This post marks number 1,000 on the main feature page, for Trash Menagerie!! We’ve come a long way since the very first, “DTL Will Bass You“, written by Local Hero on Drop The Lime. Seems like ages ago. It’s a pretty exciting moment for us!! We’ve poured our blood, sweat and tears, sacrificed external hard drive space and sleep time, fucked with our career progression, squandered disposable income/inheritances, and endless other sacrifices, all to make Trash Menagerie what it is today. We’re slightly proud as only a stag could be.

To mark this special moment in time, we wanted to do something creative where everyone interacts and the end result is visual stimuli for all to enjoy!! So sharpen up your design skills cause we’re asking our viewers to create a cool design, to be printed up on a t-shirt!! We’re looking for something that exudes Trash Menagerie and we’re anxious to see how you will interpret this!

If your design is chosen, we’ll be sure to let everyone in the world know, via our blog and airwaves, that you are responsible for our new finery. You will become infamous in the t-shirt making crowd of crowds!! The Don Juan of t-shirt makers around the world, if you will. The deadline for all t-shirt designs will be Monday, July 6, 2009. We’ll post our top 3 favorite designs and vote on the one that will rep Trash Menagerie!!

We couldn’t resist rounding off this momentous post without mentioning and thanking all the contributors who have helped us reach this mile-stone. Massive props to the following that have been with us at one point, are new to the crew and those that have been at it since day one!

4AM Jess / ANewBoy / Amy Riley / Audio Pimpstress / BisouK / BristolBoi / DadaKingZ / Keith Wilson / Kimberleys Mobile Disco / Local Hero / Lovestar /
PD Williams / Rhys Isterix / Sirhan / Style Noir / Terence Teh / The Crooked Clef / Waxy Jax

We look forward to wearing your hard work!

PLEASE be sure to read the terms and conditions for the Trash Menagerie t-shirt contest, after the MORE link.

Design Submissions

DEADLINE for t-shirt designs is Monday, July 6, 2009. That gives you an entire month to come up with something amazing!!!!

SUBMIT TO: trashmenagerie AT gmail DOT com

SUBJECT LINE: Trash Menagerie T-shirt Design

If you are submitting a Design idea to Trash Menagerie, you agree to additional Terms and Conditions.

Trash Menagerie Design Submission Legal Terms & Conditions

A few helpful guidelines to begin with

– Submit high resolution files only, higher than 150 ppi (pixels per inch)
– We support JPEG, PNG, GIF, or TIFF files
– Create a design meant for regular screen printing, constrained to a 15″ x 20″ (38cm x 50cm) area
– Recommended pixel dimension -
- pocket: 600 x 600 pixels = 4″ x 4″
- horizontal: 2100 x 1800 pixels = 14″ x 12″
- vertical: 1800 x 2100 pixels = 12″ x 14″
– We recommend using an sRGB color profile for images. However, we do support CMYK based images as well.
– A submission will be declined if it contains copyrighted material
– A submission will be declined if it contains images used without permission
– A maximum of 8 unique colors in designs submitted to Trash Menagerie

For complete Image guidelines, please click this link

If your Design is selected for use by Trash Menagerie, you acknowledge that you assign to Trash Menagerie and its subsidiaries and affiliates (hereinafter collectively “Trash Menagerie”) the entire right, title, and interest in and to the copyright in your Design including the right to sue for past infringement and the right to further sublicense the Design, for its sole and exclusive use on and in connection with the Items. You also acknowledge that you waive all “moral” rights that you may have in and to your Design.

If your Design is selected, Trash Menagerie may use your Design in any manner on or in connection with the Items, including but not limited to: reproducing the Design on the Items, selling Items bearing the Design, changing or reworking the Design by making color or size changes, making derivative works of the Design, using the Design on the Trash Menagerie website and on promotional material for Trash Menagerie, and registering the Design with the US Copyright Office in the name of Trash Menagerie as the Claimant, and you as the Author. You agree to provide Trash Menagerie with minimal information as may be required in order to register the copyright in the Design if Trash Menagerie so requests, at no cost.

You may use or continue to use the Design for any other purposes, except those described below.

If your Design is selected, you may not use the Design (or derivatives of the Design) or allow others to use the Design (or derivatives of the Design) on any Items, as described above. In addition, by submitting your Design, you may not reproduce, sell, or submit the Design to others for any commercial purpose for ninety (90) days after the date of submission while the Design is being evaluated by Trash Menagerie.

Once the ninety (90) days have passed, if your Design is not chosen for print by Trash Menagerie, you are free to use the Design for any commercial or non-commercial purpose. However if your Design is used elsewhere, you must notify Trash Menagerie by email: trashmenagerie AT gmail DOT com, about where and when the Design will be used, so that it can be removed from the Trash Menagerie website at that time.

In addition, if the Design is used or reproduced for commercial purposes elsewhere, you cannot use the Trash Menagerie blogs to promote the Design or the company using the Design. You further agree not to use the Trash Menagerie blogs to promote the products and services of any company that operates in competition with Trash Menagerie.

Trash Menagerie reserves the right to choose your design after the (90) days have passed, on the condition that the design has not been used for commercial purposes on any Items, as described above.

You acknowledge that the Design you are assigning to Trash Menagerie is your own original work, has not been previously published, and does not contain any trademarks, logos, copyrighted material, or any other intellectual property belonging to any third party, or any material, which Trash Menagerie in its sole discretion, deems to be profane or offensive.

You acknowledge that Trash Menagerie reserves the right to decline to select a Design for consideration for any reason, including poor design. Concept, originality, and visibility is highly important!!!!!

If your Design is selected for use by Trash Menagerie, we will have your design printed via Zazzle on an American Apparel t-shirt. You will receive a fine t-shirt to show off your hard work!!!!

Trash Menagerie receives hi-resolution artwork deemed suitable for print. If the hi-resolution artwork is not deemed suitable for print as determined by Trash Menagerie, Trash Menagerie will notify you of the reason(s) for its determination by email and will make a good-faith effort to assist you in presenting a suitable hi-resolution format.

Participants, who in the opinion of Trash Menagerie, do not comply with these Design Submission Legal Terms and Conditions, or for any other reason at Trash Menagerie sole discretion, can at any time be excluded from consideration without notice.

The decisions of Trash Menagerie are final and binding.