Send in your entries for the 2017 NICAR T-shirt contest

Earn bragging rights and help raise money for future NICAR training events by participating in our annual NICAR T-shirt contest.

All ideas celebrating data and data journalism are welcome, from a simple, classic design with NICAR on it to bad SQL puns (SELECT * FROM tshirts WHERE tshirts.thisone = “Awesome”).

There are only a few guidelines:

• The T-shirt should include NICAR or National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting somewhere on it, but shouldn’t be designed specifically for the 2017 CAR Conference.
• It must be work appropriate.
• There are no restrictions on colors, but keep in mind that the more detailed/multi-colored the graphic work, the costlier it will be for NICAR to print the shirts.
• By sending in the suggestion to NICAR, you don’t retain rights to the final T-shirt. (This does not include bragging rights, which the designer will maintain in perpetuity.)

We will accept entries up through Sunday, Jan. 29. Send official entries as JPG or PNG files to shirts@ire.org. Only submissions sent to that email will be entered in the contest.

Designs will be posted to the contest page as they are received. Starting Monday, Jan. 30, you’ll be able to vote for your favorite designs.

The designer of the winning T-shirt gets a free shirt and $50 in the IRE Store.

We look forward to your ideas and another great CAR Conference, March 2-5 in Jacksonville.