HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
Now that the year is over, the fun begins as we sort through the best and the brightest in Custom Letters for 2009!
We will release our Best of 2009 on Monday, Feb. 1, and we’ll also have a list of our Top 10 favorites, a Custom Letters Person of the Year, and a few other things.
Here was our Best Of at the halfway point of 2009.
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 aren’t looking for customization—a type treatment or 3d treatment—of an existing typeface. It can be 3D if it’s built from scratch, and not simply an extrusion of an existing typeface.
A few other things:
• The deadline to submit is Sunday, Jan. 24, midnight Pacific time.
• We’ve set up a dedicated Gmail account for submissions: lettercult [AT] gmail.com. You can submit for yourself or others. Make sure your submission, or the linked image, is at least 800 pixels wide. 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 2009.
• Through Jan. 24, you can also add your piece to the Custom Letters Flickr group. If you already have something there, you don’t need to resend.
• If you don’t submit, there’s still a good chance we’ll find your piece if you’ve uploaded it somewhere. 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 Designer of the Moment, we’d ask you to please, find something original to submit.
• Everyone included in our Best of 2009 First Half is now part of the Best of 2009 for the Year. If you’re on that first list, email us and we’ll include a link to your site.
• If you or someone you know are not on our list of LetterMakers, email us.
• Once the list comes out, we cannot add any more pieces, so please, pass this on and send us links so we don’t miss anything.
Thanks!
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