LetterCult http://www.lettercult.com Custom Letter Culture Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:01:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 BEST OF 2011 – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS http://www.lettercult.com/archives/3394 http://www.lettercult.com/archives/3394#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:19:10 +0000 admin http://www.lettercult.com/?p=3394

NOW THAT 2011 IS OVER, IT’S TIME to crawl out of hibernation, and begin sorting through the best and brighest Custom Letters of the year!

Our Best of 2010—Day 1 and Day 2—featured more than 900 images, our Top 10 lists, and our Person of the Year. Last year, we scoured hundreds of personal sites, yet took in a relatively small number of submissions.

We hope to get more subs this year, so if you or anyone you know create Custom Letters, please pass on the link! We don’t want to miss anyone.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

The Custom Letters category includes calligraphy, sign painting, graffiti, stone carving, digital lettering, hand lettering, paper sculpture, and original type design. It could also involve making letters with sticks and berries, or carving letters into a tree. It’s an elastic category.

The Custom, in this instance, means built from scratch; we ARE NOT looking for customization—a type treatment or 3d treatment—of an existing typeface. Again, no type treatments.

A few other things:

• The deadline to submit is Wednesday, February 1, midnight Pacific time. We will be publishing our Best Of later in February.

• E-MAIL ADDRESS: lettercult [AT] gmail.com. You can submit for yourself or others. You can include the actual files or submit links. Please put 2011 SUBMISSION in the SUBJECT FIELD.

• SUBMISSION FORMAT: .png or .jpg, 600 pixels wide, 72 dpi. We’ll confirm receipt of your submissions, but we won’t contact you after that. There is no limit to the number of submissions you can make, but please edit yourself, and pick your BEST WORK. Please include a link to your site. And please do not send work completed before 2011, or work from 2012.

• ALPHABATTLE LETTERS: The Alphabattle wrap-up will be separate so INDIVIDUAL LETTERS will stay separate from the Best Of.

• If you don’t submit, there’s still a good chance we’ll find your piece if you’ve uploaded it somewhere—Flickr, Behance, etc. However, if it’s on your site, and it’s unclear what year you created it, we won’t include it.

• We are aware of certain styles that get copied. If you’re aping the current Letterer of the Moment, we’d ask you to please, find something original to submit.

• If you or someone you know are not on our list of LetterMakers, email us.

Finally, we always get questions about why a Best Of would include so many images—why don’t you narrow it down to a manageable number so it’s truly a BEST OF. Well, the continuing goal is to introduce people to Custom Letters, and to celebrate those who are making Custom Letters. It’s as simple as that. Our aim to be inclusive, not exclusive.

Thanks!

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&ND WE’RE DONE!

Next week, a wrap-up. Thanks to everyone who participated. :)

MARCOS CALAMATO

FLORIN FLOREA

JUSTIN CHODZKO

ALEX LUTKUS

RORY PHILLIPS

DTM_INC

DAN GNEIDING

JOHN KANE SMITH

TACO GOOIKER

MARCELO SCHULTZ

JACKSON ALVES

TIM CANNY

SANDRO

BOZENKA SOSENKA

ERIK MARINOVICH

ILSE WEISFELT

MARK SEGGIE

B. WICHMANN

ALEX ARBIT

KEVIN THRASHER

THEO INGLIS

RHIANNA LEDERMAN

HEGEL GANIAS

ROB SZATKOWSKI

JACQUES LE BAILLY

PAULO DE ALMEIDA

TODD CHILDERS

GUIDELINES

• Submit a 600 pixel wide RGB file (flattened, jpg, png, gif) to lettercult //at// gmail.com. You can also upload to the Alphabattle Flickr 2.0 group. And while you’re at it, you can upload your letters to Nate’s LetterPlayground.

• Include a link to your site, if you’d like us to link.

• One submission per person per letter.

• You can make your letters however you choose, with one exception: Don’t use a font as a starting point…this is a site about letters you build from scratch. (wink)

• Keep it safe for work.

• Try to be original, in some way, shape, or form.

• Have fun.

• You can submit a letter after any deadline. We’ll still add it to the group.

LINKS

LetterPlayground

AlphaBattle 2.0 at Flickr

Typophile TypeBattles

]]> http://www.lettercult.com/archives/3350/feed 3 ALPHABATTLE – 0 http://www.lettercult.com/archives/3331 http://www.lettercult.com/archives/3331#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:36:38 +0000 Beejay http://www.lettercult.com/?p=3331


ZERO!

In two weeks, we’ll finish AlphaBattle with the AMPERSAND. Submit by July 17, with publication on July 18. A week later, we’ll do a wrap-up.

JUSTIN CHODZKO

ALEX LUTKUS

RORY PHILLIPS

DTM_INC

JOHN KANE SMITH

TACO GOOIKER

BRUCE STAINSBY

MARCELO SCHULTZ

JACKSON ALVES

VIAN PEANU

TIM CANNY

SANDRO

BOZENKA SOSENKA

DOUG SHEETS

GABRIEL REBUFELLO

MARCOS CALAMATO

FANNY NORDMARK

FLORIN FLOREA

DAN KINTO

LEONOR GRAÇA MOURA

SHAWN SEMMES

GUIDELINES

• Submit a 600 pixel wide RGB file (flattened, jpg, png, gif) to lettercult //at// gmail.com. You can also upload to the Alphabattle Flickr 2.0 group. And while you’re at it, you can upload your letters to Nate’s LetterPlayground.

• Include a link to your site, if you’d like us to link.

• One submission per person per letter.

• You can make your letters however you choose, with one exception: Don’t use a font as a starting point…this is a site about letters you build from scratch. (wink)

• Keep it safe for work.

• Try to be original, in some way, shape, or form.

• Have fun.

• You can submit a letter after any deadline. We’ll still add it to the group.

LINKS

LetterPlayground

AlphaBattle 2.0 at Flickr

Typophile TypeBattles

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NINE!

We’ll continue with ZERO in two weeks. Submit by July 3, with publication on the Fourth of July. After that is ampersand, and then we’ll do a wrap-up.

JUSTIN CHODZKO

ALEX LUTKUS

RORY PHILLIPS

DTM_INC

JOHN KANE SMITH

TACO GOOIKER

BRUCE STAINSBY

FLORIN FLOREA

MARCELO SCHULTZ

JACKSON ALVES

VIAN PEANU

SANDRO

ANNA TULCHINSKAYA

CONQUER

MOSTAZA STUDIO

HEJ

9SWORDS

BOZENKA SOSENKA

LUKE A. ATKINSON

DAVE FOSTER

JASPER ROEKEN

MARCOS CALAMATO

NICHOLAS TAZZA

JESHURUN WEBB

DAN KINTO

DOUG SHEETS

KAI GRADERT

JESSIE GLASS

TIM CANNY

JESHURUN WEBB

KIM PETERSEN

GABRIEL REBUFELLO

GUIDELINES

• Submit a 600 pixel wide RGB file (flattened, jpg, png, gif) to lettercult //at// gmail.com. You can also upload to the Alphabattle Flickr 2.0 group. And while you’re at it, you can upload your letters to Nate’s LetterPlayground.

• Include a link to your site, if you’d like us to link.

• One submission per person per letter.

• You can make your letters however you choose, with one exception: Don’t use a font as a starting point…this is a site about letters you build from scratch. (wink)

• Keep it safe for work.

• Try to be original, in some way, shape, or form.

• Have fun.

• You can submit a letter after any deadline. We’ll still add it to the group.

LINKS

LetterPlayground

AlphaBattle 2.0 at Flickr

Typophile TypeBattles

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EIGHT!

Nearing the finish line. We’ll continue with the Number 9 in two weeks. Submit by June 19, with publication on June 20. After that, zero, ampersand, and then we’ll do a wrap-up.

JUSTIN CHODZKO

ALEX LUTKUS

TIM CANNY

JESSIE GLASS

RORY PHILLIPS

DTM_INC

JOHN KANE SMITH

TACO GOOIKER

BRUCE STAINSBY

GABRIEL REBUFELLO

ANDREA AIMAR

FLORIN FLOREA

COREY PRICE

MARCELO SCHULTZ

JACKSON ALVES

VIAN PEANU

SANDRO

MAIA THEN

RICKY MOORHOUSE

JEFF ROGERS/a>

CAROLYN BELEFSKI

DANIEL GACIU

ANNA TULCHINSKAYA

ZE NICHETTI

GUIDELINES

• Submit a 600 pixel wide RGB file (flattened, jpg, png, gif) to lettercult //at// gmail.com. You can also upload to the Alphabattle Flickr 2.0 group. And while you’re at it, you can upload your letters to Nate’s LetterPlayground.

• Include a link to your site, if you’d like us to link.

• One submission per person per letter.

• You can make your letters however you choose, with one exception: Don’t use a font as a starting point…this is a site about letters you build from scratch. (wink)

• Keep it safe for work.

• Try to be original, in some way, shape, or form.

• Have fun.

• You can submit a letter after any deadline. We’ll still add it to the group.

LINKS

LetterPlayground

AlphaBattle 2.0 at Flickr

Typophile TypeBattles

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SEVEN UP.

We’ll continue with the Number 8 in two weeks. Submit by June 5, with publication on June 6.

RORY PHILLIPS

DTM_INC

JOHN KANE SMITH

TACO GOOIKER

JESSIE GLASS

JUSTIN CHODZKO

ALEX LUTKUS

BRUCE STAINSBY

GABRIEL REBUFELLO

DOUG SHEETS

EDGAR PALACIOS

FLORIN FLOREA

TARA HATMAKER

EVELIN KASIKOV

JORDAN ARMSTRONG

COREY PRICE

GABRIELE FUMERO

MARCELO SCHULTZ

JOAKIM SMANGS

JACKSON ALVES

JUSTIN LAROSA

STERRE VERBOKKEM

TIM CANNY

ANDREA AIMAR

GUIDELINES

• Submit a 600 pixel wide RGB file (flattened, jpg, png, gif) to lettercult //at// gmail.com. You can also upload to the Alphabattle Flickr 2.0 group. And while you’re at it, you can upload your letters to Nate’s LetterPlayground.

• Include a link to your site, if you’d like us to link.

• One submission per person per letter.

• You can make your letters however you choose, with one exception: Don’t use a font as a starting point…this is a site about letters you build from scratch. (wink)

• Keep it safe for work.

• Try to be original, in some way, shape, or form.

• Have fun.

• You can submit a letter after any deadline. We’ll still add it to the group.

LINKS

LetterPlayground

AlphaBattle 2.0 at Flickr

Typophile TypeBattles

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SIX!

We’ll continue with the Number 7 in two weeks. Submit by May 22, with publication on May 23.

DANIEL PELAVIN

RORY PHILLIPS

TIM CANNY

DTM_INC

JOHN KANE SMITH

TACO GOOIKER

JESSIE GLASS

STERRE VERBOKKEM

JUSTIN CHODZKO

ALEX LUTKUS

BRUCE STAINSBY

GABRIEL REBUFELLO

DOUG SHEETS

DANIELLA ETINGER

EDGAR PALACIOS

JACKSON ALVES

FLORIN FLOREA

TINA JETT

PAUL HAUPT

MOSTAZA STUDIO

DAVE DIXON

TARA HATMAKER

WILLIAM THIBAULT

JORDAN ARMSTRONG

JAVIER RODRIGUEZ

GUIDELINES

• Submit a 600 pixel wide RGB file (flattened, jpg, png, gif) to lettercult //at// gmail.com. You can also upload to the Alphabattle Flickr 2.0 group. And while you’re at it, you can upload your letters to Nate’s LetterPlayground.

• Include a link to your site, if you’d like us to link.

• One submission per person per letter.

• You can make your letters however you choose, with one exception: Don’t use a font as a starting point…this is a site about letters you build from scratch. (wink)

• Keep it safe for work.

• Try to be original, in some way, shape, or form.

• Have fun.

• You can submit a letter after any deadline. We’ll still add it to the group.

LINKS

LetterPlayground

AlphaBattle 2.0 at Flickr

Typophile TypeBattles

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FIVE!

We’ll continue with the Number 6 in two weeks. Submit by May 8, with publication on May 9.

Thanks everyone! Also, Alex Lutkus aka BlenderHead has a follow up to his No. 3 puzzle — find the fives.

TIM CANNY

DTM_INC

JOHN KANE SMITH

DANIEL PELAVIN

RORY PHILLIPS

TACO GOOIKER

JESSIE GLASS

STERRE VERBOKKEM

JAMES EDMONDSON

JUSTIN CHODZKO

RON GILAD

DEEPTHI UDUPA

ALEX LUTKUS

ALLAN LORDE

KENDRA PHELPS

FLORIN FLOREA

ANDHERIMAGINATION

BRUCE STAINSBY

GABRIEL REBUFELLO

DOUG SHEETS

DANIEL GACIU

THEOS 1

DANIELLA ETINGER

KYLE HARVEY

BRATISLAV MILENKOVIC

BEEJAY

TIFFANY CHEN

GARY JACKSON

PAUL HAUPT

GUIDELINES

• Submit a 600 pixel wide RGB file (flattened, jpg, png, gif) to lettercult //at// gmail.com. You can also upload to the Alphabattle Flickr 2.0 group. And while you’re at it, you can upload your letters to Nate’s LetterPlayground.

• Include a link to your site, if you’d like us to link.

• One submission per person per letter.

• You can make your letters however you choose, with one exception: Don’t use a font as a starting point…this is a site about letters you build from scratch. (wink)

• Keep it safe for work.

• Try to be original, in some way, shape, or form.

• Have fun.

• You can submit a letter after any deadline. We’ll still add it to the group.

LINKS

LetterPlayground

AlphaBattle 2.0 at Flickr

Typophile TypeBattles

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HERE’S FOUR!

We’ll continue with the Number 5 in two weeks. Submit by April 24, with publication on April 25.

Thanks everyone!

DTM_INC

JOHN KANE SMITH

JILLIAN ADEL

RORY PHILLIPS

LAURA SERRA

TACO GOOIKER

DAN GNEIDING

JESSIE GLASS

STERRE VERBOKKEM

JAMES EDMONDSON

CHRISTOPH KLEINSTUCK

JUSTIN CHODZKO

JAKE DUGARD

RON GILAD

DEEPTHI UDUPA

ALEX LUTKUS

JASON J. PETERSEN

TARA HATMAKER

ALLAN LORDE

FLORIN FLOREA

PAUL HAUPT

TIM CANNY

ANDHERIMAGINATION

BRUCE STAINSBY

TRISTAN RIGUET

UGLY BOY DEAD

STEPHEN HEMENWAY

DANIELE MILAZZO

GABRIEL REBUFELLO

GUIDELINES

• Submit a 600 pixel wide RGB file (flattened, jpg, png, gif) to lettercult //at// gmail.com. You can also upload to the Alphabattle Flickr 2.0 group. And while you’re at it, you can upload your letters to Nate’s LetterPlayground.

• Include a link to your site, if you’d like us to link.

• One submission per person per letter.

• You can make your letters however you choose, with one exception: Don’t use a font as a starting point…this is a site about letters you build from scratch. (wink)

• Keep it safe for work.

• Try to be original, in some way, shape, or form.

• Have fun.

• You can submit a letter after any deadline. We’ll still add it to the group.

LINKS

LetterPlayground

AlphaBattle 2.0 at Flickr

Typophile TypeBattles

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GREAT WORK ON THREE!!!

Alex Lutkus, aka Blender Head, has submitted a puzzle: Find the THREES. There are a bunch in his piece, which is first after the jump. First one to find more than 18 will score a LetterCult T-shirt of their choice. :) (FIRST EMAIL to come in at this email: lettercult … AT … gmail dot com).

WINNER: Congrats to Jim Pericotti who emailed within the first 15 minutes.

We’ll continue with the Number 4 in two weeks. Submit by April 10, with publication on April 11.

Thanks everyone!

ALEX LUTKUS

DTM_INC

JOHN KANE SMITH

RORY PHILLIPS

JUSTIN CHODZKO

CHRIS PIASCIK

JESSIE GLASS

DOUG SHEETS

ALLAN LORDE

BRATISLAV MILENKOVICH

FLORIN FLOREA

PAUL HAUPT

BRYAN FLYNN

TIM CANNY

ANDHERIMAGINATION

STERRE VERBOKKEM

BRUCE STAINSBY

TACO GOOIKER

TAV CALICO

DAN GNEIDING

RODRIGO SAIANI

JASON SONNABAUM

VIAN PEANU

JAMES EDMONDSON

FELIX CHI

JILLIAN ADEL

TRISTAN RIGUET

BEEJAY

JASON J. PETERSEN

THORIN BRENTMAR

UGLY BOY DEAD

GABRIEL REBUFELLO

GUIDELINES

• Submit a 600 pixel wide RGB file (flattened, jpg, png, gif) to lettercult //at// gmail.com. You can also upload to the Alphabattle Flickr 2.0 group. And while you’re at it, you can upload your letters to Nate’s LetterPlayground.

• Include a link to your site, if you’d like us to link.

• One submission per person per letter.

• You can make your letters however you choose, with one exception: Don’t use a font as a starting point…this is a site about letters you build from scratch. (wink)

• Keep it safe for work.

• Try to be original, in some way, shape, or form.

• Have fun.

• You can submit a letter after any deadline. We’ll still add it to the group.

LINKS

LetterPlayground

AlphaBattle 2.0 at Flickr

Typophile TypeBattles

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