Some time ago I learned about the Firefox 3 T-shirt Contest which was being used as part of the promotion for the new release of Firefox 3. Quite excited by this prospect I joined the flickr group, opened up Illustrator and started working on some ideas.
By the time the closing date arrived there where over 1,700 designs submitted which the team at Mozilla HQ then had to narrow down to their five favourites for the grand final. The top 5 designs where then announced to the public who had the opportunity to vote for the overall winner. Despite being well received by the flickr community my designs sadly where not selected and the winner of the competition was egirluk whose design (which I voted for) you can find out more about in the Mozilla store blog.
Several weeks later I received an exciting email from the comments form on my old website. It was an email from Mozilla HQ asking for permission to use one of my t-shirt designs (pictured below) to give away as the prize for their next competition. Naturally I was delighted and shipped the original Illustrator files off to Mountain View, California straight away. I understand that the screencast competition was a big success and I have since received my very own complimentary T-Shirt courtesy of the gang at Mozilla.
Thanks Mozilla.
If you would like to buy one of my T-shirts then you are able to do so at the Mozilla community store.
Dad - 04/01/2009
Don’t I get a freebie, then?
mzz - 07/25/2009
This may not be the best way to report it, but your link to “my old website” is broken: it starts with “htp” instead of “http”.
Noticed this while trying to figure out if the dotted line on the t-shirt I just received was indeed braille
Chris - 07/31/2009
Thanks for the heads up on the broken link mzz. The dotted line in the design is indeed braille and hopefully represents the number ‘3′.
Braille was added to the design to reflect the importance of accessibility in a web browser. The ‘3′ was just because it was firefox 3.