Contest results…
or… what happens when you start a list from the bottom up? Note to me: next time we do a contest like this make sure to photograph the pictures in such a way, that when they are imported into the system number one is actually at the top of the list, not number 11. While I’m sure that starting a numbered list with the top number being the last number in your sequence is some awesome brain exercise it was not my intention here.
We’ve done all kinds of naming contests before (Because they are great fun!) usually though, they involve you suggesting names for colorways and then we pick a winner. I do believe this is the first time we done the match the name to the colorway and as I check the entries daily, and hope, that someone comes close to matching them I think, maybe this way, lies madness. It’s that snowflake aspect of us that leaves us all having differing perspectives and opinions. Add to this snowflake people paradigm the fact that we see and process color differently and what we have, my friends, is a color conundrum of sorts. While both Rhonda and I might think it’s obvious that Gourdy is the orange one, because it’s a pumpkin color and pumpkins are orange, and seriously? How could it be anything different? Debra and Becky might say, “Hey you loons, gourds are green and not really pumpkins, what the hell with the orange? ”
Color is personal and subjective as you can see from the contest entries below.
I’m going to leave the contest for the weekend and see how we do. Big hint: I’m a seriously creative type of snowflake tightly plied with kinda bent. A pumpkin might not technically be a gourd but… .
The colors are live on the website now.
I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend! It’s sunny and warm here already. I’m hosting and teaching my first surface design class today. Very excited and slightly nervous.
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Tina,
I think we were all trying to get into your mind too much! My first thought was ,”this is going to be easy!” Not so! Of course, if I’d gone with my first gut responses, I would have been closer than I was. My first thought was that for sure that gorgeous orange was gourd but then I THOUGHT (shouldn’t think!)….wait! Gourds aren’t really orange. Then I thought that passive aggressive green had to be one that was barely green. Definitely just thought too much!
It was fun though!! I need to know the name of that seafoamy color (I believe it is the fifth one from the right in the photo) but I don’t think that is your sea foam one. Please let me know.
Tamara
Wait…..I think it’s Chillaxin’……am I right?!
Well, I tried. And wouldn’t a sabertoothed caterpillar be orange? I’m with the group that sees gourds as green. Come to think of it, gourds come in a multiplicity of colours, so assuming green gourds was presumptuous. With the colourway names up on the website, it would hardly be fair to redo my list(lol). As soon as I pay my taxes on Tuesday, I’ll order my shaded solids. They are already sitting in my cart.
Cheers and red wine, Hazel.