As I get more of the technical issues settled on the site, I really want to delve more into content. One of the areas that I want to tackle is the Information section, the first of which I hope to be the various color or design collections. I think I have the rough order and series below but let me know if you see anything out of place.
2003
-Collegiate
2004 - 2006
-Stretchline
October 2006 - June 2012
-Artist Series
2007 - 2008
-BLOCline
-Grab Bag
2007
May 2007 - Present
-Angling Collection
October 2007
-Red Shift Line
2008
February 2008
-Flying Tigers
October 2008
-Petterson Frogskins
October 2008 - Present
-Cancer Awareness
November 2008
-White Hot Holiday Collection
2009
November 2009
-Ice Cold Holiday Collection
2010
February 2010
-Fade Collection
March 2010
-Acid Rain Collection
October 2010
-Summit
November 2010
-Science Holiday Collection
2011
February 2011
-Sherbert Collection
April 2011
-Jupiter Camo
May 2011 - August 2012
-Gold Series
August 2011
-Summer Crystals
September 2011
-Blacklight Collection
-Max Fear Light Collection
2012
May 2012
-Heaven & Hell
August 2012
-Beyond Reason Auction
-Iridescent Fades
September 2012
-GP75
2013
January 2013
-Aquatique Collection
-Fathom Series
March 2013 - April 2013
-Craftsman Collection
April 2013
-Crystal Collection
May 2013
-Fresh Collection
November 2013
-Alpha Decay
-Jewel Collection
December 2013
-Snowflake Collection
-Soft Touch Collection
2014
February 2014
-Olympic Collection
February 2014 - October 2014 (2.0)
-Heritage Collection
April 2014
-30 Years of Sports
-Heritage Collection
-Masters Collection
May 2014
-Fall Out
June 2014
-Toxic Blast
October 2014
-Common Thread
-Heaven & Earth
-Ink Collection
December 2014
-Concept Studio
--Tye Dye Collection
--Historical Collection
-Silver & Gold Holiday Collection
2015
February 2015
-B1-B Collection
-Covert Collection
-Moto Collection
April 2015
-Fingerprint Collection
-Uranium Collection
-In Residence LA
May 2015
-Surf Collection
June 2015
-Concept Studio #2
--Artisan
--Corbin
-POP Polar
July 2015
-American Heritage SI - Series I
-Frosted Collection
Ah, BLOCline for sure. I must have the coded in another field. STPL, I think I have as a signature, but surely should be included here, even if it isn't strictly in that field in the database. There's a bit of muddy water, where it's hard to determine between Signature, OPD, and Collection.
I took a look and I think I have BLOCline as an OPD since it conflicts with a few other things. Like the Flores has the artist in the Signature field, Artist Series in the collection, and then BLOCline for OPD. Since BLOCline was limited to Ski and Surf shops, it's not a huge stretch and allows me to avoid messy multivalue fields. STPL certainly would work as a collection, but since it's a person, the signature designations works, but I will definitely have it in the less formal Wiki aggregate.
Probably Fall 2004, since it was really a 2005 thing for the 30th Anniversary. When I was newly creating the site the Warden and Fatcat were just rumors on the Japanese fans sites, so 2003 would have been too early.
That makes sense. My timing's way off. I was looking through binders of eBay auction printouts I started in mid 2003 and could've swore the Warden was one of the first interesting ones I saw but didn't print out when I started.
Wow I'm lost on all this specific collection pieces.
Whilst I think my knowledge on vintage is ok my wider knowledge is way out.
Pat on the back to you guys on this.
Signature, but is was big enough to warrant a section I figure.
For the Holiday Collections, I may merge them. 2008 was White Hot, 2009 was the Cool once, but I forget the exact name, Ice Blue, Cool Blue...not sure. Science was 2010, so that can be part of it.
I imagine many will just be a brief listing of the colorway or the design elements that the collection shares. That can usually just be inferred by looking at the glasses/goggles list. Others may have some apparel or accessory connections too. Red Shift in particular only had two glasses, but many more clothes and the like.
I have been finding some images and banners around, so I can incorporate those, but as I start fleshing each page out, I'll certainly let you know what I'm lacking.
Yes, I'm going to combine that with the Acid ones from 2010, which is why I put the Frog/Tortoise in the banner. Several I will combine, like all the Holiday editions, since on their own it may be somewhat empty.
Just got another batch of vintage lists to pour over, which takes a bit of effort, since I cross-reference the lineage of the various colorways, but will move to this after that.
Yeah, those ones. I knew there was a name, but since the website doesn't have them, and I can't seem to find any documents in my archive, I'm not sure what it was. Trivial I suppose, but I like being comprehensive.