RYZ is a very cool design community from our local hood of Portland OR, and we're excited to be doing a joint contest with them around the patterns on our site.  It's easy.  All you have to do is color one of our pattern templates so that it makes an awesome shoe design and you could win $1,000.

For the Love of Patterns, RYZ & COLOURlovers invite you to design the FIRST PATTERN ONLY SHOE to be included in the RYZ Collection.

How To Enter

1. Use the COLOURlovers' Pattern Tool to create the best pattern on the block. (We put all the patterns we can use for this contest in one category in our pattern tool.)

2. Once you have your colors just right, publish the pattern to save it.

3. On the viewing page for your pattern cick the Download the RYZ Show Template button.

4. Save the template to your computer and then upload it on the RYZ site.

You can upload as many patterns as you want, so clear your calendar for the next week until June 30th when submissions end.

Voting begins July 1st and will end July 14th. The winner will be announced July 20th. Check here for more details.

Only 3 designs max. per participant can make it into the final round - the voting cycle. 18 designs will make it into the voting round and only 1 will take home the grand prize - $750 cash and $250 store credit to the RYZ shop - plus free sponsored memberships at COLOURlovers.