Design Our Special Edition Good Neighbors T-Shirt

Enter our design contest and see your work on people at our live show in Minneapolis!

We’ve been talking about doing a special edition shirt for a while now — something for our live show in Minneapolis, something to mark America’s 250th birthday, something that represents this community in the real world. We kept circling the same question: what would make someone actually want to wear this shirt? Not once, to a podcast event, but regularly — to the farmers market, to pick up their kids, to a neighborhood block party?

We landed on two words: Good Neighbors.

We want to make a shirt that says something true about who we’re trying to be.

Here’s Where You Come In

We’re opening a design contest to the Pantsuit Politics community. We want to see what “Good Neighbors” looks like through your eyes. The winning design becomes our special edition t-shirt, released just in time for you to wear it all summer and (if you’re joining us) to the Spice Conference and live show in Minneapolis at the end of August.

We can’t wait to see a room full of these shirts in Minneapolis. But this isn’t just a live show shirt. It’s a shirt for wherever you are, doing whatever you do, being a good neighbor in your own community.

The Brief

Here’s what we’re looking for:

The required element: The theme of “Good Neighbors.”

Context to inspire you: This shirt celebrates three things at once: our community, America’s 250th birthday, and our Minneapolis event this August. Your design doesn’t need to reference all three. Just knowing the context might spark something.

What to avoid: Partisan imagery, political slogans, clip art, or AI-generated elements. We’re not looking for merch-for-a-brand-or-campaign.

Print constraints: Your design should work in one or two colors on a neutral-colored shirt (think navy, heather gray, or soft white).

The Pantsuit Politics logo will be added to the final shirt by our team (likely on a sleeve or back), so you don’t need to include it in your design.

How to Submit

You’ll need to provide:

• Your name and email

• Your design file (high-resolution PNG, or a vector file: SVG, AI, or EPS)

• A short description of your concept — just 2 or 3 sentences about what you were going for

• A confirmation that the design is your original work and that you’re granting Pantsuit Politics the right to use it for this shirt

One submission per person. The deadline is April 30 at midnight Eastern.

What the Winner Gets

• Recognition on the show and in our launch announcement

• Five free shirts to keep and share

• Two tickets to the live show in Minneapolis (or, if you can’t make it, a free year of Spice Cabinet membership)

We can’t wait to see what Good Neighbors means to you!