Typophile Tee Battle - And the winner is...

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Joe Pemberton7 July 2008 · 17:55

UPDATE We're now taking pre-orders in the Typophile Store.

After a heated battle and much deliberation the winning tee has emerged! SN Rajpurohit from Ahmedabad, India has won the contest with his subission Light, Regular, Bold & Bold Italic.

We don't expect the world to get it, and that's parf of the point. The tee will be printed on an American Apparel shirt in "Light Blue" with gray ink. Stay tuned for pre-order information.

Satya will receive a copy of the mighty FontBook (A $99 USD value, thanks to FontShop!) and a $100 gift certificate to Threadless, (thanks Skinnycorp!).

Thank you for the hundreds of entries. We had a difficult time judging them all.

Stephen Coles7 July 2008 · 18:15

Congrats, SN! Well-deserved. Send me your preferred address and we'll make sure the postman lugs a FontBook directly to your door.

Chris Lozos7 July 2008 · 18:28

Bravo, Satya!

ChrisL

Ricardo Cordoba7 July 2008 · 18:35

Congratulations, Satya!

Jos Buivenga7 July 2008 · 19:13

Well deserved! Congrats, Satya!

jupiterboy7 July 2008 · 19:16

Congrats. It is a really great graphic.

William Berkson7 July 2008 · 19:18

Great concept Satya, congrats!

I wish it could been printed with the design all the way up to the top, as in your graphic...

paul d hunt7 July 2008 · 19:21

congrats Satya!!! can't wait to sport this one. :D

Eric Doctor7 July 2008 · 19:54

This is exactly the type of design I was hoping would win. Can't wait to order mine.

Lex Kominek7 July 2008 · 21:18

Two thumbs up :-)

- Lex

BB7 July 2008 · 22:11

On ya Satya! cool design...beauty mate!

blank7 July 2008 · 22:15

Brilliant!

jselig7 July 2008 · 22:26

nice choice!

mili7 July 2008 · 22:47

Congrats Satya, well done!

Satya Rajpurohit7 July 2008 · 23:38

WOW!! I am truly honored!!

Thanks to everyone for your love and the great support. A big thank to the Punchcut team for refining and making my design look beautiful.

Tobias_Goth8 July 2008 · 00:50

Inspirational and fresh an idea. Great job Satya. Respect to the Punchcut crew for choosing such a innovative design.

I love type! You love type!

Aleksander Lenart8 July 2008 · 02:50

A good choice of a very unique design. Congrats Satya!

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marz8 July 2008 · 05:39

marz8 July 2008 · 05:38

I love this design!

Excellent work, Satya!*

gf_0228 July 2008 · 06:03

Congrats!!!

iffy8 July 2008 · 06:27

Really lovely. Definitely deserved.

AGL8 July 2008 · 07:48

Congrats Satya - An excellent choice!

Dan Reynolds8 July 2008 · 08:00

Excellent idea, Satya. It will be fun to wear!

Chris Lozos8 July 2008 · 08:19

Satya, when that shirt stretches over my belly, will it become Fat Extended Italic? :-)

ChrisL

ihoff8 July 2008 · 10:30

Congratulations, Satya.

Zara Evens8 July 2008 · 10:39

A big congrats to Satya! As Joe mentioned, this was a difficult decision, but we are happy with the choice and think the design is a really great concept. I hope you don't mind that we took the liberty to make some small refinements :)

Satya, will you email us your shipping address? typophile [ a ] punchcut [ d ] com

lisase8 July 2008 · 12:12

Well done. I want one!

Chris Lozos8 July 2008 · 12:17

I hope you guys will also print Satya's other entry (SansSerif). It won't even cost you a second set of prizes since it goes to the same guy! Satya's were the TWO best entries!

ChrisL

Eric Hague8 July 2008 · 13:38

Great choice. Congrats to Satya!

Sharon Van Lieu8 July 2008 · 14:16

Brilliant!!

Roger S. Nelsson8 July 2008 · 15:17

Very cool! :)
I just love typographic in-joke T-shirts - they are great conversation starters... ;)

rubenDmarkes8 July 2008 · 16:36

I actually think the original design was much better, but oh well… I guess it wasn't easy to print, and all. But yes, a deserved win. :) Congrats, Satya! Those prizes are really sweet… I'm jealous!!

eeblet8 July 2008 · 20:05

Cool!!! Any chance of alternate colors at some point?

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jac8 July 2008 · 23:03

I'd so buy that, but I'm fat.

Jac
"pronounced by saying 'Jake' without conjuring imagery of lumberjacks or mans best friend."

sayerhs8 July 2008 · 23:44

oooh! satya, it's sooper!
I like!

shreyas

Dave Williams9 July 2008 · 01:34

Congratulations Satya; a deserved win.

poms9 July 2008 · 05:42

Just beautiful, Satya!

microspective9 July 2008 · 08:15

Congrats, Satya! Looking forward to showing it off and baffling non-typophiles the world over...

ilkut9 July 2008 · 08:35

great choice, congrats.

crossgrove9 July 2008 · 09:12

Oh what a relief! Congrats Satya. It's a sporty design. I would also like the stripes going all the way up, but that would probably make it impractical to produce.

Joe Pemberton9 July 2008 · 10:06

The stripes from bottom to the shoulder seem would be almost impossible. It can't be done with a single screen that would be correctly positioned for the variety of shirt sizes we plan to offer. Getting a small Womens and a Mens XL to both work well is more than tricky. Thus, we modified it by cropping it at the chest. In the end, I think the asymmetry is a nice way to stay true to Satya's design.

Chris Lozos9 July 2008 · 15:51

My only wish is that habitual coffee spillers like me could get a darker fabric shirt. I certainly realize that I am in the minority here and far-and-away most Typophilers are neat as a pin and never, ever schlock food objects or india ink on their clothes :-)

ChrisL

PS: I must admit that I have seen a spot or two of Guiness Stout on Si's shirt on occasion and when Terry and I went to lunch last year, he was as bad as I was :-)

crossgrove9 July 2008 · 16:45

Oh Chris, you've never had a meal with me. Minimum 5 napkins.

So maybe the ideal tee design has splotches printed on it already? Maybe Nick Cooke can use Olicana with its spatters.

Ricardo Cordoba9 July 2008 · 20:17

What we all need is T-shirts designed by Jackson Pollock. ;-)

Joe Pemberton9 July 2008 · 20:46

So, grunge fonts/tees... That's what you're all asking for? =)

By the way, the Ts are on order and the press check is on Friday.