We read and argued your wonderful comments and the winner is: hworks

with the comment:

'patterns are the strangest things. i pick up my bicycle in the morning, the 5am breeze brushes over my shoulder, the quiet drone of the bicycle chain announces the awakening of daily sounds, the colours of the bangalore sky rush to greet the sun and i smell the moist morning leaves.. and then, suddenly yet creepily at times, i realise i am a minute yet necessary thread of a very large fabric, a pattern larger than life. without me, the pattern is incomplete, and without the pattern, i am nothing. i am within what i am.'

Congratulations :)

Thank you all for submitting great comments and we hope to do another Mini Contest very soon so stay tuned!

Win Two Free T-Shirts of Your Choice!

To celebrate the launch of our new competition, we are launching a mini contest for our members and and visitors to win two free t-shirts from our store. Our new competition is themed “Pattern Battle” and we would like to hear from you what do you think about patterns whether these be patterns in our lives or patterns we draw on paper. Whatever it is we want to know!

How to Enter

Simply write about why you think patterns are great or not in the form of a comment to this post. Please write at least one sentence, thats all you have to do! The contest begins now and one winner will be chosen by Allmightys Team and announced Monday, May 19th of 2008.

Contest Prizes

Two free t-shirts of your choice from our store!

Schedule

Contest Begins: Monday, May 5th of 2008

Contest Ends: Monday, May 19th of 2008

Additional Comments and Rules

Please provide a valid email so you can be contacted if you win

We reserve the right to not approve any comments we deem inappropriate

Minimum Age Limit: 16+

Winner can pick any tee from the store

Package and postage included and international shipping available

We have just launched a new competition!!

Theme Title: Pattern Battle

Description: Pattern is a surprisingly mobile concept, used by sociologists, anthropologists, urbanists, mathematicians, physicists and psychologists to reveal the organisation of the human mind. For this competition, we would like you to think organisation, repetition, grid, structure, data, threads, figuration, abstraction, ornament, decoration….from unified to disorganised and from the smallest to the biggest.

Submission Deadline 23rd June 2008, 23.00 GMT

Dates:
Competition announced: Monday 5th May 2008
Submission Deadline: 23rd June 2008, 23.00 GMT
Voting Ends: 27th June 2008, 23.00 GMT

Competition banner artwork by Nikola Kostic

For more details on this competition please visit the competition page here.

What do you want to do?

The ‘Out and About’ competition ended on Friday night and first of all we want to thank you all for submitting such great designs! It was fun doing the joint competition with Popdeck.com, and we hope you enjoyed the challenge of designing a shirt and a deck in combination.
We feel that you the designers made a great effort in coming up with designs that work on both media! Great work, everyone and thanks!!

Without further ado, here is the winner of ‘Out and About’!!
The design will be printed on a shirt by us and on a deck by Popdeck:

Gold Prize: Paranoid Park by RoyalGlamsters

Congratulations!!!

Furthermore, the following tees will be printed at Allmighys:

Prize Winners (Printed)
1. Paranoid Park by RoyalGlamsters (Com: 2.00 EUR per shirt sold + free Board + $200 from PopDeck)
2. Coffeeeee! by sepra4life (Com: 1.50 EUR per shirt sold)
3. The City Letraset by ALIADOTONY (Com: 1.00 EUR per shirt sold)

Special Selection (Printed)
(Commission: 1.00 EUR per shirt sold)
1. Wild Set Three by knikola
2. Don’t Break My Beat by nunosk8

Special Mention (Not Printed)
(order by score)
1. Marketplace by trinco
2. GOeagle by GODESIGN
3. MyDress by mumolabs
4. Battle by Kushti

To read more about the competition and the winners, see out past competitions page.

The submission time for "Out and About" competition has just ended and there are only few hours left to score designs on Allmightys.

Thank you all for submitting these wonderful designs!  We've received a great response and it's exciting to see so different takes there are on the theme. It will be interesting to see how you like the designs once we go through all the votes.  Not an easy task but never the less an interesting one as we will be seeing what you liked and what you dissed. We will also speak to our friends at Popdeck.com to see how the  designs rated on their site and together decide what is the best design that works both on a board and tee.

So, if you haven't voted yet, now is the time!
SCORE DESIGNS ALLMIGHTYS!

On Monday, we will be announcing the winners and chosen designs for this competition. Please bear with us, a lot to go through. The results will include:
1. Gold Prize (Free Deck + $200 + Free Tee + Allmightys' €2.00 per sold Tee commission)
2. Silver Prize (Free Tee + Allmightys' €1.50 per sold Tee commission)
3. Bronze Prize (Free Tee + Allmightys' €1.00 per sold Tee commission)
+
Special Selections (Free Tee + Allmightys' €1.00 per sold Tee commission)

So, until Monday, keep those comments coming and have a great weekend!

There are now only few days left to submit your designs for our current "Out and About" competition. The response has been good and, as always, its great to see such diverse response to the theme. Yes, its true, we have gone a little easier on what's related to theme but we love the mix of designs you have submitted. This competition, as you know, is being done in association with Popdeck.com so make sure you submit your designs to both sites to qualify for gold prize. Also don't forget to vote on both sites because we will be looking at both scores for the gold prize. Only one design will be printed on a skateboard deck and it will be exciting to see which design you have liked most. You can get all the templates here and here.

If you haven't voted yet, the submissions are waiting for your votes so sure you visit the voting galleries and tell us how much you like them.

As always, if there are any new features you would like to see on the site or have some suggestions for our future competition themes ..then please let us know. You can use our online form or send an email to us directly at more[at]allmightys.com.Have a great weekend all!!

You The Designer has just announced winner of our joint mini contest for 2 free tees (P&P included) to the comment that best describes "why outdoors is way more fun than indoors".

The winner is Lori:

“I really love the outdoors because it means forgetting about the world and being free. I don’t have to think about deadlines and stroke lines, just what flavor ice cream I want when I sit on the grass and watch the clouds make shapes.” Lori


Here are some other great entries that unfortunately didn't make it:

_{Nature in general is very inspirational.. What drives me out from home is actually the sea.. and the sand.. I live in small town here in Italy close to the sea and the name is “Senigallia-The velvet sand” because of the wonderful beach that we have.. What inspire me most is the space without limits in front of you when you point the view from the water to the horizon..}
Giacomo Coppola
Web and Graphic Designer

_{Outside, after a winter cooped up,
Is breezes and birches and sun.
Outside, after months indoors,
Is sneezes and searches and fun.
Sorry, I can never resist a bit of doggerel. ;o)}
Kdfrawg -

_{It is not beauty or attributes that are the inspiration. Nature, the world’s canvas, reflects every heart and soul gazing on it by drawing the essence of who you are by reflection in your mind of what you see. Nature as purity, stillness and rest, portrays that deep self which our world no longer accepts in a fast paced society: innocence. It therefore guides way to nature inspiring your heart - whereas, it is your heart that has inspired the vision and interpetation of nature. One Creator; one core; all creation.}
melodeejean

_{I love the outdoors because it reminds me how fragile life really is.}
Jon

_{i love being outside because no matter how amazing your printer is, how fantastic of a camera you have, or how many pantone swatchbooks you own… you can never match the breathtaking colors of fall leaves on the trees, hot pink azaleas blooming, or the constantly changing blue of the sky. you can’t duplicate a miracle, no matter how genius of a designer you are.}
mollie

For more ideas for our current competition "Out and About" go to You The Designer and read all the comments ...there are some really great ones among them ..definitely inspirational!

Allmightys and PopDeck have joined forces to bring you a joint competition for artists to design a T-Shirt and a Skateboard deck!

Theme Title: Out and About

Description: We would like to think of all the wonderful things we do out and about. Think cities, streets, friends, landscapes, holidays, trees, games, sports, SKATEBOARDING and everything else that makes the world outside way more interesting and challenging.

Submission Deadline is 21st April 2008, 23.00 GMT.

-Gold prize Winner will be decided by Allmightys.com and Popdeck by picking one design for deck and tee.
-Other winners will be decided by Allmightys.com on the basis of average score/types of scores and comments (Read full T&C).
-Artists do not have to submit both designs to PopDeck.com or Allmightys.com but its a prerequisite to win Gold prize
-Tee and Deck do not have to be the exactly same design but then need to somehow relate to one another (by colour, details, etc..)
-To qualify for gold prize Artists need to make it clear / link to / their design submitted on PopDeck.com or Allmightys.com (use design comments)
-Artists can illustrate both the tee and the deck designs on their submission images.
-Allmightys.com will also pick silver and bronze prize for printing on tees ONLY.
-Allmightys.com may also pick some Special Selection for printing on tees ONLY.
-Popdeck will produce one design only [gold prize]
-Gold prize winner receives a free deck and a free tee. (P&P included) (+ standard Allmightys T&C €2.00 commission per tee sold)
-Silver, Bronze and Special Selections receive a free tee (incl standard Allmightys T&C commission per tee sold)
-T-Shirts and Winning Deck will be offered for purchase separately  (deck via popdeck.com and tee via allmightys.com store)

Dates:
Competition announced: Monday 10th March 2008
Submission Deadline: 21st April 2008, 23.00 GMT
Voting Ends: 25th April 2008, 23.00 GMT

Competition banner by Puzon

Read here about how to submit.

As you know, we are launching a brand new competition tomorrow ...so to improve your experience on allmightys.com we have decided to make few changes to the way competitions run. Up until now, it has been submissions and then voting. Although this system is good and simple we have noticed few behaviour patterns that we think need improvement. The main 3 problems are:
1. Members comment on submitted designs and they do not comment when the voting is on.
2. There are way too many designs to vote on at once.
3. You are voting on the designs you have already seen in the forum and its not as fun as it should be.

So we are changing all of this and here is what is happening from now on:

1. You can submit and vote at the same time
2. Submissions and Voting are simultaneous except that voting goes on for extra 4 days to get those last few votes.
3. Approved designs in the forum link directly to the voting page
4. Submissions go on for 6 weeks (Voting = same 6 weeks + extra 4 days for those late comers)
5. You can no longer re-submit designs unless they have been rejected, once they are approved and in the voting that's it.
6. If you are unsure about your design and need advice, use "post discussion".
7. Small functionality and graphic improvements to the site and various bug fixes.
8. If the submission does not meet "Minimum quality requirements" we will turn it into a discussion for you to tell us otherwise.
9. Updated FAQ

We hope you enjoy the new rules and as always if you have any comments send them over.

New competition launches tomorrow..banner has been designed by Puzon ..and boy it is so cool.

Thanks to all the designers for all the great artwork you submitted and thanks to everyone for telling us your opinions!! We think the winning designs are great examples of the quality of designs that were submitted.

a.mar.illo's 'The Architect' led the way from pretty much day 1 due to it's idea, style and colour combination. miracletwentyone_org's 'We need Help' was up there all the time too and especially received lots of comments through it's contemporary and thought-provoking theme. 'Underwater Birds' by a.mar.illo is a very unique design especially in terms of composition and colours.  sepra4life's 'I'm Thinking Big...' is a clear and striking line drawing with a simple yet complex structure. knikola's 'Movies' reached high scores due to it's bold and well composed combination of typo and images. Finally, 'Jana' by vergilije is a strong graphic with great use of colour and a lot of attention to detail...

So, without further ado, here are...

The results:

Prize Winners (Printed)
1. The Architect by a.mar.illo (Com: 2.00 EUR per shirt sold)
2. We Need Help by miracletwentyone_org (Com: 1.50 EUR per shirt sold)
3. Underwater Birds by a.mar.illo (Com: 1.00 EUR per shirt sold)

Special Selection (Printed)
(Commission: 1.00 EUR per shirt sold)
1. I'm Thinking Big... by Sepra4life
2. Movies by knikola
3. Jana by vergilije 

Special Mention (Not Printed)
(order by score)
1. I Wish I Could Stop (Thinking) by Puzon
2. I Am Thinking... by seeabhay
3. The Wooden Girl On The Hill by a.mar.illo
4. My Thinking Bulbs by wickedtruffy
5. Wrapped Up In Civilization by zerus
6. Are We Really Thinking? by Yonil

Thank you all again for submitting these great designs.

We are now in the process of preparing a brand new competition for you all. We think this one is going to be big!! Check back in couple of days for details.