KIS FOR KILLER. Another great batch of letters. Thanks everyone. Enjoy.
Submit L by August 1.
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THE ANTIQUE STORE IS FIVE MINUTES AWAY.
The guy running the place didn’t understand why I showed up twice to take pictures of letters, but he was nice enough to allow it. Enjoy!
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JULY BRINGS US a fresh group of letters. Some more great work. Submit K by July 18th. Enjoy.
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ICONS, I-CHARTS AND MORE.
Great job with the letter I. Submit the the letter J by Monday, July 5 (a day later than normal) and we will publish a day later, Tuesday, July 6.
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HERE’S H!
Great work everyone! Submit the the letter I by June 20.
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FIS FOR FUN.
Yes, making Custom Letters is mad fun. Welcome to the new people, and congrats to everyone who has gone A-F.
If you want in on the fun, you can jump in any time, with any letter.
G, especially the lowercase g, offers great possibilities for expression. Submit G by May 23.
If you’ve submitted something for the previous letters, and don’t see it updated by Tuesday night, email us.
Now here’s F.
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EIS UP.
More clever and/or gorgeous stuff. For those of you who have run off A-E, congrats!
Again, never too late to join in or catch up. Submit F by May 9.
If you’ve submitted something for A, B, C or D, and don’t see it updated by Tuesday, email us.
Now here’s E.
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ALPHABATTLE D is up. Fewer submissions this time, but still lots of beautiful executions!
Again, never too late to join in or catch up, A, B, C, or D. Submit E by April 25.
If you’ve submitted something for A, B, C or D, and don’t see it, email us.
Oh yeah, coming soon, some interviews. Yep, we’re still doing those. 
Luca Ionescu and Michiel van der Born are next up. Their interviews are almost done.
Also coming soon, we are going to start a weekly thing where we highlight awesome old signage. If you’ve taken a bunch of pictures of old signage in your town, and would like to share, email us. (lettercult at gmail).
Finally, we are working on some LetterCult T-shirts. We’ll have more information on those later in the week.
Now here’s D.
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CIS FOR CREATIVITY.
Every two weeks, you keep bringing it. Keep up the awesome!
Again, never too late to join in A, B, or C, or catch up. We put up a bunch of new subs up at both A and B this week, so check them at if you are doing the work-avoidance thing. Submit D by April 11.
Now here’s C, which includes our first video sub.
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BTURNED OUT GREAT.
Nice work everyone and welcome to those who just started!
Remember, you can still submit A or B at any time if you want to catch up. For C, you can spell out a word (one that starts with C) or submit a single letter.
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AIS FOR AWESOME!
Submissions were fantastic, and some stragglers will be coming in tomorrow and after. Information on B on the next page. Thanks everyone and great job!
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ALPHABATTLE IS A BIT OF a misnomer.
There are no actual battles, no talkin’ trash, no smokin’ fools, no winners, no losers—just an opportunity to express yourself with Custom Letters among some like-minded peers.
Make letters. Have fun.
Drout 750, aka Paul O’Sullivan, started AlphaBattle last year as a Flickr group, based on a concept that goes back nearly 10 years to various grafitti forums. This is the reboot, version 2.0.
We’ll start with A, do a new letter every two weeks, and finish with Z, about this time in 2011. Fifty-two weeks, twenty-six letters.
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“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.†— Jessica Hische
RIGHT NOW, FOR JESSICA Hische, that work—the work she should be doing for the rest of her life—is making letters.
Right now, she sits at a computer in her Brooklyn apartment, hanging out with her two cats as she chats on the internet.
The cats try their best to stop her from working—blocking access to her mouse, and laying down on her keyboard. But Olive (fat and loud) and Billy (a space cadet who sings in the shower) are prone to constant naps and have not been very successful stopping her.
Indeed, in 2009, Jessica Hische was unstoppable.
PICKING A TOP 10 WAS PURE AGONY!
That was the consensus from our panel of type and lettering aficionados, who picked their ten favorite pieces from our Best of 2009.
We used their input to help pick the LetterCult Top 10—after the jump, along with the Top 10s from our contributors. (The Top 10s are not ranked 1-10.)
It was a fun exercise with subjective results. Thanks for taking a look.
Thursday night: an interview with the Custom Letters Person of the Year.
Edit: Friday afternoon.
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