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Hello everyone,

So since many designers have been spamming their logo's in the original heavycoin thread.
I have made this one, spam your logo's here.

BOUNTY: 30k HVC

ETA: NONE
There is no ETA, until the right logo is found the contest will continue.

Rules:
- Only place them once so not pasting the same logo over and over.
- You can change your logo according from feedback from the community.
- But the final judgement will be by keccak.
- Dont flame designs of other people.
- Dont spam your logo's, so when you adjust your current logo, edit your original post, dont repost the same logo.
- If you like a logo, you may comment on it, but dont quote the IMG, to prevent spamming.
- If you have questions about your design or about the contest contact mumbly,
dont contact keccak. mumbly handles the logo contest.

so good luck to you all.

LT & M

Oke guys here are a bunch of logo's home they inspire you to create something great.

https://i.imgur.com/F6KRcOS.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/7TrdsDo.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/CflcIIi.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/9r6gu38.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/80glOSK.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/lXp8KhF.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/ELneONu.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/NkCcdf2.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/41twENC.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/4ktzD39.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/1XD2CdX.png

favicon.ico https://www.dropbox.com/s/zchmb2ueckd147c/favicon.ico (https://www.dropbox.com/s/zchmb2ueckd147c/favicon.ico)

Second concept: (but imho i like the first one)
https://i.imgur.com/VVUBsJS.png

I think that it shows the true power behind the coin. Made with a CPU, for a CPU. And the CPU is EVERYTHING in this CryptoWorld.
Any feedback will be valued  :)


hvc: HHtz6EajeUrzYHsZhGRZJqMTzkFbTTKVA1

http://i.hizliresim.com/xBB0dG.png (http://hizliresim.com/xBB0dG)


http://i.hizliresim.com/e5jyBD.png (http://hizliresim.com/e5jyBD)


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edit: 20.03.2014

 :) :)

http://i.hizliresim.com/KlVkpb.png (http://hizliresim.com/KlVkpb)

http://i.hizliresim.com/Kr7go3.png (http://hizliresim.com/Kr7go3)

Hello,

here's my Heavycoin logo:

http://img.leprosorium.com/2142627

Arrow in "H" symbolise exchange, HVC movement.

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WOW Awesome!!!!!! You have such talent!!!

really nice looking stuff guys  :o

When is the deadline of logos, I can make a decent one if you give me a few days.

Just a quick one ;)

https://i.imgur.com/ouwFI9F.gif

this one is nice , Heavy as hell!

Thanks! ))

can be any color you like

went for a dark red color to represent a heavy presence

the binary code translates to heavy coin and represents democracy, binary/logic is fair like democracy

the rivets represent security and the H represents currency

tried a logo that follows along the lines of bitcoin, litecoin, devcoin etc and original to the developers first design

http://s28.postimg.org/hz2snjqyl/heavycoin.png

http://s11.postimg.org/6zd8px1oz/heavycoin_promo.png

http://s30.postimg.org/btpf8btkh/heavycoin_a_color.png

http://s30.postimg.org/jwnljne5t/heavycoin_d_color.png

http://s30.postimg.org/x0b0n235d/hvc_wrecking_ball.png


 ;D

got my vote

Another work :)

http://i.hizliresim.com/eXzP90.jpg (http://hizliresim.com/eXzP90)

http://i.hizliresim.com/KrG41V.png (http://hizliresim.com/KrG41V)

changed the design a little bit and made it gold


http://s29.postimg.org/bz6bhqkef/heavycoin_gold_1a.png

My submission :)

https://i.imgur.com/WNEq5sE.jpg

MY 4th Work

http://i.hizliresim.com/xVJ9on.jpg (http://hizliresim.com/xVJ9on)

http://i.hizliresim.com/KlgqJX.png (http://hizliresim.com/KlgqJX)

Hey guys, great work, especially to the folks who've iterated their designs

This is going to be like the third time I've said this, but it's not on this thread so far, last time in case any new designers didn't see the previous thread.

Please be aware that I have no influence on the choice of the design chosen to win the bounty, that is 100% keccak. I'm just a mod trying to offer constructive feedback and you can PM me if you have questions or would like someone to bounce ideas off of if you feel like you're getting stuck. Any feedback is only my opinion and is not feedback from the devs.

@swraka - you sonuvabitch - I'm a grown man and yet you made me lol.

@ckybe - wow, well done mate, looks nice - have you played around with making the cog teeth longer/wider if that makes sense?

@crazy58 - some nice work there mate, personally I really like the hammer you added and interesting colour choices. Only thing I would suggest is the form of the weight bench element doesn't quite work for me, I'm sorry to be vague here it's just difficult to articulate - would you like to add a little bit of description about the thinking behind your designs maybe the group can offer some suggestions?

still @crazy58 - your fourth design is really interesting man, I'm kind of in to it - same as above, do you think you could add a bit of a description about how you got there / what your thinking is?

@luckytiger - dude, the Atlas figure under the coin looks excellent, love it. Have you tried using that figure with the previous coin design you used, I really liked that one.

@mymenace - wow - adding the gold has jumped the design forward 100% IMHO. I'm editing an old comment that was directed to you, if you missed it, the thought occurred to me that the BTC logo is gold, the LTC coin is silver - the heaviest precious metal is Platinum (and worth more than gold *cough cough*), just thought that was interesting.

@BoubonicNugz - super clean man, although to me, the lines on the side of the h look a little like an antenna. I really like the font you've used - is it a free font or a licensed one? I think we need to be careful about that.

Finally, people have asked both myself and LuckyTiger if there is a deadline for this. We are not aware of one and we've reached out to keccak for direction here.

Cheers,
M

Hey thank you! I'm glad you like it! )

Here's some cogs improvements:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4267733/HeavyCoin/HeavyCoin_B1.jpg

And second:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4267733/HeavyCoin/HeavyCoin_B2.jpg

Hey ckybe - again, nice work man - to my mind the fewer teeth in the cog the more and more I like it (although any less than eight teeth and the effect is probably reduced, nice point to limit it to).

Maybe I'm reading more in to your design than intended, but I personally like that the shape of the cog kind of suggests that it does something.

Let me repost something I mentioned in the old thread - practical/sanity tests for our logo:

We have to concede that some of our opinions will be subjective and some will need to answer the question: what practical function should the logo perform to fit our needs?

I would like to suggest the following tests, if you have any other suggestions for logo tests please share.

Here are the tests I propose:

Standout test - substitute the logo with one from the homepage of poloniex.com - how does it differentiate itself from the other coins, how much attention does it grab (without being florescent green).

size text - how does it look as a favicon.ico - sanity check that small size works

reddit sub page heading - I don't think we need to mock a heading up from scratch, but we should take a moment to consider this - how does it look in context for a given example - I'm hoping that this will also inform us on placing/spacing rules for the logo when we get to brand guidelines


By all means please don't feel the need to post these tests for every idea - the idea right now is to innovate logos, when we think we're getting closer to a decision I would like to suggest that we use these tests as a way of bench-marking designs.

Please note - these should be goals for the coin logo, not rules - any goal can be broken if we feel we have a strong enough reason to break it.

Hakuna Matata
(yes, the lion king is playing on my TV in background. No, I'm not sure why...)

M

Hi folks,

We've all been working very hard at making logos, let me mix things up and give you a game.

This is a special edition of drunkenmumbly presents (i.e. I'm drunk and spending HVC when I should know better):

- 100HCV reward (personally from mumbly)
- no time limit
- first correct answer in my PM box gets the reward
- winner gets congrats on this thread (inc the 100HVC - mumbly's coins)
- if no correct answers after 48hrs I will give a hint and then more hints each 48hrs until solved and won
- this is designed to out gun the google sleuths, but best of luck to you

The quiz:
Unisys is a large company which we have all heard of.

They have more than a 100 year tradition of acquiring companies, changing names, and acquiring new names/companies that they have absorbed.

There is a very special company in this mix, one that would produce one of the most important authors of the 20th century.

An outsider, this author would go on to write a book that to this day is published by Penguin Classics and has been made in to a movie.

But on one very tragic day this author called out to play a game and killed someone very close him as a result

First person to PM me:
Name of the author
Name of the movie based on his book (inc IMDB link)
His relationship to Unisys
The name of his victim and the relationship to his victim
The name of the fatal game they played

Gets 100HVC  (personally from mumbly)

Double reward (200HVC personally from mumbly) if solved within two hours of this being posted + public acknowledgement that my game is weak and your Google Sleuthing (or general knowledge) is strong.

This is an experiment - send me your answers or otherwise tell me that my game is lame, low incentive, or too hard/too easy.

PM Bump me if it's time to release a new clue (48hrs from now) and I haven't posted one yet.

Hey :)

Here's some graphics:

Poloniex looks great:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4267733/HeavyCoin/HVT_Pol.jpg

Favicons looks awesome:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4267733/HeavyCoin/Hvy-16.jpg


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4267733/HeavyCoin/Hvy-16-2.jpg


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4267733/HeavyCoin/HVY-16-3.jpg

great good looking design, tip tho next time you make a small change like just only the teeth, put them in the same post.
dont create a new post for it, mumbly will review all posts in seconds, so creating a new post is just coming to spamming logo's
something we are trying to prevent.

Ok I see ) Thanks!

I like this one the most!
It's clean but in the same time represents the strength and stability that a coin must have!
Great job!!!

Thanks!

+100  Well done.

Well done guys!

Quiz Update!

As drunkenmumbly fades now returns a hungover and poorer regular mumbly....

Congratulations to our own swraka who smoked the quiz and has earned himself double rewards!

Special mentions to the following members who also answered correctly in a very short time:
- MysticalPotato
- coinsocieties

As these members correctly responded, the answer was:

Name of the author: William S. Burroughs
Name of the movie based on his book (inc IMDB link): Naked Lunch (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/?ref_=nm_knf_t1)
His relationship to Unisys: grandson of the inventor and founder of the Burroughs Corporation, which later became Unisys
The name of his victim and the relationship to his victim: Joan Vollmer, his wife
The name of the fatal game they played: William Tell game (shooting a water tumbler on her head)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs

Now the least favourite part....


I, mumbly, humbly acknowledge that my game is weak and swraka's game is far, far superior. Today, I have officially been schooled :)


Cheers,
M

Submission #2 :)

https://i.imgur.com/38fFVYN.jpg

- New approach, went away from the antenna looking attempt at weights.  Kept it simple and clean still, but brought in a touch of CPU flair.  Does your eye catch the 'Power Button'?  I am obviously quite partial to this color, it distinctly represents something strong and helpful, yet maintains a confident calmness as well.  In my opinion, it's presents a stronger look than say Intel or IBM's logo.  It's definitely the strongest looking logo in the coin bunch below.

- The font used is Gotham Rounded.  It *is* a commercially licensed font.  http://www.typography.com/fonts/gotham-rounded/styles/screensmart/ (http://www.typography.com/fonts/gotham-rounded/styles/screensmart/)

https://i.imgur.com/2XwIqj1.jpg

- Stands out quite nicely among the rest

https://i.imgur.com/gCsWUtk.jpg

- Works nicely as a favicon as well

+1 ;)

Wow. I've been in the race. Congrats to winner swraka. As is the first quiz from you, you could consider small donations to me and MysticalPotato. Still plan some heavy quiz and host it with bigger price, you will be crowded with lot  of people. Good luck.

that's nice!

I think this one is good.

one of the gun in his head forced... they like to have posted reviews.. they would not have if they like it or not


I'm not a crook :)

Ok.. so that just happened...

I'm reaching out to the devs and mods now to figure out a solution

Hint: reposting crazy58's designs right now is probably not a good idea.

Cheers,
M

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=513878.msg5677583#msg5677583
+1

i think we made it clear in the first post we dont approve flaming

Hey eightspaces,

Check your PM, when you first mentioned your concerns I PM'd you to start a conversation with you.

Flaming is unnecessary and if nothing else I'm glad we got to page 3 before it became a problem.

LT is being very polite to you, more than I think you deserve at this point.

If you would like to talk I've already put the invite out there.

Cheers,
M

Mumbly, alright, I see your point.

Ok folks - let's let this play out on the sidelines - crazy58 & eightspaces let's not post on this thread for now and talk on the side for a little bit.

*closes curtain* nothing to see here folks

For the love of god please post a logo...

http://i57.tinypic.com/2in5ae.png


 ???

Hey guys,

So we hit a bump in the road but we're back on track.

@BoubonicNugz - dude... when I refresh the page I usually skip through to get an idea of how many new submissions have been put in, but I hit yours and instinctively stopped and looked, that really says something. In your standout test, to me, it's a clear winner. Colour choice is excellent.

One big problem for you - the "h" design is great and a huge step up from the last version - I like how the circle with the vertical line of the h make a power on/off symbol, very clever! The problem after I was looking at your design for a while was I said in my head "wheelchair" and then that was the only thing I could see - a wheelchair logo. Sorry man.

On the font front, thanks for sharing the name, I should have recognised it. You probably already know that for most of these there's a license free knock off version of them, I'll take a look and see if I can find one - either way it's a nice choice.

@Trivelius - nice entry man. solid and clean. I'm not a huge fan of mixing upper case and lower case letters, but personal opinion. I like the idea of the perspective on the "H" - have you played around with other angles? maybe looking up to the H rather than down? - maybe that might open an interesting direction for you?

@coinsocieties - thanks for your feedback, and I take your point. Putting in a bunch of effort to only miss out completely because one person was a little faster sucks. At the same time though changing the rules after the fact seems like a slippery slope. Leave it with me and I will see if I can make this right if I end up doing another one.


Now, to mix things up a little - our "H" symbol

Take another look at Auroacoin - http://auroracoin.org/ - see how they don't use and "A" for their coin design? The symbol they chose is Fehu, the Icelandic symbol for "wealth" (I'm being a little simplistic here, but check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehu)

Are we using the best "H" symbol at our disposal, or is there maybe a more interesting option out there? I've come across this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H_with_stroke seems like an interesting starting point for research.

If you have the inclination, would you like to look in to some options for the H symbol and share them here?

Even if you're not a logo designer, feel free to make a suggestion and don't feel like you have to submit a full logo design with it. :)


Have a good one folks,
M

Damn!  I hate to admit it, but your right.  I didn't see it.  Time to wipe that off the whiteboard.  Thanks for the good initial vibes though ;)


I've looked for good free knock-offs before but there really isn't any.  Gotham Rounded is really in a league of it's own.  There is a license fee for the font, as mentioned above.  If you where to choose one of my designs as a final, I'd go so far as to split the license fee and accept a reduced bounty to see it used.  Personally, I think investing in a timeless look would only benefit the future of the coin.



Interesting - I like the correlation to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_Planck_constant

http://i57.tinypic.com/257gdfn.jpgOk, so its not as good

mine too

http://i.hizliresim.com/wzN826.png (http://hizliresim.com/wzN826) http://i.hizliresim.com/KZlvn0.png (http://hizliresim.com/KZlvn0) http://i.hizliresim.com/xGjqAy.png (http://hizliresim.com/xGjqAy)

A quick revision using the Planck constant

https://i.imgur.com/hQdX1eg.jpg

Another idea - bringing back the Power On/Off imagery.  This one to me is quite simple yet intriguing.  The negative effect at the top draws your eye to the center of the logo.  While I like the HC with the extending 'coin line' through the C, I'm not sure I am sold on it.  Thoughts?

https://i.imgur.com/Nya6sxj.jpg

very very nice +++  :P

Something a touch different but keeping along the lines of the 'Power Button' imagery.

https://i.imgur.com/8zDWS5N.jpg

Some great work happening today guys - keep it up!

I came across this just now and thought you all might appreciate it :)

Your inspirational quote for the day:

"How does everyone feel about the B symbol with the two lines through the outside? Can we live with that as our logo?"
- Satoshi Nakamoto, Feb. 26, 2010


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Thought I'd edit rather then spam the thread, hope everyone is having/had a good day.

@Mjbmonetarymetals - hey mate - from your previous posts, it looks like there was another design you submitted which I missed - sorry! had no idea.

Solid entry man, I quite like the flip over of colours as the logo gets smaller. I had a random idea a while back for the coin colour being Plaitinum, i.e. = heaviest precious metal. It's a bit of a *boom tish* but I kind of liked it - your username would suggest you might have an opinion on this?

@JamesR1 - don't put yourself down man - you're trying something, that's all you need to be doing. I think the design you posted would probably get complicated fast when you size it down, but if we're not exploring everything we miss out on trying a bunch of ideas - stick at it

@crazy58 - PM finally replied to mate

@BoubonicNugz - the foundation is so solid man, three solid entries today.

Planck version - I like it - have you played around with making the character heavier? I really like the Planck constant - would be a amazing if we could figure out how to tie the symbol to the coin's idea, but might be a step too far. One small but interesting advantage of this symbol is that we have a html character ready to go for this - ℏ - if we ever need to list the price of something in HVC we can use this character - I know this is something the Bitcoin community is trying to figure out at the moment with online carts.

Second version - again, and as always from you, great work - only thing I wanted to suggest to you is figure out how to center the two characters so that the second vertical line of the H meets (maybe even connects?) with your top line in the center - I like how that top line breaks the shape up though.

Third one - I can't tell if this is even a good idea or not - how does it look if the H gaps are the same width as the C line? I guess it would be committing to the power icon, but maybe we could still see the H in there? not sure.

re: fonts - I agree, I think it's worth going to whatever lengths we need to keep it. I found a few knock offs and you're right, they all look a little "meh" in comparison, I tried to see if we could sneak the official font past font squirrel but that was also a no go.

I appreciate your dedication to offer up some bounty to buy a license, but if you end up with the terrible burden of winning the bounty we should be able to figure something out before it comes to that :)

@Trivelius - you're on to something man - I like the right offset - I like the position of the two vertical lines of the H, do you think there might be a different treatment for the horizontal H line? It feels a little thick to me. I would definitely keep working on this direction.

@anonymousxx1503 - dude! glad you made it across to this thread. I love what you've done to the H shape - it almost looks like two "pi-ish" symbols, really interesting.

One thing I wanted to point out to you in the standout test on Poloniex - I know it's only a visual trick and not actually the case - do you see how it looks like the border is thinner on the left then on the right? Maybe lowering the contrast between the two sides might even it up? what do you think?



One last thing I wanted to put past you kind folks - I was talking to a creative director friend of mine today and showed her some of the logos. One point that she made is that the forum is most likely heavily skewed towards men (and I think we would all expect this to be true).

She just left a note that from her perspective when she designs she finds that she needs to be careful about not designing for a particular sex, or her own biases being a woman, she just had general feedback for us to be mindful that we are most likely male and this coin is not just for us, but for everyone.

The way she put it was - "Think Point of Sale, think friendly"

This doesn't apply to anyone in particular, I showed her probably 20 random logos over a few minutes, so it's just a general suggestion she thought might open up some new ideas for us.

This kind of gives me an idea for a point of sale test - kind of a "we accept bitcoins" kind of sign - if I have an idea for it I'll float it her for you guys.

Cheers,
M

 :) :)

http://i.hizliresim.com/KlVkpb.png (http://hizliresim.com/KlVkpb)

http://i.hizliresim.com/Kr7go3.png (http://hizliresim.com/Kr7go3)

Yeah you're right, it's a visual trick caused by the way the shadow hits. At smaller resolutions I will fix this and even smaller I'll remove textures to keep it looking really clean. I'll show you an example later today if I can get some time.

Wow! I liked crazy58's work, it best fits for HVC!
Here is his works on this topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=513878.msg5677583#msg5677583

edit:
I saw this work of @crazy58 later, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=513878.msg5744987#msg5744987

This one is cooler!

Logo competition - My entry  8)
http://s27.postimg.org/xo5awk8zn/Heavy_Coin_1fa.jpg

Hope my Latin is correct, any changes let me know.

Heavy - gravitas

Coin - Solidus

Secure - Cautela

Exchange - Muto

Only just noticed this.

1) does this mean all previous entries are not up to scratch

2) is there a prize for winning this contest if that is what it is


Appreciate some feedback, may the best design be chosen.

Hey mymenace,

Just wanted to at least acknowledge that your message has been seen, I'll reach out to everyone and see if we can get you some clarity on this one.

Cheers,
M

Hey guys,

Ok, this might be a bit of a spammy night from me, apologies in advance.

I have talked to the team tonight to confirm the details of how the competition will be run, and I want to share with you what winning the competition/bounty will look like so everyone has the same information.


This is what winning/finishing this competition will look like, and what will have to happen for the bounty to be paid out:


1) Keccak512 and nomisugi will be reviewing logos on XX_FIRST_REVIEW_XX day and either post their feedback/notes or send it to me.

2) They may not mention every single entry and just explain which ones they like, what they think is heading in an interesting direction, or simply not interested in.

3) From that point they will review new submissions after the initial review and give selective feedback at XX_HOW_OFTEN_XX interval.

4) They may see an entry they like and call the competition over, or they may choose to sit with a design they think may win for some time so they can live with it for a little while before confirming.

5) They may not see one entry they like at all and call the competition over, they may see several they like and open it up to the community to share their opinion and get a sense of consensus.

6) Once the logo winner is chosen, they do not directly get the bounty. If you look at the announce thread where the bounties are listed, you'll see that this bounty is for a logo and a brand styleguide

7) Once the winner is selected, I will work with the winner to produce the brand styleguide. Don't worry if you are not familiar with this process, I have gone through this process many times and can walk you through it and help you get it finished. (for the most part, it's dotting I's and crossing T's to make sure the original designer doesn't need to be involved every time the logo/brand is used)

8 ) Once the brand styleguide is completed, everything will be re-subbmited to keccak512 and nomisugi for confirmation. If accepted, the bounty will be released.


Final confirmation, the bounty for the person who is chosen and completes the styleguide with me is 30,000HVC (to be clear they get 30k HCV, it's not split with me).


Now there are two very important points I want to talk about with this:


This is a lot of new information/confirmation coming at you all very quickly

I know for some people the instinctive response will be that they are annoyed and want to express that.

I'm asking you, read this, take an hour, take two hours, and let it sink in.

However you feel after that, if you want to share your opinions, PM me, I'll read them.

The worst thing that could happen right now is that this whole thread is thrown in to chaos and becomes side tracked with conversation about this process and not about the task we are here for.

Please, take an hour or two. After that, here is what I would like you to do if you feel the following way:
- annoyed: PM me
- frustrated: PM me
- confused: PM me
- aroused: PM swraka

Last option is of course you think whatever you think, so post whatever you please (no flamming of course), I'm not trying to run everything, just trying to recognise that this could derail the thread and if you want to contact me to talk about it first - please, do it.

If I end up with a bunch of PM feedback, I'll either consolidate it here and try to reduce it down to a list of problems or concerns from everyone and let you know what I'm going to go back to the devs and mods with, or post an FAQ so everyone is working with the same information.


Timeframes for reviews

So we have mostly agreed to explicit details of how this competition will play out, but we have two big variables left that need to be addressed and shared with all of you (from the points above):

1) XX_FIRST_REVIEW_XX - when will the first review of all of the current logos be done and have some feedback provided

3) XX_HOW_OFTEN_XX - how often after that will the devs review submissions and provide some feedback

There are two forces at work against each other here and we need to handle them properly.

You all would naturally want feedback as soon as you can get it so you know where you stand in this competition, I want the devs to give us times but I want to give them the chance to look at their schedules and give me a time they can lock in for us.

Normally, the first thing that happens when you are asked for a time is you try to give a time that makes people as happy as you can. These usually fail because most of us have an impulse to give our most optimistic answer and not the most likely.

I've just gotten the above information so I am sharing it with you all asap, my next step is to talk to the guys and ask them to commit to a time, but also to give them a chance to actually look at their schedule and give me a time that's both realistic but also accounts for something in their plan blowing out.

We know that they have just released a coin and they are busy, but also our efforts here should be (and are) important to them. My next goal is to get a realistic commitment from the guys and then hassle the shit out of them if it stars slipping.

Just be aware that if there are signs that the agreed schedule starts to slip, we shouldn't immediately call 'fail'. If you notice before me that response times are failing, PM me. Then the whole process stops and I go back to the devs and tell them that they need to fix their shit. The idea of getting a time commitment here is that both sides respect how important the other's time is.


One last time - this is a lot of information to put to you all - please let it sink in and if you don't mind PM me your feedback so we can keep this all on topic, but the choice is yours.

Cheers,
M


edit: well, I say "edit" but what I mean is: there are typos, but I'm far too lazy to correct them...

My submission:

omg ? look this link..

heavyco.de  (http://heavyco.de)

are you kidding us ?

Yep. Thats me. A friend told me about this comp

They never paid me and havent returned an email this year, so I think the rights are mine

What's this about what the site ?

Thanks to all who are submitting proposed logos.. Please keep them coming.

my design other page does not appear in the eye.... Whether this page in so good :)


:) :)

http://i.hizliresim.com/KlVkpb.png (http://hizliresim.com/KlVkpb)

http://i.hizliresim.com/Kr7go3.png (http://hizliresim.com/Kr7go3)

One more try  ;D


http://i61.tinypic.com/28lceb6.png


http://i58.tinypic.com/k4v5v5.png

Wow there are some very interesting designs here! :)

Can't wait to see what the new look of Heavycoin will be!

may I ask what's the reward? I'm just curious.

Hey guys,

@Bitcrea - Hi man, welcome. The reward is 30,000 HVC - all the details are in my unnecessarily long message above :)

@AltcoinAuthority - couldn't agree more man! great work guys.

@Mjbmonetarymetals - submitted just as I was about to post - wow man, nice work


I'm taking a look at everyone's work at the moment to see if there are any (hopefully) useful suggestions I can offer, I'll update this post later on today.

Cheers,
M

wow "S" size is so simple and strong enough... i realy realy like it and the heavycoin text logo is beautiful. Keep on working man!

P.S.That's my favourite  ;)

Thought I'd have a go one last time and for a bit of fun.
http://i58.tinypic.com/b4t0li.png
http://i57.tinypic.com/1178brn.pnghttp://i62.tinypic.com/5fpt1z.png

Wow.  Very nice and professional looking.

So far these

#66
#22
#76
#73
#57

seem to be on the right track

Hi everyone, and congratulations to those mentioned in keccak512's post

The offer always stands, contact me if you want someone to bounce around ideas with when thinking about your next iteration.

For the new submissions:

@CoinExchange - good shape man, with the Latin you used it looks like there might be an imbalance in the left vs. the right side (one long word opposite a short one), Have you thought about evening these words out? If you want to play with this I found a couple of samples you might find interesting:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ5uEixHXb591PY354w0bcAwhOpm52CGzMAPkNxwBOmbbMkTFxu
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRHTdmTayyIh_2Vusf4E4YyP2VSbt61e5IwIFOc3YJmsiV6e6nc2w
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSWlL2nKif93rLH82_fBvdEV1Igu5mcqrj8eLFIfnpzu4gd-Adm

For the Latin quote itself, I found this link a few days ago that has a bunch of common Latin expressions, just for inspiration:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(full)

@tighe - you already know that I like this logo, not much to add here

@crazy58 - This is your best work man - congratulations. Keep in mind that we ask you to only post a logo once (I can see this was posted on the last page also)

In any case, you are making great progress with your composition.

@Trivelius - there's a really nice shape to this mate - I'd suggest you play with the absolute white colour in the background - maybe a subtle grey colour would keep the contrast but give the whole design "body"?

@JamesR1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6DmHGYy_xk

@Mjbmonetarymetals - sir, you've been my problem all day :) I've probably spent most of my time trying to find a flaw in your submission, but from a technical point of view, there simply isn't one. Even the shadow on the "H" character is raised to make sure the dimension of the H shape above the coin is maintained.

I don't even need to congratulate you. This is simply perfect execution. To make something like this you know that already.

To top it all off, the "capitol H with a line at the top" character even maps to an existing unicode one: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C4%A6


I mentioned the idea of using a unicode character a few pages back, a very minor concern but if we are successful, could become a consideration in the future.

I found these links that talk about how Bitcoin is trying to solve this problem now:

A site explaining the problem and their idea to change the Bitcoin logo:
http://bitcoinsymbol.org/

A copy of the proposal for the existing Bitcoin logo to be added to the unicode character set:
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11129-bitcoin.pdf

Not a big point, but something a successful crypto-currency will eventually need to address, and I think generally an interesting consideration.


Have a great day guys,

Cheers,
M

http://i61.tinypic.com/k356o3.jpg

Hehe, thought i'd add some comedy. :P

LOL. I got the youtube comment.

I thought it was an interesting thing to do and its interesting to see what kind of things look good.
I think it looks fairly sleezy, but had to find out. Anyway good luck.

Hey hey what about me?) Glad to hear you like it without comments ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY6n5E3leRQ  i leave it here :3

https://i.imgur.com/dqp9SLT.png
https://i.imgur.com/slTdSkO.jpg

Another logo

Thanks to all for your submissions.

Here's some comments on the logos that we thought were stronger candidates.  They are in no particular order, but here are our comments.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4267733/HeavyCoin/HeavyCoin_B2.jpg
Like: like silver metallic shininess of letter; doing something interesting with arrow (shows action?)
Dislike: gear looks KDE-ish; not completely sure about arrow

https://i.imgur.com/eny5C0o.png
Like: different shape, simple, nice that H maps to unicode
Dislike: don't like how additional cross looks

http://i61.tinypic.com/28lceb6.png
Like: textures
Dislike: too complex, h is unclear, colors too dark

https://i.imgur.com/fzo4Qbv.png
Like: concept and design, simple, clever formation of anvil weight from letters, different shape
Dislike: nothing really...
Suggestions:

• maybe the little ring at the top can be removed
• maybe could use some color/texture
• maybe want to lose background and bring the whole thing forward and give it the shape of anvil weight?

https://i.imgur.com/mUoDarS.png
Like: Cool texture, looks heavy
Dislike: feels to much like a "game logo".. too dark. not commercial enough

Overall: Message should not be simply that Heavycoin is heavy, but that it hash substance, as in gold is heavy.

Special thanks: mumbly and luckytiger you're doing an excellent job.

It's not supposed to be based on an anvil but on a weight symbol.

Like this one:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/One-ton_weight.svg

An anvil looks like this (totally different shape):

http://www.blackiron.us/graphics/anvil-parts-txt-1.gif

Thanks.  updated my english.

I think you've got that about right. Those are the one's that impressed me.

I'm glad that you mentioned my logo as one of the top contenders Keccak, I thought maybe I was way off track about what you wanted. I'll make some changes according to all the advice you guys gave out and will definitely resubmit something more to your liking. Thanks for the encouragement.

I wanna contribute!

I'm leaving my examples here:

http://contraasnuvens.com.br/HC-example2.jpg
http://contraasnuvens.com.br/HC-example3.jpg

FYI: It's based on this unicode http://unicode-table.com/en/210D/
so you could use it for money, like: ℍ30,000

It resembles gym weights (heavy) as well as keeping the H intact. Works great on any kind of background and has a damn good reading for the ℍ even if the logo is implemented small on somewhere. It has its full name on top of the coin, not just the symbol, making it easier to understand in the beginning, and already sends a message by poiting this is the first democratic coin.

We could make some imprevements, of course, but I wanted to show you already.
Please tell me what you think.

EDIT, forgot this:

http://contraasnuvens.com.br/poloniex.jpg

See ya!

My next proposal:

http://i57.tinypic.com/dq27tt.png

http://i59.tinypic.com/11syp8o.png

http://i62.tinypic.com/2vm92jt.png

http://i58.tinypic.com/1zbqs7b.png


Inspired by the design of:

http://designshack.net/wp-content/uploads/synergydesign-7.jpg
http://heavyco.de/

Best regards!

I am sorry to announce that your submission has been revoked due too fraud.
Also your account will be banned from this competition.

For anyone else who is thinking about submitting someones else design.
I warn you, there is a chance you will get away with it.
But if you don't all your previous designs will go down the drain as well.

LT

I thought he said that it was his design but that the guy who wanted it done didn't pay him for it ?

LT has been doing some amazing detective work and has identified and made contact with the owner of the image. They are able to prove this if needed.

I've been trying to contact tighe to see if he would like to offer an explanation.

Cheers,
M

Too bad because we liked that one.  Good thing we found out now.  Well done LT!

Pretty much as before only adjusted the cross bar slightly and some of the shading.

https://i.imgur.com/tMIbbR6.png

http://s16.postimg.org/y7041dkxx/heavycoin.png

http://postimg.org/image/frfn3z6td/

next   :)

Hi everyone,

Terrific to see so many new ideas being added

@JamesR1 - I'm glad you enjoyed that :) I absolutely agree with you, as long as we are working on an interesting direction your submission is as valid as any other - plus, it would be a shame if we sucked all the fun out of the thread!

If you're interested in trying out a more fun/playful take on the logo, associations I personally thought were interesting were things like sumo wrestlers and elephants. The analogy is pretty simple and both have fairly iconic shapes that could be worked in, plus could work in a playful direction.

Sumo logos: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=sumo+logo&safe=off&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=u1ouU4C0KYeOkgWXnYG4Aw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1451&bih=825

Elephant logos: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=elephant+logo&safe=off&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=zFouU967OImXkQXA7oCYCg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1451&bih=825

@ckybe - was your last comment to me? Did I miss a submission from you mate? If I have just point me in the right direction.

@desuDeArimasu - Clean animations man! Only thing I would suggest from a timing perspective is how much time the text is on the screen (particularly the longer bits of text).

Something I do when I time animating text on and off the screen is read it out loud to myself, clearly and slow-ish pace - I know for me when I animate text I get familiar with what it says quite easily and can end up speed reading the text and not trying to view it as someone reading it for the first time. Hope that helps.

(oh and the Ultra Secure screen - I think you are missing a space on the last line where it says "theeggs")

@luckytiger - great shape man. Have you tried removing the "heavy" text when you start to take down the size? Even at the Poloniex size it may not be needed and the shape could just breath by itself. That's a legit iconic look man.

@kaduwall - strong entry - great to see you are playing around with the unicode H options. Have you tried making the inside border of the text ring a little more defined? I personally really like the second version in the line of three that you showed - what do you think if you turned off the text for this one and brought up the alpha of the sphere behind it? Could be interesting.

Also for the text, I appreciate the idea of clearly embedding the message of the coin around the edge, but just as something to play with, I posted some reference Latin quotes a few posts back (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(full)), just if you wanted to play with some options.

@Trivelius - solid shapes and really clean. I appreciate you acknowledging your sources and I think your idea is clearly influenced but not derivative of these. Only three things I would suggesst to try  - maybe close the 1px gap between the H and the C to keep things simple. Maybe increase the width of the circle border (I wouldn't want to see it too much thicker, but it looks like there might be a little room). Lastly I'd suggest just keep playing with colour combinations - feel free to PM me if you want to spam me a bunch of colour combinations and talk about it on the side.

@pipipipopopo - wow man, great entry. The H shape that you posted is obviously strong. The animation treatment in the lower right of your second post is simply brilliant, I can picture that so easily, and what you could do with it is endless. Only feedback I could really give you is that I know Keccak has expressed that he would like a logo that it "friendly" and commercially viable, where the aggressiveness of the saw teeth might be leading it away from this direction. But what a great shape to play with.

@BTCspoon - nice way to play with getting the H shape involved in the design, I'd encourage you to keep playing with it.

There's something that really draws the eye you the blue/white design on the top right of your image, I'd be worried that it starts to lose it's "H"-ness but there's something there for sure man. I think it might be the white cutting of on the right makes the it look like a C? Either way, I think if you let yourself fall down that rabbit hole you'll get some interesting results.

@mymenace - hey mate, cool design. I don't know if it;s intentional, but the way you're using that unicode symbol is adding a Japanese-ness that I really like (maybe I'm being crazy about the Japanese-ness, but the best way I can think to describe it). Have you tried pulling the vertical lines in a little bit so that where they intersect with the top vertical line happens inside the border? Also, I'd be tempted to let all the lines of the H character go completely in to the outer border and see what you think of it.


Great ideas guys and if I can say, the general strength of the shapes you guys are creating is so strong at this point - congratulations to all of you.

Cheers,
M

It looks like broadcasting how dumb I am to the Internet is becoming my "thing" :)

Thanks, something more friendly :)

The middle of the H should follow the perspective of the cube. It looks odd like that.

thanks. i try to do something with it ：３

Update:
http://s25.postimg.org/q6ijg798v/Heavy_Coin_1ib.jpghttp://s25.postimg.org/o5wl942hb/Heavy_Coin_1jb.jpghttp://s25.postimg.org/qbqw3m5xr/Heavy_Coin_1kb.jpg
Latin
Heavy - Gravitas
Coin - Solidus
Secure - Cautela
Entrust - Credere

updated version  ;)

http://i58.tinypic.com/25pgtn4.png

I everyone,

Hope you all had a good day.

Nice work with your iterations today - all positive steps to my mind.

@pipipipopopo - great job man. From the first version of your latest design I'd really like to see one that pulls in to the cube shape as much as the first version is pushing it out. The Blue works well, I'd give a go to colouring all of the inside parts some kind of blue and see what you think of if. This is such nice work mate.

@CoinExchange - The new spacing of the words on the outer ring look really good to me man. I (personally) like it all being gold in the body and in the ring rather than the two colours. Either way, cool to see the other colour combinations.

Two ideas if they are of any interest to you:
- For both the shadows and the highlights in the center - they both go to full black and full white - maybe try pulling them back from 100% black/white to, say, 60% and see what you think.

- The main shape in the center, it feels to me like you might like to play with other shapes - maybe a shield shape would be interesting to you? https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1212&bih=820&q=shield+with+H&oq=shield+with+H&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i5l6j0i24.1045.3869.0.4181.13.12.0.1.1.1.546.1763.7j2j2j5-1.12.0....0...1ac.1.37.img..3.10.905.66PViViGeXo#q=shield+shape&safe=off&tbm=isch

Here are a few examples of an H on a shield. Only the first few responses are of any value, but I think you might like the idea of getting a shield shape you like and playing with how the H shape might fit in to them, they seem to go together pretty well:
"H on shield" image search: https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1212&bih=820&q=H+on+shield&oq=H+on+shield&gs_l=img.3...1279.3494.0.3604.11.8.0.3.0.1.249.854.5j1j2.8.0....0...1ac.1.37.img..5.6.559.tTMxlbHWeOs#q=H+on+shield+-wrestling+-circuit&safe=off&tbm=isch

@Trivelius

- I like the thicker border, maybe pull it back by 10%? Really, it's just splitting hairs at this point.

- The vertical alignment of the HC shape inside the circle might be too low? Are you basing the alignment on the top and bottom points of the shape? they look even, I'm looking at the corners of the shape - the two lower ones look closer then the top two - maybe split the difference?

At this point if I'm suggesting you move something by a few px, it's there man. The rest is subtle detail. If anyone else wants to add their thoughts I'd be interested to hear them, but I really can't think how this concept could be improved beyond the current state.

@BTCspoon - I saw your post just as I was submitting this - I'm going to sit with it for a little bit and see if I have any valid (read: not dumb) suggestions mate :)

Some amazing artwork in this thread

Is it possible to not go over 250Ko per img, otherwise the forum proxy won't follow and the page will not load properly. Thx.

example of an H on a shield.

http://s10.postimg.org/4ldpdv6ah/heavycoin.png


http://s10.postimg.org/5p2f3kgbd/heavycoin_a.png


and variation on previous design


http://s4.postimg.org/murzyjft9/heavycoin_8a.png


minimal design


http://s21.postimg.org/986147bnb/heavycoin_ab.png

One blue cube for you,
https://i.imgur.com/l7gPwwh.png
link (https://i.imgur.com/l7gPwwh.png)
and something new :D

https://i.imgur.com/NLolTEZ.png
link (https://i.imgur.com/NLolTEZ.png)

Ahh so that's why I'm seeing all these broken links ...

http://i60.tinypic.com/20iat79.jpg

just an idea pretty rough, could be something there. feel free to run with an idea if it
inspires anything.  :)

Hey BTCspoon - really good point.

I tried to find some forum rules that explicitly say the threshold is 250kb - do you know if this is a rule or a recommendation?

I'm also having trouble seeing any of the submissions that have been sent in the last 24 hours.



Would everyone mind updating their posts with < 250kb images and see if it fixes this up?

Cheers,
M

Hey mate, more a recommendation, let's say more an empirical finding: page with a jpg/png over 250ko in it, load properly ~40% of the time. Some sort of proxy timeout? not sure.

awesome work

Great work. I like HVC.

HVC TO DA MOON. ;D ;D ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lgBNIjcHXU&feature=youtu.be

added some fixes with timing. and text. i'm not shure with music and logo. and with english to.
say me, what to change, please ：３

@pipipipopopo - great work.）

It's not CPU-only anymore. And make the text remain for a little longer, I can't read that fast. ;)

Otherwise very nice. I especially like the way the site's URL appears.

I think the video is ok but please change the music to something more serious or credible... when i hear it i want to kill myself  :o

thanks for reply. i'll try to do something with it

Well done.  A few quick comments...



Pros:
Nice and unique
Good impact
Has color
Interesting
Nice to have different shape

Cons:
Toaster?


Pros:
Looks solid and tough
Interesting
Vaguely feels like it could be made into a locking mechanism of some kind?

Cons:
Varsity letter?

Overall: what do these logos convey about Heavycoin?

Thanks for distinction :)

This looks heavier

https://i.imgur.com/uB6lm7r.png

Full Size (https://i.imgur.com/KTkqeWI.png)

     strength, security and simplicity....


P.S. I will experiment with proportions and color combinations

Hiya

Thought I'd throw some into the mix.
Lots of interesting subs already up.

Tried to keep it simple and bold, think of it kind of like an abstract wrecking ball in mid swing!
Colors are just a suggestion.

https://i.imgur.com/aktcxXV.png

https://i.imgur.com/wPGROix.png

Thanks

I like this one much. It's a bare bones logo but the best logo's are usually like that.

Hi guys,

Another great day.

@BTCspoon - nice work continuing with this concept man - there's something I'm drawn to about the image on the right with the three vertical blocks - making the "H" in negative space - great idea.

For your second and third designs, I lean toward the third over the second, much easier to read that texture. Rather then float the red "C" above these, what do you think of burning it in to the design and making the C a glowing eye for the figure?

@mtmenace - cool example - rather than cutting off the H (it looks a little like giving it "fangs") what do you think of pulling back on the H shape so it can stand on the shield with some breathing room around it? Really interesting direction dude.

@pipipipopopo - I love the cube design man, rather then cutting in to the shape 100%, have you played around with only cutting in to it by 10%-20% ? You're doing a great job man, I (personally) love this design.

@dleader - Hey man! Thanks for submitting - don't play yourself down - That's a really cool concept. Can you think of any other iconic shapes to swap in for the elephant? It feels like swapping it with a close up of the shape of the elephant head could be interesting.

@Trivelius & @keccak512 - could someone explain to me Keccak's point about the varsity letters? I'm not American, I know of varsity letters, but in my head they are solid bold serif characters - could someone help me out here? (I think I'm missing a cultural reference).

@gitch212 - welcome on board! Excellent entry man - I love what you're saying about the idea of a wrecking ball in motion - nice job taking this shape and pulling it back to the bare essentials. To me, it still conveys the idea of the wrecking ball very well and shows motion - I agree with tinus42 100% here - this is the definition of an iconic design.

For the shape when it is shown on black, would you like to try taking a solid version of the shape, make it white, and blow it up by 5%-10% and put it behind the main shape as a pseudo stroke - that might make sure it sits really prominently on the black background.

Only other feedback I could suggest is *maybe* pull down the H character by 10%? That's the best I have - truly excellent work mate.


For all of those posting new logos - take another look at Keccak's last line - "Overall: what do these logos convey about Heavycoin?" - don't feel the need to fluff up something to make it work, but I'd be interested to hear how you approached your design, and what is the core value you focused on?

Anyone who posts and would like to share - I'd be very curious to see your answers.

Cheers,
M

such good promotions, HVC  to the moon .
when i have spare time , will try to take a video .

https://i.imgur.com/WMLA4rJ.jpg

Hi, I decided to contribute with a simple idea. I think that to be memorable you need to have simple design and since it's a currency, one needs a symbol for it. So I propose using Ħ the best already existing character I could find. This would give the opportunity to talk about the currency like 1000Ħ and so on. I included two design guides for the logo, one on dark backgrounds and the other on light backgrounds.
The color for example can easily be changed, one only needs to keep the outlines and it can be used on many different surfaces. This is key for a successful logo.

very good advice, i like it  :)
I've made some colour variants

NEW

This logo based on wallet i think its good idea for coin design

https://i.imgur.com/Jcd9JGx.png Full size (https://i.imgur.com/h9u2tOl.png)

https://i.imgur.com/AypkTlB.png

Like the simplicity.  Wish the h were a bit more interesting, clever and unique (somehow).

Also use anti-aliasing. I notice the h is a bit pixelated.

This is dope.

Update:
http://s25.postimg.org/hu8n1ffrj/Heavy_Coin_3a.jpghttp://s25.postimg.org/kcuc241hr/Heavy_Coin_3b.jpghttp://s25.postimg.org/kqvo1pllb/Heavy_Coin_3c.jpg
Thanks for the suggestions, let me know what you think.  8)

variation on the H and shield

http://s23.postimg.org/j8p6lqbuj/heavycoin.png

Hey guys,

You all continue to excel. Hope you've had a great week and for those of you about to bravely start your Friday, hang in there :)

@Unpropitious - solid shapes man, here are some ideas to try out if you're in to it:
- See if you like it without the gradient (disclaimer: I have a personal dislike of gradients unless I feel they are really needed, so take that as subjective opinion)

- Try centering the character shape in the ring based on the top horizontal line in the H character rather then the shape as a whole?

- *maybe* try bumping up the thickness of the outer ring 10-20%? I looks like it might have some room to grow.

I'm 100% behind you with using a unicode symbol. Not a requirement from the devs, but if we find the right logo and it uses an existing unicode char I think it can be only good for us.

Otherwise I'd only suggest to play with colour combinations and see if you find any you like more than full black/white and full blue. I take your point that it can be any colour, but any suggestions you'd like to share I'd be interested to see.


@pipipipopopo - you're killing it dude - I love this. Even the black outer with white in the middle has a nice luminescence. I don't think I like the black with white more then the blue and red versions, but still very nice.

What do you think of painting the "cut in" sides of the cube to red/blue rather then white? So the outermost sides are white but every other surface is painted blue. I'm curious to see what this would look like, but I think it will be one of those things that improve the shape or kill it completely.

Last one - would you mind posting a picture of the cube if you turn the x axis 45 degrees left or right (so we can see the sideways T shape on the cube face)? I'd like to play around with measuring the proportions and see if I can offer any suggestions.

For the wallet logo idea - I like where your head is at, but worry that trying to work in the shape of the H with the typical square/rectangle wallet shape might be difficult to make work together, but by all means feel free to share any more experiments with this.

Only idea I had when looking at this is that you could give it some origami style shading so it looks like pieces folding over themselves - not a great idea, just throwing something out there :)

Back to your cube, I see in my head physical key chains or other physical versions of your logo some day. Good god they would look awesome.

Merchandising! I'm a marketing whore!


@glitch212 - I get what keccak512 is saying here, and how difficult it could be to find the 'it' he's talking about. If you'd like feel free to PM me if you would like someone to brainstorm with.

Also thanks tinus42 - I missed the pixels you pointed out but you're absolutely right, just that little bit of pixelation annoys you once you see it - glitch212 let us know if you're not sure what we're pointing out (take another look at the narrowing line connecting the lower case H as they meet).


@CoinExchange - nice work man, I like this more every time I see it. *personal preference* I like the second design, then the third, then the first. All of them I think are a huge step forward.

I'd personally like to see the bottom half of the shield wider - it might buy you more space to play around with the H shape.


@mymenace - I like this man - only suggestion I could make is to have the outer border of the shield a raised flat shape rather then a bevel and see if it makes the whole thing bolder. I'd also be interested to see the top two outer tips of the shield, say, 10% wider then the bottom half of the shape? Might be nothing there or hopefully could add some further "boldness".


Who removed their post? I saw something there questioning the general concept of logos currently - damn, I was thinking about the argument yesterday and was looking forward to responding. If you feel like re-posting it I would enjoy trying to respond.

Have a good one folks.

Cheers,
M

Hi..
 I went through the old pages of the threads and i found this designs buried there.. so i post them here again. Think they deserve the credit.

Well, that escalated quickly

Would you like to let me know what you're talking about? FYI - feel free to assume I'm not reading this thread in IMAX...

I do appreciate that it's not all caps at least - you stay classy buddy.

Update:

Last thoughts:
You, saybia, have the chance to participate in a community based on revolutionary technology where some of the most important innovations in cryptography, hell, money, were presented to the world and you defaulted to "asshole" mode? Strong life decision dude, make sure to tell your grandchildren about that one.

I remember a time when trolling was an art, not just pretending to be functionally retarded on the Internet.

Hey saybia,

Thanks for confirming you read my attack on your character, I hope you know I mean every word.

It means a lot to know that you read my assessment of your failings as a person and yet still lacked the character to respond to it.

You brought a weak trolling game, and when called on it, you responded equally weakly ("bitch-ness" it is sometimes called).

Look buddy, your messages will most likely be deleted soon, and I'll probably end up deleting my messages because they only detract from what we are trying to achieve here, but I enjoy that you have to eat my attacks on your character, or else you would be the trolled one.

Feel free to infect a different corner of the Internet with your poorly punctuated nonsense.

I like the one,
It's so powerful
Heavy logo is cool!

Update:
http://s25.postimg.org/7n8h7zn2n/Heavycoin_5a80.jpghttp://s25.postimg.org/5wpg6i5jj/Heavy_Coin_5b80.jpghttp://s25.postimg.org/5l7ztqp3j/Heavy_Coin_5c80.jpghttp://s25.postimg.org/tq8pbg9e7/Heavy_Coin_5d80.jpghttp://s25.postimg.org/ter8yosy7/Heavy_Coin_5e80.jpghttp://s25.postimg.org/e7fus2qhb/Heavy_Coin_5f80.jpghttp://s25.postimg.org/ovjlqx0gf/Heavy_Coin_5g80.jpg

Thanks for the input. Let me know what you think!   8)

Like the look of this one.

I second that.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66018912/Untitled-3%20(1).jpg

another idea..

Hey guys,

Still continuing to raise the bar.

@loicatraile - I love what you are doing with the shapes you are working with - you've found an insight on how to make these two shapes to relate to each other, I'd only want to encourage you to keep playing with it. Some ideas, if they help at all:

- The hexes you're using have a really nice, subtle dimension to them, maybe think about how that could also be expressed in the dimension of the H character - I can see you are already playing with this, they look a little like they live in two different dimensions - their depths don't 100% correlate at this point (I have no solutions, I only offer nit-picking :) )

- Perhaps look at the contrast in the greys of the hexes and the dark grey of the edges of the H character - colour wise, do you think these might be able to meet in the middle somewhere while still making the H the part that draws attention?

- Just to put it out there - I love how you are using the segments of the hexes to create the H, part of me would like to see you lose the three hexes on the top right and work with the core seven hexes - that's obviously the heart of the shape, I'd just keep playing with it man and feel free to keep showing us any ideas.

@loicatraile again - back to your earlier post (Mar 29). I'm glad you made it here man, I was thinking that there were some designs from the announce thread we were missing, thanks for posting them.

To back up keccak512 and delusiona1 - I also think this design rocks. It's the sort of design that if keccak picked it tomorrow, I'd be 100% cool with it. Solid job, looks great.

Two questions for you:

- With asymmetric designs, I'm always tempted to flip them, just to see what it looks like. For your design, I'd be curious to see if flipping it horizontally adds anything interesting, or makes an argument one way or the other which works better. This design in particular, I was thinking that the lines extending to the right currently might be interesting coming from the left instead - this, typically, adds some idea of motion. (FYI: I already did this to your logo and left it up on a screen for a few hours. I came to the conclusion that I prefer it how it is already, but might be an interesting thing for you to try)

- How would this look as a favicon.ico? How much detail can we keep at that size?

In any case, it's great work man. What fonts are you using for the Heavy coin text?


@CoinExchange - dude, you have taken this design so far, really, well done.

- this is more subjective then any sort of design flaw, I personally lean toward the straight H more then the curved ones, and I also like the floating horizontal line in your fourth version (the straight H one). Either way, you're showing that iterating your ideas brings in a shit load of positive results.

- ok, if you're up for it, a challenge to you: just as a thought experiment, would you like to pick one of your concepts and show us the most abstracted version of it? It may open new ideas or otherwise re-enforce the elements which are most important to the shapes you are using. I'd be interested in seeing it.


@sudukkk - 100% agree, anonymousxx1503 is kicking ass with his design.

@anonymousxx1503 - if you see this, the last time we talked you were going to play around with the outer rings of the design, I'd still be really interested to see what you do with it.


If you feel like it, keep the iterations of ideas happening (I'm looking at you, gitch212, Unpropitious, mymenace and pipipipopopo - if you feel like playing with your ideas I'm all ears).


Quick quote from Stephen King that I always like to keep in the back of my head when doing anything creative: "Kill your darlings": full quote (http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/371112-kill-your-darlings-kill-your-darlings-even-when-it-breaks) - decent breakdown of the idea info here (http://writeroutine.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/how-to-kill-your-darlings.html)

Cheers,
M

i'm back with new concept
https://i.imgur.com/Tx7WRTX.png
https://i.imgur.com/Tx7WRTX.png (https://i.imgur.com/Tx7WRTX.png)

and thumbnails for exchanges :)

https://i.imgur.com/xAmyGXK.png

https://i.imgur.com/z3JVInu.png

https://i.imgur.com/DMeUDxV.png

http://youtu.be/4dz1tbJOioc
i've changed music and text volume. Vivaldi is more suitable?

Update:
http://i61.tinypic.com/qy67tc.jpg_http://i58.tinypic.com/1zq382g.jpghttp://i60.tinypic.com/10i8jsm.jpg
Gallery:
http://postimg.org/gallery/1n3cwbz0/ (http://postimg.org/gallery/1n3cwbz0/)

I like this! :D

Hi all. So many good works here!

I want to add my 5 cents...

http://s25.postimg.org/3odkdqlbj/HEAVY_00941.png

Interesting....  what would the "circuitry" look like in shiny gold... as in real computer components?

https://i.imgur.com/GkemCAx.png
https://i.imgur.com/GkemCAx.png (https://i.imgur.com/GkemCAx.png)

Circuit blk v.01
http://i62.tinypic.com/6rko05.jpg

Second version -

http://s25.postimg.org/4h379n8fj/111.png

http://s18.postimg.org/5hrz0iip5/image.jpg

http://s30.postimg.org/b5rgo1e9d/image.jpg

Update:
http://i62.tinypic.com/x2rkgo.jpg
Gallery:
http://postimg.org/gallery/1n3cwbz0/
:D

+1

I like this the best. Name is "heavy"coin but this makes it light looking. Love it.
Other designs are very fancy and nice but at the end, simplicity is best IMHO.

isn´t time to set a countdown for the official logo competition? it has been over a month now and its not fair for those who design something to keep waiting for eternity.. its also time to update the logo and website if the community of heavycoin wants to keep the trust in this coin..

Hello designers,

First of all Keccak, Mumbly and me want to thank you for all great logo's you guys have submitted of these last weeks.

A few days ago, we have talked and have chosen the very few best of the logo's submitted.
The designers of those logo's have been contacted that their logo's have been chosen.

During the next week or so we will help those designers to perfect their logo's.
Because altough they were the best, they still had some minor cons.
But we will try to perfect their designs, during this period.

So if you havent been contacted you can assume your logo hasnt been chosen.
It is however possible during this final process to join those very few.
Because we will still comment on your logo's that you might still want to submit.
We are still open for anything, but we are trying to finish this contest.

If you have questions or comments feel free to send us a PM.

Greetings,
 
M & LT

Vintage heavycoin style
http://i58.tinypic.com/23vjnmv.jpghttp://i60.tinypic.com/35d0zkj.jpghttp://i59.tinypic.com/wumd1z.jpg[IMG]http://i62.tinypic.com/e2fkg.jpghttp://i62.tinypic.com/e2fkg.jpg
Want your opinion, see if you like this designs. This coin was made to look more vintage.  Thanks!
Also here is a gallery of the other coins I submitted below.
http://postimg.org/gallery/1n3cwbz0/ (http://postimg.org/gallery/1n3cwbz0/)

Hey guys,

Sorry it's been a while, Easter deadlines and such.

As LuckyTiger said in his post, and to address the legitimate concern raised by loicatraile, the developers have selected some designers to be shortlisted and we are working with them to see if we can arrive at a final design, but any designs that are submitted may still be added to this list.

It's a balance between finding the right logo for our coin and trying to do so in a timely manner, not always easy to do, we'll try our best.


Ideas for the latest designs (going backward in the timeline)

@CoinExchange (retro design) - the "H" shapes you're making are seriously cool man - for the last one where it ends in a point, there's something I like here, but maybe not ending in a tip, but cutting it off at some point?

The swirls on the outer rim of the coin look great man - maybe you could simplify them? It's a really good look, but simple might be better here

@pipipipopopo - dude, the rendering you're doing here is so damn good - the gold and leather renders look simply awesome. I *like* the H shape in the coin, but if I can be honest, I like your other submissions without the curves to the H shape (your cube logo is still my personal favourite, just so you know).

The last design with the text on the outer rim - I really like the idea - maybe try playing with some of the Latin quotes from a few pages back?

@CoinExchange (tron logo :)) - good evolution of the idea man. I would suggest that you could make the outer rim smaller and bring up the H shape (it's a really good shape, by the way). I don't know that you need the 1's & 0's on the inner H shape - good idea, but I think you might like just a solid H shape to stand out against the blue highlights.

@Kloks - your design with the "sphere with the H cut out" (middle section, right side from your Apr 9th post) looks so strong. Only distraction I see is that with the smaller space cut from the top then the bottom it maybe looks like it could be mistaken for a lower case i? Either way, I really like how the heavycoin text under the shape fits around it - great work.

@pipipipopopo (your tron logo :) ) looks cool - only thing I noticed is that the very left hand vertical line is the only one that doesn't turn to the right for the horizontal bar - is this a design choice, or maybe it made the horizontal bar too thick?

@CoinExchange (safe design). Dude, this is such a great insight - the safe idea is really nice. I would be tempted to suggest for this design that you try walking away from the H shape completely and try focusing on the safe aspect - it speaks to the security and safety aspect of the coin really well. You might end up putting the H back in there, but I think you'll have some interesting results if you keep playing with the safe idea.



Really good to be back guys, and sorry again for being quiet without explanation - just got busy very quickly. Keep up the great work.

Cheers,
M

Thanks for your response, here are some of the changes.
                                                                    
http://i59.tinypic.com/16ln53q.png http://i59.tinypic.com/29za3qa.png
http://i58.tinypic.com/30kc4te.png
          Updated "H" simplified design
http://i58.tinypic.com/90w274.png
          Updated "Tron" Version
http://i60.tinypic.com/2m4ddsx.png         http://i57.tinypic.com/rhpc1g.png
          Updated "Vault" with "H" removed  V1 & V2

Let me know what you think, Thanks!

:-\ micro manage much?

Who? me? No I'm just offering suggestions man, the guys can take it or leave it. You can, and are welcome, to do the same. I'm just trying to make sure that people who are going to the effort of posting something get some feedback.

Check out the front page - I have no say on which way the developers go, just trying to offer ideas to the guys who are contributing.

Ok, last one. I started this a couple of week’s back and I just wanted to finish what I started. This one retains the 'H' logo with a new style that conveys the seriousness of the security feature, with some additional details. Any comment please send via PM, Thanks!

                                                          http://i62.tinypic.com/4zsqjt.png

Hey guys!

It feels good to be back in my happy place :)

Apologies, I should have posted this yesterday but some drama came up at work. A client was malfunctioning so I had to turn them off and on again...

Down to business.


Ok - Welcome to the next round of the logo design competition - not exactly where we thought this would be, but part of the larger plan to get this thing finished up.

The catch up:

- A few weeks ago, we announced that the devs had selected a few logos as part of a shortlist and we would try to get these logos to a finished state, while also welcoming any new ideas, should we feel they should also be shortlisted.

- What happened - We had two designs which were shortlisted, and lost contact with both of the designers almost straight away. We took a week or so to confirm we weren't hearing from the designers, a week or so to figure out a plan, then a week or so to communicate our next steps to the designers and give them appropriate time to respond.

- One of the designers got in touch to let us know that he's sorry, but his own work is far too busy for him to keep working on the design.

- The other designer we haven't heard from, as of two days ago the window for them to respond to our proposed next steps expired with fair warning, and so now we are moving on.


To take a moment - It's going to be pretty obvious who these designers are, so I just want to make sure to confirm - I've exchanged messages with both of these guys and they are both cool, talented people - things just didn't turn out the way any of us wanted.  They are both 100% golden in my book.


Next phase of the competition - finding someone to get us home.

Here are the two shortlisted designs, and the criticisms of them (both are pretty great, no criticism is that big)

1) Circle design:
https://i.imgur.com/De35oTc.png

Dev Feedback:
- Looks friendly and has color
- A bit boring, nothing special or clever going on.

Other feedback I've gotten:
- Needs polish - make sure the size of all the bars relate to each other by %
- The Serif font for the logo and the sans-serif font for the text don't usually work well together

2) Weight design:
https://i.imgur.com/lFoseVO.png

Dev Feedback:
- Some unique geometry going on, a bit clever, could be better
- Lacks color

Other feedback I've gotten:
- Looks too "graffiti-ish"
- The circle around the shape could probably be removed and replaced by a rounded rectangle as a backing shape


The Plan

So I feel that we need to respect the work that's already gone in to these logos, but also need to reward someone for getting the design finished. Here's where we've landed:

- Any person on this forum can take these logos and try to clean them up

- There are no source files, you'll need to re-draw the designs to work on them

- Please feel free to post any ideas for cleaning up the logo, we'll find people who look like they are doing a good job and then announce another short list to work with these designers to finally finish the logo


The reward

If you take one of these logos and finish it with us, the reward is:

- 15,000HVC for the origional logo creator (50% of the bounty)

- 15,000HVC to the logo designer who takes this logo and finishes the comp (50% of the bounty)


What now

- Play with these logos as much as you like, and feel free to share your work for feedback here from both us and other members.

- To claim the bounty, you will need to polish the logo but also create brand guidelines for the logo use

- I am 100% committed to helping any designers close to winning the comp writing the brand guidelines (I'll help you and be the first layer of approval, then we pass to devs for the final sign off)


Sorry for the essay, I hope this at least gives everyone a clear picture of what's happened and what we need now.

There are too many words in this thread, let's start posting some pictures :)

Cheers,
M

Thought I'd mess with that second one a bit.  Divided the letters up in blocks (get it? get it?? try the lobster!), which also conveniently creates upward chevrons (status, evoking upward motion).  Kept the perspective that gives it weight, added a sort-of border that gives it a building-like look (evokes strength), threw some color (too much green/blue in the crypto world - and the red combined with the overall shape gives it a 'superman' sort of feel) in there.  Should abstract reasonably into bilevel, 16x16, 24x24 icon is challenging if the 'HC' is to be kept legible - would recommend using a bi-level red shape with the white border, even for 32x32.

https://i.imgur.com/owiGNKh.png (https://i.imgur.com/D2g3PMm.png)

https://ayarscloud.tonidoid.com/urlrsjwvi

What about a combination of the two. (sorry just real quickly done in paint)

( Cleaned that red/white one up a bit further - if anybody wants to mess with it, SVG file here: http://imgh.us/hvc_logo_noguides.svg .  Originally in Inkscape.  Note that I removed the perspective guides to keep the file a bit smaller, you can recreate them from the shapes using Inkscape (Ctrl+D, Shift+G)
Edit: Looks like I forgot to change the joins to Round - make sure you do so if working with that file - gets rid of the nasty jags at sharp angles. )

      http://i57.tinypic.com/s324gj.png

New look.

http://i62.tinypic.com/23kaef8.png http://i57.tinypic.com/10fcbc9.png
http://i57.tinypic.com/15rh89y.png http://i57.tinypic.com/fzauk1.png

Black background

http://i61.tinypic.com/2cna5qx.png
 
http://i60.tinypic.com/28kj98h.png

http://i62.tinypic.com/2cehu02.png
 
http://i61.tinypic.com/nwaety.png

http://i57.tinypic.com/zoavc5.png

Comments are welcomed!

I do like that blue one (2nd from top).  The one on the black background seems to have had a gradient mishap, though? (darker in the center)

Thanks :)! Have fixed the one mentioned.

There we go - lovin' that one :)

We'll start with blue first. Attached is the original with five different revisions numbered below. :)

I like the slim edge of the original best