PICKING A TOP 10 WAS PURE AGONY!
That was the consensus from our panel of type and lettering aficionados, who picked their ten favorite pieces from our Best of 2009.
We used their input to help pick the LetterCult Top 10—after the jump, along with the Top 10s from our contributors. (The Top 10s are not ranked 1-10.)
It was a fun exercise with subjective results. Thanks for taking a look.
Thursday night: an interview with the Custom Letters Person of the Year. Edit: Friday afternoon.
LetterCult’s TOP 10
The Top 10 is below. On the following pages, the Top 10 from Corey Holms, Mark Simonson, Tiffany Wardle de Sousa, Grant Hutchinson, Alex Savakis, Hrant Papazian, Jonathan Selig, Ray Frenden and Beejay
ALISON CARMICHAEL
Addition by subtraction. An unforgettable image that kills every WASH ME ever left on a dirty car.
JON CONTINO
BKLYN in the classic monogram style. The NY seals the deal.
DADO QUEIROZ
Paper. Plaster. Or is it all Pixels? Either way, this one is a beauty.
MARTA CERDA ALIMBAU
Beautiful, precise, daring.
MICHIEL VAN DER BORN
Sketch to vector to steel, carved by high-pressure jets of water. Just nuts.
JESSICA HISCHE
Stunning letters x 26.
THE SHORT
Legos for the win.
JAN BUBLE
Great renderings capture beauty in the tubes.
JORDAN JELEV
Jordan’s gift for his wife. No computer cut and paste.
MICHIEL VAN DER BORN
Tons of lettering styles; several panelists dug this.
