10/05/2026
CALLING ALL LOCAL AMATEUR & SEMI-PRO ARTISTS
Listen up, Charleston. Pinky & Clyde's needs new merch and we don’t want it from some random internet contest. We want it from you. The people who actually live here, draw here, and know what this place feels like around midnight in Park Circle.
We’re picking 3 original designs for shirts and merch that we want on the floor by early December.
THE PRIZE - (for each of the 3 we pick) $250 cash, A shirt of your own design, Your name on the merch, in the bar and posted on socials!
WHO CAN ENTER - ALL amateur and semi-pro artists in Charleston (843). ONE (1) design per person ORIGINAL work only, You drew it. You own it.
WHAT WE WANT - 80s / 90s arcade energy! Neon. Arcade Cabinets. Drinks flowing. Big hair. Park Circle after dark. Things that YOU love in and about Pinky’s. It has to look like & feel like it’s from Pinky & Clyde’s, not a random Pink Floyd shirt from Target.
WHAT WE DONT WANT/ HARD NO’s -
No licensed game characters…. Well at least change them up in some way, put a different outfit on them or change enough about the character to avoid any problems (but still recognizable).
No AI, NONE; If a robot drew it, we don’t want it.
HOW TO SEND IT - Email your design to [email protected]
Subject line: MERCH CONTEST — your name Include your name, phone, Instagram, and a one-line note on the design. PNG or JPG at 300 dpi is fine to enter. Winners will need print-ready files after.
DEADLINE Friday, October 30, 2026. 11:59pm!!!!
THEN WHAT? - We pick 3 by Friday, November 7. Winners sign a short agreement so we can actually print and sell the design. Non-winning work stays yours. We will not use it. Finally, the New Merch with your work on it will drop early December, just in time to stuff everyone in Charleston’s stockings.
If you’ve got a favorite local amateur/semi-pro artist that you’d love to see thousands of people wearing their art, tag em in here so they’ll be sure to see it..
“Get your crayons out”
-pinky
