With these sorts of things I'm fond of designs that look interesting even to people who don't know what the shirt is about. Like how some conference shirts just list a name, date and logo in Helvetica while others do interesting artistic things in theme and feel much more wearable as a result.
So try for something unnecessarily pretty! Well-picked data visualisation always looks really good and you have plenty of stuff to work with just from the competitors' nationalities / programming languages / progression rates alone. Or do a text-as-art piece naming all the different mathematical and algorithmic ideas that have featured in solutions to past GCJ rounds (like VFIX's suggestion but you don't have to aim for a giant 'GCJ' at the end, the shape of a shiny hyperbolic polyhedron would do just as well :D). Or a collage of the flavourtext/stories for 2011's various problems; there'd be enough material that you could pull off uniform-visual- noise quite well and then leave some space in one part for a strongly contrasting bold message/logo/etc. If you insist on it saying 'Google Code Jam 2011' somewhere on the shirt (which, well, fair enough), at least don't feel obligated to put it in a giant font where it steals all the focus from the rest of the design. :) On Dec 15, 3:59 pm, Igor Naverniouk <abedn...@google.com> wrote: > Greetings! > > We are playing with a few t-shirt designs for next year, and we would love > to hear (and see) your ideas. > > What would you like to see on a Google Code Jam t-shirt? > > Send your ideas to this group, if you want to hear comments from other > contestants, or send them to us at code...@google.com if you want to keep > them secret and create a surprise for everyone else. > > igor > -- Google Code Jam team -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en.
