
art nouveau
Announcing January’s Design Challenge Themes
Art Nouveau Fabric Design Winner: Congratulations to Lucie Duclos
The winner of our palette-restricted, Art Nouveau Fabric Of the Week contest is Fleurs_Nouvelles, by designer Lucie Duclos of San Rafael, California (of duclosdesign.com). Congratulations, Lucie!
This contest featured a terrific bunch of entries. The average visitor cast votes for no fewer than seven favorites. Thanks to everyone who participated! The top ten designs in a contest full of lovely fabrics were:
1. 668 votes for Fleurs_Nouvelles
by snowflower
2. 639 votes for DaisyShell by shala
3. 583 votes for Art_Nouveau_Tulips by
cynthiafrenette
4. 478 votes for art_nouveau by aninkling
5. 460 votes for Art_Nouveau_Stem_III by
idlejo
6. 458 votes for art_nouveau_wheat_tight
by victorialasher
7. 423 votes for Bees and Apple Blossoms
by andrea_kopacek
8. 414 votes for Art Nouveau Alphabet-1
by lacefairy
9. 405 votes for sunflower by lfntextiles
10. 395 votes for NouveauSquirrels by
eowens
Vote for your favorite Art Nouveau fabrics!
One thing we've learned over the past few months is that designers love a palette-restricted fabric design challenge. Something about having to work within a set of constraints makes the creative impulse that much stronger. The results are apparent in the 84 designs that appear in our Art Nouveau fabric contest this week, which required the use of the palette pictured to the right (with white and black as options). In the past we haven't made any effort to weed out designs that did not employ the suggested palette, but this week we did make at least some effort to remove any that strayed from the guidelines in a way that was very obvious. We haven't made any attempt to decide what's really "Art Nouveau" and what isn't. That will have to be up to you! Voting will close on Wednesday, March 24, at 5pm EST, and we'll announce the winner the following day.
Participating designers this week are:
- Art Nouveau
Alphabet-1 by lacefairy - ART Nouveau
bird by megansly - A Little Birdie
Told Me— by nat_hamade - anfinal by
pepstar - arabesque by
nadja_p - ART NOUVEAU
FISH CONTEST by floorartetc - art nouveau
flora (sand) by trebligrachel - Art Nouveau
Tile 1 by vickijenkinsart - Art Nouvoctopus
by memory - Art Noveau 2 by
diversepixel - artniveaufc2small
by samanthaheather - ArtNouveau by
cyrille - ArtNouveauRepeat
by tzaleski22 - ArtNouveau_mermaids
by vonski - artnoveau1 by
mrshervi - artnoveauforspoonflower
by dennisthebadger - artN_mafe by
mafealvarez - art_nouveau by
epiphanycollections - art_nouveau by
nonnie - art_nouveau by
aninkling - Art_Nouveau_Stem_III
by idlejo - Art_Nouveau_Tulips
by cynthiafrenette - art_nouveau_wheat_tight
by victorialasher - Bees and Apple
Blossoms by andrea_kopacek - Berries by
trace - bleu haze by
gremlina - Blue Orchids
Art Nouveau by golders - butterflywhitebg
by photojo - Cameo by bunni
- Clinton_Hill_Nouveau-ed
by designertre - DaisyShell by
shala - Deco Floral –
Contest – Black by kristopherk - DesignMagi_ArtNouveau_Peacock
by designmagi - donsdesk by
yoncalla - dragonfly
circle by ingrid_the_crafty - Eleanor by
aimeeelisabeth - Fleurs_Nouvelles
by snowflower - fruitadaloomartnoveau
by dolphinandcondor - Gaudi by tilde
- getting ready
by gigifobo - ginkgo_nouveau
by capiscit - Heartfelt
Flowers by pojeda - Hello_Day_FINAL-ed
by cinfinmin - invisible bike
by butterwort - iron-scrolls
dark blue by heatherrothstyle - jugendstil2 by
vina - Kelly by
royalforest - LH_ArtNouveau
by ldj_design - Mackinroses On
Ivory With Blue by jazilla - Mackintosh's
Apples by jenimp - mlodawall by
maeula - N'View Primp
by jamjax - New Love – Fun
whimsical Americana take on Art Nouveau style by melissainthesky - Nouveau by
imagekko - nouveau beauty
blue by mytinystar - Nouveau Chic by
kasei_lee - Nouveau Glyph
Pattern by davidmatthewparker - Nouveau peacock
feathers-ch by hannafate - Nouveau Riche
by scoutstudios - Nouveau Rose by
kdl - Nouveau
Songbirds by strive - nouveau-ch by
sorreldugan - NouveauSquirrels
by eowens - Nouveau_Final_21x18__
by dvoizin - Nouveau_stained_glass2
by shirlene - Noveau Vine by
ceanirminger - objet_nouveau_5
by periwinklepaisley - palace_pets_fin2
by papertiguer - Peacock blue by
zeppomarks - persephoneflowers
by rose'n'thorn - Plumage by
mandyh - poppy_fabric2
by cindy_lindgren - Ribbon Angel
Art Nouveau by heartaday - Roots_and_Leaves3color
by dragonflyfae - Rose Window by
anahata - Schnuffie_in_the_garden_-_Pillow
by bjspoon - Shape_noveau_
by xoxpringles` - spoon_flower_art_nouveau_copy
by stefcos - sunflower by
lfntextiles - swan lilly-ch
by basilberrybakes - Terrace Nouveau
by meredithjean - th_GW364H376_1_
by pjay - Tut In Paris by
jellybeanquilter - Where the Wild
Roses Grow (Blue Nouveau Medallion) by leighr - artnouveau1 by mzdori
Upcoming Fabric Design Contest Themes: Tattoos & Art Nouveau
Thanks to our friends in the Spoonflower Facebook group, we've got a nice long list of suggestions for upcoming Fabric Of the Week contest themes! Instructions for entering our contests — as well as the rules — appear on the upcoming contests page.
Coming up next:
Tattoos. Submit fabric designs inspired by tattoos. Please use original art and avoid clip-art or stock images. Entries close on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at noon EST.
Art Nouveau. Submit fabric designs inspired by the Art Noveau aesthetic and using the restricted palette described on our upcoming contests page (link below). Entries close on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at noon EST.