Dear members,

We would like to ask for help from those of you with graphic design skills (since the webmaster lacks any sense of art )

Purpose: We would like to offer our members the opportunity to purchase low-carb themed T-shirts, mugs and other commemorative items and use the revenue to support our site. These products will be sold through <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/storeref.aspx?refby=lowcarber">CafePress.com</a>, and we would add a small markup to the price of each item to support this site. As you know, we recently upgraded to a new monster server to handle all the traffic on our site and forums, and we hope the sale of these items will help offset the expenses. And if this works out as we hope it will, we may even be able to replace banner ads with these items.

What's in it for you? Beside helping out your favourite forum we will be glad to add a link to your site, if you have one, on the page listing these products (Designed by xyz, url at yoursite.com), and feel free to add your signature to the art work.

Non-Artists, you can help too! If you have ideas for good designs and slogans, please share them too. This may help our volunteering artists with some ideas to start with.

Guidelines

1. Copyrights: The work must be your original work, and can not infringe on anyone else's copyrights. If you use parts of someone else's work with permission, please let us know who they are, and include a permission note from them releasing the copyright.

2. Release of Copyrights: In order for us to use your designs, you agree to transfer the copyrights to us.

3. PNG or PSD Formats only: Please make sure the images are not compressed, and be sure to preserve all the layer details. Doing so ensures better quality prints on the final product.

4. Sizes and Colours: For the images to print properly on these products, please make sure you follow the guideline outline by <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/storeref.aspx?refby=lowcarber">CafePress.com</a> here:

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/help/images.aspx

And for the various size requirements, here:

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/he...mage_sizes.aspx

5. Submissions: As these images will be large and uncompressed please do not upload as an attachment on our forum, instead, email the images to webmaster (at) lowcarber.org

6. Possible Themes

Note: Please add the URL to our site below each design. One version for each URL: http://www.lowcarb.ca and http://forum.lowcarber.org

a. Low-Carb Pride: Some bold graphics with strong statements against carbs and sugar, and/or how low-carb is the way to go.

b. Neanderthin Theme: with caveman/woman and eating naturally.

c. Humour Theme, with some witty statements and cartoons.

d. Forum Theme, with forum URL and community support graphics.

e. LowCarb.ca Theme, with URL and improved/touched up logo for our website.

f. Creative Themes, if you have an idea for a different theme, feel free to submit it!

Finally, we would like to thank all artists, designers and members who are willing to help, and we look forward to your creative contributions!