Submit your own ideas

So you have an idea?

Look how impressed I am. No really.

O.K., so maybe it's pretty good. If you want me to do something with it, and possibly have the pleasure of someone deciding to pick it as a T-shirt they want to wear on their scrawny unwashed coathanger of a body, then follow these simple rules:

Don't set up your own site and start touting your own designs, it's not big and it's not clever. There's a good chance O'Reilly will close you down if they find you doing it without permission. I'm sure some civic-minded person browsing the search engines for O'Reilly-like T-shirts would be sure to call the cops on your cheating, copycat ass.
Look at your idea again, is it original?
Or does it, in fact, actually suck?
No? It's still sending out good vibes?
If so, which book are you basing it on? (most of my designs are a closeish parody of the book they resemble, such as Windows NT User Administration/Obliteration, Sendmail/Snooping Email, etc.)
Tell me what you imagine the subtitles to be (the words at the top or below the main 'book' title)
Does it have a black flash across the top right hand corner? What does it say?
Who's the 'author'? Try to find some link between the picture on the design and the author. Have a look at my current work to see what I mean.
And most importantly what is the image you think it should use? Don't try to find it yourself unless you have a perfect specimen in mind. Usually I'd prefer something that can be reduced to grayscale and then possibly posterised to perhaps 16 graylevels. In general try to find something with a white background. Notice that I don't use animals, O'Reilly uses animals, this is not O'Reilly.

If you've managed to do all of that. Then write it out in a nice list and email it to me at the usual address. Do not send me example images, your own attempts or the image you'd like to have included. Any emails containing attachments of any kind will be deleted without me even replying to you employing irony and/or sarcasm. You have been warned.

Other than that, see what you can do. Acceptible ideas will be credited, but as I'm not making any money from this you don't get anything. Once the design is complete I hold sole and total copyright on the image. Emailing me your ideas acknowledges me as the sole owner of the resultant image. So there.