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Disability Pride Voting [RESULTS]

The votes are in, see which designs from the Disability Pride Collection were crowd favorites.

If you missed our previous blog post on the launch of the Disability Pride collection, you can check it out here and learn more about how it came to be.

The week of June 7th - we held a fun NCAA-style competition over on Instagram to help determine what designs to turn into stickers and other merchandise. All designs were hand-lettered and illustrated by Chelsie Tamms and community a variety of topics related to disability pride and ableism.

Check out the results and winning designs below:

Top: 61%; Bottom: 39%

Top: 62%; Bottom: 38%

Top: 49%; Bottom: 51%

Top: 54%; Bottom: 46%

Top: 62%; Bottom: 38%

Top: 35%; Bottom: 65%

Top: 57%; Bottom: 43%

Top: 27%; Bottom: 73%

Sweet 16 Winning Designs:

  • Disability Pride Funky Lettering (Navy)

  • Disability Pride Butterfly

  • Work Your Quirk (Simple)

  • Don’t Let Your Ableism Define Me

  • My Existence is Not Your Inspiration

  • Disability Pride Flowers

  • You Are Enough

  • Access is Love (Dimensional Lettering)

Top: 44%; Bottom: 56%

Top: 29%; Bottom: 71%

Top: 35%; Bottom: 65%

Top: 51%; Bottom: 49%

ELITE 8 Winning Designs:

  • Disability Pride Butterfly

  • Work Your Quirk (Simple)

  • Disability Pride Flowers

  • You Are Enough

Top: 53%; Bottom: 47%

Top: 45%; Bottom: 55%

FINAL 4 Winning Designs:

  • Disability Pride Butterfly

  • Disability Pride Flowers

Top: 36%; Bottom: 64%

The Winning Design: Disability Pride Flowers

Of the 16 options that went up for voting, the hand-drawn Disability Pride with flowers won the title! The design has “Disability” in cursive and “PRIDE” in all caps and rainbow colors. The lettering is surrounded by hand-drawn leaves and flowers, as well as some dots.

This design represents the collection well and will be available for purchase as an individual sticker. The next most popular designs (Disability Pride Butterfly, Work Your Quirk, You are Enough, and Access is Love) will be sold as a sticker pack. These stickers are now available for preorder via our shop.

If you are an organization or business interested in purchasing a larger quantity of stickers and would like wholesale pricing, reach out to Chelsie here.

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THANK YOU TO ALL WHO VOTED FOR YOUR INPUT!

Your votes and support of the project on Instagram throughout the launch highlighted the meaning and impact of this special collection. We hope that this is just the beginning and there will be many more disability-centered designs to come.

We are still looking for partners and collaborators to allow this collection to go further in its impact of the disability community. If you or someone you know would like to work with Lettering Works, send us a message here.


ABOUT THE DESIGNER

Chelsie Tamms is an award-winning lettering artist and designer based out of Chicago. She is the owner of Lettering Works, a branding studio that connects businesses to their audience through creativity and strategy. With over 10 years of practice of lettering and design, Chelsie is passionate about craft and intention. When she’s not designing, she can be found eating ice cream, traveling internationally, or starting a new passion project.

Chelsie has scoliosis and had a spinal fusion surgery at age 14, as well as Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD).