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

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When we launched LTLprints.com we made it a priority to cultivate a community of designers - they will help bring core content to our catalog and customers.  One of the ways we are starting to do that is visiting highly passionate students at local Philadelphia art schools.  Earlier today we visited the Art Institute of Philadelphia (only 2 blocks away from our headquarters) and spoke to a number of impressive up and coming rock stars regarding the launch of the first ever LTLprints design competition.

We invited them to join our design competition and we would like to extend the same offer to you. Over the next four weeks we will take submissions to our online catalog - along the way stopping to smell the roses and meet you, the designers, through an interview on this blog.

Here is how it works;

• Create your free LTLprints account
• Use those creative genes to come up with any design that would make for a great wall print
  (art work, pictures, collages, shillouettes, etc…).
• Upload a .jpg of your artwork and let us know that you would like it to be entered for the competition.

How to compete:

• Send you Vector or Photoshop file to designcompetition [@] LTLprints.com
• We want to meet you.  Send us a short bio and any links to your other online work.
• Submissions must be received by Monday, February 23.

Who is the Jury?

• The community, silly.   In a few weeks we will open up a voting system for submitted designs and you (and your friends, mom & dad, your coworkers, whomever you want) can come rate thumbs up on designs, the one with the most thumbs up wins.  Pretty simple, right?  Get your facebook groups ready!

What is in it for you?

• The winner(s) gets his or her designs printed for free!
  1st place: Free 7ft large  (84”x52”)
  2nd: 5ft (60”x38”)
  3rd: 3ft (38”x24”)
• Get exposure - we will try to feature every competing designer on this blog and we will do our duty to introduce you to our customers.  We pinky swear.
• Bulk the resume!  We realize that not everyone competing is a student, but if you are, this is a great event to point to in those future interviews.
• Oh, and don’t forget that you get to set your own design price associated with your work.  The design price is what a customer will pay you when they buy your print.  This is a value set by you, but most of our designers are pricing their work between $1 and $10.
• The joy of helping a hard working startup get off the ground.  That’s worth something right?  Kama points or something… We’re sure of it!
• A free beer at a Philadelphia pub of your choosing. Mmm. Beer.

When?

• Submit your items latest by February 22, 11:59pm EST
• Voting will end on March 8th.
• Winners will be notified on this blog.

Questions?

• We are here to help.  Leave any unanswered questions in the comment box below.
• Or just contact us.

We’re super excited to get things rolling.  We hope you are too!

UPDATE:  Download this bio template and introduce yourself to the crowd.

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