ILM Ballot Polls for 2014 and beyond -- order, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc

Yeah, let's do The Smiths. I'm on board.

Done. Get voting!

oh awesome!!

oh boo i'll be out of country for this. wonder if i can slap a ballot together in the next few hours...

SOME POLLS ARE BIGGER THAN OTHERS - ILM Artist Poll #72 - THE SMITHS

really excited for Stereolab

IF IT'S NOT LOVE THEN IT'S THE POLL THAT WILL BRING US TOGETHER - ILM Artist Poll #72 - THE SMITHS - RESULTS THREAD

There doesn't seem to be an Underworld one. I'm happy to run that if you want to add it to the queue.

The POLL’S Gone Out: Rank your Dark Entries - ILM artist poll #73 - Bauhaus - Love and Rockets...Voting open until Sunday March 20, 2016

YEAAAAAAHHHH!

what happened to the dino jr poll?

The person who was running it decided to sub it out for someone else.

who's next - CAN? Stereolab?

Bauhaus is up

will someone call me when it's can o'clock?

it's always can o'clock somewhere

well technically there's several things in the queue ahead of Bauhaus (including CAN) but the people who volunteered to run those polls are AWOL

Any reason why whoever was running the polls then ignored this?
ILM Ballot Polls for 2014 and beyond -- order, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc

is Gaukbe, gr8080 or someone else on the top of that list ready to go? i know some dude could do Hendrix in February. if anything i can do Bauhaus at anytime now.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, February 9, 201

When can I start the Stereolab poll!?

Could someone be kind enough to pm me when I can start the threads?

I'll ping you when the Bauhaus poll is done

Excellent. The following is a test for browser/mobile size of the albums images don't mind me.

http://i.imgur.com/9TzYU30.jpg
008 Transient Random-Noise Bursts (Mfg. Date: 08/10/1993)
152 points | 08 votes | 03 first place votes

V excited for Stereolab, even more now after seeing that.

omg so excited

i've been thinking of a stereolab list since this summer. i'm ready.

I wish you'd start it now so there was a poll going on that I'm interested in, but I guess that wouldn't be cool.

ouch, sorry i'm doing Bauhaus.

Hey, I didn't vote but I really like Bauhaus and I'm following the poll!

Moka is my ilxor graphics crush. <3

<3

Someone was asking for this in another thread and I could find it. 2012 poll that was partly organized by late great and then completed by me, I'm sure we have an archive somewhere of every link of every collective poll that has been done but I couldn't find it. Posting here for future reference:

RESULTS (of the very nebulously defined) 110 ELECTRONIC DANCE TRACKS of the 00s

*couldn't

ILM Ballot Polls: where to find the results threads

A lot of the results links on these messages

And here's a thread that tries to list all of ILX's ballot poll result threads:

The ILX List of Lists

Yes those are the ones! I couldn't find them.

Guys/gals need your opinion, which one of these do you like better:

http://i.imgur.com/Y5fFqjf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/9pymRKi.jpg

In my opinion: First option without the album cover is cleaner and the only reference to the album covers will be the color palette below the song title which will be based on the album/ep/single's palette. Problem is that a thread with 50+ of these with subtle variations could be boring and I don't have the time to design a radically different banner for each song (would love to). Option 2 adds the cover but I'm not sure if it's too much.

I like #2

those both look pretty stylish! i am not a stereolab diehard, so take this with a grain of salt - i would say it's always neat to have the album cover, though i agree that the one without it is a tauter design. the text on the "points" line in the album-cover version seems pretty small though. maybe only the "credit" line wants to be that small? but i know these things are tricky to work out.

also, something about the font, gray background, and the gradient color sampler makes me think of Centrum brand vitamins but that is almost certainly just me.

Yeah the idea was to make these look like vintage pharma products so Centrum is not a bad reference. Also don't mind the font weights on #2 I still haven't adapted them, just looking at proportions.

I agree that the design without sleeves is neater and nicer, but the second design has greater functionality, so I'd probably opt for that if pushed.

Both are excellent, though, and either would be awesome to see on a poll.

I prefer the second option, as well.

I prefer the first for its cleanliness, but what do I know ("Like hey, maybe you could do a cool gradient overlay with the album cover!").

Could we see a couple more looks? More of a cool palette perhaps? And a pointier typeface?

Just kidding

I actually have two very different looks that I'm trying. I was thinking of doing 50 different designs but again not enough time :/

Well I think both are fantastic and it's got me super excited for Stereoloab.

Here's another copied from Julian House (Stereolab's designer):

http://i.imgur.com/xfWu5fA.jpg

That was the initial sketch, then I thought maybe it could be cool doing several Julian House inspired/copied designs but again, too much time to do individual designs even if they're copied.