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Eloe2000
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Wow! Thank you for sharing this journey. As a newcomer this is really enlightening and inspiring. As soon as I saw the milling machine I knew we weren't in Kansas anymore.
I'm nowhere near that territory (yet?) but I was curious about your design process. Out of all the designs I've seen (granted it's a limited sample as I *just* got here), your Casa Mango set is so well executed. The font, the colorway, it's crazy nice. Can you shed some light on your thought process as you were coming up with the design? I assume you have some design experience previously?
Thanks and congrats!
Hey, thanks for the kind words. I am a photographer so I am constantly thinking about color and aesthetics and looking at imagery. I have designed my own logos and websites for several businesses. But I am not really good and creating things. I am better at finding elements and piecing things together. I rely on sources like CreativeMarket.com for individual design elements like good fonts or shapes and icons etc.
I realized after looking at a lot of poker chips that I really prefer the sort of traditional inlay designs; bold red denomination bottom center, city/location in black small text wrapping the bottom of the inlay, centered bold interesting font for casino name, and a single interesting graphic immediately above the name secondary to the casino name. So I like inlay designs that are driven by the casino name with a really interesting font. My first chips were those Dunes china clays and I still love that design. I like a more modern twist and I really love bold colors (in no small part because we play in very dim lighting) so I am a huge fan of the Big Top Poker design as well as Sunset Beach. I also like some recent ones like The Rainier Room and Story Hill. I think its also really important to think about the way these chips will look on the table and in your hand. I feel like these design schemes I am talking about look great at the small 7/8" size where we will see them in real life. Designs like these balance really well with the chip itself and are not too overpowering. Many other designs are too busy and take too much concentration to decipher.
If and when I design other things I would come up with a theme idea and then a name and my first design choice would be a font. Then I start playing around with that and would then choose a complimenting graphic and then lastly choose a denomination font which should be different from, but compliment, the casino name type.
Now it was time to get them back. I just need one of those legendary hundos to finish off the set. 
). Great job, man.
