[palmimports]

I go tthe PERFECT theme name:

MAYAN LUCK Casino
whactchya think?

Ok ok going back to doing what I do best- printing

[WolfPack]

I'm no designer but i have been working on a design for a cash set

[TX_kiwi]

Originally Posted by Jiggs77

I was thinking a possible theme could be The Great Wall since these are the Great Wall Chips.

I had toyed with this idea as well. I thought of doing the seven wonders of the world (as recently defined by the New Open World Corporation), of which the Great Wall is one. There's eight if you include the Pyramids (honorary candidate). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Seven_Wonders_of_the_World

I didn't think that using Brazil's Christ the Redemer statue was appropriate on a poker chip, so I wondered about substituting either Stonehenge or the Acropolis, in lieu. Eight wonders covers the denoms from 0.25 thru to 5000.

Another cool theme would be pictures of various pyramids from Egypt and Mexico. Perhaps under the theme of the "Pyramids Poker Tour"?

Anyone may feel free to work with these ideas. I have another design that I want to submit.

[TX_kiwi]

Originally Posted by Jiggs77

Maybe take various images of China's Great Wall (google images?) and create an inlay similar in style to the Paulson New Yorkers.

I am not a legal expert. However, I think that this project needs to be careful of copyright which would be an issue using Google images as you suggest, since most of those Google images are copyright. Copyright will be an issue because this is going to be used for a significant number of chips for multiple customers, there will presumably be profit made by suppliers (even at Joe's really keen price ) and Joe wants to be able to pass surplus chips to his vendors if the GB doesn't attain his target minimum (50,000 chips).

Therefore, I suggest using images from Wikimedia or similar sources that are either free use or licensed for both private and commercial use. Such as:

• No restriction,
• Public Domain
• Creative Commons Attribution
• GNU Free Documentation license

In the latter two cases, while the licenses are detailed, the general concept is that people may use the images freeely, including for commercial use, provided that they do not place a copyright on the derivative work. In other words, if you post your images on Chiptalk then you can't stop anyone from using them (although you could watermark and/or post only low-res images).

The respective licenses are defined on each image's Wikimedia web-page when you click thru to get the best resolution copy.


Also, I think it is reasonable that Joe should be able use this design for subsequent commercial use, since he's going to the effort of facilitating this buy and sponsoring the prize for the winning design. This, however, will need the agreement of the winning designer. Joe, you may want to clarify expectations in this area.

As I said, I'm no expert so please chip in (pun intended) if I've got someting wrong or if anyone can add further pointers.

[BigKyle]

The Bamboo Gardens or Panda Gardens Casino would be a cool theme that would fit in with the great wall motif. An Asian theme but something a little louder than the Samurai line. Here is a crude start.

[warewulf]

How do we order samples of these?

I'm interested at this price, but would need to see samples first. Yes, I understand the samples will be blanks.

[PAFisher]

For those of you who would like to see a fish themed set of chips,
I would be willing to share my Gulf Coast Casino theme for the group buy.

BlakeC27 did the artwork manipulations for them and Palm printed ceramics for me in the prototype run.

Here is what they originally looked like when created as labels for my nexgens:


Here is what BlakeC27 came up with at a higher resolution for the ceramics. These are scans of the prototypes.


PAFisher

[Garyon]

Just my 2cents ... but I wold avoid any "special interest" theme, such as hobbies or whatever. You immediately alienate probably 60%-80% of the group. Chips with a Fishing theme, for example, may look cool and all ... but it doesn't 'connect' with most people. Same could be said for NASCAR, Football, Boating, Coin Collecting, etc etc ... you get the idea.

I would stick with something more abstract ...

Cha-Ching ... I've used up my 2cents.

[DANIELV12]

Originally Posted by BigKyle

The Bamboo Gardens or Panda Gardens Casino would be a cool theme that would fit in with the great wall motif. An Asian theme but something a little louder than the Samurai line. Here is a crude start.

I like this idea....

[tonypap]

not to insult anyone here, but I really don't like any of the ideas so far. I think for this inlay to appeal to the greatest amount of people possible it needs to be pretty generic. So far, it seems like everyone's ideas are specific to their own interests. I would like to see some sort of "XXX" Casino or "XXX" poker room....something that could look like an actual casino chip. I think if the inlay is something more real, more like it actually came from a casino, more people would be interested.


As far as the mayan themed chips....yes, we all love them, but the Pharaoh's have already been done AND copied like a gazillion times...maybe we should move on.


just my $0.02