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Minna no Anime club T-shirts show you are a proud member of this club!

History of the T-Shirts

The first T-shirt we still have record of was designed and printed by Jann Fabrin in 1995. Yang, a member of PolyInk as well, was a gifted artist, and drew the "Knight of Gold" T-Shirt, seperations and all. These seperations are still in the posession of Minna no Anime officers. The design was taken directly from a promotional immage for Five Star Stories. The next year Jann started the t-shirt contest, and also instituted the rule that there would be no copyrighted images allowed.

Former presidents Ron Neal and Josh Holmstrom have mentioned that while there were no shirts for the 1994-1995 year, there were shirts before this. If anyone still has one of these, or of any other designs we are missing, we would LOVE to see pictures!

Past T-Shirts

Unfortunatly a few T-shirts have been lost to antiquity. But take a look at the ones we do have. Click on the picture to get a better look.

Image	Year	Artist	Description/Notes
	2011	TBA	TBA
	2010	Brian Bathe	TBA
	2009	Phyllis Douglas	TBA
	2008	Erika Peterson	TBA
	2007	Annaliese Christman	TBA
	2006	Max Noda	A classy looking high school girl in a blue and white uniform. She is saying "Minna to ikou!" which translates to "Let's go with everyone!" The character for "Minna" is prominently displayed in the background. Printed on a black T-shirt.
	2005	Mark Valenzuela	A serene image of a goddess at night. The moonlight clearly shows a lake that she is hovering over. The character for "Minna" is carved into the moon. Printed on a black T-shirt.
	2004	Toby Wilson	The yellow and orange theme add to this serene windy Fall scene. Mapple leaves fly about and her long scarf flutters beutifully in the wind. The characters on the side read "Minna no anime". Printed on a white T-shirt.
	2003	David Ho	A young samurai woman holding both a katana and a kodachi. The flowers in the background and on her kimono, and her slightly embarased look hide the lethal power she weilds. The red characters on the right read "Minna no Anime" and the characters on the left is Dave's Chinese name. Printed on a white T-shirt.
	2002	Nur Monson	A light hearted which has converted her broom into a large brush, and is showing off her caligraphy skills by drawing the "Minna" character on the T-shirt behind her. Due to a mis-communication with the printers, the Minna no Anime logo on the front of the shirt was printed extra large, and centered on the shirt. Printed on a white shirt.
	2001	Kristin ?	Kristin tries to embody the spirit of "Minna" in this shirt by drawing not one but three distinct characters: an honerable samurai in a protective stance, a mysterious high elf, and the profile of a timeless female anime character. The blue and white theme adds an air of cool seriousness to the characters. Blue characters to the right read "Minna no Anime". Printed on a black T-shirt.
	2000	Nick "Singe" Bousman	This shirt also captures the meany of "Minna" by displaying the crew of a battle ship light heartedly posing in front of their vessel. The immage is most like inspired by Nadesico which was shown the previous year. Nick also drew himself among the crew. He's the one on the right. The green text accross the top reads "Minna no Anime". Printed on a dark Grey T-Shirt.
	1999	Nick "Singe" Bousman	A sourceress in in the middle of casting a powerful spell. The spell's aura bath's her and her dress in a blue pool of light. She has her eyes clossed to use her sixth sense to find her target. The characters to the right read "Minna no Anime". Printed on a white shirt. However, Nick told the officers the next year that he would not let them ruin another of his designs by putting it on a white shirt again.
	1997?	Jann Fabrin	The image of a Knight in shiny full plate armor, bowing. In the background is the large profile of an elf maiden, slightly saddened. Perhaps she is sending the knight out on a quest that will lead him to his doom? Printed in black and white on a white shirt. The date of this shirt has not been confirmed. This image was obtained from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine[1]
	1995-1996	Jann Fabrin	The Knight of Gold from the Five Star Stories. This was the first shirt and the only image that broke copyright laws. This is not an actual photo of the T-Shirt but a recomposition made by scaning in the film positive seperations and then combining them together on the computer. Printed on a black T-shirt.

T-Shirt Contest

Every year Minna no Anime holds a T-Shirt contest and its members vote on the various designs that are submitted. Usually the contest is held sometime in late Winter Quarter or early Spring Quarter in hopes that the T-Shirts may be printed before Open House. This way we can all proudly wear and show our new shiny T-Shirts off to all the potential new members!

T-shirt Contest Rules

The rules have changed starting the 2010-2011 year.

• You can submit as many entries as you like! Since this is a contest for different designs for a T-shirt, the more ideas, the better!
• No licensed/copyrighted characters, please. You can design anything original, but we cannot have licensed characters on our shirts.
• There must be the character "minna" from Minna no Anime, the words "Minna" or "Minna no Anime", or "Minna no Anime" in Japanese in your design. If you want the Japanese characters, Phyllis can upload her version of the vertical "Minna no Anime" characters seen in this shirt or you can get it from the official Minna no Anime logo here: link
• Anyone can submit - even non-members! If you're not in club/in the SLO area, please send your entry to minnaTreasurer at gmail dot com. If you want, explain the idea behind the shirt, and we will read it out during club.
• Collaborations can happen for the T-shirt contest, but when I say "collaboration", I do not mean that two+ artists can work on it. I mean someone can give you the idea of the T-shirt and you can design it for them. Just in case someone isn't that good at art, they can still participate in the contest by providing an idea. Make sure to give them credit when you're explaining the idea at club/in your e-mail.
• When you're finished with your entry, you can show it to club for voting on paper or digitally. If digitally, make the preview picture 1000x1000 pixels or smaller.
• If you win the contest (congratulations!), please make it into a .psd or .ai file at at least 300dpi. A vector file is better, but .psd will do, too. If you can't use Photoshop/don't have access to it, please let one of the officers know, and we'll handle it for you. You also get your T-shirt for free!

-Rules for Shirt Colors/Type of Colors on Shirt-
--Digital Printing: White Shirts--

• • Uses DTG printing. Check this link out to see what DTG printing is.
  • Unlimited colors! Anything that's white, make it transparent in your .psd/.ai file - that's your T-shirt color!
  • Dimensions: 12" width x 16" height
  • You can submit a .png for this one, if you wish.
  • NOTE: the colors on the shirt MAY NOT look like what's on your monitor. It's suggested to print out your picture to see what the colors will really look like.

--Screen Printing: Color (and White, If You Want) Shirts--

• • This is the screen printing method. You can check this link for more information. This is how we've been printing our shirts since forever.
  • You can only use 4 colors in your design. The T-shirt color you pick is an "additional" color, so, in essence, it's 5 colors.
  • Dimensions: 13" width x 15" height
  • The T-shirt colors you can pick from can be found here: Fruit of the Loom, GILDAN #2000, and GILDAN #5000. When you finish your .psd/.ai file, please note in the layer for the T-shirt color what color shirt name it is as well as the shirt type. For example, my layer would be called "Ash - GILDAN #5000".
  • NOTE: Not all colors will match to a ladies' tee shirt or zipped/non-zip hoodie. Yellow is NOT available for zipped hoodies. The officers will try their best to match your selected T-shirt color for those garments.
  • Please try to use only Pantone (PMS) colors. In Photoshop, there's swatches made available to you. One of them should be titled "pantone solid coated". Use that to select your colors.
  • If you want to do a "gradient", check out these FAQs: link or link Mind you, you only really have 5 colors, so doing halftones could be really difficult.

-Rules for Creating the Logo-

• • It's not necessary to create the front logo, but if you want to design it, do so!
  • CANNOT have the words "Cal Poly", "California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo", etc. Just mention the club name and the year the shirt is for.
  • Dimensions: 4" width x 3" height
  • If you're doing a colored shirt, use only the 4 colors you had chosen before. Otherwise, all other rules apply.

Old T-Shirt Rules

• You get a MAX of four (4) colors. You can obviously use less, but the max is four.
• Make your design with a shirt color in mind. Think of it as a free fifth color. try not to make your design on white paper unless you plan on having it on a white shirt. The shirt colors you have to choose from can be found at this page. You can just turn in a design on white paper and choose a different color for the shirt, if you want. It just makes voting easier if everyone has a good idea of how it will look on the shirt.
• Ok, you don't need color separations unless your design is chosen. If your design is chosen, you will then have two weeks to get your seperations done for us. For that they need to be finished on a computer, in a relatively high resolution. if you can do it in a vector format that would be ideal, but not required.
• The designs are due, and will be voted on by the members, durring our meeting on the 15th of January (2005). This is the second weekend (and meeting) of Winter quarter. Editors note: This date changes every year.
• Your design must include some kind of indicator that this is for Minna no Anime. You can use just the "Minna" kanji, "Minna no Anime" in Japanese or Romanji or some combination of them. That shouldn't be too hard.

T-Shirt Prices and Choices

Starting in the 2010-2011 year, Minna started offering other garments to put the T-shirt designs on.

People can choose from:

• Regular T-shirt ($15 for members, $20 for non-members)
• American Apparel Unisex Shirt ($20)
• Women's Tee ($20)
• Hooded Sweatshirt ($25)
• Zipped Hoodie ($30)

Non-members do not have access to buying other garments except a regular T-shirt, and members can only ask for the other garment types during pre-order.

The old pricing for shirts was $13 for members and $15 for non-members.

Recent T-shirts (past 4 years) are sold for $10 and Older T-shirts (5 years or older) for $5 (effective T-shirt Contest Due Date in 2011).