Curie Logo Design Contest Entry

For Curie’s logo contest, I decided to create a logo based on community. This was created on Adobe Illustrator.

The first thought that came to my head was bees, that’s right bees not cees. A beehive is a thriving community that works tirelessly to produce honey. I found this metaphor to fit the work Curie does quite well.

A community of individuals dedicated to helping the steem community grow by promoting hidden gems. Thus spreading sweetness around.

My first thought was a circular hexagonal image representing a beehive. But I wanted to refine on it.

This was my first draft. I was brainstorming with my friend @diebitch and we realized that perhaps the circle shouldn’t be complete.
So I thought about it and it was staring me right in the face, C for Curie. I did chuckle to myself at the B and C joke.

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Now that I had my foundation in place, I wanted to incorporate the sense of community that Curie brings. This time the answer came organically, as I started drawing heads on the hexagons.

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So the art began to take shape. I was still skeptical about the colour. I wanted to mute the colours to be more businesslike and tie it to steem. I tried with a variety of colours , as you can see but one clearly stood out.

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I began to experiment with the shading to see which effect is aesthetically more pleasing.

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This variant of blue is subtle and unique. The next step was incorporating the curie text.

Again, I was plagued with three options.

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I liked the i being incorporated in the second one but it seemed off-centre. So, I went with the first . Here’s are the results:

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More options

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The logo on black background

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The processing of making mark of logo

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