Becoming a Wordans Designer

A question I get asked alot is "Why have a contest?"

Since Wordans.com is Launching soon we felt that the Contest would be a great way for us to gain momentum in the Montreal scene, while at the same time developing and strengthening our ties with the local artistic community and establishing our credibility in the market place. All designers who register for the contest can choose to be part of the Wordans Design Community once the official website goes live on September 15.

Wordans designers have access to their personal online boutique storefront which they can customize to their liking and all designers can set their own prices and choose their own profit margins on t-shirts/garments with their designs on it. So you choose what you want to charge on a design by design basis. All designs are printed with eco-friendly, water-based ink on cotton direct to garment technology.

What’s more, designers retain full copyrights on every design they submit. This means they're free to do with their designs as they wish. Take them down, sell them to someone else, or publish them, whatever. We only ask that designers allow us to promote their t-shirts in the Wordans Marketplace and we keep a percentage of the t-shirt sales for ourselves to cover our operational costs as well as a retain a humble profit . It is a very accommodating arrangement.

We’re like Threadless and Spreadshirt put together.

Threadless in that we use a water-based ink on cotton process and we’ll be opening a real-world store in the plateau area before x-mas which will also sell custom design apparel created by the Wordans Designer community. We’re like Spreadshirt in that we also have a Flash designer application where designers and buyers can further customize their products, blogs, printing methods, and more.