I was able to participate in this year’s GUTS event here in Charlotte, North Carolina. Created by Hawse Design, GUTS is a fun & friendly pumpkin-carving competition among the area’s creative professionals. After the carving session, the work is then judged and auctioned off to raise money for Levine Children’s Hospital.

As an excuse to sculpt Helvetica from a vegetable (and to scare the other designers at the event), I decided to bless my pumpkin with the rejected Gap logo. Expectedly, my pumpkin did not place among the winners. Perhaps I should have included a gradient?

Big thanks to Kimberly Diedrich for taking the photos. If I happen across any public gallery of the event that I can share with you all, I’ll link to it here.