“+HE_S+UDiO is a creative design/ marketing and communications company made up of artistic, free minded individuals who exhibit extreme pride and passion in their designated fields. We use this passion to create meaningful works of art, powerful designs and creative products. …Our talents are captured through marketing and advertising graphics, photography, fine art, illustration, merchandise and multimedia forms such as film, websites and email marketing publications.”

And now some of the designs produced by  +HE_S+UDiO are available as Larger Than Life prints.  Whether you are looking for the “Bluebird” of Happiness to brighten your wall. 

A “Shaman” to watch over your room. 

Or a “break dancer” to inspire your best moves.   

+HE_S+UDiO designs are unique just like the Larger Than Life prints that you can turn them into.  So come check out +HE_S+UDiO designs and all of the other amazing creations in the Larger Than Life prints catalog!

Have interesting designs, photographs, paintings, etc?  Consider opening your own Custom Shop in the Larger Than Life prints catalog! Click here for more info on our Custom Shops. Or interested in being a Larger Than Life prints partner?  We can feature your company and designs in our catalog, just like +HE_S+UDiO and we offer our Affiliate program so you can offer your customers more choices when ordering your designs!

(This post brought to you by Gloria Bell on behalf of Larger Than Life prints.  Any questions can be directed to gloria@ltlprints.com)

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Larger Than Life prints was  contacted by Ronald McDonald House Charities in Tampa Bay, Florida.  They were planning their annual Spring gala, the Storybook Ball, and were looking for something new and different to include in their decor.   They had discovered our “Wanted poster” template and decided it was a perfect vehicle to help spread their message.  When they sent us the details for the posters, we have to admit to getting misty eyes.  Printing a poster for a little boy who “wants” a new heart is a little heartbreaking.  But every cloud does have a silver lining!  We were being given an opportunity to be a part of a magical night that raises money to help sick children and their families.

“Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Tampa Bay provides comfort and care to children and their families by supporting local Ronald McDonald Houses®, its cornerstone program, and by making grants to other local not-for-profit organizations that help children in need. The Ronald McDonald House® of Tampa Bay provides a home-away-from-home for families of pediatric patients in area hospitals.”   The Storybook Ball is one of their major fundraisers and we had been asked to provide posters that would help with those fundraising efforts.

Alison Barrick of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tampa Bay had this to say about Larger Than Life prints, the Wanted posters and the Storybook Ball

“The Wanted Posters that LTL Prints provided for our Storybook Ball, Lasso the Moon, were a huge hit in our silent auction room. Our event decorator was extremely impressed with the quality and look, and all of the guests raved about how perfect they were for our event. We plan to keep them for years to come! Thank you LTL Prints for providing us with such an outstanding product at an unbelievable price.”

It always feels good to have satisfied customers but knowing that we     contributed to this very worthwhile charity having a successful              fundraising event is an awe inspiring experience.  It does feel so good to help DO good!

(This post brought to you by Gloria Bell on behalf of Larger Than Life prints.  Questions can be directed to gloria@ltlprints.com)

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

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)

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We are pleased to announce our partnership with Poptropica.com.  Poptropica is a virtual online world in which kids can travel, play games, customize their character, compete in head-to-head competition, and communicate safely with each other.  Larger Than Life prints is now offering over-sized wall graphics made from popular Poptropica characters.  Please checkout our Poptropica catalog page and watch this short video for more information.

Tags: avatars, game, games, Larger than Life, Larger Than Life Prints, LTLprints.com, Poptropica, Poptropica.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

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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

Lately I have been playing around with a cool service called ‘Monetate’. Monetate provides effective, dynamic and ‘ optimized for each consumer’ promotion & communication solutions on e-commerce websites as ’software as a service’. What does that mean? Well, based on who your customer is, where she is located, whether she is familiar with the site and whether she has ordered before (+ a lot more) you can provide dynamic and very specific communication. Doesn’t it feel good to have the site greet you with a warm “welcome back’ and help you find what you are looking for. BIG THANKS from us at LTlprints to the founder and CEO David Brussin for providing this excellent service to LTLprints.com.

Also: With its innovative solution monetate brings the vision of a persona specific persuasion architecture to fruition. Persuasion architecture has been described by the best selling authors Jeffrey and Brian Eisenberg (founders of FutureNowInc) in their books ‘Call to Action‘ and “Waiting for your cat to bark’. I recommend everyone who is an online marketer and who deals with website copy writing, persuasion architecture and website conversion to subscribe to their inspiring blog. Being a regular reader I gained a lot of insights, ideas and a critical view on our website communication at LTLprints.com.                   

Tags: Brian Eisenberg, call to action, Carsten Petzold, David Brussin, Dynamic Website Communication, E-Commerce, Future Now Inc, Jeffrey Eisenberg, Larger Than Life Prints, LTLprints, Monetate, Persuasion Architecture, Waiting for Your Cat to Bark, Website Conversion

I have been approached by customers and friends questioning the name of the company. In particular some mentioned they thought LTLprints should be read as “little prints”. Well, we say “el tee el” and it clearly stands for Larger Than Life since ‘large’ can be life size or even larger. For instance I am 6′ 5” tall and my cutout wouldn’t even fill the largest print (7′) entirely.


That said the comment about “little” really made me think. LTLprints allows you as a customer to place many small cutouts on one large print. Cutouts are parts of pictures being ‘cut out’ from their original background. As long as those cutouts don’t overlap you virtually can place an unlimited number of cutouts on one print. So with this functionality LTLprints provides in all actuality the opportunity to print “little”. A whole bunch of ‘little’ combines to become something ‘Larger Than Life’.


Now your creativity comes into play. Possibilities for LTL = little prints  forming LTL = Larger Than Life Prints are endless. Create as many cutouts these and combine them on one canvas! Here a few ideas:

• Birds Flying
• Butterflies
• Creative Colorful Circles
• All your friends on one print
• Save The Day cards
• Name Tags for a larger Event
• You design it!

Check back after we’ll have launched our catalog end of this month. Based on many interesting designs you will be able to customize and arrange your over-sized wall décor exactly as you want with as many cutouts as you want. Stay tuned!

Tags: Carsten Petzold, Cutouts, Larger than Life, Larger Than Life Prints, Little, LTL, LTLprints, Many Desings

This time last week Carsten and I packed up and headed west. We were on a mission to woo angel investors into our company and we had a blast doing so. Here is a short video that summarizes just a few of the awesome events we were fortunate enough to experience in the middle of the country - Junction City, Kansas.

Tags: Angel, Angel investor, Carsten, Entrepreneur, Junction City, Kansas, Kendall, Larger than Life, Larger Than Life Prints, LTLprints, LTLprints.com, Petzold, Schoenrock, Venture capital

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