[IC]GMK ZEN POND: GB Over

[SxM Designs]

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Ikki Aurora X Zen Pond

 

 

A set inspired by the calm and relaxing Japanese Zen ponds filled with beautiful Koi fishes!

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We decided on the following kits. Changes will be made depending on opinions and request. So, please fill up the IC and leave us feedback.

The set names were derived from different Koi fish species.

Kohaku aka Hiragana Base Kit (UV printed sublegends)                                                            Asagi aka Latin Base Kit

 

Nishikigoi aka Novelties Kit (UV printed)                                                                       Kawarimono aka Numpad Kit

   

Shusui aka Spacebars Kit                                                                                           Utsurimono aka 40s Kit

 

Ensō                                                            Tancho

 

Disclaimer : The keyboards are for visual purposes and are not included in the set.

   

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   GB Date : October 4th - November 7th, 2021

HIBI X GMK Zen Pond

Here is the entire list                        
Wrist Rest                                     
                                               
1. Artisan Labs          : Resin               
2. Wrist Labs            : Resin               
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Keyboards                                      
                                               
A special edition keyboard will be             
released later.                                
                                               
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Cables                                         
                                               
3. Luxecables     : US                         
4. Keebstuff      : EU                         
                                               
Both can ship worldwide though!                
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Metal Artisan                                  
                                               
5. HIBI                                        
6. Salvun                                      
7. Asero Foundry : Limited exotic metal        
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Artisans                                       
8. KeyCravings                                 
9. Archetype                                   
10. Skull keycaps                              
11. Mataekeycaps                               
12. Frumpzkeys                                 
13. KrakenKaps                                 
14. Mozicaps                                   
15. Cque que                                   
16. ThirdStrikeKeys                            
17. Landcaps                                   
18. Rhythm Caps                                
19. 404artisans                                
20. MD3 Funsies                                
                                               

                 

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[Fraaaan]

Reserved

[phoenixrage]

so.. mizu dark almost.. either way.. I'm in!

[SxM Designs]

Reserved but too late!

[mvkb]

Beautifully executed, love the organized chaos the legends create. GLWIC!

[Aiwanei]

GMK doesn't do tripleshot, so will these be pad printed?

Edit:I see it will be, nice use of pad printing, looking forward to it.

[MrFixIT12]

This is nice, count me in

[Banned]

Isn't this your 3rd set in IC right now? Outside of that looks nice but I wonder if you'll be able to keep up with 3 sets at once

[hali]

Isn't this your 3rd set in IC right now?

echo

[Laur]

Isn't this your 3rd set in IC right now?

echo

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[Ella]

Isn't this your 3rd set in IC right now?

echo

echo_2

deez nuts?

[Banned]

Isn't this your 3rd set in IC right now?

echo

echo_2

deez nuts?

sussy.

[SxM Designs]

Isn't this your 3rd set in IC right now? Outside of that looks nice but I wonder if you'll be able to keep up with 3 sets at once

Thanks for the kind words.

Every set has a different timelines / schedules and distributed work load.
Work on Pharaoh has been over for months.

I would not post anything which is not doable from my part and I wont be juggling projects.

[Lenux]

It does look good, GLWIC.

[jaron]

This looks pretty good but not really a fan of uv printing.

[mizuwolf]

Ooh this is pretty! I hope we'll see protos before gb

[Banned]

Isn't this your 3rd set in IC right now? Outside of that looks nice but I wonder if you'll be able to keep up with 3 sets at once

Thanks for the kind words.

Every set has a different timelines / schedules and distributed work load.
Work on Pharaoh has been over for months.

I would not post anything which is not doable from my part and I wont be juggling projects.

I understand. It just kinda feels weird to have 3 IC's running, it comes off a little cash rabby I guess? Especially because they aren't super unique colorways or anything..

[jaron]

This looks pretty good but not really a fan of uv printing.

Just to add to this, I think maybe white accents with red legends would look good. Then some of the novelties can use red as an outline on white caps to look like koi fish and use double shot. Obviously without uv printing, the novelties won't look quite as nice, but I feel like you could still have really good looking koi novelties that will last a long time. I also really like the novelties with the stones and those should also convert to double shot easily.

As for the kitting, it looks like there are some duplicate keys where you might've forgotten to change them to mod keys. Also I feel like there should be an option for normal colored super.

Other than that, I actually like this set quite a bit and think it has a ton of potential. There aren't that many GMK sets that I like and only a few that I would ever buy, but I would actually consider buying this. GLWIC

[SxM Designs]

Isn't this your 3rd set in IC right now? Outside of that looks nice but I wonder if you'll be able to keep up with 3 sets at once

Thanks for the kind words.

Every set has a different timelines / schedules and distributed work load.
Work on Pharaoh has been over for months.

I would not post anything which is not doable from my part and I wont be juggling projects.

I understand. It just kinda feels weird to have 3 IC's running, it comes off a little cash rabby I guess? Especially because they aren't super unique colorways or anything..

IC is Interest Check where I pitch my idea for the community to see. I dont see a problem as long as its close to the final product I would want to create. I am sure no one will complain about the structure and quality of any IC I post.

Secondly, GMK takes months for quotes and getting big vendors takes even more months. So, a lot of future planning is required to execute a set at this level.

Thirdly, it takes months of brainstorming, drawing and rendering to execute an IC like this.

As a designer, I am sure you already know about these things.

But ofcourse, if someone just made a mono colored set with a very common color and without any novelties, I could say that its just "cash grabby"
but I wont because I know every designer puts a lot of time and effort into their work and I believe every creation is unique.

I am sorry that you dont find this set unique. I will try better next time.

[SxM Designs]

This looks pretty good but not really a fan of uv printing.

Just to add to this, I think maybe white accents with red legends would look good. Then some of the novelties can use red as an outline on white caps to look like koi fish and use double shot. Obviously without uv printing, the novelties won't look quite as nice, but I feel like you could still have really good looking koi novelties that will last a long time. I also really like the novelties with the stones and those should also convert to double shot easily.

As for the kitting, it looks like there are some duplicate keys where you might've forgotten to change them to mod keys. Also I feel like there should be an option for normal colored super.

Other than that, I actually like this set quite a bit and think it has a ton of potential. There aren't that many GMK sets that I like and only a few that I would ever buy, but I would actually consider buying this. GLWIC

Thanks a lot for the response. Can you please leave your feedback in the IC form because then we would have a more structured way to look at the changes required to be implemented.

I will ask GMK about the pricing because DS with UV will be probably more expensive than only UV. We will see what GMK tells us and what can be achieved with this design.

For Kiting: I still cant see what is wrong with the mod keys. Could you please point them out. I must have missed somehow. Removed them.
Regarding the super keys, although it would add 4 keys its quite doable. I might add it.

Lastly, your last comment is really appreciated!!! Thanks again.

[MIGHTY CHICKEN]

Two base kits both without numpad sounds like a not good idea

[jaron]

This looks pretty good but not really a fan of uv printing.

Just to add to this, I think maybe white accents with red legends would look good. Then some of the novelties can use red as an outline on white caps to look like koi fish and use double shot. Obviously without uv printing, the novelties won't look quite as nice, but I feel like you could still have really good looking koi novelties that will last a long time. I also really like the novelties with the stones and those should also convert to double shot easily.

As for the kitting, it looks like there are some duplicate keys where you might've forgotten to change them to mod keys. Also I feel like there should be an option for normal colored super.

Other than that, I actually like this set quite a bit and think it has a ton of potential. There aren't that many GMK sets that I like and only a few that I would ever buy, but I would actually consider buying this. GLWIC

Thanks a lot for the response. Can you please leave your feedback in the IC form because then we would have a more structured way to look at the changes required to be implemented.

I will ask GMK about the pricing because DS with UV will be probably more expensive than only UV. We will see what GMK tells us and what can be achieved with this design.

For Kiting: I still cant see what is wrong with the mod keys. Could you please point them out. I must have missed somehow.
Regarding the super keys, although it would add 4 keys its quite doable. I might add it.

Lastly, your last comment is really appreciated!!! Thanks again.

Yeah, I left a little more detailed feedback in the IC form. Right now, the backspace and arrows legends are alpha colored and the extra tilde and pipe are alpha colored and not mod colored. I guess I don't understand why the super keys are using alpha legends and not mod.

[Banned]

Isn't this your 3rd set in IC right now? Outside of that looks nice but I wonder if you'll be able to keep up with 3 sets at once

Thanks for the kind words.

Every set has a different timelines / schedules and distributed work load.
Work on Pharaoh has been over for months.

I would not post anything which is not doable from my part and I wont be juggling projects.

I understand. It just kinda feels weird to have 3 IC's running, it comes off a little cash rabby I guess? Especially because they aren't super unique colorways or anything..

IC is Interest Check where I pitch my idea for the community to see. I dont see a problem as long as its close to the final product I would want to create. I am sure no one will complain about the structure and quality of any IC I post.

Secondly, GMK takes months for quotes and getting big vendors takes even more months. So, a lot of future planning is required to execute a set at this level.

Thirdly, it takes months of brainstorming, drawing and rendering to execute an IC like this.

As a designer, I am sure you already know about these things.

But ofcourse, if someone just made a mono colored set with a very common color and without any novelties, I could say that its just "cash grabby"
but I wont because I know every designer puts a lot of time and effort into their work and I believe every creation is unique.

I am sorry that you dont find this set unique. I will try better next time.

I totally understand. I apologize for the way I came off and implying/saying that your set is not good, as I really like it. I was just expressing concern over the 3 IC part, but mentioning cash-grabbiness was disrespectful. Sorry about that.

[nvh2092]

This looks pretty good but not really a fan of uv printing.

Just to add to this, I think maybe white accents with red legends would look good. Then some of the novelties can use red as an outline on white caps to look like koi fish and use double shot. Obviously without uv printing, the novelties won't look quite as nice, but I feel like you could still have really good looking koi novelties that will last a long time. I also really like the novelties with the stones and those should also convert to double shot easily.

As for the kitting, it looks like there are some duplicate keys where you might've forgotten to change them to mod keys. Also I feel like there should be an option for normal colored super.

Other than that, I actually like this set quite a bit and think it has a ton of potential. There aren't that many GMK sets that I like and only a few that I would ever buy, but I would actually consider buying this. GLWIC

Thanks a lot for the response. Can you please leave your feedback in the IC form because then we would have a more structured way to look at the changes required to be implemented.

I will ask GMK about the pricing because DS with UV will be probably more expensive than only UV. We will see what GMK tells us and what can be achieved with this design.

For Kiting: I still cant see what is wrong with the mod keys. Could you please point them out. I must have missed somehow.
Regarding the super keys, although it would add 4 keys its quite doable. I might add it.

Lastly, your last comment is really appreciated!!! Thanks again.

Yeah, I left a little more detailed feedback in the IC form. Right now, the backspace and arrows legends are alpha colored and the extra tilde and pipe are alpha colored and not mod colored. I guess I don't understand why the super keys are using alpha legends and not mod.

Echo

[Steelbloo]

Isn't this your 3rd set in IC right now? Outside of that looks nice but I wonder if you'll be able to keep up with 3 sets at once

Thanks for the kind words.

Every set has a different timelines / schedules and distributed work load.
Work on Pharaoh has been over for months.

I would not post anything which is not doable from my part and I wont be juggling projects.

I understand. It just kinda feels weird to have 3 IC's running, it comes off a little cash rabby I guess? Especially because they aren't super unique colorways or anything..

IC is Interest Check where I pitch my idea for the community to see. I dont see a problem as long as its close to the final product I would want to create. I am sure no one will complain about the structure and quality of any IC I post.

Secondly, GMK takes months for quotes and getting big vendors takes even more months. So, a lot of future planning is required to execute a set at this level.

Thirdly, it takes months of brainstorming, drawing and rendering to execute an IC like this.

As a designer, I am sure you already know about these things.

But ofcourse, if someone just made a mono colored set with a very common color and without any novelties, I could say that its just "cash grabby"
but I wont because I know every designer puts a lot of time and effort into their work and I believe every creation is unique.

I am sorry that you dont find this set unique. I will try better next time.

I know this response wasn't meant to be a direct subliminal but the fact that it was is hilarious

[SxM Designs]

Isn't this your 3rd set in IC right now? Outside of that looks nice but I wonder if you'll be able to keep up with 3 sets at once

Thanks for the kind words.

Every set has a different timelines / schedules and distributed work load.
Work on Pharaoh has been over for months.

I would not post anything which is not doable from my part and I wont be juggling projects.

I understand. It just kinda feels weird to have 3 IC's running, it comes off a little cash rabby I guess? Especially because they aren't super unique colorways or anything..

IC is Interest Check where I pitch my idea for the community to see. I dont see a problem as long as its close to the final product I would want to create. I am sure no one will complain about the structure and quality of any IC I post.

Secondly, GMK takes months for quotes and getting big vendors takes even more months. So, a lot of future planning is required to execute a set at this level.

Thirdly, it takes months of brainstorming, drawing and rendering to execute an IC like this.

As a designer, I am sure you already know about these things.

But ofcourse, if someone just made a mono colored set with a very common color and without any novelties, I could say that its just "cash grabby"
but I wont because I know every designer puts a lot of time and effort into their work and I believe every creation is unique.

I am sorry that you dont find this set unique. I will try better next time.

I totally understand. I apologize for the way I came off and implying/saying that your set is not good, as I really like it. I was just expressing concern over the 3 IC part, but mentioning cash-grabbiness was disrespectful. Sorry about that.

Yeah it felt weird getting such comments from a fellow designer but constructive criticism is always acceptable.
Thanks for clearing it out!  Seriously no hard feelings!

[hayasaka]

Looks nice!

GLWIC

[LittleAad]

I don’t know how I feel about the 2 bases. I think it would be good to go with the one base that sticks to theme better. Other than that it looks good! Koi deskmat super neat glwic.

[jagger27]

Any chance of running this on JTK with triple shots instead?

Edit: ne 1.5U supers

[bball2]

Those novelties look dope!

[SxM Designs]

Thanks for the response. I will respond to each comment tomorrow. Its really late rn. Need sleep 

[doggo1dance]

Isn't this your 3rd set in IC right now? Outside of that looks nice but I wonder if you'll be able to keep up with 3 sets at once

Thanks for the kind words.

Every set has a different timelines / schedules and distributed work load.
Work on Pharaoh has been over for months.

I would not post anything which is not doable from my part and I wont be juggling projects.

I understand. It just kinda feels weird to have 3 IC's running, it comes off a little cash rabby I guess? Especially because they aren't super unique colorways or anything..

quite rich coming from a designer that came out with a "simple purple set" that isnt really unique or whatever i guess.

[bby]

I love where this set is going and I would/will definitely be getting a base kit, novelties, and both deskmats. I also admire how well you've responded to criticism so far. glwic

[IMZO]

i actually like the uv printed novelties, will certainly grab base+novs..

[Banned]

Isn't this your 3rd set in IC right now? Outside of that looks nice but I wonder if you'll be able to keep up with 3 sets at once

Thanks for the kind words.

Every set has a different timelines / schedules and distributed work load.
Work on Pharaoh has been over for months.

I would not post anything which is not doable from my part and I wont be juggling projects.

I understand. It just kinda feels weird to have 3 IC's running, it comes off a little cash rabby I guess? Especially because they aren't super unique colorways or anything..

quite rich coming from a designer that came out with a "simple purple set" that isnt really unique or whatever i guess.

Sorry :/ I have already apologized to SxM for my dumb comment, but I deserved that.

[SxM Designs]

This looks pretty good but not really a fan of uv printing.

Just to add to this, I think maybe white accents with red legends would look good. Then some of the novelties can use red as an outline on white caps to look like koi fish and use double shot. Obviously without uv printing, the novelties won't look quite as nice, but I feel like you could still have really good looking koi novelties that will last a long time. I also really like the novelties with the stones and those should also convert to double shot easily.

As for the kitting, it looks like there are some duplicate keys where you might've forgotten to change them to mod keys. Also I feel like there should be an option for normal colored super.

Other than that, I actually like this set quite a bit and think it has a ton of potential. There aren't that many GMK sets that I like and only a few that I would ever buy, but I would actually consider buying this. GLWIC

Thanks a lot for the response. Can you please leave your feedback in the IC form because then we would have a more structured way to look at the changes required to be implemented.

I will ask GMK about the pricing because DS with UV will be probably more expensive than only UV. We will see what GMK tells us and what can be achieved with this design.

For Kiting: I still cant see what is wrong with the mod keys. Could you please point them out. I must have missed somehow.
Regarding the super keys, although it would add 4 keys its quite doable. I might add it.

Lastly, your last comment is really appreciated!!! Thanks again.

Yeah, I left a little more detailed feedback in the IC form. Right now, the backspace and arrows legends are alpha colored and the extra tilde and pipe are alpha colored and not mod colored. I guess I don't understand why the super keys are using alpha legends and not mod.

Thanks for the feedback. I did go over the form to check your comment. I will try to provide some explanation.

The backspace/ arrow and tilde/pipe have legends with accent colors by design. I missed the extra keys last time and they are removed now.
I wanted to visualize a pond where the traditional mod legends(white) just did not provide that chaosness. It was, as some one already pointed out " organized chaos"

The whole intention of having the Latin base was to provide an alternative clean set. The accent colored super adds a bit of chaos to the set. However, it also brings the super clean look a bit down. I am not adverse to changes and if more people dont want it I will make those super keys mod colored.
Another alternative ( doable but expensive) is to add 4 mod legended super keys to the latin base.

I hope I could explain myself. If not, feel free to ask again. I would be happy to answer any further things.

[SxM Designs]

Any chance of running this on JTK with triple shots instead?

No I wont be running this with JTK triple shot. The main reason being, I am sure it would not bring any more value to this set in terms of design/ quality or even lead times.

[SxM Designs]

I don’t know how I feel about the 2 bases. I think it would be good to go with the one base that sticks to theme better. Other than that it looks good! Koi deskmat super neat glwic.

Thanks for the kind feedback Aad. Really happy you like the set and deskmats!

The main reason for providing 2 bases is to cater to a larger audience. Both kits stick to the theme but some people prefer a cleaner looking set than others.
However, the main concern here is MOQ and quotes from GMK. Vendors will play an important role here when it comes to this stage.

[TKLiongOnly]

Beautiful. Reserved my wallet!

[Cylent]

Solid set and IC. I think it's really weird to have the supers as a different legend color from the different mods. The lettering on the cap sizes is too small for me to see easily. Other than those minor nitpicks it's a great set that clearly has had a lot of work put into it. GLWIC!

[trung11.kb]

I really like the novelties! This is probably just a minor and probably local thing, but have you considered a more orange-red than the current red-red? The koi fish that I've encountered at least are more orange than red.

[SxM Designs]

Reserved

Here starts my quest trying to answer every comments Wish me luck.


Btw, I guess this IC officially belongs to you now 

[sup3r170va]

Have you considered going for JTK which can do triple shot legends?

[azzipa]

Reserved

Here starts my quest trying to answer every comments Wish me luck.


Btw, I guess this IC officially belongs to you now 

i wish i understood why anyone other than the OP would post "reserved" - are they really going to come back and update their post? are they expressing interest and making a reservation to purchase? and why can't they wait to post until OP gets reply #1? i am so confused at this trend. oh well. glwic 

[SxM Designs]

Have you considered going for JTK which can do triple shot legends?

I did reply regarding this earlier. Here is a copy paste.

No I wont be running this with JTK triple shot. The main reason being, I am sure it would not bring any more value to this set in terms of design/ quality or even lead times.

[SxM Designs]

Reserved

Here starts my quest trying to answer every comments Wish me luck.


Btw, I guess this IC officially belongs to you now 

i wish i understood why anyone other than the OP would post "reserved" - are they really going to come back and update their post? are they expressing interest and making a reservation to purchase? and why can't they wait to post until OP gets reply #1? i am so confused at this trend. oh well. glwic 

Probably a meme at this point 

[SxM Designs]

I really like the novelties! This is probably just a minor and probably local thing, but have you considered a more orange-red than the current red-red? The koi fish that I've encountered at least are more orange than red.

Thanks for the kind words.

I completely agree with you regarding the color being close to red than orange. The reddish orange is GMK stock R02 is is closest stock to color I want. There is another stock orange called GMK V2 which is too orange GMK V1 is also there but its not that bright. The fact that introducing a custom color for such a small thing would mean a significant increase in price. I dont think its worth the money to switch to a custom color for the orange.

[atyxiao]

Love the deskmats. Is the mat black or a deep navy?

[SxM Designs]

Love the deskmats. Is the mat black or a deep navy?

Actually its a deep navy blue 

[Rocket]

No UK vender? Sadge