Do you remember a few months ago when STAY VOCAL held a cereal design contest?
What was the best part of getting cereal when you were a kid? – The prize obviously!
Do you know that STAY VOCAL ships out most orders in used food packaging, many times cereal boxes?
Do you see where we’re going with this?
This is the STAY VOCAL ReUse Cereal T-Shirt featuring the artwork of Christian Bogle. The design is printed on the reverse side of brand new t-shirts that were originally set to be destroyed.
This first printing of the design is “cocoa cereal” inspired, as it will be printed with brown ink. The milk in the design is of course white.
This is a limited printing, as there will only be 311 total shirts available and there is a 3 shirt per customer limit.
The shirt will be specially packaged in a used cereal box with a cereal themed mailing label, designed by Emile Goss. And there will even be a reused plastic bag to seal in the freshness of the shirt.
And ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes, there will be a reuse prize inside! And let us just say that the prizes are AMAZING! Prizes include cds, dvds, plush toys, band merchandise, homemade handkerchiefs, jewelry, and even dog collars.
The prizes found inside the cereal boxes come from a wide variety of friends of STAY VOCAL: bands, non profit organizations, record labels, etc. The detailed list of prize contributors can be found below.
In addition to all of those amazing prizes, there will also be STAY VOCAL merchandise and items from owner Alex Eaves’ personal collection.
GRAND PRIZE:
Where would prizes be without a grand prize? Inside one of the boxes of cereal will be an ALF trading card autographed by Alex Eaves.
If you find this ALF trading card, you have won the Grand Prize, which includes 1 item from every contributor including:
• $100 gift certificate for the STAY VOCAL online store
• Autographed Anti-Flag Terror State CD
• Autographed copy of AMP magazine (article by Alex Eaves)
• Free Graphic Design Gift Certifcate from Emile Goss
• GC Records’ 90 Page Art Book
• Autographed Yo Yo From Jeff Coons
• Colonel Sanders PETA Bobblehead
• $30 ReRip.Com Gift Certificate
• Autographed Rise Against Color Photo
• Set of 8 Original Darkest Hour Backstage Passes
• Rare Alt Press Mini Magazine autographed by the band, A Day To Remember
• Autographed 2 Skinnee J's CD
• Original Missouri License Plate from Bent Left's veggie-fuel tour van
• Sum 41 Drumstick
When you get your shirt in the mail, please take a photo of yourself with your package and prize and send it to us. We’re going to be making an online collage!
Since we started with a question, we’ll end with one too:
What will YOU get?
CONFIRMED PRIZE CONTRIBUTORS (More could be added)
2 Skinnee J's (Band) – 2sj.com
311 (Band) – 311.com
Alternative Press (Music Magazine) – altpress.com
Alternative Tentacles (Record label) – alternativetentacles.com
AMP (Music Magazine) – ampmagazine.com
Anti-Flag (Band) – anti-flag.com
The Appreciation Post (Band) – theappreciationpost.com
Bent Left (Band) – bentleft.com
Chotto Ghetto (Band) – chottoghetto.com
Dandelion Show (Band) – dandelionsnow.com
Darkest Hour (Band) – darkesthour.cc
Easy Eco To Go (Green Living blog) – easyecotogo.com
Emile Goss (Graphic Designer) – killbot.org
Farm Sanctuary (Animal sanctuary) farmsanctuary.org
GC Records (Record label) – gcrecords.com
Hayloft (Band) – myspace.com/hayloftband
Jeff Coons (Professional Yoyo player) – facebook.com/jeffcoons
Peta2 (Animal rights group) – peta2.org
Pnut Jewelry (Handmade Jewelry) – pnutjewelry.com
Punk For Peace (Online record store) – punkforpeace.com
ReRip (Skate/Surf/Snow Reuse Company) – rerip.com
Rise Against (Band) – riseagainst.com
Underdog ResQ (Dog Rescue) – underdogresq.com
What Is Waste (Movie Series) – whatiswaste.com
HOW THIS STAY VOCAL REUSE SHIRT CAME TO BE
Did you ever wonder what happens to all of the leftover merchandise when a company goes out of business or a band breaks up? Or what about the t-shirts of the team that doesn’t win the big game?
In a lot of cases, all of those shirts are unfortunately shredded into rags. Sometimes they are even burned.
To further our commitment to the ReUse movement, we have been working with companies to acquire as many of these garments as we can before they are destroyed.
By wearing this shirt, you are reducing the millions of pounds of discarded textiles that end up in landfills each year, saving energy, materials, and inspiring new ideas for change.
We take pride in creating our unique ReUse clothing with only the best rescued garments from thrift stores and donations. They are cleaned with eco-friendly detergent and treatments and dried naturally by sun and air. They do get a short ride in the dryer to get out the wrinkles, though. Finally, new STAY VOCAL designs are put on the shirts, giving the shirt another life.
By wearing this shirt, you are reducing the millions of pounds of discarded textiles that end up in landfills each year; saving energy, materials, and inspiring new ideas for change.
