I would gladly put down the pre-order BTC in the escrow if Cryptolator can get the Ant 1oz and the B 1oz design . Those are cool designs. I am pretty sure the bitcointalk community would support your projects and do a pre-order thru an escrow. The problem with the Coinographic is they put an extraodinary super high premium on their coins that they don't get much orders.
While those designs are cute and all, they does not mean anything, they are thoughtless and are not appealing to me in term of message or image. I've putted a lot of efforts and references in my first coin and I do think that it was the best design out of any crypto coins(I know it sounds pretentious, but it is more self satisfaction than anything ). (BTW, What the hell does an ant have to do with Bitcoin(lafontaine fables, maybe...) , and the geared "B" is just lame in my opinion, and I guess, that's only my opinion and I do understand that some peoples like it)
Coinographic was doomed to fail from the beginning, don't know who was running that but it looked like they had some mathematical deficiency. (My two cents).
I am pretty sure that you would all like the next design.