Spreadshirt Announces Design Competition Winners

Spreadshirt is proud to announce of this year's The Draw design competition co-sponsored by the London Design Festival.

Running from August until mid-October, the international competition saw nearly 1000 entries and over 125 finalists from designers in Europe and the United States.

The final designs were open to public voting, and the final decision was made by a jury panel comprised of representatives from Spreadshirt, the London Design Festival, Icon Magazine and Castle Magazine.

First place went to the Alexis Nicholson and her "Spacemen" t-shirt design.

A UK-based freelance designer, she describes the winning design as "part of a series... from the (slightly exaggerated) idea that there are so many bombs being thrown about all over the world that the empty shells should used for something...

The designs are all suggestions of how to put them to good use".

Second place went to the Swiss designer Blaise Coutaz (aka Tutuf), and his potted umbrella-plants design "London Spirit".

But rather than based on his memory of London ("If I had wanted to illustrate my stay in London, I would have create a snowman and ice"), it plays with the idea of umbrellas growing and opening from the water sprinkled on them.

A favourite among designers (both first and second placers thought it would win), "Postapocaust" by Norbert Reissig too