Ugly Sweater Design Contest: Win Your Design, Printed

How it works

• 5 winners get their own design printed edge to edge on an all-over-print sweatshirt, shipped free (worth US$99.99 each).
• 4 are picked by our judges. 1 is the People’s Choice: your design goes into the public gallery below, you share your link, and the design with the most votes wins.
• Every design gets a mockup on a real sweatshirt by email within two business days. You approve it with one tap, and that enters it.
• Entries and voting close Sunday, November 29 at 11:59 pm ET. Winners are announced on Tuesday, December 1 on our Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.
• Already bought a sweatshirt with your own design from us? Enter it! If it wins, we refund what you paid for one sweatshirt.
• Open to US residents aged 18 and over.

How to enter

1. Make your design: draw it, collage it, or make it in ChatGPT. Reindeer with attitude, your dog in a Santa hat, the office printer in tinsel: the uglier and funnier, the better.
2. Upload it below. Up to 3 designs per person.
3. Watch your inbox: within two business days we email you your design on a real sweatshirt. Tap Enter it as shown to enter it.
4. Your entry goes live in the gallery. Share your link and collect votes.

Design rules

Ugly, tacky, silly and cheeky are the whole point. Mean is off limits.

• Logos and brand names: only with the owner’s permission (your own company logo with your employer’s OK is great).
• Real faces: only adults, and only with the consent of everyone shown.
• Off limits: public figures, anyone under 18, explicit or sexual images or words, hate symbols, slurs, and anything that puts people down.

What makes a winning design

Our judges score every design out of 100. Here is what earns the points:

• A fresh idea (40 points). Something only you would think of: an inside joke, a pun, your dog’s alter ego, the office printer wrapped in tinsel, a reindeer having a very bad day. Your own idea beats a famous design every time.
• It makes us laugh (30 points). Deadpan, absurd, clever wordplay, gloriously over the top. If people at the party will point at it and grin, you are on the right track.
• Peak ugly-sweater spirit (30 points). It reads as a Christmas sweater from across the room: knitted-look patterns, snowflakes, reindeer, tinsel, far too many colors and far too much going on, in the best way.

Tips that help a design look great printed (these help it shine; they carry no points):

• Bold shapes and big lettering read best on a sweatshirt.
• Fill the whole square, edge to edge. Add a back design for bonus wow.
• Upload a square image, 1000 pixels wide or bigger.

The People’s Choice prize goes to the design with the most votes, so get your friends voting.