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Nice in 2024

Robert — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 02:48:21 +0500

Robert:

Tobacco-free beach:

Flightcraft above beach:

Dog beach:

The great SNCF timetable:

Deli & …CIA?!

Top-notch lemonade:

Good typography in Benburger’s logo:

Based logo

Robert — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 23:53:27 +0500

Robert:

Based, full name Base Democratica, is an Italian movement for direct democracy. Its founder asked me to give it a logo.

I made it based:

No extant political parties in Italy use the color orange.

Logo concept for MoneroDice

Robert — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:35:07 +0500

Robert:

As part of my work for MoneroDice, I was asked to make a logo for the site: “something very simple, based on the Monero logo”.

I started coming up with ideas:

And then designed this prototype:

It even has a little Easter egg: the Monero logo is put in place of the number 3. Three sounding just like free, which Monero helps us become.

But it did not scale down well as a favicon. So I simplified it:

But this version was kind of boring. It needed a special something.

So I turned it by 6 degrees, making the die land in a much more natural position:

This one worked great as a favicon:

However, the client felt that this logo did not have enough in common with the Monero logo, orange beïng their only shared trait.

The client then made their own, building upon the 6° angle and rounded corners from mine:

Logo concept for the 50th anniversary of Sergio Ramelli’s death

Robert — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 13:55:35 +0500

Robert:

In July, I participated in a design competition for a logo commemorating the 50th anniversary of anti-communist student Sergio Ramelli’s death.

The requirements for the design were the following:

usable on letterhead, posters, billboards, panels, and other formats;
adaptable to social media profile pictures (FB, Insta, X, Telegram, WhatsApp, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn);
can be turned into a banner for social media (FB, YouTube, LinkedIn) and the home page of the official website sergioramelli.it

Process

I started with simple, text-based banners:

Then I experimented with the pictures provided by the competition’s organiser:

What if I combine the number 50 with his picture?

The number 50 looks like goggles when in black-and-white. I’ll try to change that.

Turned the thing into a banner:

Changed the typeface:

And once more. Nah, I can’t do much to stop the overlaid 50 from looking like goggles:

I’ll make it simpler:

The final result, including the various graphics in their natural surroundings:

Result

I did not win. Another good design did:

I will note that it has an issue which I was careful to avoid in mine: slapping “1975–2025” without context makes it seem like the guy was born in 1975 and is about to have a birthday anniversary.

Modena in June 2024

Robert — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 20:24:31 +0500

Robert:

Outside the Ferrari museum:

A park:

A logo:

Stickers:

An ornament:

Milan in January 2024

Robert — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:56:49 +0500

Robert:

The innards of a traffic light button:

“Life doesn’t last all life. Life lasts while you’re young”:

Typography:

Plaques:

Posters:

Greyness:

12 €/L petrol:

No comment:

Shit happens:

Tunnels below, perchance?

Based:

Mestre in August 2023

Robert — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 19:54:10 +0500

Robert:

Just four stills from Mestre. I was changing trains and didn’t have enough time to reach the canals.

Plants and an orange building:

Typography:

Cool triangle:

Other shapes:

X logos

Robert — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 17:18:42 +0500

Robert:

X.org and X.com:

Cervo in July 2023

Robert — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:24:30 +0500

Robert:

There’s a music festival in town right now:

I’m in love with Cervo’s number plaque typography:

Here’s another pretty plaque:

A smol building with an elegant wooden door:

Interesting stickers:

A table:

Esthetically-illustrated packaging:

Fun candles:

Window ornaments:

Some symbol:

Ah, the textures of Italy:

A cat:

A flower:

Some passage:

A road:

A view:

Merceneros visual identity

Robert — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 23:57:10 +0500

Robert:

Merceneros is a coöperative offering technical services to the Monero economy.

I designed its visual identity based on the trope of programming, having the colors allude to Monero:

This design is super-universal — the list of values in brackets varies with context, and will expand with the group offering more services:

Also, this visual identity needs no special graphics for implementation — only the JetBrains Mono typeface.

There’s a compact version of the logo too:

Here it is in the chats. The second logo is an internal one, with a caret instead of a bracket:

I went from start to finish in less than a day.

Badalucco in May 2023

Robert — Fri, 12 May 2023 15:06:12 +0500

Robert:

The bus ticket:

A lone poppy:

Woven typography:

Doors:

Holes:

Cool logo for a butcher:

Gas:

House number plaque:

~~Street~~ Outdoor art:

Puni Albin’s creations:

Some other installation:

NO < IA

Robert — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 21:32:23 +0500

Robert:

Times have become tough for Nokia — it is now skimping on letter strokes:

Ventimìglia in August 2022

Robert — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:18:05 +0500

Robert:

Moving on from Menton.

The mountains on the Franco-Italian border look stunning:

The pathway to the cave:

The longest pointing stick that I’ve ever seen (oh, and there’s the cave too):

Gorgeousness:

The road to the city has been trashed by illegal immigrants, and deserves a post of its own.

Beautiful views:

Gas:

Typography:

An architectural collage, if you will:

The new Ventimìglia port from above:

A map:

Columns:

Plaques:

A roundabout with a pretty logo in the background:

Area 51:

Bergamo in August 2021

Robert — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 10:32:54 +0500

Robert:

A bricky side-street:

Attractive stones:

Elaborately decorated gates:

A manhole:

A logo taking good advantage of the arc:

Air Albania’s logo taking good advantage of its country’s flag 🇦🇱

Geneva in October 2020 and July 2021

Robert — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 22:24:34 +0500

Robert:

Wayfinding in the airport:

A foldable table in a train:

Typography:

Eighties’ typefaces:

A logo:

Bus route list. Notice the moon in the night bus logos:

Road signs:

No dogs. Look at how pretty the arrows on the ground are:

No fishing:

A building:

Yes we are:

A fire hydrant:

Manholes:

Tiling:

The lake:

Ducks in the lake:

A monument:

A bench:

Another bench:

Greenery:

The most good-looking public toilet that I have ever seen:

I have no idea what this is, but I like the constructivism:

Villa La Grange:

Majestic grass:

Majestic tree:

Sheep:

Stones on papers:

Yet another bench:

A light:

Nice tramway map, February 2021

Robert — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:04:14 +0500

Robert:

The latest additions to my marvellous Nice tramway map include

visual indications of different interchange lengths at Jean Médecin and Garibaldi,
SNCF railway stations highlighted in logo gradient,
Gare Thiers indicated as a TGV station,
bold names for interchange stations in addition to termini.