If you were already contacted offline and have made your submission, there is no need to resubmit. (Unless of course you have since extended the designs or participated in more recent battles)

How do you suggest we do the Tri-Line Pixel battle in high res? Oh and the 3D by hand...

David, Which application did you use to create the pixel drawings? If you created them in Photoshop, you should be able to export the paths to vector shapes, which can then be scaled.

You may submit non-digital work as a scan or high quality photograph. If you'd like to submit the original piece, or a quality duplicate of the original, you may mail that in directly, but not before having a photograph of it reviewed first by the curators of the exhibit.

I used Photoshop, I'll figure out exporting paths of it...didn't think about that!

I forgot to mention, for pixel font submissions, it would be great to have them at 100% in addition to a larger version -- but not required.

If they're at actual size, Zara, wouldn't that make them really small? (screen res being 72px/inch and print res being 300px/inch)

As far as exporting paths goes (sorry I'm recooping from a week of little to no sleep) I'm selecting the pixels and going to the 'Make Paths From Selection' but the paths are all screwy, are there settings to make this work?

If they’re at actual size, Zara, wouldn’t that make them really small?

Yes, indeed, they would be small. It is my understanding that a selection of submissions may be shown on screen.

I honestly can't say I've done much path exporting myself, I tend to draw with vector tools while in photoshop. I use a little trick that might work for you. Assuming your Photoshop doc is a bitmap, you can save as a PDF and then open this in Illustrator. You won't be able to edit the image, but it can be scaled as large as you want.

David, if you save your pixel file as bitmap (.BMP), and then import into Illustrator, you can scale as you please and, in theory, the pixels remain perfectly square. I don't know what this tri pixel thingies look like, but this is the way to export pixel-based work and be able to scale it.

Thanks for the help, I was just pulling a blank as I tried to figure this out. I converted my pixel renderings to 1800 px/in Bitmap images > Scaled up 300% > Made a selection of the black pixels > Convert Selection To Path I think Photoshop just had trouble establishing paths when each line was only one pixel thick.

I'm sending you my boards now, Zara!

Zara,
Is the Type Battle work going to be the only thing in the TypeGallery this year? Other years also had submissions of new fonts done in that year. I was wondering if I could also submit non-Battle items in another part of the Gallery?

ChrisL

Zara, you might want to include an amusing exercise in the show, as it was kind of a battle before the battle was established. Also it has some terrific and amusing stuff by Mark Simonson, among others. Also apparently it went all over the internet.

What about the other 'battle before the battles' where we were given the quote: "Y'know what your problem is? You're stupid. How long will we continue to draw in our colouring books an image of God that makes us sad." http://typophile.com/node/16130

Is the Type Battle work going to be the only thing in the TypeGallery this year?

No, there will be a much larger variety of work in the TypeGallery. If you are interesting in submitting work outside of the Type Battles, you will need to contact Shu at SOTA. I'll point him to this thread so he may respond with the necessary information.

Thanks Zara!

ChrisL

Hello all. I hope everyone is heartily preparing their Type Battle work for the show. Just to let everyone known, the Type Battles are just one part of what will be the biggest TypeGallery ever. There will be a TypeGallery unjuried call for submissions just as in previous years. The new website will be launching very, very soon. Very soon. There will be more info there as well as a preview of some work before the conference. But, just for a taste here are some of the other shows will we have the pleasure of showcasing this year.

TDC show
Blackletter in Mexico
Letras Latinas
Boston Calligraphy group show
Curated Letterpress

That is not even near a full list. It will be grand.

Shu

Still wondering if this ( http://typophile.com/node/16130 ) will be included...

Both the recommendations from David and William are noteworthy, however I don't think they will be included in the Type Battle showcase.

Ok, just curious!

too bad the QU ligature thread wasn't a real Type Battle.. would've submitted that one.

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You can also scale up in photoshop using image size. Just make sure to change the interpolation from "bicubic" to "nearest neighbor" so you don't get any blurring.

Thanks to all who have submitted so far!

However, the deadline is looming, and there are some more of you out there who should be submitting files!

I'm workin' on it Zara.

http://typophile.com/node/20987

ChrisL

Zara,
What time tomorrow is the cuttoff for submissions? I am runnin' late :-(

ChrisL

Crap. I missed the deadline. That's what I get for working. Maybe next time.

Matt, send Zara a note... she's more than understanding about deadline extensions. It certainly couldn't hurt to ask.