Design a cool, fun t-shirt for The Ringer and Bill Simmons! 3 winners guaranteed

We like pop art styles, eye-catching graphics, collage elements, and sleek contemporary typography. The t-shirts should look fun, cool and something that a fan of The Ringer would love to wear.

Check out https://www.theringer.com/ to get a sense of our style and tone, and https://theringer.merchtable.com/ to check out our other merchandise. We also uploaded some examples to the inspiration section of the brief.

We would like to see these three slogans (which are all popular catchphrases of Bill Simmons) illustrating, or using creative typography.

1. “But first … Pearl Jam”
(The intro song to Bill's show is Corduroy by Pearl Jam. Watch this for some funny inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLIqGAPacWQ

2. “I survived Apex Mountain”
(This is in reference to Bill's career and the idea of "peaking" - both in life and on, well, a mountain... the joke being that a mountain is in itself an Apex).

3. “Are we sure this t-shirt is good?”
(Bill's most common phrase is “Are we sure he’s good?”)

For more reference see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/billsimmon…_favorite/

Each t-shirt design should only feature one slogan, along with graphics/illustration. The 99designs Marketing Department is managing this contest and they have approved 3 winners. We will be awarding 1 winner for each slogan.

The Ringer is a huge sports, pop culture and tech network that hosts dozens of podcasts, including The Bill Simmons show. We have 406k followers on Twitter and Bill Simmons has 5.92M, so you have the opportunity to reach a huge audience by participating in our contest. We've already tweeted about it to our fans and they can't wait to see what you all come up with!