Thanks to everyone who voted in the first round of this re-release challenge!
Four of most popular retired designs are moving on to the next round. If you want to make sure it’s your favourite that gets reproduced, be sure to get your vote in again!
Remember, it’s only the winning design that will be revitalised using our latest printing techniques and produced as a beautiful new Midi journal.
About the Designs – Round 2 Battles
Note: Round 2 voting ends Friday, April 14th
Bracket 1 – Eastern Cultural Traditions versus Architecture Photography
Tao Bamboo (Eastern Cultural Traditions winner)
First Released: Fall 2001
Discontinued: Fall 2012
Original Artwork: Listening to the Bamboo painting by Cheng-ming
Era: Late 15th–Early 16th century
Region: China
Round One Results: Won 94 to Tribal Two’s 61
Intricate Inlays Mirror Vine (Architecture Photography Winner)
First Released: Fall 2003
Discontinued: Fall 2016
Original Artwork: Photograph by Gérard Degeorge
Era: Early Islamic architecture, modern photograph
Region: Arab-Muslim world
Round One Results: Won 119 to Dragon’s 36
Bracket 2 – European Art and Design versus Antique Maps
Brocaded Paper Honey Bloom (European Art and Design Winner)
First Released: Spring 2007
Discontinued: Fall 2016
Original Artwork: Antique paper sample
Era: Late 17th century
Region: Germany
Round One Results: Won 83 to Swirling Peacock Ebony’s 72
Early Cartography Western Hemisphere (Antique Maps Winner)
First Released: Fall 1994
Discontinued: Fall 2010
Original Artwork: Americæ Nova Tabula coloured copperplate map by cartographer Willem Blaeu
Era: 1617–1633
Region: Amsterdam
Round One Results: Won 85 to Celestial Planisphere’s 70
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