Snorg Tees
$100 and a free shirt if they like your idea (see their FAQ for details)

Social Propaganda
$50 and a free sample

Neighborhoodies
The winner of each week's Design to the People contest earns $5 per shirt sold. There is a new theme weekly, and all you have to do is email your idea explanation in 100 words or less.

Nuda Tees
Earn $2 per shirt sold

TeeFury
Earn $1 per shirt sold. Shirts are sold for one day only, and the artist maintains full rights to the design. Submit work here.

Teextile
Earn up to $4 per shirt sold

RIPT Apparel
Earn $1 per shirt sold

Rethink Clothing
College students get 35% of the profits on their printed designs

Shirt a Day
Percentage of sales (amount dependent on number of shirts sold)

If your design isn't quite right for a shirt, you still have a lot of options. Don't give up on a good idea!

Don't Panic
On-going poster contest. Winners get a portion of the revenue.

Infectious
The favorite car art of the month earns $500 cash, 5% of net sales, and up to $400 in Infectious product.

RYZ
Shoe design competition offering winners $500 and a $1 royalty on every shoe sold online.

Dream Heels
Heel design competition where winners earn $250 cash, $250 store credit, and up to $1500 in residuals

graphic:DESIGN:basics
A compendium of all kinds of competitions for visual artists.

Cottonable
Information on the industry as a whole. I'm a contributor, so look there for more of my posts on t-shirts.

Emptees
Shirt designer networking site

Rumplo
Rate tee designs from around the world

Preshrunk
The blog that started them all. Updates are sometimes few and far between, but the quality level is high.

addic[tee]d
Great shirts from all over the web.

HIDE YOUR ARMS
Focused on hoodies and other sleeved garments, but with lots of tee-related content.

Tcritic
Reviews of individual shirts. Check out the twar portion of the site to get an idea of what types of shirts people respond to the most.

The T-Shirt Blog
Cool shirts, with an emphasis on shirts with text or a message.

Fantastic Blognanza
So dedicated to finding quality shirts that they even started printing their own.

Funky Duds
The most complete listing of t-shirt related websites there is, with some of the best shirts highlighted in individual blog entries

SingulariTee
At least one awesome shirt guaranteed in each post, and links to great shirt designs being scored in contests

Best Losers
Your source for information about Shirt.Woot's weekly Derby. Interviews, reviews and more.

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