V4U Day T-shirt competition

Two students wear VU t-shirts
24 April – 24 May 2023, 10–12am
Online
Free

Create a new look for the V4U Day 2023 T-shirt and you could see your design on up to 400 T-shirts!

V4U Day (Volunteer for You Day) is Victoria University’s largest annual community volunteering event. Held over a full day every year in semester 2, V4U Day involves VU students, alumni and staff members taking part side-by-side in volunteering activities in the community across the western suburbs of Melbourne. Volunteers will wear a T-shirt that you can design!

Prize

The winning design will get a Google Nest Audio and will be printed on this year's V4U Day T-shirts.

Eligibility

  • You must be a current Victoria University (VU) or Victoria University Polytechnic student.
  • The work must be an original artwork produced by you and any elements contained within must be created by you.
  • By entering the V4U Day T-shirt Design Competition (Competition) you confirm that you have read, understood and are bound by the terms and conditions.
  • You may enter up to three artworks in the Competition.

Artwork guidelines

T-shirt template: design with text 'Your artwork goes here'. Label: Vollies.

Your artwork will be used for the front of the V4U Day T-shirt and must adhere to the following guidelines.

Artwork must:

  • use no more than three colours (not including the T-shirt base colour)
  • be provided in block colours (no gradients)
  • incorporate the terms 'V4U' or 'V4U Day', and '2023'
  • capture the theme of 'giving back to the community'
  • not include any clip art images, WordArt, photography or faces of people
  • be in A3 portrait format
  • account for the T-shirt base colours (choose from the available base colours as indicated on this page). The T-shirt colour is not included in the three-colour limit of your artwork.

Your artwork file(s):

  • should preferably be created on a digital drawing program such as Illustrator
  • must be high resolution (minimum of 300 dpi)
  • must be supplied in vector format as .AI, .EPS or .PDF files.

Available T-shirt base colours

PMS colour codes:

  • White
  • Black
  • Cool Grey (11c)
  • Grey Marble (422c)

How to enter

Email entries to [email protected] by 11.55pm on Wednesday 24 May 2023.

Entries should include:

  • your design(s)
  • your name
  • your student ID number
  • your contact phone number
  • a short statement about your work, including how your design represents the theme.

The winning entrant will work with Student Life to prepare files for print.

Winning the prize

Finalists including a winner will be selected from the entries by a panel consisting of VU staff and students.