The first annual Austinot T-Shirt Design Contest was launched on June 13, 2013 with a Grand Prize package valued at over $2,000. We closed the contest last week with twenty-seven entries. We’re grateful to everyone who took the time to create and submit a design!
In choosing a winner, we (Eric and Brittany) were looking for a design that complied with our guidelines, captured the vibe of Austin as a whole, and appealed to a wide range of people. By no coincidence, the winning design we ended up selecting was also the community favorite, receiving the most votes and the highest rating among all of the entries.
Grand Prize Winner: Ten Things About Austin
The Grand Prize winner of the 2013 Austinot T-Shirt Design Contest is Anya Surnina, with her design, “Ten Things About Austin.”
“Ten Things About Austin” by Anya Surnina
Anya Surnina, Grand Prize winner
This sleek, one-color design represents many of the things and places that Austinites love about the city, including food trailers, music, funky graffiti, outdoor activities and recognizable landmarks.
And now, a little bit about the winner! Anya was born in Estonia and has had a passion for art since a young age. She moved to the United States when she was 17, receiving a degree in Interior Design in Houston. During her first visit to Austin, she fell in love. After plotting for some time, she was able to get a job here and make the move.
Anya told us, “I have been living in Austin and working as a website and graphic designer for two years now and I enjoy every second of it. I enjoy spending time with my friends, being outside, cooking, traveling, and working on DIY projects.” If you’d like to see more of Anya’s design work, check out her website.
$2,000 Value Grand Prize Package
As the winner, Anya is the recipient of an incredible Grand Prize Package:
- Party barge on Lake Travis for you and 14 friends (Austin’s Boat Tours: retail value $400)
- Flyboarding for 2 on Lake Travis (Austin Flyboard, LLC: retail value $400)
- Outdoor adventures for the whole family for the next year with a Family Season Pass to Reveille Peak Ranch (retail value $249)
- 60-minute Couples Massage (milk + honey spa: retail value $190)
- Zip lining through the beautiful Hill Country for 2 (Wimberley Zipline Adventures: retail value $160)
- Tour the city of Austin on awesome electric bikes with three friends for a whole day (Rocket Electrics: retail value $152)
- Take a guest and dine at Austin’s oldest private club (Austin Club: retail value $100)
- Gift pack from beloved Austin icon with photo book, DVDs and more (Austin City Limits: retail value $80)
- $50 gift card and quirky prize pack (Toy Joy: retail value $75)
- Carriage ride for 4 through downtown Austin for 30 minutes (Austin Carriage: retail value $50)
- Family Fun Pack that includes 4 games of laser tag and 100 video game tokens at the largest laser tag arena in Texas (Blazer Tag: $49.95)
- Get the best Philly cheesesteak dinner in Austin with 3 friends, food trailer style (Way South Philly: retail value $45)
- Choose any flavor of the best cheesecake in Austin and have it delivered anywhere in town (CinnaMan Desserts: retail value $40)
- Show off your city love with the coolest piece of Austin jewelry we’ve seen (Vinca: retail value $38)
- Gift certificate to Halcyon coffee shop, bar and humidor in the Warehouse District (Halcyon: retail value $25)
We’re planning to have a party to celebrate the design in September, and we’ll have some fancy t-shirts available if everything works out! Thanks to our friends at Kong Screen Printing for printing our t-shirts.
To see all of the Austinot T-Shirt Design Contest Entries, click here.
Visit this page if you’re curious about the original entry guidelines.
@theAustinot asks:
How do you like the winning design? Do you think it represents Austin?
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Way to go, Anya!
You should have put the artists picture with the entry. I would have voted for this one!
Awesome! I voted for this design! Congrats to Anya!
Love it!
She nailed it! Kudos, Anya!!
GORGEOUS
Congrats. But isn’t it a little too much like the Austinist logo? http://austinist.com/2013/08/21/we_noticed_something_about_austinot.php
@redmule13:disqus, I think the background color, the font, and the fact that they both contain three of the most recognizable buildings in Austin make the designs seem similar. The background color will not be the same when the design is printed on t-shirts, the buildings aren’t leaving our skyline anytime soon and will remain, and the font is the designer’s favorite, used on her own website, and we plan on keeping it. Other than that, we reserved the right to alter the winning design in our original submission rules, and that process is taking place as we speak. Hope this helps.
Actually, only two building are the same 🙂
Yup looks pretty much the same as the Austinist logo.. Same lowercase font and all. For shame.