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NBC wants you to make their new Office t-shirt -- cheap bastards!

by Richard Keller, posted Dec 26th 2008 2:05PM

Your t-shirt design may end up on a rack at the NBC store in the very near future.Do you have a flair for design? Do you like television? Would you like to use your talents to do something television-related that doesn't include you being a contestant on Project Runway, where you'll eventually start crying at some point? Well, NBC may be the right place for you! Because they're so strapped for cash right now they are looking to their viewers to help design some of their new merchandise.

Specifically, they are looking for some new T-shirts for The Office. All you have to do is download the T-shirt template that NBC is providing, select a shirt color, create and save the design as a photo, and upload it to the Office website by January 29th. Visitors to the Office website will judge your designs and pick twenty of the best. It will then be up to the producers of the show to pick the three winning designs.

For the grand prize winner the best thing is that their design will be sold exclusively through the NBC Store, which I'm guessing is both online and at the brick and mortar locations in New York and Los Angeles. They will also receive 10 of the T-shirts for their own. Whether or not they will be paid royalties for each sale was not mentioned in the official rules.

The two runners-up...well, they don't get the royal treatment. While the producers pick their designs they won't be put on T-shirts. They will get an Andy Star mug and a four pack of DM shot glasses: that should make them feel good about all of the hard work they put into the design! Good luck, everyone, and start designing!

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Katie

I clicked on this article and got excited, as I've had an idea for an Office t-shirt for some time now ("Party Planning Committee chairwoman", or something related to the PPC), but after reading the prize, and the fact that the runner-ups won't even be put on a shirt, I don't even think I will bother with the template

December 27 2008 at 12:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Miles D

http://www.no-spec.com/

December 26 2008 at 4:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bruce

that's horrendously lame, it really does come down to NBC wanting us to do their work for free. Surely everyone submitting a design click-signs a contract assigning all copyright in their shirt design to NBC. If the prize was $10,000 it would be okay. But the grand prize is just 10 of your winning t-shirts? That's it? I hope everone is too insulted to bother doing NBC's work for them, but sadly a few idiots will spend an inordinate amount of time coming up with amazingly detailed designs, and give them away for 20 bucks (production cost per shirt = 2, times 10 shirts = $20).

I hate advertising, though, so if all companies started to do this and it put the big Madison Ave ad companies out of biz, I'd be thrilled.

December 26 2008 at 2:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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