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Pluck U T-Shirt Design Ideas Contest at "99Designs.com"

I wanted to post a Contest URL but it doesn't seem to work (drat!). I wrote to 99Designs to ask how.

Project Description & Info

We're designing workshops to move harpists from the background into the spotlight - the cutting edge of electric harp. We're holding a T-Shirt Design contest at 99Designs. You may be not be able to see the contest unless you have a 99Design account, and so far I can't figure out how to link to the contest - but I have an email into their tech support so hopefully I'll know soon ... er ... hopefully long before the contest ends.

I've been unable to upload any files to 99Design, no matter how small or what format, so I'm putting them here (see images below).

We're open to all designs. What we're assuming we'll get might be something like these examples of T-shirt designs from the web.

Please note that I've written a lot of information about our project and our goals in the 99Designs contest. Here's a very brief recap of the basics:

Our name: Pluck U

Overall Project Description: We're developing workshops to move harpists from the background into the spotlight - the cutting edge of electric harp.

Motto #1: Where Passion meets Performance

Motto #2:
Take a Harp.
Shrink it down.
Strap it on.
Plug it in.

Our URL: PluckUniversity.com (don't click - it's not up and running yet)
Our parent company: HipHarp.com. If you want to include this in a small reference, that could be cool, but not necessary: "A subsidiary of HipHarp.com"

T-Shirt Description: This is a t-shirt for our new workshop and URL, "Pluck University" (yes, "Pluck U").

We want people to do a double-take. Well, actually a triple take: We want them to think at first that it's just a university T-Shirt, but with an electric harp in the center of the logo.

We also want them to be a little shocked by “Pluck U” - but that will probably happen naturally if you treat it as though it's a University T-Shirt ... but a University of Rock ... actually, Rock Harp.

We want it to say both "Pluck U" in large letters and "PluckUniversity.com"* in small letters.

*No, that URL doesn't link anywhere yet

Other notes about the project: This T-Shirt is first and foremost for harpists - who've been marginalized and 'angel-ized' for years. It’s to help us make a statement about how we want to play (we want to rock) - and now we finally have the instrument to do it with.

We'll be selling them online and at events where the co-inventor of the strap-on electric harp will be teaching people how to strap it on, amplify it and rock out with it.

Images

I originally had trouble uploading image files at 99Designs, so here are some images and links to more images:

One possible logo image (click the image to download a 1500x1500 300dpi jpeg version):

T-Shirt Designs for Universities that I kind of liked on the web with notes on what I liked about each:

Video

YouTube video of the harp in action: You can see the instrument in action on YouTube:

More images of the instrument & player:http://www.hipharp.com/pressphotos.html