My little nugget is all grown up. Good lord I love her.

(The “Can you do this?” is supposed to be this.)

Well first I’ll tell you the ANSWERS.

The typeface is one of my favorites: Bodoni. Here is a sample:

The hidden words are Lorem Ipsum.

For those who don’t know, Lorem Ipsum is dummy text graphic designers use as a placeholder in their designs. I always use the Lipsum Generator to get mine (if you click you can read a history of the why the text is used).

Now for the hints. I made sure that if you googled different parts of the contest in conjunction with the clues, the answer would be super easy to find. (So for example if you googled something like “Dante’s Vita Nuova typography” you’d get this. Of course when I started this contest, the Bodoni Wikipedia page was the second result. Apparently my optimization skills worked against you on this one.) The line of text in Hint #4 is a translation of Lorem Ipsum. See?

Anyway, you get the idea. The contest, the clues and google working together to win you prizes.

Speaking of prizes … who’s the winner? Ahhhh yes.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE! Congratulations ……..

That’s right, Erin from ErinCooks.com is the lucky winner of the contest!

Erin shoot me an email at jenny @ alleyesonjenny . com to claim your prize (don’t forget to send me an address where I can ship your new painting!).

Congrats!

You must submit your guesses for both the name of the TYPEFACE and what TWO WORDS the letters on the canvases make up.

Enter your guesses in the comments sections of the contest entry HERE.

All hints and clues HERE.

Good luck!

HINT #1: Dante’s “Vita Nuova”
HINT #2: I am looking for two words.
HINT #3: Those two words are neither “Vita” nor “Nuova”
HINT #4: …who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences…?
HINT #5: Classification: Didone
HINT #6: Who you calling dummy?
HINT #7: Veering away from clues provided by me, and in case you missed it the first time, here’s one from Sarah.
HINT #8: This is not so much a hint, but a reminder - you have to guess BOTH parts. Not just the typeface OR what it says.
HINT #9: Canvases 4 and 5 are especially important.
HINT #10: Hints 1 and 5 are specifically about the typeface. Hints 2, 6 and 7 are about what it says.

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(Don’t worry if you didn’t get it right away, I’ll post hints and clues for my Blog Contest here in this entry throughout the week - so be sure to check back daily even if I don’t pop up in your RSS reader. And remember, contest rules say you can enter as many times as you need until you think you got it right!)

If you need to ask a question feel free to do so here, but if you want to wager a guess do it in the comment section of the contest entry.

Also: if you don’t win, don’t fret! To answer all your comments/emails in one fell swoop: YES I am already in the works of painting more of these and custom orders are welcome (custom meaning canvas size, colors, typeface choice, AND letters/words.) Shoot me an email at jenny @ alleyesonjenny.com to talk letter art!

So I had six 10 x 10 canvases hanging above my desk (I could go look for a pic, but I’m lazy). They were painted in 6 solid colors: teal, lime, chocolate, pink, red and mocha. Over the weekend I wiped them and started making new paintings. Out of letters.

(If you are new, you should know I am obsessed with typography, letters, typefaces, etc in general. So why WOULDN’T I make art out of letters?)

Here is my creation in full:

And canvas by canvas:

So here’s my contest:

PART 1: Tell me what TYPEFACE/FONT all those letters are set in (be as specific as you can in describing this typeface) and
PART 2: Tell me what all those letters spell out.

A few notes on this: There is only ONE typeface used throughout. You have to figure out what I mean about specifics, which you will if you look hard enough. (Hint: I just gave you a hint). Also, and this is most important, most of the canvases are just made up of letters artfully thrown together, but if you look hard enough you can see what this graphic designer is trying to say (Hint: I just gave you a hint there too).

Also, I’ve already posted some clues and will probably post more throughout the week.

Here’s how the contest works: comment on this entry with your guesses (you have to guess BOTH parts). The names of those people who guess correctly will be thrown into a hat and I’ll draw a winner at random at the close of the contest. During the contest, you may guess as many times as you want until you think you get it correct.

CONTEST CLOSES AT 2:00 PM FRIDAY MAY 9th, 2008.

No one is excluded from this contest since I was smart enough this time and didn’t tell anyone the answers! So any of you could win the prize.

Speaking of prizes….what is this prize you ask? YOUR OWN LETTER ART CANVAS. (I had an extra canvas lying around.)

THE PRIZE: 10 x 10 Acrylic on canvas. I call it “olive on aqua”.

I’m a nerd and threw the word “blog” in there for good measure.