As a part of the vibrant, ever growing, every changing Philly start-up community, Larger Than Life Prints is thrilled to be a sponsor of the Independents Hall / Mashable Mixer on May 1st!  We will be a part of some historic celebrating as Mashable brings their famous “Mashable Mixer” to Philadelphia for the first time and IndyHall celebrates the opening of their bigger and better new offices at 20 North 3rd Street.  

Here is a sneak peek of the sponsor wall.

So come on out and join us and the other sponsors as we help Mashable and IndyHall celebrate!

To make it easy, we are providing you the When, Where, How directly from IndyHall.

When, where, how?

Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009

Time: 8:00 pm Till Close (that’s 2:00 am for the out-of towners, or the non-party-goers)

Location: Cavanaugh’s River Deck, 417 N Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19123 (map)

Tickets: Open Admission, 21+ Only Please, but please register yourself on one of our Socialize Pages, so we know you’re coming

Socialize: Facebook , Meetup , Upcoming

Tags: Events, sponsorships

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Tags: Friday Fun Fact, LTL, LTLprints, LTLprints.com

Dear Internet Friends,

It is with great pleasure that we are here to announce the winners of the first ever Larger Than Life prints design competition.  Before we jump into it, everyone at LTLprints wants to sincerely thank each and every one of the designers for their submissions.  We are humbled by your creativity and vision.  Thank you!

During the past few weeks we got thousands of visitors and over 2,000 votes.  The leader changed multiple times and resources like multiple facebook fan pages were useful in helping some artists gain more exposure.  As internet junkies we love to see facebook pages (shameless plug - have you joined ours yet?)

Third place goes to Paul Hamilton with his ‘Lambo’ design. Paul wins a 3ft  (38”x24”) custom print.

Second place goes to Brett Mogavero with his Octopus design.  A 5ft print goes to you!

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First place goes to Alisa with her ‘Anchor’ design!  She receives an LTL - Larger Than Life print of her choice!  FTW!!!

We really appreciate all the submissions, voting and support. We got so much
posititve feedback that we’ll repeat pretty soon.

Stay tuned for interviews with the 3 winners why the came up with the design
and what they’ll do with their prints. Also check back to see real pics of
the winners with their images.

Congrats and thanks to all of the participants!  You guys rock!

Sincerely,

Carsten Petzold & Kendall Schoenrock
Founders, LTLprints.com - Larger Than Life prints
@LTLprints on twitter

Tags: Alicia Silfies, Brett Mogavero, Carsten, Carsten Petzold, competition, creativity, Design, Design Competition, Facebook, Hamilton, Kendall, Kendall Schoenrock, Larger than Life, Larger Than Life Prints, LTL, LTLprints, LTLprints.com, Mogavero, Paul Hamilton, Petzold, Prints, Schoenrock, Silfies

We’re excited to have loyal customers who love our products.  Over and over again our team hears how amazing our prints are and are impressed with the ease of installation and durability of the prints.

After discussing it in the office, we came to the conclusion that more people should be able to see and feel our prints.  Here’s the deal.  At the end of the week we’re giving away a large print.  It can be for a person or an organization or anything, really. It could be for a good cause or no cause; we just want the ideas on where it goes to come from you.

Leave us a comment and tell us who should recieve a LTLprint. Friday, January 30th we’ll post the winner and their story.

We’re open to influence as well.  Leave a comment if you feel one submission is better than the rest.

Sincerely,

Kendall Schoenrock & Carsten Petzold
co-founders, LTLprints.com

Tags: Carsten Petzold, Kendall Schoenrock, Prints, Prints and Posters, Shopping

Today Carsten and I wanted to reveal a fun fact about ourselves that you might not know.  Checkout this video and then leave a comment about your Friday Fun Fact that we don’t know!  Have a great weekend!

This video was a little longer and so I chopped it down.  Enjoy!

Our last post on thinking differently received some great comments.  Thank you!  We love having a conversation with you.

Dear Nick,

I read about your Yahoo – Taco Hiring Event on TechCrunch and was impressed.  The paper TokBox logo you taped to the truck, however, grabbed my attention.  I thought I would use this opportunity to introduce you to my company, LTLprints – Larger Than Life, and show you a better way to put your logo on taco trucks and walls in the future.

A few months ago TechCrunch asked us to print some wall decals for their August Capital meetup.  We had your logo on file from that event and thought, in the holiday spirit, we would send you some LTLprints love.

For your next event feel free to use our TokBox prints. Or if you’re really pumped we could print one that’s up to 7 feet wide and 4.5 feet tall.  Don’t worry, our prints won’t damage your walls and the prints can be pulled down and moved over and over again.

Please contact me directly or visit LTLprints.com for any custom print needs TokBox might have.

I wish you Happy Holidays and continued success with TokBox in 2009

Carsten Petzold
Founder, LTLprints.com
Twitter: @cpeLTLprints

Tags: August Capital, Jobs, LTL, LTLprints, LTLprints.com, Print, Prints, Tacos, TechCrunch, TokBox, twitter, Yahoo

This past Tuesday at the NatMechanics bar in Old City Philadelphia, a group of technology inclined individuals met to have fun, enjoy each others company, and help feed those without. The GeeksWhoGive food drive was a wonderful success and we’d like to give a great big LTL shoutout to the the crew.  Great work!

After the event the crowd hung around for the weekly @TechkaraokePHL.  After some talking, I finally convinced Carsten to step up and grab the mic.  Here is the hilarity that ensued.  Look at how passionate he is when it comes to German.

Enjoy… but after you’re done, drop us a line and let us know how long it’s been since you last sang Karaoke!

As always, you can track more of my Philadelphia encounters by following @schoenrock or @LTLprints on twitter… or both!

Be Well,
Kendall

Tags: Arts, German language, Karaoke, Music, National Mechanics, Philadelphia

This morning on my way into the LTLprints office I walked through a face numbing ice storm…or at least thats what it felt like. Fortunately the office setting at LTLprints was prime for thawing out my frozen limbs. If you could take a break from reading for a second and just imagine walking into a beautiful utopia, lined with large vibrant wall decor and warm crooning from the likes of Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley, and of course country Entertainer of the Year-Kenny Chesney. I admit though: stickers sometimes make me feel accomplished and I’m not the biggest fan of country music but today instantly became out of the ordinary when I found myself tapping my foot to Brad Paisley’s  geetar licks in the comedic song ‘Ticks’. My time in this office has been short but I can definitely acknowledge that LTLprints has a way of broadening ones perspective. I mean just think about what they can do with a standard photo or print…who would have thought, right. I must add one other observation. This morning when Carsten decided to change things up just a bit and put on some Techno, it stopped snowing and the sun came out.

kennys hat

Tags: Brad Paisely, Carsten, Kenny Chesney, LTLprints, Miranda Lambert

For Philadelphia sports fans, there aren’t many times when you’ll hear the above statement, but for right now, Philly is on cloud nine:) What a month it has been for this city! Philadelphia has cheered the Phils along to a World Series championship, the Eagles have won three straight, and our country has elected the FIRST african american president. October/November have been busy!

Wanted to share a few quick videos with you that have been passed along via email this week. First, a group of extremely talented students who express the importance of voting (if i ever have kids I’m sending them here!), and the second is a phenomenal catch by Ryan Howard during the Phillies parade (check out the video footage of that parade on our blog!

Possibly the coolest part of this month though has been the launch of www.LTLprints.com. It’s both exciting and a relief! It’s great to see the launch and all of the team’s long hours paying off - but it just means that things will get busier! I can’t wait to see our 6-color large format printing churning orders like crazy. Exciting!

Quite a picture above, eh? That awesome picture can be credited to the talented Mr. Matthew Gutberlet, a very close friend of mine and someone who is ridiculously good at everything he does - even photography! Matt grabbed that shot at the Phillies parade last Friday.

Before I sign off, just a reminder that the CMA Awards (COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS) are this Tuesday night. Everyone should definitely sit down to watch my boyfriend, the talented Kenny Chesney, in all his glory. I’d trade the World Series for him:)

Tags: Carsten Petzold, CMA Awards, Election, Kenny Chesney, LTLprints, LTLprints.com, Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia Phillies, Phillies Parade, Ryan Howard, Trisha Noel

Trisha Noel enjoys the Philadelphia Phillies World Series Parade from the LTLprints.com corporate headquarters right next to Love Park in downtown center city Philadelphia.

Exciting stuff! Thanks Trisha for such a cool video. Tons of people out today.

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