Hello, and thanks for your inquiry! Our projects have a different process depending on our vision and goals, and what we're making. Some do have a contributor applications phase, but some don't. For this project in particular, we're reaching out to specific artists and inviting them personally rather than holding contributor applications. This is because of the some of the types of merch we plan to include; we're reaching out to people with prior experience with them since they're a bit more unusual and it's easier to find people with that experience this way and to hopefully match our aesthetic goal with this project! We are so sorry if this is a disappointment, but please rest assured that you will have chances to apply for our future projects! (Likely our next one, shh.)💖