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user-inactivated  ·  3443 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Calling all Hubskiers with an inkling of artistic talent and/or ability to have an idea! IT'S TIME FOR NEW STICKERS!!

I'm not great at design or anything, but maybe someone could do something with the Zen logo and have a slogan along the lines of "Find your zen at Hubski."





user-inactivated  ·  3443 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Playing off the idea of 'sharing hubski' in addition to zen mode.

It is meant to work as a business card. For sharing the site face to face.

Or stick it to reach a wider audience.

If you guys don't want to go the color printing route, it is monochrome friendly.

I lifted the svg path for the lotus flower and the colors from the css. I hope that is ok.

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    We prefer it to have equal lengths on both sides as it will be printed on a square 4" x 4" sticker. You can do a border if you would like, like we've done in the past. We also prefer it to have only one color + black OR white. So orange and white is okay. Gray and white is okay. Black and blue is okay. But black and blue and white won't cut it.

Ah, poop. That's what I get for not reading the post in full before jumping to look at the pretty pictures.

Ah, well.

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I'm a fan of white space.

sounds_sound  ·  3443 days ago  ·  link  ·  

mk hasn't had time to update the zen logo me thinks. He has the .svg's but they aren't up yet. It looks like a cog right now. It should be this:

It's tricky to make them look good because they are so small. Incidentally, you can see the current zen logo just to the left of the new in the iterations below. It looks better at a larger scale when you click on the image.

ecib  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As someone who is often in Zen Mode, thanks for this sounds_sound. I think the Zen revamp is pretty stellar.

insomniasexx  ·  3443 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Can you email me the svgs? I'm going to optimize for Web with all the other ones so he can maybe finally fix this issue once and for all.

insomniasexx at gmail

user-inactivated  ·  3442 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A different take on the same theme.

I like the idea of it, but I wish I had a tablet.

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Here's a link to a higher resolution version of it with a url at the bottom.

user-inactivated  ·  3442 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I like that too. It kind of has a DIY Punk feel to it.

Actually, the more I look at it, the more it's becoming my favorite.

Cedar  ·  3441 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This one definitely has my vote, I think it would fit in well anywhere and could really grow interest in Hubski. Maybe put a Hubski.com at the bottom in the whitespace just to reinforce that?

Turkey  ·  3441 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Reminds me of the La Dispute flower, I like it! A sticker with attitude.

insomniasexx  ·  3443 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I'm a fan of white space.

Hahaha hahaha! Best edit ever.

But seriously...this is really elegant.

user-inactivated  ·  3443 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks. White space is really the only thing I brought to this party. All the hard work was done by sounds_sound, rd95, and Team Hubski.

I just took what was already there and put it into a mostly empty svg. And, honestly, I like rd95's layout idea just as much.

user-inactivated  ·  3443 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So wait. Second thought on the second image. Take the icon and the text as is, make it just a bit smaller, and move it to the bottom right corner of the square. It'll emphasize the white space and give it a real zen feeling.

user-inactivated  ·  3443 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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user-inactivated  ·  3443 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Man. That's so clean it's perfect. If I could do one thing, it may be just get rid of some of the extra white space on the top and bottom. Make it a little longer and thinner looking, like a bumper sticker.

Edit: On the second image, what if we made both the hub and the text larger, and maybe move the wheel up and left and the text lower, so it fills up a bit more of the white space?