Winners of a full set of all four new GorillaPod Original hues are … 

Gian Pacaña for My Color Inspirations – Red is the New Black! 

Meghan Hare for Color Inspiration ~ PINK!,  Color Inspiration ~ LIME!,  Color Inspiration ~ BLU, and GorillaPod Love – Color Inspiration ~ RED

Michelle Vanstrom for Wrapped Up In Color #GorillaPodLove

Susan Lawrence for Color Inspiration Pink & Fuchsia

Teresa Reid for Plum Crazy

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Winners of a GorillaPod Original in the color of their choice are … 

Adeline Burke for Color Inspiration – Taste the Rainbow

Annabelle Pamisa for Pieces from the Land of the Rising Sun

Danielle Green for Color Inspiration – Blue 

Dawn Phimister for Color Inspiration – Orange and Color Inspiration – Lime Green

Elise Marks for My Color Inspirations – Fuchsia 

Elliot Gear for My Colour Inspirations

Jodie Jeweler for GorillaPodLove

Jun for GorillaPod <3 Sky Inspiration 

Katy Derby for Color Inspiration – Fuchsia 

Maraina Brown for All About Orange 

Mark Elliot for Color Inspiration – Lime Green 

Samuel Dantowitz for My Color Inspirations – #GorillaPodLove

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Thanks to everyone for pinning! We loved seeing your color inspirations!

If you are a winner, please email community@joby.com to collect your prize!

More details on how to pin and win are here! Give them a glance and start sharing your color story with us today!

Maybe you’re wondering how we chose the four new GorillaPod colors? Well, satisfy your curiosity by reading all about the inspiration behind the hues and the JOBY design process!

Or maybe you want to watch a snazzy video of GorillaPod Original in action? Watch and be amazed at the GorillaPod wrapping and bending skills of the JOBY Team as they give GorillaPod Original a tour of our home base, San Francisco.

Our GorillaPod Original is no stranger to color. In fact, we’ve almost wrapped the entire rainbow of primary and secondary colors around those little ball and socket legs.

But this time, we decided we wanted to adorn our GorillaPod with four completely fresh colors!  Colors that departed from the realm of simple red, orange or yellow and embraced the complex pallet that surrounds us everyday.

JOBY lead product designer Eric says that “every JOBY design project starts with a good look out into the world”. With this new color project “we wanted to express the fun and creativity that comes with our products, as well as the great outdoors where they work so well”.

Gather Inspiration

First, our design team gathered inspiration from all around them. From super cars to fashion runways, from flowers to consumer products, they took it all in.

Eric, who lead the project, tends to travel a lot for JOBY and he is always taking photographs and grabbing clips from magazines. He was most attracted to images that challenged the conventions of style, design and color. Companies that took a unique approach to fashion design, product design or photography and weren’t afraid to stretch the limits of creativity really caught Eric’s eye. Can you blame him? Innovation is always more interesting!

Create a Mood Board 

Eric complied his stash of inspirational images into a big board of color! By seeing all of the images arranged together, he could get a more refined idea of where color trends were going for spring and summer. Eric discovered that color had moved far beyond primary and secondary colors into the realm of complex tertiary colors like chartreuse, indigo, aqua and ochre.

The colors showcased on Eric’s mood board are tertiary colors that are popular right now throughout America, Europe and Asia. ”It blows me away how trends can find their way around the globe so quickly these days!”  he said.

Narrow it Down

Certain colors in the mood board stood out more to Eric. He pulled those colors aside and consolidated his inspiration board. Eric’s goal was to create a unified color pallet that was modern and fresh. He chose colors that resonated with him emotionally—hues that were not only pretty, but ones he thought would inspire creativity in others as well.

“We decided to create a harmonic palette of bright, cheery tertiary colors. What makes this harmonic palette so special is that you can mix and match any of these colors with another color in the palette and they always look great together,” Eric said.

Eric’s final color choices were fuchsia, lime green, sky blue and charcoal. The end result—fresh, fun and photo-inspiring GorillaPods!

To celebrate the four fresh hues, we’re hosting a Wrapped Up In Color Contest on Pinterest. Share your color story with JOBY by pinning the colorful photos that inspire you this season for a chance to win one of our brand new GorillaPods (or even a set of all of four)! For more details on how to pin and win, visit JOBY’s Wrapped Up In Color Contest.

In honor of our four new colors, we created a brand new GorillaPod Original demo video! Follow the JOBY Team as we bend and wrap GorillaPod Original all over San Francisco!

To keep the GorillaPod color celebration going, we’re also hosting Wrapped Up In Color, a color inspiration contest on Pinterest. Share the colors that inspire you this season for a chance to win a brand new GorillaPod Original (or even a set of all four!). All the details on how to pin and win right here!

Blogger? Member of the press? Here is our GorillaPod Orginal press release and additional images.