ELLE's house ASM design comments?

[wijwij]

Here's what I mean by using a rectangular area in the middle. I redid the ELLE logo staying with the overall grid you used.
Then I put it on inlays that show the 3/4 printable area for the 7/8 inlays.
Colors aren't right but you get the idea.



I have this as an Indesign document, but could probably export the vector paths to Illustrator, if you want to adapt it.

	glos_inlay The label or decal on a poker chip. Quality inlays are inlaid or pressed into the surface of the chip, not laid on top of it like a sticker.

[luckychick]

Originally Posted by wijwij

Here's what I mean by using a rectangular area in the middle. I redid the ELLE logo staying with the overall grid you used.
Then I put it on inlays that show the 3/4 printable area for the 7/8 inlays.
Colors aren't right but you get the idea.



I have this as an Indesign document, but could probably export the vector paths to Illustrator, if you want to adapt it.

These look great! I like the bold font, and the extra space for it.

	glos_inlay The label or decal on a poker chip. Quality inlays are inlaid or pressed into the surface of the chip, not laid on top of it like a sticker.

[wijwij]

Et voila, here are the labels in ChipForge.



The color of the 1000 label would match whatever edgespots you end up using.

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally Posted by wijwij

Et voila, here are the labels in ChipForge.


The color of the 1000 label would match whatever edgespots you end up using.

Wow, those look great! Much clearer inlay, and the background colors will really help this set work.

	glos_inlay The label or decal on a poker chip. Quality inlays are inlaid or pressed into the surface of the chip, not laid on top of it like a sticker.

[hico]

wijwij --- space monkey --- and all ----
This is really looking good, thanks for all your work. I really like the way you streached the LE and still kept my original sauare within a diamond within a circle effect. great job. in the meantime I kind of went a different direction. now I have do do it all again --- aaarrr gggggg.
also, now I'm too late for ASM 's deadline on thoes spots. dam-dam-dam-it. I think it may still work with 312 but will lose the 4-fold semetry of the LE logo, and maybe ASM will continue to offer better spots. again thanks to all for the help ---- I'm over my head with this ---.

[hico]

just playing --- before I saw what you guys are doing with this.

[hico]

both of these can easily be changed back to 412, 4d14 spots

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally Posted by hico

wijwij --- space monkey --- and all ----
This is really looking good, thanks for all your work. I really like the way you streached the LE and still kept my original sauare within a diamond within a circle effect. great job. in the meantime I kind of went a different direction. now I have do do it all again --- aaarrr gggggg.
also, now I'm too late for ASM 's deadline on thoes spots. dam-dam-dam-it. I think it may still work with 312 but will lose the 4-fold semetry of the LE logo, and maybe ASM will continue to offer better spots. again thanks to all for the help ---- I'm over my head with this ---.

The deadline was extended until next Tuesday, April 18th.

And you just have to order the chips then. You can take as long as you want to finish your inlay design.

	glos_inlay The label or decal on a poker chip. Quality inlays are inlaid or pressed into the surface of the chip, not laid on top of it like a sticker.

[wijwij]

You have a couple of days still until the deadline, which was extended past the weekend.

I don't know if the gray chips are as exciting as the black ones. The colors seem to pop better on the black ones.

I like the colored background with white logo because I think it helps the chips be easier to read and sort quickly. Also I think the simple non-beveled effect will print better and look sharp from a distance.

But these are not my chips. Your idea of using a gray inlay and color for the logo might also work. I'd say you should talk to the folks at ASM about what colors to use and whether they can accept the type of image you are generating, with its beveled effect, and whether they think it will print well. I fear it might look muddy or lose clarity at that size. Just because there is a "Bevel" button in your software doesn't mean you have to use it.

If you want to recreate what I did to the ELLE logo -- just stretch the L shape one unit longer and one unit taller. That's all I did. (I redrew your ELLE logo on graph paper, presuming that you intended the width of the L and E elements in the logo to be equal to the width of the space between the elements of the E.) And I put one unit of space between the items. So the interior rectangle is 7 units by 5 units, if you get what I mean. But the overall shape is still including a tilted square, as you mentioned.

I think the rectangle in the middle is the way to go because I really hate to see denominations squished to different sizes to fit 1000. I think it looks stronger if all the digits are the same size on all your chips. But I know not all chip designers work that way.

Maybe show these various ideas to your friends and get some feedback.

	glos_inlay The label or decal on a poker chip. Quality inlays are inlaid or pressed into the surface of the chip, not laid on top of it like a sticker.

[noelsarchs]

Originally Posted by hico

just playing --- before I saw what you guys are doing with this.

I like these a lot. Would urge to to stick with the 3d14 and 4d14 edge spots though...along with the 314 and 414 as you show with your progression....the 1/2 are always going to be available white the others are a limited time offering at this point....with your all black scheme, you will need the unltra high contrast of the edge spots to sort chips.

This is the one case where I think that closely matched edge spot colors would be ideal. i.e. red/mandarin red; green/dg green; blue/imp blue...etc.

It's going to be the color that helps you sort through a pile of chips.