For Washington state locals

[annathepiper]

Voting has opened on our state quarter, due out next year! Go vote in the poll and have your say.

Me, I voted for #3--I like the distinctiveness and the Native American touch. I liked #2 better than #1, though I agree with solarbird's opinion that #2 is typical and therefore kind of dull, based on other similarly nature-y quarters other states have been putting out. I bet #2 will win, though.

Comments

[solarbird]

Option 1 is total crap. 2 is at least coherently rendered. 3 is the only one with any distinctiveness to it at all, so it got my vote.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Meh, I don't think any of them are that exciting.

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

...which is exactly what I thought of it. *laugh*

My favorite quarter is still Connecticut's, with the Charter Oak....

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

MORE APPLES LESS FISH! Erm, I mean. Yeah. The only one with apples on it is lame.

[annathepiper]

I think Rhode Island's with the sailboat is still one of my favorites, and yeah, Connecticut's is neat too. And the music geek in me appreciates the instruments on Tennessee's quarter even if most of the South gives me the wibblies these days, politically speaking. ;)

[annathepiper]

Not terribly, no, but these are the options they're giving us!

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

"I shall protest against red-state politics by -- by -- not spending their quarters! Fneh!" ;)

[annathepiper]

Hell, MOST of the quarters I get these days go straight into my change jar anyway. Red and blue state quarters alike. :)

[kent.livejournal.com]

Choice 1 always looked like clip art to me. I hope it doesn't win.

[annathepiper]

..... clip art! Yeah, that's exactly what it looks like. Just elements pasted together in a circle without any real sense of order or arrangement.

[solarbird]

It doesn't look like clip art; it looks like a collection of clipart, badly arranged.

[firni.livejournal.com]

So far number three has the most votes, too.

[firni.livejournal.com]

I'm disappointed that there's not an Enumclaw horse ranch choice.

[mistwolf.livejournal.com]

I don't like number three. :( :( I want to, because it has the most character, but I just don't like it. So #2 for me. :(

[annathepiper]

Hey, no worries! You like what you like. :) (Actually, I like #2 myself, just because I like the arrangement of Rainier and the salmon beside it, it's just that I do also acknowledge Dara's argument that it's not particularly inspired given similar designs out of other state quarters.)

[solarbird]

That is a huge swing. It was in third. I wonder if somebody's loading up results.

[solarbird]

E Pluribus Horsefuckers

[firni.livejournal.com]

Probably some script kiddies who started banging on the site because they figured that one's so ugly it HAS to win.

[firni.livejournal.com]

At least it would be ORIGINAL!

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

Gotta be. There are literally thousands of votes pouring in every couple minutes, and the numbers for #3 keep going up and up.

[firni.livejournal.com]

I see how they did it, because it just let me vote again.

oops

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

I agree that 3 has the most distinctive style, but for some reason I don't really like it. The first option is dreadful. I think that the second option is more appropriate for a coin design, and fits in with the overall look for the other state quarters.

Poor Eastern Washington. The only option that alludes to that part of the state sucks.

[solarbird]

kathrynt and I have been talking about that in IM. I've got an idea or two that would have good eastside recognition, but, well, it's kind of late for that.

I don't agree that the second is more appropriate than the third for a coin design. It's more typical of American coin design, but that's not the same thing, and for me, is kind of a minus.

Also, kathrynt has been telling me that there is an interiour Salish culture that has legitimate connections to the coastal, so the dry side isn't as excluded as you might first think.