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HessNatur and PlanetGreen Eco Tee Design Challenge!

Grameen Tee Womens
Get your design printed on a beautiful organic cotton t-shirt like this one, original design by Eco chick fave, Miguel Adrover.

Are you an aspiring designer? Just love creating fun t-shirts for your friends and family? If so, then check out Hessnatur and Planet Green’s Eco-Tee Design Challenge which has just gone live on PlanetGreen’s site.

The public will vote for the design they feel is most creative and original. After the pool is whittled down to five finalists, the esteemed panel of judges will choose a winner. The winner’s tee will be made at Dr. Muhammad Yunus’ Grameen Knitwear project, with 50% of the proceeds going back to the foundation. In addition, the winner’s tee will be sold internationally at Hessnatur’s website

Judges include Hessnatur designer Miguel Adrover, Toms shoes CEO, Blake Mycoskie and Eco-model Summer Rayne Oakes, as well as Miranda Purves, lifestyle editor at ELLE.

The official date to enter designs is from August 1st to September 1st, but all necessary tools are available to get started, so check out all the details here and get designing!

Wolf and Dr. Yunus
Wolf Luedge and Dr. Mohammend Yunus, founder of the Grameen Foundation

Starre Vartan is founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick.com and the author of the Eco-Chick Guide to Life. She's also a freelance science and environment writer who has published in National Geographic, CNN, Scientific American, Mental Floss, Pacific Standard, the NRDC, and many more. She lives on an island in Puget Sound with her partner and black cat. She was a geologist in her first career, and still picks up rocks wherever she goes.