And the winners are…

November 18, 2009 on 12:54 pm | In Funnyish, Promotions, Updates by Brett | 18 Comments

We held a t-shirt design contest not too long ago and the response was overwhelming.

After wading through hundreds of entries we’ve finally narrowed down the winners. We assigned each entry a year representative of its style – one for each year we’ve been in business. Every DreamHost employee was then given a chance to vote for their favorites and the top performers for each decade are as follows:

1940s, Andrea:
1940s
1950s, Ken Grett:
1950s
1960s, Gabriel Mello:
1960s
1970s, Brian:
1970s
1980s, CSEID:
1980s
1990s, Jeffrey Dates:
1990s
2000s, Pushka Ben:
2000s

Every one of these entries has won their creators a lifetime of free hosting from DreamHost!

You can purchase any of these printed on a shirt (or mug…or apron…or mousepad) right now in our online store!

You can also purchase some of our other favorite entries from the contest that didn’t quite make the cut – and there are nearly 60 of them!

Because we were so impressed with all the entries we received, all of the runners-up (designs in the store that aren’t listed above) will be getting a free year of hosting!

We would have liked to announce the winners much sooner, but a lot of them aren’t big on the whole “answer important emails” thing, and it took some time to get everyone’s artwork and legal paperwork collected.

We’re still waiting to hear back from several of the winners, so you won’t be able to purchase everything you see in the store just yet. If YOUR artwork appears in the store with a “NOT FOR SALE” icon, now might be a good time to check your spam filters for the several messages I’ve sent you!

Thanks to everyone who entered the contest! Now…

ENTER THE STORE!

18 Responses to “And the winners are…”

  1. Michelle Griffin Says:
    November 18th, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    Those are great choices, very nice design work! Congrats to the winners!

  2. Loreen Says:
    November 18th, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    Thank you :-)

  3. Justus Says:
    November 18th, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    Hey Guys,

    let me know when these shirts are in stock! Would definitely buy one or another. To all designers – absolutely great work!

    Justus!

  4. Justus Says:
    November 18th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    Wait wait wait… did a refresh on your store. Now everything is in stock again!

    And all peopple scream: YEAAHH!

  5. rockstardom Says:
    November 18th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    yeah congrats to the winners… I am a runner up this time… but beware people… the next one of these here shindigs is alllll MIIINNNEEEE! MWUAH HA HA HA HA H…

    but no seriously… thanks Dreamhost for hosting not only a great service but a cool contest! Dink!

  6. for3v3rforgott3n Says:
    November 18th, 2009 at 6:09 pm

    Where can we claim our 1 year of free webhosting? I’d also like to know if we can start it from a date of our choice as I recently have a 1 year plan already therefore it would be useless if I get another free one to start the same time

  7. for3v3rforgott3n Says:
    November 18th, 2009 at 6:10 pm

    Sorry for the double post, but I never knew you could just grab images off the internet and submit, that’s copyrighted content of someone else…

  8. Pushka Ben Says:
    November 19th, 2009 at 1:12 am

    Hej~~ ~ Thank you DreamHost + DH employees~ you guys rock~~!!!
    um.. I’d like to thank the academy.. and .. many others..
    Everyone’s designs were amazing.. o_______o
    My fav is this one: http://bit.ly/9IAn4
    kekkeke~ i thought my anime one would win http://bit.ly/2SbOsv
    bai bai~

  9. Tasaio Says:
    November 19th, 2009 at 2:02 am

    I’m sorry to point it out, but the Japanese in the final one is misspelled. It should be ドリームホスト, without the long ホ.

  10. Dave Says:
    November 19th, 2009 at 9:28 am

    Love the ASCII art design, but $28 (incl ship) for a black T-shirt? Ouch.

  11. Andy B Says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 8:59 am

    I particulary like the design for 1972. It would look great either worn casually, at say a barbeque, or indeed formally, at maybe a wedding or awards ceremony…

  12. The Dude Says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    The shirts are probably pricey because they’re printed individually for order. With so many designs it wouldn’t make sense to print, say, 1,000 of each at a time, which is how prices would be driven down. It is a bit pricey, but they’re fairly custom!

  13. Brandon Says:
    November 22nd, 2009 at 4:18 pm

    Congratulations for the winner!
    but $28 for a black T-shirt..too expensive.. :P

  14. Doug Says:
    November 23rd, 2009 at 2:05 pm

    @Dreamhost

    Any word on the ETA for the PHP upgrade to the current version (v5.3.1)

  15. Steve Says:
    November 24th, 2009 at 10:53 pm

    You guys are totally KNOWINGLY screwing me out of my referral. For anyone “in charge” over there check out case #30693566 for account stefeu. This is the 17th referral [as I am a web developer] I’ve brought to your company and NOW you’re going to tell me that “oops, our mistake…but we’ll give you a free month of hosting.”

    I don’t want your pity $8.95. Obviously, you guys need it more than me. But watch to see if I stay once my renewal comes up. Watch to see if I refer anyone else to your site. Yeah, sure…my potential 10-15 customers per year isn’t much compared to the 600,000 you currently have…but remember all of the little people that helped you guys and stuck it out through all of the BS over the last few years with MANY down server issues, email missing for DAYS/WEEKS, and absolutely ZERO help with this issue.

    “You might win some, but you just lost one…”

  16. Ali Says:
    November 29th, 2009 at 9:23 am

    very nice design work

  17. vfx Says:
    December 8th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    Why are you not including contact info for the artists?

    I’m sure more than one would like to have design work come their way by the fine work you show here.

  18. Chris27 Says:
    December 9th, 2009 at 2:21 am

    Absolutely love that 1960’s one! Good work Gabriel.

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