100shirts

Liverpool-based T Shirt company p-ornithology have launched a national t-shirt design competition open to artists and designers throughout the UK. Its called '100shirts', the best 100 be will exhibited in the city centre in January 2006 and the final 3 winners will receive between £300 and £1500.
Full details here (pdf file)
Closing Date December 9th 2005

The Awards Evening is announced:
The event will take place on the: 2nd March 2006.
The venue is: Microzine, in Liverpool City Centre.
The start time is: 7pm
The after party is at: The Tea Factory (till late) - great Liverpool Bar
The aim of the evening: to greet, meet and celebrate

If you want to attend we are now compiling a guest list. You will need to be on the list to get in as we expect a really high turn out.
Email Bob at the100shirts@aol.com to register for the guest list and if you have any questions. Every artist who entered can bring 2 guests. We will compile a little map and send it out to all those who are travelling from afar, also we will post details of types of accomdation etc on the blog by the 6th February 06 .
Its going to be a night to remember.
See you there

Those hard-working folk at p-ornithology have put together some information on accommodation and travel for those coming to the Awards night who may want to stay over.

"The information includes maps and background info on the hotel. I am waiting for the Reservations Manager to ring me back (as we are negotiating a group discounted rate)" See Update below.

Its all in a Word doc which you can download here.

Update: I'm afraid as we are only able to reserve 35 rooms, the hotel have only given us a very small Group Discount - The room rates now stand at £66.00. You must quote the Group Discount code (156161715) on booking - if they ask what company, please state "the 100Shirts".

Please do book your rooms by 17th Feb as they will only be able to reserve the rooms until then. After this date, the hotel will be open for it's usual custom and so there could be a chance you will miss out if you leave it past this date.

You can book online at http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/925/en/hd/lplad
Or call the reservations line below.

Express by Holiday Inn
Brittania Pavilion Albert Dock
Liverpool, L3 4AD
Hotel Reservations: 0870 400 9093

If you need any further information about the hotel facilities/ parking rates, please call the hotel front desk on 0151-709-1133
Hope that helps you all!

Morning all!

VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE - Re: VOTING ONLINE

Unfortunately the p-ornithology and 100Shirts website is down due to problems with the extra bandwidth caused by the online voting. The website itself is hosted by an external server/ company and so there are set limits as to the bandwith (usage) we are able to push through our website.

The online voting has been far more successful than we estimated and this has caused us big problems! There have been over 50,000 votes pushed through as so this has put too much strain on the external server/ company as too much of the bandwith - to be shared by a number of websites - is actually being used up by our website alone.

In order for them to prevent other websites from suffering, they have had to shut down our website until we rectify the problem - Which, as aforementioned, is the massive number of votes we have recieved!! A good problem to have really!

To this end, I am sorry to say that we will have to ask you all to chill a bit with the voting!

If you would like to vote for a design (and we hope you do) then please do vote - but just the once! I have been encouraging people to vote-vote-vote as obviously, the more votes the merrier but I'm afraid we did not by any means think the website would be so very popular and I certainly did not know we'd have a problem sustaining high volumes of hits.

Please remember, the online voting will not - in any way - effect the judging panel's decision for the winners of the 3 prizes as these will be chosen during the exhibition itself.
The online voting is simply for fun and promotion of your designs.

The external server company will switch back on our website once we have the issues under control - They will, however, suspend and remove our website permanently should be continue to misuse the website. So please, do help us in this matter and spread the word to all your friends and family members - Only vote once please!!

We would really appreciate your co-operation in this matter - The p-ornithology and the 100Shirts website is a vital part of this project and remains a vital resource to getting your designs out to the UK public.

Many thanks,

Bob :-)

Here's the 4 designs that are on T shirts on sale in the 08 Place in Whitechapel and a picture that I took this morning of them in situ.
£15.99 for adults (both men's and women's sizes) and £13.99 for children's sizes (five different age ranges), although not all designs are available for all the sizes