Kings Of Leon Competition

Competition Entry

1st Place

2nd Place

3rd Place

www.designedbyhumans.com

I have recently come across the website called designed by humans, which is a t-shirt design website that let's customers design their own t-shirts and get them printed or you can buy one of their own designs. Whilst I was browsing through the website I came across a previous competition that they had running, which was to create a t-shirt design for the rock band, Kings Of Leon.

The competition has ended now and the band picked the 3 best designs in their opinion, which are now on sale from the website. I really liked the chosen winners, as they all used lots of white space with a simple logo and text at the top of the t-shirt. They have also all used a selective colour palette as well, which doesn't over load the t-shirt and reveals the bands name even when looking at it for a split second.

However, I have found on the forum on the website that alot of people have disagreed with the decision of the band and people calling the competition a waste of time for entering. Here are some of the posts that people sent in.

peterdewolf

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JEEEEEEZUS, WTF, unf—-ingbelievable, the winning design is without any merit whatsoever, two runnerup designs with exactly the same theme, one with a deaths head ( are you guys on anti-depressants or something ) and the other simply very badly mocked-up clipart.

What a waste of everyones time and effort making serious attempts at real design.

FalcoTurboJesus

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Think of all the the hours that went into all the designs that were submitted, all to be trumped by a black shape on a shirt

roelke99

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wow, these winners are absolutely s****…i totally agree with pete, i never liked KOL, but now i hate them. Their taste of art is comparable to what i make in the toilet.

malibuingenue said I think the first one is cool. It’s a combination of Tennessee and Oklahoma, the two states where the band members were born.

I think it reflects the band, and I like it. I would totally buy it. So there.

I was quite surprised at all the negative comments about the chosen winners to be honest, alot of people seemed to think that designs like the top one of this post should have been chosen as a winner because of the amount of work that went into it. I have to disagree with the negative comments because of think these winners deserved to win, I think they have though about the composition and layout of the t-shirts and placed them perfectly.

The use of typography and images being kept to a minimal design is something that I like to work with. This is used in my final major project, where I have my illustrations and the typography with lots of white space around them to emphasize the important of the main subject.

This competition just goes to show that everyone has their own opinion on art and design but to get far in this industry you need to meet your clients needs, which in this case is simple type and images, which show the bands name very clearly.