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10-07-2005, 06:46 AM
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| | | Asymmetrical Chips designs?
In messing about with a bounty chip design idea I started to think about truely asymmetrical chip designs.
I accept that clays will always have a coloured ring that emerges from even a HUGE inlay, but ceramic chips aren't limited in this way (ignoring the chipco white edge ring) and can have anything you want on them. Despite this freedom the majority of designs appear to try to ape the clay look.
Do you know of any ceramic designs that have sucessfully ignored the 'something in the centre surrounded by a roundish pattern' approach? |
10-07-2005, 07:05 AM
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The Egyptian set managed to make two of its chips non circular. One is an octagon, and one a plaque. While these are symetrical and don't exactly fit your question they are the only chips I've seen that are not round. |
10-07-2005, 07:10 AM
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Yep, I did think if them, but its really not the shape of the chip that I'm interested in....I was thinking about non-round designs on a round chip. Its difficult to explain without an example, and i don't have PS here to create one, but i'll have a go later to illustrate... |
10-07-2005, 08:35 AM
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What about the Chipco Hallloween chips? Look here. |
10-07-2005, 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Colquhoun What about the Chipco Hallloween chips? Look here. | YES!!! Exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Is it just me, or are those chips really cool? Any more? |
10-07-2005, 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Strange I accept that clays will always have a coloured ring that emerges from even a HUGE inlay, but ceramic chips aren't limited in this way (ignoring the chipco white edge ring) and can have anything you want on them. Despite this freedom the majority of designs appear to try to ape the clay look. | I never really considered it that way and don't agree. The chip face is round, right? So using concentric circles in the design or radial patterns isn't 'aping the clay look' it's just designing something coolonto a round surface. My favorite ceramic chips are the ones that use the entire inlay for the main graphic (Egyptians are the best), but I think any centering of the art on these chips is just because it looks better. The posted Halloween chips are interesting, but I think I'd prefer centered and/or symmetrical artwork. |
10-07-2005, 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Strange Is it just me, or are those chips really cool?
Any more? | It's not just you. I like asymmetrical desgins too. I think it creates more energy and tension in the design.
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10-07-2005, 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Q10 soooted I never really considered it that way and don't agree. The chip face is round, right? So using concentric circles in the design or radial patterns isn't 'aping the clay look' it's just designing something coolonto a round surface. My favorite ceramic chips are the ones that use the entire inlay for the main graphic (Egyptians are the best), but I think any centering of the art on these chips is just because it looks better. The posted Halloween chips are interesting, but I think I'd prefer centered and/or symmetrical artwork. | You're right, I was generalising. Some chips do have an edge spot type look whereas many of them just employ a 'frame' around the central image.
Just had a thought.....you see a lot of 'fashionable' art these days displayed frameless or on wrap-around canvases, maybe that's a reasonable analogy....
Believe me, I am not trying to say that assymetry is better. Just looking for examples of where it has been used successfully.
No doubt about it, the Egyptions are wonderful.
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10-11-2005, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Colquhoun What about the Chipco Hallloween chips? Look here. | Well, certainly not the same "horror" motif... but these are being made into labels for a Halloween fundraiser that will have children's activities, as well as an adult charity poker tournament....
If only ceramics were cheaper, as these would be nice filling the entire chip...
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