Calling all YogaDorks: Design a T-Shirt for Haiti Disaster Relief

by admin on January 18, 2010

in News, World News

haiti_port-au-princeListen up! We’ve been wondering what we can do here on YD to help with disaster relief in Haiti after it was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake January 12, 2010. Well we had an idea and with the encouragement of some fine folks we’re very pleased to announce a design a tee contest to raise money for aid. It’s very simple: YOU send in designs. YOU vote on the winner. YOU buy the tee. WE ALL help Haiti. We’re going to keep this straight up for charity, so basically having the winning design IS the prize (and everyone wins, helping the cause and getting a pretty great tee in the process).

To make things as quick and easy as possible, the winning design will be printed on American Apparel Unisex T-Shirts (s, m, l , xl – color tbd) and will cost $15 + $3 shipping, so $18 total. (those not in the US please give a shout at yogadork@gmail.com for shipping). Once the designs are submitted we’ll have a little poll below for everyone to vote, after which we’ll have a paypal button for purchase. ALL profits will go to The American Red Cross. (http://www.redcross.org/en/) Obviously, time is of the essence – so please submit your designs asap! All submissions should be sent to yogadork@gmail.com by early dawn Thursday latest. Then we can have a vote, take preorders and get these tees in the works! ps. it doesn’t have to be super yoga related, but remember we’re yogadorks here showing our support. Good idea? Send in your designs! yogadork@gmail.com, or if you have the design online, hook up the linkage in the comments below. THANK YOU. (above harrowing photo from boston.com)

DESIGN ENTRIES: Please vote! (in the comments or in the poll below – all will be tallied)

NOTE: numbers are above each design

#1 haitiyogadorkshirtfront #2 haitiom-sarahboyce #3

daynya-shirt-design-1 #4 daynya-shirt-design-2 #5 daynya-shirt-design-3 #6 helphaitiyogi-acoveno #7 heather-sison-haiti #8

yogadorks-for-haiti

#9

heather-sison-haiti-2

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{ 67 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Sam 01.18.10 at 11:16 pm

Good Evening Yoga Dorks!
I’ve heard that folks will be wearing RED tomorrow in support of Haiti. Join us? Seeing as the Haitian flag is red and blue, maybe the benefit shirt could be a blue “om” symbol on a red shirt to show our unity? Simple but powerful?
Namaste!
Sam

2 admin 01.18.10 at 11:21 pm

sam, that’s a really great idea. thank you!!

3 daynya 01.19.10 at 10:01 am

do you have any guidelines? do you want text? just an image? do you want it to say something about haiti, or yogadork, or just anything goes?
can’t wait to get designin’!

4 Nikki Chau 01.19.10 at 7:38 pm

Hey YD, thanks for running this contest. Barring any major complaints, I’ll be submitting to you my design as seen here: http://www.nikkiyoga.com/transform-t-a-shirt-for-haiti/

There’s a whole back story on the hows and whys and proper thank you and everything in my post.

Thanks.

5 Justine Fuller 01.20.10 at 8:00 pm

We did a benefit yoga class and used red white and blue yarn.

RED for the bloodlines and root chakra that connect us all

BLUE because we have a voice 5th Chakra USE IT!
and
White for HOPE for all the survivors still waiting to be rescued, delivered food water and safe shelter.

6 Shelsea Acoveno 01.20.10 at 10:40 pm
7 A Red Lotus 01.21.10 at 12:10 am

wow! nikki and shelsea, those are beautiful designs!

8 Heather 01.21.10 at 1:13 am
9 daynya 01.21.10 at 10:37 am

i vote for number 5!

is that what we do? leave a comment?

10 Paige 01.21.10 at 10:44 am

Hey all! I vote for #5!!!!

11 Qucifer 01.21.10 at 10:50 am

My favorite is #5!

12 nanpan 01.21.10 at 10:54 am

I vote for #4

13 Yantra Mat 01.21.10 at 10:59 am

I like number #5 the most so far!!

14 Amelia 01.21.10 at 11:37 am

These are AWESOME! I think you should make the top 3, too many good ones to choose from!

15 Yoga Bear 01.21.10 at 11:43 am

I vote for #6!

16 Lindsay 01.21.10 at 11:50 am

#5 is really great! Love it on the black shirt. I will pass this along to my yoga peeps to vote … thanks!

17 charlie 01.21.10 at 12:58 pm

They are ALL amazing, but I have to say #6! Nice work!

18 charlie 01.21.10 at 1:01 pm

*I mean #5!! Oops!

19 therinjustine 01.21.10 at 1:03 pm

Love it! #5. Lots of cute ones though

20 roseanne 01.21.10 at 1:05 pm

ooooh, so hard to decide! but… my vote is for #3!

21 Janine 01.21.10 at 1:07 pm

#7

22 Scott 01.21.10 at 1:08 pm

#7

23 Bossman 01.21.10 at 1:26 pm

I agree with Roseanne, except that my vote is for #7 (the agree part being that it was “so hard to decide.”)

24 JOSE 01.21.10 at 1:37 pm

My vote is for #7!

25 franko ali 01.21.10 at 1:41 pm

tough choice but i’m going to have to go with 7 too

26 erika 01.21.10 at 2:18 pm

7 and 9!!!!!

27 Ann 01.21.10 at 3:31 pm

Great job everyone! They’re all really good.

28 Daniel 01.21.10 at 3:43 pm

I vote for # 5!

29 Deb 01.21.10 at 4:07 pm

#7!!

30 Joe 01.21.10 at 4:09 pm

I vote #7 too!

31 Mischelle 01.21.10 at 4:12 pm

#7 is great! :)

32 Svasti 01.21.10 at 4:31 pm

Yep, I’m all for #7 – well done everyone!

33 Jess 01.21.10 at 5:19 pm

Fab idea!!!

34 susan mcinerney 01.21.10 at 5:37 pm

Awesome idea! #6 gets my vote!

35 Hollie Tucker 01.21.10 at 6:39 pm

#7 :)

36 Kailey 01.21.10 at 6:41 pm

I like #6 best!!

37 Dave S. 01.21.10 at 6:48 pm

6

38 Stephanie 01.21.10 at 6:59 pm

If I had to wear one, I’d pick #6. It speaks Yoga with a strong message! I can’t wait to see who wins! When will the contest end?

39 Samantha 01.21.10 at 8:31 pm

Definitely #6. You did a great job Shelsea!

40 Amy Putkonen (Jewell) 01.21.10 at 9:52 pm

Wooohoo! YogaDork, you are just amazing! Stopping by your site is just always a treat! (My second visit today!) Love this idea. Let me know when I can buy one!

41 amy 01.21.10 at 10:12 pm

3 is fabulous

42 Jesse L. 01.21.10 at 10:58 pm

I vote for 7!

43 Jimmy Ray 01.21.10 at 10:59 pm

#7, for sure.

44 SUE 01.21.10 at 11:05 pm

#7!! LOVE IT!!

45 Trish 01.21.10 at 11:28 pm

#6. :)

46 Jai 01.21.10 at 11:34 pm

We like #6 ! Beautiful job!

47 Devon 01.22.10 at 1:21 am

Number 7! =)

48 eleni 01.22.10 at 1:24 am

they’re all so good but I think I like #7 best

49 Juani 01.22.10 at 1:43 am

#7 is my favorite! Good job everyone!

50 Matcat 01.22.10 at 2:17 am

I like #7!!!

51 stephen dupuis 01.22.10 at 2:59 am

seven duh.

52 VC 01.22.10 at 7:08 am

7 is best.

53 Josh DiAntonio 01.22.10 at 10:46 am

6 gets my vote.

54 Karen 01.22.10 at 11:07 am

6 !

55 Lyndsay 01.22.10 at 11:14 am

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56 Niki 01.22.10 at 12:48 pm

I vote for # 7. But if i can I will buy # nine too. The are both awesome.

57 Chandra 01.22.10 at 1:06 pm

Nice job. When can I purchace? I vote 6.

58 Robert W. 01.22.10 at 1:08 pm

NUMBER SEVEN!!!

59 Manda 01.22.10 at 1:10 pm

#7

60 CH 01.22.10 at 1:16 pm

Yeah, 7 is great! Good job!

61 Bliss 01.22.10 at 1:25 pm

YogaDorks- Wonderful!

Num 6.

62 yogiforhaiti 01.24.10 at 7:52 pm

#7!

63 HK 01.24.10 at 8:01 pm

#7 gets my vote. thanks

64 Tracey 01.24.10 at 10:20 pm

I love #7 and would love to buy and wear it!

65 Adam Pincott 01.25.10 at 6:34 am

I like #7 would buy and wear it.

66 admin 01.25.10 at 12:42 pm

Winner’s announced! check it out YogaDorks for Haiti T-shirt

thanks to all!! please spread the word!

67 Kaella 01.26.10 at 3:33 pm

#6!!!!!!

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