Hi Folks.

Previous poll is still open but I'm moving along with designs.

N.B.

a) Top 3 font choices were used. The final design will get displayed with all 3 fonts for final choice. Do not choose, at this stage, based on font style. Choose based on picture style, picture placing and word placing.

b) Pictures are all from the internet and I will get my hubby to do a unique drawing of the final choice to avoid copyright issues. He's an artist ... it will be good.

c) Some of the picture placings are clearly awkward, but I wanted to show some variety.

d) Website and fundraiser lines are not in all pictures ... they will be in the final product.

New options - Design ideas in order of previous poll results

1. Computer and Keyboard



2. Typewriter



3. Pen, Pencil, Pad and Eraser

At the moment this is Pencil, Pad, Eraser and screwed up paper.



=4. Quill and Ink



=4. Messy Desk


6. Sofa, Coffee and Clock (Combined 2 previous options)


I've pondered over how best to run this poll and I think there's too many here to vote individually on each one so I'm going to redo the last poll and have the general picture voted on. BUT it will be a 1st, 2nd, 3rd choice this time. The same options will be given on 3 different polls and you need to choose your top three IN ORDER. The results, combined with the previous poll should give the winning picture.

I'll then get my hubby to do some drawings.

I LOVE the quill and ink! What a great idea!

You've come up with some great ideas, KK. And even with those ideas, you've been creative!

I love the scrunched up paper with the writing on it. And the typewriter / laptop with the website on the screen / paper. Those are my favorites (yeah, I know. We're not voting on those, yet.)

Clearly, KK, you've never seen a message desk. LOL. That plant should be dead (ala Lois's). You shouldn't be able to see the wood due to papers, and there should be stacks and stacks of papers / notebooks / DVDs / books around the desk. Oh, and a cat lying on top of everything ( ), pushing it to the floor. I WISH (okay, my hubby's wishes) my desk was that neat.

Also, it looks like the woman on the couch is reading a typical book. Shouldn't she be reading on her cell phone, Nook, or Labtop, since we don't publish in that format? It would be kind-of cool (and probably difficult, but I'm just throwing out ideas) if the website was listed on whatever book / screen she was reading.

Wow--great job KatherineKent. And again, thank you for all the work you are doing on this (and your husband).

Loved them all...

And I definitely got a giggle from the pic of the lady on the sofa--with the coffee--and the late time of night reading . That was/is the perfect snap shot of myself (last night included)--and, like Virginia mentioned, I would be looking at my phone...(and it would probably be a mocha in the cup, and the clock would say a later time, and there would be a cat in my lap--Reading "Trusting Me, Trusting You" right now and I CAN NOT put it down--serious lack of sleep going on here ).

Thanks again, great job!
Laura

Hey everyone. I can see (by way of the new snazzy 'view' number) that loads of people are looking at this but only 8 have voted. This does not give good statistics or a true representation of the real favourite. I'm a mathematician, I know about numbers!

I also know that there are loads of you out there who are signed up members who never comment. I get that .. until a few years ago I was the same. I'm not pushing you to comment ... just vote. No-one will know what you voted for, it doesn't create a post ...

Please. VOTE.

I'm one of the ones who is guilty about looking but not voting, but I have a reason for that. I am curious about the outcome, but I don't think I should vote since I won't be getting a shirt. (If the saying on it were just, "It's a fanfic thing," I would definitely buy one, but to me the second clause makes the shirt sound insulting, or at the very least condescending, toward the reader of the shirt. That's really not the image I want to convey about people who participate in any fandom.)

Joy,
Lynn

Completely understand, and I kind of agree. I don't remember whether I voted for this in my choices back at 'phrase' stage. I don't think I did, but even if I did, I know it wasn't my 1st choice. That was "I'd rather live in fanfic."

I'd like to see if more people agree but, at this stage, I don't feel it's my place to change anything about the phrase, though.

I have no qualms about if we shortened it to "it's a fanfic thing." I also have no qualms about if it stayed the same.

I could go either way, too

Laura

That's exactly the way I feel. I also didn't vote for this slogan for this very reason. I'll buy the t-shirt, though. I'm committed to it, but I'll wear it a whole lot more without that second line. It's why I liked the design with the notepad with the crinkled paper with the second line as a rejected idea. /It's also why I was for the idea of having a second slogan idea available, but alas I doubt demand is there for 2 t-shirts./

I hadn't meant to suggest that the saying should be changed. I wouldn't have said anything about it if Victoria hadn't mentioned that there were a lot more viewers than voters. But I must admit to finding it interesting that there were others who had similar reactions to mine with regard to the chosen saying.

If the saying does get changed, I would be thrilled, but if it remains as is, that's fine with me, too. The way I figured it, since this was the saying that garnered the most votes, it is probably the one that would result in the most tee-shirt sales, and, hence, the most funds raised for the board.

Joy,
Lynn

Thanks to everyone that's voted so far.

I've counted up the votes and there 11 for 1st place and 11 for second place but 12 for 3rd place? Has someone only voted for their third favourite *laughs* What about 1 and 2. Are you unable to decide which is 1st and which is 2nd? Well, you've got till Friday.


I agree, that as this came out as top choice, then there's the most chance of it generating sales. But you've also brought up a valid point about the second sentence and seeing as only 12 people have voted ... are we only going to get 12 sales? (Very cynical and pessimistic view there - and not my personal one. I'm playing devil's advocate here.)

Would we get more people interested if we ditched (or changed) the second sentence? Or would we lose interest?

The way the new poll format works, you have to hit submit after each question. The old way, you only had to hit submit once. So, it's possible that someone thought that they were submitting their opinion for all three by pressing submit just for the bottom question.

It looks like I was one of them to miss the first two.

laptop seems appropriate and 3rd one is best font