When we launched our Inhabitat T-shirt Design Competition last spring, we had no idea we would get so many entries or generate such interest from our readers. If you followed the design competition, you may remember the popular root / lungs design submitted by Jonathan Sabutis, which inspired readers with its symbolic design portraying trees as the lungs of the earth, and a catchy tagline “I am the root of the solution”. Despite the fact that this design took second prize in our reader poll, it seemed to be hands-down the most popular design with Inhabitat readers, according to comments and feedback.

Well, for all of you who loved that design — we are happy to announce that we now have Inhabitat Root T-shirts available for sale from Inhabitat. Printed in light green water-based ink on soft organic cotton American Apparel T-shirts, our newest Inhabitat T-shirts are as environmentally friendly as a T-shirt can get, and stylishly subtle.

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Drumroll please…. after a few days of public voting and much internal discussion, we’re proud to announce that Rob Metke of San Diego, the man behind “I Give A Hoot,” has been crowned Grand Prize Winner of our Inhabitat T-Shirt Contest!

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While we’re getting ready to crown our winner, we’d like to take a minute to highlight a few other submissions from our T-Shirt Competition. There were many thoughtful designs and impressive graphics and illustrations submitted to us, and while not all were the most relevant or appropriate for an Inhabitat-brand shirt, we noticed a few that were worthy of praise for their illustration skills, great ideas or both. Here are our selections for Honorable Mentions- and thanks again to all who entered.

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Drumroll please………We know you’re anxious to see the finalists for the Inhabitat T-shirt competition, and the results are finally in. Happily, we had a ton of interest in the contest and received almost 200 entries - so it took us some time to get through all of them. Thank you SO MUCH to all who participated in the competition - we were really impressed to see so much interest and great design ideas from our talented readers. So without further ado, here are our ten finalists. Please vote on your favorite, and we’ll announce the winners on Saturday. READ MORE >

In honor of Inhabitat’s recent two-year-birthday we are launching our first ever design competition - a green T-shirt design contest!

We have always wanted our very own eco-friendly Inhabitat T-shirt, incorporating organic cotton, water-based inks and a super cute design, to illustrate our mission of green design = good design. We know that our readers are a creative and future-forward bunch, so we thought it a perfect opportunity to open it up to our readers and see what you can do. Show off your design skills and promote the cause of sustainable style at the same time. You could even win some fabulous prizes in the process!

Submission Deadline: APRIL 20th

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Like jeans, T-shirts are a staple of almost everyone’s wardrobe - men, women and children. Unfortunately, most T-shirts are made in the cheapest way possible and are quite bad for the environment and your health. The average T-shirt is made from pesticide-sprayed cotton, in a sweatshop in a third world country, dyed with chemical dyes and printed with harmful PVC plastics - all before it makes it onto your back. Happily, a small company in North Carolina called T.S. Designs is looking to change all of this with their ambitiously environmental mission to produce and screenprint high quality apparel in a local, organic and environmentally sustainable way.

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