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Looking for something new and different for a gift or party decoration?  What about a “Wanted” poster?  Your friend or loved one’s face and their “crime” staring out from a good old-fashioned, “needs to be hanging in the sheriff’s office” Wanted poster.    We at Larger than Life prints received a request several months ago for exactly this type of print.  After scouring the internet looking for just the right image and coming up empty-handed, we thought it was better to create a super high-resolution version of the template in case anyone wants a huge print again in the future.  So we did.

LTLprints.com is an open company.  We try very hard to be transparent about who we are, what we’re doing and why we are focused on certain projects.  In addition to our transparency one of the goals is to give back to the community.  We feel that a sharing community will generate more than the hording that is common place.  Based on search traffic, we can easily tell you that we’re not the only ones looking for a high-resolution wanted poster template to start from.  So, without further adu, here for the worlds consumption - a high resolution wanted poster template.

We only ask for a few things in return.

1. If you use this file please please let us know by leaving a comment on this post.
2. If you’ve made improvements to the base template send it to images [at] LTLprints.com so we can update this file for the group.
3. Consider using LTLprints for your oversized removable wall graphic needs.
4. Be nice to each other.  *** most important ***

We also hope that when you have something that you’ve invested some time into that others would enjoy that you share it openly and willingly.  We think it’s the right thing to do, how about you?  Leave us a comment to let us know what you think.   STAY TUNED for an upcoming post on how Larger Than Life prints used these Wanted posters to help a major charity with their fundraising efforts.

**Download the Layered Photoshop File Here - 43 megs**

Sincerely,

Kendall Schoenrock & Carsten Petzold
Founders, LTLprints.com

(This post brought to you by Gloria Bell on behalf of Larger Than Life prints.  Please direct questions to gloria@ltlprints.com)

Tags: Adobe Photoshop, Carsten, Carsten Peltzold, Graphic Design, Image resolution, Kendall, Kendall Schoenrock, Larger than Life, Larger Than Life Prints, LTLprints, Poster, Template, Wanted poster, Wanted Poster Template

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

**Download the Layered Photoshop File Here - 43 megs**

A few weeks ago LTLprints.com received a request for a very cool print - a wanted poster.  We quickly went to work scouring for a high resolution wanted poster template for the customers 50th birthday party, but after some searching we were disappointed coming up empty handed.   We thought it was better to create a super high-resolution version of the template in case anyone wants a huge print again in the future.  So we did.

LTLprints.com is an open company.  We try very hard to be transparent about who we are, what we’re doing and why we are focused on certain projects.  In addition to our transparency one of the goals is to give back to the community.  We feel that a sharing community will generate more than the hording that is common place.  Based on search traffic, we can easily tell you that we’re not the only ones looking for a high-resolution wanted poster template to start from.  So, without further adu, here for the worlds consumption - a high resolution wanted poster template.

We only ask for a few things in return.

1. If you use this file please please let us know by leaving a comment on this post.
2. If you’ve made improvements to the base template send it to images [at] LTLprints.com so we can update this file for the group.
3. Consider using LTLprints for your oversized removable wall graphic needs.
4. Be nice to each other.  *** most important ***

We also hope that when you have something that you’ve invested some time into that others would enjoy that you share it openly and willingly.  We think it’s the right thing to do, how about you?  Leave us a comment to let us know what you think.

**Download the Layered Photoshop File Here - 43 megs**

Sincerely,

Kendall Schoenrock & Carsten Petzold
Founders, LTLprints.com

Tags: Adobe Photoshop, Carsten, Carsten Petzold, Graphic Design, Image resolution, Kendall Schoenrock, Larger than Life, LTL, LTLprints, Petzold, Photoshop, Poster, Template, Wanted, Wanted poster, Wanted Poster Template

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

As a Philadelphia based company, LTLprints is thrilled when other startups in our area have success. This past Friday, DuckDuckGo.com, a new company focused on making it easier to find the stuff you are searching for online, was featured on TechCrunch. TechCrunch, for those of you who don’t live in our startup tech world, is a technology behemoth blog with millions of readers and companies mentioned there usually get a massive spike in traffic, affectionately known as “being TechCrunched.”

I first met Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo, at BarCampPhilly a few weeks ago (we made LTLprints for bcp08). I was also able to catch his fishbowl presentation at Philadelphia’s FounderFactory (we printed the name badges and signs for FF08).

Kudos also to Gabriel for diving into the mob over at TechCrunch. I’ve found that the people who sit on the sidelines love to throw darts and they have little understanding of the difficulty that goes into bringing a company from the whiteboard to fruition. You can tell that he’s passionate about his project and that goes very far with us. I’d love to see more founders take such a transparent role in building their company.

So take a moment to watch this video, then follow Gabriel’s twitter stream @yegg and @duckduckgo. Then come back and leave us a comment on what you think about DuckDuckGo and on Gabriel’s Philly startup passion.

Rock on Philly - something good is brewing here.

Make sure you’re catching all the Larger Than Life action by following us on twitter! @LTLprints, @schoenrock, @cpeLTLprints

Tags: BarCampPhilly, cpeLTLprints, Duck Duck Go, DuckDuckGo.com, Founder Factory, FounderFactory, Gabriel Weinberg, Kendall Schoenrock, Larger than Life, Larger Than Life Prints, LTL Prints, LTLprints, Philadelphia, Philly, Schoenrock, Tech Crunch, TechCrunch, yegg

I have a secret that I’m going to share with the LTLprints community. I’ve been with LTLprints for quite some time now, and I finally feel comfortable sharing this personal part of my life. I’d like to thank Kwan (our community evangelist) for helping me get to the point where I can talk about it. Let me take a deep breath first - okay. Here goes nothing.

I hate stickers.

Phew! That feels SO much better. Now, before everyone goes crazy and asks “don’t you work for a sticker company?” let me put you at ease. I do work for LTLprints - but we create oversized, “larger than life” customizable WALL DECALS - not stickers. The material is cloth, and it’s removable and reusable. Don’t you worry - I totally looked into all this before applying for the position:)

So back to my weird phobia. I can admit that it’s not normal. But I’m not the only one! I hate the apples and fruit that have stickers on them, and refuse to touch the stickers. Ask any of my close friends who have to peel the sticker off for me (thanks guys.) When you behave well at the dentist and they try to give you a big smiley face sticker - I run. Yup, I’m that cool. In my Public Speaking class at Susquehanna University, we were asked to do a 5 minute speech about something you HATE. I of course, chose stickers. After receiving numerous strange looks as I made my way back to my seat after speaking, I was quickly comforted. The next speaker did her entire speech on velcro. At least I’m not the only one with a weird phobia.
Kendall, Carsten, and Kwan are a bit intrigued by my phobia of stickers.  Leave a comment if you know of any other weird phobias, please, as it makes me feel better about myself:)

Tags: Carsten Petzold, Kendall Schoenrock, Kwan Howard, Larger than Life, LTL, LTLprints, LTLprints.com, Sticker Phobia, Susquehanna University, Trish Noel

Hello World!

As you will have seen coming to www.LTLprints.com - we just released our new site. You can imagine that Kendall, Trisha and I are REALLY happy that after months of work we finally see our baby flourish. In particular we are happy because the innovative cutout tool (a tool to remove backgrounds)

At moments like this it is time to celebrate and to extend special thanks to our hard working developers. So big thanks to Najam, Jose, Scott, Eric and Diego in getting this baby put together.

We put a Beta next to our logo to indicate that though the site is mainly functional you might experience some little bugs here and there. Also, some of the functionality we want to provide hasn’t been released yet - mainly the catalog, so please stay tuned and check back.

MOST IMPORTANTLY: We’d like to hear from you. What do you think about the application? Is it intuitive to use? What functionality would you like to see on LTLprints to make your life easier? What is missing, what needs changed? In order to engange with you and get your honest feedback we created the LTLprints’ Feedback Forum. Very conveniently you’ll see the ‘Feedback’ button floating on the right when surfing on www.LTLprints.com. Just click it and you can submit a new idea or vote an existing idea up.

Tags: Beta, Carsten Petzold, Feedback, Forum, Integrated development environment, Kendall Schoenrock, LTLprints, Release, Software release life cycle

When I was younger, my mom (a kindergarten teacher) used to have some pretty creative ideas for Halloweencostumes. She could create anything my siblings and I wanted out of everyday household products. Andrea and Derek, my older siblings, took this opportunity to be clever and had some great costumes. Derek strutted down Stratton street as a knight in shining armor, a deck of cards, and a few other classics. Andrea went from a princess to a pirate and everything in between. For me, I had my heart set on the same costume six years running. I was Mickey Mouse, my childhood idol, for six years straight. The most creative I would every let my mom get with my costume was to add tin foil to my mouse ears so I was “astronaut mickey.” Trust me, it was cool.

Anyhow, as I got older, costumes and halloween parties changed. Instead of Mickey Mouse and bobbing for apples, I’ve been a cop, a cowgirl and a girlscout (what girl hasn’t) at a bar in Rittenhouse or Old City because I was too lazy to go costume shopping after work. I must say though, what hasn’t changed is my talent for carving Jack-O-Lanterns. Year after year, my pumpkin caves in the middle and if I’m lucky, maintains one stable eye with no hope for holding a flame in the middle. Ah well, you win some ya lose some, right?

One thing that I am looking forward to is our costume party this year. We’re going to utilize LTLprints to help with our decorations. I’ve been taking pictures all week of decorations I see around Philly. Draculas, scarecrows, ghosts, goblins, and witches will fill the walls of our house in life-size form. I also have some great shots from my trip to Vermont last weekend where the foliage is BEAUTIFUL. Those pics will create a great backdrop print right in our living room. I’m excited b/c I can reuse them year after year if I decide to keep having parties. My aunt is actually taking pics of her kids in their costumes this year to submit and have LTLprints made for her party next year. She’s going to have her wall decor for the party be images of all my little cousins running around from this Halloween. And believe me, those kids are cute in their costumes.

So if I’m on my game next week I’ll try to post some pictures of creative costume ideas my friends come up with at our party. Feel free to suggest any costume ideas or post a pic of yours below. Who knows - maybe an LTLprints image of your costume might be our next project!

Cheers and Happy Halloween!

Tags: Carsten Petzold, Kendall Schoenrock, Larger than Life, LTLprint, LTLprints, LTLprints.com, Mickey Mouse, Trisha Noel, Wall Graphics

This past weekend I had the opportunity to participate in a great event - the 2008 Parkway Run/Walk for children’s cancer research. Despite the light rain that drizzled down the entire morning, over 1200 people still filled the Parkway with their running shoes and rain attire, and even more did the 2K walk. I participate in a lot of charity 5Ks, triathalons, and road races, but this was the first time I had run in this specific race. A big thank you and a job well done goes out to the race planners and the Four Seasons for the volunteers and delicious breakfast following the race. It’s great to see Philadelphia come together for such a great cause!

After the race on Sunday I ran into some old colleagues and co-workers of mine who I haven’t seen since I joined LTLprints.com. We huddled under umbrellas and canopies to catch up and chat between bites of scrambled eggs and bananas (thanks again, Four Seasons!) As I described what I was doing, one of the gentleman I was talking to asked a question that I get a lot when I am talking about wall graphics and our product;

“What do you use them for? Who buys them?”

This might be my favorite question to answer. The possibilities of this product are endless. I turned to my colleague and started my speel. If you’re a parent or an aunt or uncle, it’s a great idea to take a picture of your child doing their favorite activity (playing sports, an instrument, drawing, or just smiling at the camera) and have a print made for their bedroom (great gift idea!.) You can edit the picture to add other people in, such as a celebrity, athlete, or a relative that lives far away. If you’re a creative person, you can submit a design or graphic as a great solution for decorating; it’s removable and reusable without leaving any mark or residue on the wall. Plus, it adds a personal touch that you can’t get in a home store. Businesses can use LTLprints for company publicity too -they travel so easily and are a great answer for trade shows or expos. When you need to bring a poster or billboard of some kind but don’t want to deal with the hassle of tearing or ripping the paper in transit, take LTLprints instead!

I found myself going on and on at the race, talking about some of the prints we did for other companies at IgnitePhilly and IndyHall. Before I knew it I was chatting to a group of about 5 or 6 people who had crowded around me to catch what I was talking about. I answered questions about the service, described how durable the material is (it can even go through the washer!) and laughed about some new ideas people were shouting out (the Kelly Kalpalski - Saved By the Bell cut-out idea came up quite a few times.)

As a friend of mine and I walked home after the race, he was teasing me for being a walking, talking advertisement for LTLprints. I defended myself by saying that as the director of PR, it IS my job after all:) But it’s also easy to talk about, because LTLprints is a great product that really is going to change the way people decorate. What other product allows people to add a personal touch to anything they put on their walls? I invite anyone to leave a comment with a creative idea of how to utilize LTLprints.com - it’s fun to see what people come up with!

Tags: 2008 Parkway Run/Walk, 5K, Cancer Research, Carsten Petzold, Gift Ideas, Ignite Philly, IndyHall, Kendall Schoenrock, Larger than Life, LTL, LTLprints, LTLprints.com, LTLprints.net, Philadelphia, Trisha Noel

As Carsten mentions, LTLprints had the pleasure of attending IgnitePhilly, a series of speakers with five minutes each to talk about inspiring ideas. It’s truly a great idea - the room buzzed with creative and innovative minds. In my opinion, anytime you can get great people, innovation, and a few beers in the same room, it’s guaranteed to be a good time!

LTLprints was there in full force - we actually provided the prints for all the speakers at the IgnitePhilly event. I hope everyone got a chance to see how neat the material is - if you missed one of our handouts for “IgnitePhilly,” just contact Kendall or myself and we’ll be happy to mail you one. I dare you to test the material - take it off the wall, crumple it up, and put it back on a different wall, good as new. Go ahead, I dare you. Or you can watch Alex’s video!

Much credit is deserved to each of the speakers last night. My personal favorites included Pamela Zimmerman from Park(ing) Day Philadelphia. Pam, great idea and concept - it shows just how creative this city really is and I loved the pictures! Credit is also due to Stu Hankin and Will Robinson from IdeaBlob. My favorite quote of the night came from this presentation; “You shouldn’t be afraid of somebody stealing your idea. You should be afraid of no one ever seeing it.”

ArtSphere and MakePhilly rounded out my favorites (which by the way, I plan to attend the ArtBuggyDerby), but a round of applause goes out to each presenter. Hearing each of your presentations was an inspiration to wake up and get back to work this morning:)

Tags: ArtsBuggy Derby, ArtsSphere, Carsten Petzold, IdeaBlob, IgnitePhilly, Kendall Schoenrock, Larger than Life, Larger Than Life Prints, LTLprints, MakePhilly, Pamela Zimmerman, Park(ing) Day Philadelphia, Petzold, Prints, Schoenrock, Stu Hankin, Trisha Noel, Will Robinson