[OnTheButton]

Originally Posted by TenPercenter

my question: Do we want to nail down the body color, and then move to spot colors, or do both at once?

I say you nail down the body colors via polls, and let the designers determine the edgespot colors in conjunction with their designs.

[JM]

Originally Posted by TenPercenter

my question: Do we want to nail down the body color, and then move to spot colors, or do both at once?

I think we HAVE TO do both at once, since they depend upon each other. Otherwise, we'll get nowhere.

[JM]

Originally Posted by OnTheButton

I say you nail down the body colors via polls, and let the designers determine the edgespot colors in conjunction with their designs.

I think the problem with trying to do it this way is that you will probably end up with adjacent colors that don't look good together. E.g. your red and green may look good by themselves, but not next to each other. I think if you do one at a time, nail it down and move along, you can see the set grow as you go and make sure the chips all 'work' together.

I think that we could actually work on two chips simultaneously. Since we know the $100 is going to be black and there's just one black, then we could potentially work on the $5 and the $500 at the same time, since those two typically wouldn't be on the table at the same time and one wouldn't depend too much on the other. Progressing upward, you could then do the $25 at the same time as the $1000 for the same reasons.

[FL70]

Both at once. The other way will lead us back to where we are now.

[JT-Bird]

IMHO, I think if we nail down the base colors, we'll be that much closer to avoiding Chaos.

[Sidepot]

[from the peanut gallery - ignore if you like - undisputedly TEN is calling all the shots here]

Not trying to cause more chaos here then necessary, but I think taking the edge spot progression of the that winning chip set is kind of random. My understanding is that people voted for it because of the colors, the edge spots, and the progression as a package - any of which could be very weak without the other two supporting elements. I understand the desire to get things moving, but I don't want to see important elements unnessary glossed over.

Since there are only 15 or so edge spot choices, I think it would be fairly easy to lay them out monochromatically and pick the top 8. That's one poll. Then arrange them in a some sort of progression if desired, or use the top vote getters as the core of the set ($1, $5, $25, $100 chips).

My concern is that many popular edge spot configurations are not represented in this set, such as 3 of the 4 in the highly touted Condado Beach set.






And this popular Dune's chip (a close approximation that we have available is the 6 1/8 with 1/8 NS - 6 versus 8 spots).

I just think if we're taking a different approach, and it's easy enough to knock out the first step with a redo focusing squarely on the task at hand, we should consider it.

[JT-Bird]

Maybe everything is so out of control that we should prceed like this....

One more bake-off of chip design.... With a vote. Instead of voting for a chip, you vote for a chip designer and put ultimate creative license in their hands. That way, we are not nickel and diming and someone actually has some control.

[grath]

I agree the fun is in the process.
Here's what I think should be done, then I'll go hide:
Have inlay designers post their inlays on the current set. Vote on the sets to determine the top 3 inlays. Then, open separate forums for each inlay where people can post mock-ups/tweaks. In those separate forums, vote on a winning chip-set. Finally, pit the final 3 versions of the chip sets against eachother in a poll. The winner is...um...the winner.
Done and done.

[JT-Bird]

Originally Posted by grath

I agree the fun is in the process.
Here's what I think should be done, then I'll go hide:
Have inlay designers post their inlays on the current set. Vote on the sets to determine the top 3 inlays. Then, open separate forums for each inlay where people can post mock-ups/tweaks. In those separate forums, vote on a winning chip-set. Finally, pit the final 3 versions of the chip sets against eachother in a poll. The winner is...um...the winner.
Done and done.

I Like IT! Let's do it!

[TenPercenter]

Originally Posted by grath

I agree the fun is in the process.
Here's what I think should be done, then I'll go hide:
Have inlay designers post their inlays on the current set. Vote on the sets to determine the top 3 inlays. Then, open separate forums for each inlay where people can post mock-ups/tweaks. In those separate forums, vote on a winning chip-set. Finally, pit the final 3 versions of the chip sets against eachother in a poll. The winner is...um...the winner.
Done and done.

Man, that really aint a bad idea....

hmmm