If you’re a t-shirt junkie, you’ve no doubt long ago fallen in love with the won­ders of Threadless.com. With orig­i­nal ideas, reg­u­lar sales, and decent qual­ity prod­ucts, few places are bet­ter for meet­ing your monthly quota of short-sleeved shirts. But have you ever stopped to won­der where those orig­i­nal ideas come from? If you’re imag­i­na­tive enough, they could come from you!

The shirts sold on Thread­less start as cre­ations in the Thread­less Com­mu­nity. The site always has an open call for t-shirt design ideas, and site mem­bers can sub­mit and vote on other people’s sub­mis­sions to help pick which shirt will be the next selected for pro­duc­tion. Becom­ing a mem­ber couldn’t be eas­ier — if you’ve ever signed up to buy a shirt, or sim­ply signed up for free with­out mak­ing a pur­chase, then you’re already in the club.

So what’s in it for you? How does $2500 sound? Each shirt that gets pub­lished comes with a $2000 cash pay out for the designer, as well as $500 in Thread­less store credit. Don’t worry if you’re not artis­ti­cally inclined, either. While Thread­less is always look­ing for great visual designs, they’re also look­ing for slo­gans too. My stick peo­ple may look like chicken scratch, but I’ve been using my charm­ing wit to cre­ate orig­i­nal ideas on Thread­less for years. And while none of my slo­gans have been picked up for pub­li­ca­tion, par­tic­i­pat­ing in the com­mu­nity and see­ing the work of oth­ers always makes a vis­it­ing the cre­ative side of Thread­less a real treat. (on a side note, win­ning slo­gans pay out at a smaller $500)

So what are you wait­ing for? Put on your think­ing caps and see if you can’t win that $2500!