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Your Design could win up to HK $10,000 plus profit sharing.
Dookaz is a Hong Kong based tee shirt design and printing company. We offer customised T-shirt digital and screen printing services. We vigorously involve in promoting young designers and artists to create their own labels and signatures. We profit share with designers and artists in the process. We also actively partners with non-government organizations (NGOs) and charitable institutions to do Good.
1. Design Contest
The Dookaz Design Contest consists of 3 continuous stages: 1) Pick of the Week, 2) Pick of the Month and 3) Pick of the Year. Designers submit Original T-shirt designs to our website and all Dookazian members will vote on it. Shirts that gain the most weighted votes become winners and the designer receives a cash prize plus Dookaz Credits. The winning design is then printed by Dookaz and made available for purchase through Dookaz Online Shop and various other offline outlets.
Winners & Prizes
- Win Pick of the Week: HK$500 cash + DK$400
- Win Pick of the Month: HK$2,000 cash + DK$800
- Win Pick of the Year: HK$10,000 cash + DK$1,000
- Win Featued Design: DK$10
2. We Share! Project
- Featured Design
Once your design is selected as Featured Design and being made available to sale through Dookaz Shop, you will get 10 Dookaz Dollar as prize. If your design is sold, you will get 20 Dookaz Dollar/pc. You will be asked to upload original AI or PSD file for printing. Once confirmed receipt of your file, Dookaz Dollar will be added into your account. Know more about Dookaz Dollar
Dookaz also would like to promote featured designers by inviting you to participate in our online interview. The interview will be published in Dookaz Spotlight.
- Pick of the Week, Pick of the Month, and Pick of the Year
Once your design is picked and made available to online sale through Dookaz Shop, Designer will share the profit with us set at 10% on sale price.
Among those designs made available to sales through Dookaz online shop, pick of the week, pick of the month and pick of the year will be selected and prizes will be rewarded.
On top of this we actively promote Dookaz shop items through traditional offline channels, direct marketing through HKTDC tradeshows, collaboration with Hong Kong Apparel Society (HKAS) and its activities and various other different channels.( keep a watchful eye to our "News and Events" to know more).
For all our offline endeavors, Designers will also be sharing profit based upon the following levels of fame:
Among those designs made available to sales through Dookaz online shop, pick of the week, pick of the month and pick of the year will be selected and prizes will be rewarded.
On top of this we actively promote Dookaz shop items through traditional offline channels, direct marketing through HKTDC tradeshows, collaboration with Hong Kong Apparel Society (HKAS) and its activities and various other different channels.( keep a watchful eye to our "News and Events" to know more).
For all our offline endeavors, Designers will also be sharing profit based upon the following levels of fame:
Pearl Design
1,000 total shirts sold
HK$ 2,500 cash award!
Ruby Design
2,000 total shirts sold
HK$ 5,000 cash award!
Gold Design
3,000 total shirts sold
HK$ 10,000 cash award!
Diamond Design
5,000 total shirts sold
HK$ 15,000 cash award!
3. How to join
Create your own design
Your design can be traditional art, paintings, illustrations, sketches, vector art, or whatever you like to design. Put your design on the Placement Templates provided by Dookaz and make it your own style.
Your design can be traditional art, paintings, illustrations, sketches, vector art, or whatever you like to design. Put your design on the Placement Templates provided by Dookaz and make it your own style.
Make it digital (if it’s not already)
If your design is traditional art, take a picture of it with a digital camera or scan it. Or, if your design was created digitally, then you’re ready for the next step.
If your design is traditional art, take a picture of it with a digital camera or scan it. Or, if your design was created digitally, then you’re ready for the next step.
Upload the files
Use the [Submit Design] to upload your artwork.
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There is no limitation in the colors of all submitted designs.
All shirt colors include the colors currently provided by Dookaz.com and are dependent on the availability, which may vary at any time.
To ensure artwork complying with the manufacturing requirements, Dookaz.com reserves the right to make necessary minor adjustments or changes to submitted designs and any other final decisions.
Dookaz does respect intellectual property rights and all submitted designs must undertake not to infringe the copyright, trademark and/ or other intellectual property rights of third parties and to indemnify Dookaz for any costs and/ or damages in respect of infringement disputes and/ or proceedings.
Designs must be original and artworks which are currently or previously published in any places other than Dookaz.com are unaccepted.
Dookaz.com reserves the right to remove or reject any submissions which are questionable materials and prohibited contents that are offensive or otherwise violate general accepted moral standards
Successful submission or posting of designs into contest at Dookaz.com may be removed from the website at anytime prior to sole discretion of the Dookaz staff or poor performance which leads to the end of voting.
There is a period of 120 days from the date of submission that Dookaz.com owns the temporary property of all submitted designs. Dookaz.com possesses permanent exclusive of design which is printed within the 120-day period for commercial use on any promotional products, including apparel. By contacting Dookaz.com via email at help@dookaz.com, participants resume full right to their designs provided that the design is not printed within the 120-day period, their design will be elected to be removed from the archives of Dookaz.com.
All submitted artworks are eligible to win for the following awards:
- Pick of the Week
- Pick of the Month
- Pick of the Year
A combination of voting results, comments by the Dookaz Community, Dookaz.com staff and guest judges determines the result of the contest. Cash prizes are issued via checks or money order.
After the receipt of the final artwork, prize money is distributed to the winning designer within 7 days from the receipt.
Terms of Submission
Last Revised April 03, 2008
By selecting the “I Accept” button, you are agreeing to the following terms, which serve as a binding agreement (hereinafter “the Agreement”) between you and Dookaz.
- The Dookaz Contest (hereinafter “the Contest”) is the competition as described in the Dookaz Contest Rules.
- By submitting any word, combination of words, symbol, slogan, photographic image, graphic design or any other type of design (hereinafter collectively referred to as “the Design”) for consideration in the Contest, you represent and warrant to Dookaz that you have the right and authority to convey the rights granted hereunder; that the Design is original and free and clear of any encumbrances or liens and is not subject to any third-party agreements or arrangements that would interfere with their use; that the Design is not libelous, slanderous, obscene, and does not plagiarize; and that the exercise of rights herein granted will not infringe upon any copyright, right of privacy or any other rights whatsoever of any third party. You shall hold Dookaz harmless and shall indemnify Dookaz for all costs and expenses (including reasonable attorney fee's) in the event of a breach of any of the foregoing warranties or representations. These warranties and representations do not extend to any material not furnished by you.
- If your Design is selected as the winner of a Dookaz Award—which includes, but is not limited to, the “Pick of the Week,” the “Pick of the Month,” or the “Pick of the Year” as these awards are defined in the Dookaz Contest Rules, or any other promotional award(s) that may from time to time be offered by Dookaz, and that result in the publishing and/or dissemination of your Design by Dookaz--in consideration for the prizes offered in connection with the various Dookaz Awards, which prizes are set forth in the Dookaz Contest Rules, you hereby grant to Dookaz, its licensees and assignees, an exclusive right to: (1) reproduce the Design or any parts, alterations or derivatives thereof, in any media or embodiment now known or hereafter to become known (the Products); and (2) publicly display, perform or exhibit, or distribute the Design, as part of the Products, in any way now known or hereafter to become known including without limitation by transmission, broadcast, or electronic communication.
- If your Design is not selected as a winner within 120 days from the date of submission, your design will be moved to archives section of Dookaz.com. If you want to use your Design for any commercial purpose, contact Dookaz after the 120 day period and request the removal of your Design from the archives section of Dookaz.com.
- Without limiting other remedies, Dookaz may at its sole discretion remove any Design from publication and/or dissemination if it thinks that the Design is creating problems, possible legal liabilities, or is inconsistent with the letter or spirit of Dookaz’s policies, including poor design.
- The Design may be modified in any way whatsoever, used as a basis for additional illustrations or images (whether or not by you), and the Design and any modifications or derivatives thereof may be digitized without any additional approval being required of you, with the exception that you shall be shown such modifications and derivatives and shall have a right to withdraw use of your name as a credit. You hereby waive any and all attribution and integrity rights with regard to the Design whether arising under the law of Hong Kong, or the law of any other country.
- Dookaz shall use reasonable efforts to ensure that the use of the Design in the Product is accompanied by a reasonable credit to you (subject to your right to withdraw such credit as discussed above).
- This Agreement, in whole or in part, may be freely assigned by Dookaz. You may not assign this Agreement in whole or in part without the prior written approval of Dookaz.
- This Agreement contains the entire understanding of you and Dookaz with respect to the subject matter hereof and with respect to the matter contained herein and supersedes all prior agreements or understandings. This Agreement shall not be modified except in writing.
- No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this Agreement.
- A failure of either party to exercise any right provided for herein shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any right hereunder.
- Nothing herein shall be construed as an obligation of Dookaz to manufacture and/or disseminate any specific quantity of Product containing the Design. All manufacturing, dissemination and marketing decisions regarding each Design are left to the sole discretion of Dookaz.