Mardi Gras Blipshift T-Shirt Pitch Design Competition

"David McKay" (dmckay12)
05/26/2014 at 00:06 • Filed to: Blipshift, Design Contest

When I saw the name "Minardi Gras" being used by a fellow Jalop durring the monaco gp live chat, I knew that as a combination Louisianan and an F1 fan that I had to have that on a T-shirt. I should clarify that this is an unofficial competition, and as such I can't promise that Blipshift will use the design and I can't promise much in the way of prizes. If Blipshift doesn't accept it, Ill have one made anyway. I will pitch the design to Blipshift, and possibly have a T-shirt for the winner regardless of whether or not it is picked up. At the very least you can win bragging rights and my gratitude. I think that an Jalopnik could use its own mardi gras shirt officially or unofficially.

I think a purple or green base t-shirt is ideal so keep that in mind if you post a proposal (or not, I don't really care that much). I say purple or green even though gold (which would transfer to a shirt as yellow) is also a mardi gras color, yellow is a terrible color for a shirt meant to wear for the festivities because if you are doing mardi gras right, stuff will spill on your shirt and the funnest of those spills aren't hidden well by yellow. I prefer simple designs, but let yourself go crazy. The words "Minardi Gras" should be on it somewhere. A picture of a Minardi car (Minardi Gras himself voted for the 1996 car) and the Minardi Logo would make cool additions as well.

1996 Minardi car

Photo Credit: Tarso Marques

Photo Credit: Pedro Lamy

Minardi Emblem

Some discussion about this is located in the comments here:

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Please participate, even though I can't guarantee a prize or an official Blipshift shirt. Have fun with it.

DISCUSSION (3)

Fred (FreddsterExprs) > David McKay
05/25/2014 at 13:52

Minardi Gras, that's brilliant. I don't guarantee that I'll make something, but I will give it some thoughts when I have a bit of time off this week.

David McKay > Fred (FreddsterExprs)
05/25/2014 at 15:18

Thanks man. Looking forward to hearing your ideas. I will probably repost this every so often until either a good design comes together (whether it is submitted by someone in one of the posts, I am somehow able to design something that doesn't look like shit, or a greatest hits collection of design features from submissions) or until next January so there is time to have them made. I'm hoping to get something together as soon as possible so I can spend as much of the 8 months between now and the start of the mardi gras as possible season to lobby Blipshift or another website to print it. Whatever happens with Blipshift, and the designing I plan to have some of the T-shirts ready for mardi gras and hopefully available for contributors and fellow gearheads to order. I wish I had more than thanks to guarantee people like you who may help, but I plan on lobbying the Jalops in charge to make this an official contest and get their help in lobbying Blipshift to pick up the design.

Nobi > David McKay
05/25/2014 at 19:43

I've submitted this idea to the site and never saw anything come of it, but. I think a Bentley in the air on a dirt course (ala Top Gear) captioned "rally everything" would be awesome.