Comments on: Simply ZesTee T-Shirt Competition – Win 250 Euros

By: moasa

moasa — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:36:10 +0000

wanna do some good design for this!!

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:23:14 +0000

Hi there!
As already mentioned in my email I would suggest a couple of T-Shirts using your simply Z brand with different endings and pictures. Plus your url on the collar on the back!
/Users/oliverdunsch/Desktop/simplyzorro.psd and/or
/Users/oliverdunsch/Desktop/simplyzombie.psd and/or
/Users/oliverdunsch/Desktop/simplyzebra.psd !

Have fun!

Oliver

By: Lauren Fisher

Lauren Fisher — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:13:57 +0000

Not sure we can stretch to LED displays Joe, but I like your style!

By: McAWilliams

McAWilliams — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:34:50 +0000

Cheers dude already (even though I have not designed one yet) I already have 7 orders in, just based on my comment alone! iPad here I come, actually 3 iPads!!!

Honestly though people should have enough cop on to decide if they need â‚¬250 or not, it has nothing to do with being taken advantage of. I am not a designer yet I have been given a chance to win here, fair enough probably wont happen cause some designers will enter, but its a chance of getting some cash that normally would not come my way. I think its a great idea, and people IMHO are old enough and wise enough to decide if they want to enter or not.

Anyhow I must design up this t-shirt now for some big corporate company in the fruit business I think, god the jobs are flying in!

By: Darragh

Darragh — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:14:51 +0000

Hmmm, John, you know me, very wealthy. And cynical. And eager to see people getting a fair deal and not be taken advantage of by having something shiny waved in front of them. Oh, and honest and up-front about what I like and don’t like and why.

But yes, I get your point. Good luck with the t-shirt design business!

By: McAWilliams

McAWilliams — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:52:55 +0000

TBH Darragh, I have no idea how wealthy you may be, but if I was asked by 4 people a month to design up a tshirt for them at â‚¬250 a pop as a sideline, I would be delighted with â‚¬1000 extra a month. Money is tight for a lot of folk these days and â‚¬250, while maybe not what a designer would charge, coming into my hands would be lovely.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:18:03 +0000

? was meant to be a heart but ascii fail.

By: NIall Harbison

NIall Harbison — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:28:37 +0000

Not just hyperlinks. I get asked at least 3 or 4 times a week who built our site cause they love it and give them his email. Word of mouth does work offline too

By: NIall Harbison

NIall Harbison — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:15:33 +0000

Darragh appreciate the honesty and taking the time to come back and post that. Hopefully it’ll be as lucrative a showcase for a designer and they can look past the monetary side of things

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:21:53 +0000

Get your geek on, an led scrolling tshirt – “I ? Simply Zesty”. A subtle option .

By: Allan Cavanagh

Allan Cavanagh — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:26:52 +0000

“A very subtle link down the bottom of this page has brought in countless leads for him”
It’ll be a clever designer that can integrate hyperlinks into a hoodie.

By: Darragh

Darragh — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:05:55 +0000

Just in terms of completeness here, I asked Sean and he says that most of his work comes from that link/referral. As I said, interesting stuff!

By: Darragh

Darragh — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:31:34 +0000

I’ll ask Sean that, so. I’d really be interested in finding this out.

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:29:02 +0000

Best way to answer this is by asking somebody like Sean O who designed our website about the business he gets off the back of this site. A very subtle link down the bottom of this page has brought in countless leads for him. The winning designer might like to do something funky like put a little designed by Darragh Doyle around the sleeve in subtle letters for example. It’s about being creative rather than thinking about X number of people seeing it on Facebook. If I was a designer and wanted to get my work prfiled I’d def be entering this and the mney would be a little bonus TBH. I think designers will figure out themselves if it is worth answering or not

By: Darragh

Darragh — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:51:43 +0000

…we will be promoting the winning designer through all of our channels and letting the world know about your work by carrying it around on our backs.

Hey Niall, what does that actually get me? I know you do a lot of online PR for companies and while it’s flattering to be talked about online on your facebook, twitter and blog, how will that help me?

Surely you’d say “this was designed by Darragh, isn’t it great?” – other people would look at that and say “Hey Darragh, you did that for Simply Zesty for â‚¬250, will you do the same for us?”

Just something I’m curious about – what value you put on that yourself.