“+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)

Tags: "Ronald McDonald House", charity, Customers, Larger than Life, Larger Than Life Prints, LTL, LTLprints, LTLprints.com

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@LTLprints

@cpeLTLprints

@schoenrock

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

**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

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

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

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 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

Alex Hillman, the rockstar co-founder at IndyHall just posted this video. Thanks for the video - we love it!!!

We want to bring you high quality material and we can’t brag enough about how durable our LTLprints actually are. Lucky for us we’ve got cool friends (who also love Viddler) to help us out on our mission of spreading the LTLprints.com word.

Thank you Alex. You rock.

Tags: Alex, Alex Hillman, IgnitePhilly, IndependentsHall, IndyHall, Larger Than Life Prints, LTL, LTLprints, LTLprints.com, Philadelphia, Viddler