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A Flotilla Of Sailing Fabrics

April 26, 2013

In this week's contest we asked designers to create fabric using no more than five colors chosen from a palette specified in the contest rules. The theme was sailing. So your challenge for this week is to choose your favorites from a field of almost 250 entries!

The participants this week are:

1. palette-restricted
sailing_ship_scallop by glimmericks
2. 100 Nauts by kathrynzaremba
3. A Sailaway by cison
4. A Southern Lady Sails by
asouthernladysdesigns
5. A squall by vo_aka_virginiao
6. Ahoy Ahoy! by amel24
7. Ahoy Matey by paragonstudios
8. ahoy there matey by mezzime
9. Ahoy, Mermaids! by ifneedb
10. Alone and Adrift on a Stormy Sea
by edsel2084

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Many shapes, but few hues: Vote in our palette-restricted contest for large-scale botanical prints

January 6, 2011

We usually hear some griping about the colors we choose for these palette-restricted contests, but I've always found that looking through the entries is a treat. Restricting the palette is one way of pushing designers out of their comfort zones, which is usually rewarding. This week's contest was for large-scale botanical designs that had to use the colors in a palette we provided (visible here). We did our best to discourage the use of gradients in this one, but in the end we didn't pull all of the entries that employed them. As usual, the voters will make the final call. There are 149 entries, so get ready to do some serious scrolling.

Vote For Your Favorite Large-Scale Botanical Prints

The participating designs and designers are: