To recognize State Employee Recognition Week and Employee Appreciation Day 2024, the Office of Human Resources is hosting a T-shirt design contest for UNC staff and faculty. The selected design will be used for the volunteer T-shirts at Employee Appreciation Day, Friday, Oct. 18.

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Eligibility

• Contest open to all current UNC-Chapel Hill full-time permanent staff and faculty for individual design submission.
• Members of UNC departments and/or teams can submit a design as a group.
• UNC Health employees are not eligible.

General Guidelines

• Contest runs through 11:59 p.m. Friday, July 12.
• Design MUST reflect what it means to be a Carolina employee OR the spirit of employee appreciation.
• Carolina staff and faculty will have opportunity to vote for their favorite design.

Design & Submission Rules

• Designs must be original creations and must follow design guidelines.
• Design MUST reflect what it means to be a Carolina employee OR the spirit of employee appreciation.
• Print area for the shirt is 10 inches x 10 inches; designs should be no larger than 10 inches x 10 inches and no smaller than 5 inches x 5 inches.
• No color images. Black-and-white designs and/or line art works best.
• No profanity on designs.
• No trademarks on designs — be original!
• Designs must be submitted as a pdf file format.
• Hand-drawn designs must be scanned to a pdf file format.
• Recommended design software: Adobe (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop).
• Design must be visible from a distance.
• You must email your T-shirt design submission as a pdf file attachment to appreciationday@unc.edu. Within your email, include:
  • Your name.
  • Your division or department.
  • Your phone number.
• Designs must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. Friday, July 12.
• One design submission per person; one design submission per UNC department/team. A person can submit both an individual design and be part of one group design submission.

Finalists & Winning

• Three (3) finalists will be selected and featured in the Office of Human Resources August WorkWell newsletter.
• Finalists will be selected according to the following criteria:
• Concept and originality of design.
• Adherence to design guidelines and submission rules.
• Successfully reflecting what it means to be a Carolina employee OR the spirit of employee appreciation.
• Carolina staff and faculty will be given the opportunity to vote for their favorite design through 5 p.m. Friday, August 16.
• The finalist design to receive the most votes wins the contest.
• Limit one (1) contest winner.
• Winning contestant will be notified by the Office of Human Resources.
• Winning contestant/team and design will be officially announced in the Office of Human Resources October WorkWell newsletter.
• Winning contestant/team members will receive a free T-shirt.

Contest Notes

• Submissions that do not meet the contest requirements will be disqualified.
• The Office of Human Resources at UNC-Chapel Hill reserves the right to change the terms and conditions without prior notice.
• By entering this contest, participants agree to:
• Have their design featured by the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Human Resources in contest-related communications, web content, and/or social media posts, etc.
• Have their name/s published by the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Human Resources in contest-related communications, web content, and/or social media posts, etc., in the case of a finalist and/or winning submission.
• In the case of a winning design:
  • Be contacted by the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Human Resources, if needed, for consultation about design details, etc., as part of the OHR T-shirt design process incorporating the winning the design.
  • Have name printed on the T-shirt.