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We need your help to pick the next Strong & Flexible colors.

January 13, 2011

The Winter Colors are coming to an end we need your help to pick the next Strong & Flexible colors.

The Winter Red is staying until end of February for Valentine’s day, and the rest will retire at the end of January. What next batch of colors would you like?

Nancy has made a poll so you can to help us decide on the next batch of colors (deadline to respond is next Wednesday end of day). We have selected a range of colors available from our suppliers, and includes colors we’ve had available before as options as well. Take a look at the color chart and let us know what colors you would like to see next?

We will take a look at your suggestions, do some testing and introduce a new batch of colors as soon as possible.

Also let us know if there are any colors you would like to see as permanent options like Black Strong and Flexible or are you happy to have seasonal and event based colors?

Comments

  1. designlemon
    January 13, 2011 at 10:15 pm
    A Palette of Transition : :
    Winter Orange, for our Vitamin C.
    Dark Brown, for the color of the still barren trees.
    Grey, for the chilling beauty of early March skies : : and for neutrality, to cleanse the palette between color courses.
    Purple, in preparation for the Spring Crocus.

  2. Christina Westbrook
    January 13, 2011 at 10:28 pm
    I ended up going to the poll and choosing darker red, winter green and winter blue. Mostly because those are the colors I think would sell well. I do rather like the color purple, but generally more of a blue-violet. I think for most items on Shapeways the more subtle colors as opposed to bright ones work best. At least that’s my opinion. Is there a list of colors that actually have sold the best in the past?

  3. nancyliang
    January 14, 2011 at 11:27 pm
    Yes there is. I’m using that as an input to the final decision, as well as seeing what you guys actually chose. Thanks for your input, Christina.

  4. Steve
    January 14, 2011 at 4:24 am
    I think the Black should be permanent. It’s great for a lot of the puzzles on here, and I’m sure it’s used for other things often as well.

  5. designlemon
    January 14, 2011 at 5:13 am
    Would actually be nice if there were two blacks : Deep Black + Charcoal Black. Or Gloss + Matte. Or a Warm Black + Cool Black. Useful especially for home furnishings, when you’d like to offer options for Traditional vs. Modern.

  6. Christina Westbrook
    January 14, 2011 at 5:39 am
    Regular black is already permanent. At least in my experience dying my own getting it any more black than a charcoal sort of black is rather difficult with this material. It has a softer look even in dark colors due to the texture.

  7. nancyliang
    January 14, 2011 at 11:30 pm
    I like that idea. I’ll ping you offline about this to discuss further.

  8. stannum
    January 15, 2011 at 6:01 am
    Semi-OT / Related: the material that would benefit more from coating is sandstone, so you could kill two birds with one stone. Double improvement if it also means getting rid of the honey like infusion that tints all light colours and use something really transparent with better colour preservation.