[palmimports]

ok- first off- lets be clear on one thing- I suck at this sort of thing.

Ok- now that were clear on this... what we are attempting to do is a Group Buy of the Quasi Clay Compression Chips which alot of you like. THe GB price will be .30 ea for edgespots-- not sure on if we can add solids so dont ask- when we know- we will do a post-- for now- this is for edgespot chips. The original 7 base colors will be used and HOPEFULLY we will add the 3 new colors by the time the artwor phase is completed.

The artwork should be a good overall generic design that appeals to the masses involved with this GB. This aint gonna be easy-- I am perplexed as to where to even begin-

I would suggest the first two weeks of this thread will be to get the theme down-- then the 2nd 2 weeks to make changes etc. The final week will be final revision in anticipation to going to press.

In the first two weeks we will be only concerned with chip theme- so having denominations etc- isnt crutial at this phase-
nor is final colors etc- lets work on getting a good theme designed- then we can go from there.

Please read the fist line of this thread- I suck at this- I am open to the wisdom of the members who have done this in the past and welcome their structuring advise on keeping this thread from being a clusterfxxk

Let me know what you need from me at this end

Thanks

[Stevo]

If you are going to try to work out a theme then maybe I can throw this out there as some possible voting options...

Fantasy Casino
Denominated Tournament Style
"Other" theme - I'm thinking something like the American Beauties on a label
Standard Denominated Poker Chip - like hearts/spades/diamonds/clubs with a denom
Something Else?

Just putting this out there - for me, I would prefer a denominated Tourney style chip. At the same time, I want to hold out for solids and I also want to utilize the 4th new color (brown).

[WolfPack]

Joe you might want to let one of the more experianced members to run this for you.

Normally people will submit their artwork, comments will be made, then polls will be run to vote for favorites. there will be a number of pools (ie round 1, round 2, round 3) until you get to the finals and a winner is selected.

[mrcashflow]

I tend to agree with Wolfpack. I prefer not limit this to a particular theme but rather let those interested in designing start posting ideas and those interested in buying can give feedback. Then, once we have enough entries we can move to the polling phase.

[Jiggs77]

I suck at photoshop otherwise I would try a few mock-ups. I was thinking a possible theme could be The Great Wall since these are the Great Wall Chips. Maybe take various images of China's Great Wall (google images?) and create an inlay similar in style to the Paulson New Yorkers. I don't know if the images/photos will print worth a darn on the slightly smaller inlay size, just throwing out a concept. Also, I tend to play more cash games (about 98% of the time) and very few tournaments. Just my 2 cents.

Jiggs77

[JHickle]

CT at the Palm Hotel and Casino
CT's Saloon
CT's Card Room

Just tossin' out the thoughts..............

[Couga]

I am thinking a fish theme. Maybe a line of Trout or Big Game Fish.

I think it worked pretty well for the Key Largo.


(image courtesy of silverstatetreasures)
- Couga

[Flynn]

Ok, here are some of my PI clay designs I have been tinkering around with. I'm not sure which would be my favorite, since I like them all, so I leave this choice to you.
(for larger images, click on them)

Maya 2008:

I really like the concept of minimalistic mayan chips with the mayan numbers (using base 20) for the values. Since mayan numbers can't express fractions I omitted using those chip values.
If you have any suggestions for improvement, I'd be glad to hear them.




gnu:

This more modern design uses an alternative art GNU head and the ubuntu title font for the denominations with an edgespot gradient in the denoms and a gradient from black to the direction of the base color in the background. The gray chip could also be changed to a general purpose non-denom chip (EDIT: I just included this variation in gnu-a).
The gnu-a version places the new colors at the high and low end, so that the base set is intact and the new ones can be added later when they will become available.
gnu-b uses an alternative color progression for a different amount of typical playtime for the new colors, depending on your breakdown.
Personally I like gnu-a better because the stronger colors are in the middle.




to be continued ...

[TX_kiwi]

Joe,

Where can we get pics of the chips (blanks) to use to produce a design?

Will you post a good quality graphic to use?

[Stevo]

Originally Posted by Couga

I am thinking a fish theme. Maybe a line of Trout or Big Game Fish.

I think it worked pretty well for the Key Largo.


(image courtesy of silverstatetreasures)
- Couga

A line of trout themed poker chips. That's got to take the cake right there...

Seriously, I like it, but you know, that will make maybe 4 of us total...

How bout a bunch of different crappie in different poses. Or some of my jig-and-pig favorites? I don't know why I find this so entertaining...

You could have some with corn, some with jigs, some with nightcrawlers, crawdads, live bait, crank bait, lures, flies, all that good stuff...

Ok, I'm done. Sorry.