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Well done ceanirminger what fun!
Yes please, can we have the link to the full results?
Snow Fabric Winner: Congratulations to Cean
The unusually named Cean Irminger from the unusually named city of Machipongo, Virgina -- who also boasts the unusual job title mosaic designer -- won the most votes in our snow-themed fabric of the week contest. Congratulations, Cean! Buy Gnome, Alaska fabric The top 10 vote-winners from 60 ...
Thank you Yvonne! I'm completely thrilled to win. Thank you to everyone who voted for me.
Bug Fabric Winner: Congratulations to UK designer Julie Shaw
Congratulations to Julie Shaw of Surrey -- her Green Lacewing fabric crawled to the top of a wriggling mass of terrific designs in our bug-themed Fabric Of the Week contest. Like our other winners, Julie will receive five yards of free Spoonflower fabric. The top ten bug fabrics from last wee...
Wow these are all fantastic designs and I thought the Birds on a Wire one would come top!
Please could we have the link to the rest of the results again? Thanks...
Yvonne Herbst's Birds On A Wire Wins the Children's Print Contest - Congratulations!
Congratulations this week to Yvonne Herbst (owner of Bunte Fabrics)! Her Birds On A Wire got more votes this week than any of the 130 other entries in our Childrens' Print-themed Fabric Of the Week contest. The top 10 vote getters this week were: Birds on a wire by Yvonne Herbst 693 Oneey...
Thank you!
Sweet Crayon Skillz: Crayon fabric design winner is...
Congratulations to Danielle Hanson (of Ragtales), a UK designer who this week earns the distinction of becoming the first person to win two Fabric Of the Week contests (remember her Bird Calendar in November?). Danielle's "Sweet Things" is the winner of a contest week devoted exclusively to fab...
Fabulous winner. Might we be allowed to see the rest of the voting results please?
Sweet Crayon Skillz: Crayon fabric design winner is...
Congratulations to Danielle Hanson (of Ragtales), a UK designer who this week earns the distinction of becoming the first person to win two Fabric Of the Week contests (remember her Bird Calendar in November?). Danielle's "Sweet Things" is the winner of a contest week devoted exclusively to fab...
From the Spoonflower contests FAQ: 'All submitted designs must be your own (you cannot nominate other people's designs or use designs based upon other people's work)'
OK so this seems obvious. No plagiarism. Completely get it. But do I?
It all comes down to that little phrase 'based on'. What does this mean? Clearly we can't copy and paste someone else's work into our own, unless it is public domain. But say we want to include a picture of a horse in our design, and we get a photo off the internet, and draw a copy of the horse? Is this plagiarism? Should we have gone and taken our own photo of a horse? Imagine we want to make a fabric using repeats of a snowflake that is microscopic in real life. Do we have to collect the snowflake, create cold enough conditions to preserve it, put it in a petri dish, view it and photograph it through a microscope, or is it ok to look at pictures on the internet or copy something from a book or National Geographic?
So let's imagine it's ok to look at pictures on the internet, what kind of pictures is it ok to look at? Is it worse to copy someone else's line drawing than it is to copy someone else's photograph. Where do we draw the line (pun not intended)? Is copying something by eye ok when copying something using a photocopier or scanner is not?
What if we were to copy by hand a part of a drawing or painting but alter it in some way - in terms of colour or medium or through changing the direction of some of the lines...? Is this OK?
I'd be interested in a debate about this one. Any opinions anyone?
Upcoming Fabric Of the Week contest theme: BUGS!
Upcoming Spoonflower fabric design contest themes: INSECTS: Yes, bugs. Easy, no? Deadline is Monday, February 1, at noon EST. The entry form is HERE. CHILDRENS' PRINTS: This contest is built around creating prints good for using in children's clothes. For thoughts on this as a style, you should ...
Might it be possible as part of the childrens' clothes prints competition to allow designers to submit two co-ordinating fabrics? Or perhaps this is one for a future competition theme...
Crayon fabric design contest deadline Monday. Upcoming contest: Childrens' Prints
Upcoming Fabric Of the Week contest themes: Crayons: Fabric designs created using wax crayons and digitized using a scanner or digital camera. Deadline is Monday, January 18, at noon EST. Childrens' Prints: Prints good for using in children's clothes. Deadline is Monday, January 25, at noon EST....
I really enjoyed having colour restrictions for the last one, as I think that restrictions make things more creative - they make me think 'outside of the box'. I also like the comments about doing things perhaps with a hand-done, painterly quality.
Here are my ideas:
Purely geometric - no representational artwork allowed
Stained glass windows as inspiration
Something based on a historical culture for it's inspiration - for example:
Egyptian art
Renaissance patterns
Greek architecture
I'm sure there are many more to think of!
Rachael I like your peacocks idea I have already done one of those and so have a few other people!
Post your ideas for upcoming Fabric Of the Week contest themes!
Last time we solicited ideas for themes to use in our Fabric Of the Week contest, lots of folks weighed in with great suggestions. For the next couple of days, I'd love to open up the comment thread one more time to see if we can gather even more good ideas. What do you think? What should our nex...
How about 'A knotty problem'?
Suggest themes for our next fabric design contest?
I'm seeking theme suggestions for this week's fabric of the week contest (which will go out tomorrow morning). As you may have noticed, we've had a LOT of submissions for the last two themes (Christmas and Halloween). That makes it really hard to get the contest together each week, so -- in orde...
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