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            "url": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/all\/based\/",
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            "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https:\/\/basedemocratica.it\">Based<\/a>, full name <i>Base Democratica<\/i>, is an Italian movement for direct democracy. Its founder asked me to give it a logo.<\/p>\n<p>I made it base<b>d<\/b>:<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/based.svg\" style=\"max-width: 50%\"><\/p>\n<p>No extant political parties in Italy use the color orange.<\/p>\n<!-- based.svg -->",
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            "url": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/all\/monerodice-logo\/",
            "title": "Logo concept for MoneroDice",
            "content_html": "<p>As part of <a href=\"\/blog\/tags\/monerodice\">my work for MoneroDice<\/a>, I was asked to make a logo for the site: “something very simple, based on the Monero logo”.<\/p>\n<p>I started coming up with ideas:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/monerodice-logo-mockups.png\" width=\"788\" height=\"1138\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>And then designed this prototype:<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/monerodice-logo-1.png\" style=\"max-width: 50%\"><\/p>\n<p>It even has a little Easter egg: the Monero logo is put in place of the number 3. <i>Three<\/i> sounding just like <i>free<\/i>, which Monero helps us become.<\/p>\n<p>But it did not scale down well as a favicon. So I simplified it:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/monerodice-logo-2.png\" style=\"max-width: 50%\"><\/p>\n<p>But this version was kind of boring. It needed <i>a special something<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>So I turned it by 6 degrees, making the die land in a much more natural position:<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/monerodice-logo-2.png\" style=\"padding-top: 10px; rotate: 6deg; max-width: 50%\"><\/p>\n<p>This one worked great as a favicon:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/monerodice-logo-3-favicon.png\" width=\"1448\" height=\"908\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>However, the client felt that this logo did not have enough in common with the Monero logo, orange beïng their only shared trait.<\/p>\n<p>The client then made their own, building upon the 6° angle and rounded corners from mine:<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/monerodice-logo-client.svg\" style=\"padding-top: 10px; rotate: 6deg; max-width: 50%\"><\/p>\n",
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            "url": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/all\/ramelli\/",
            "title": "Logo concept for the 50th anniversary of Sergio Ramelli’s death",
            "content_html": "<p>In July, I participated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sergioramelli.it\/risultati-del-concorso-grafico-nazionale\/\">in a design competition<\/a> for a logo commemorating the 50th anniversary of anti-communist student Sergio Ramelli’s death.<\/p>\n<p>The requirements for the design were the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>usable on letterhead, posters, billboards, panels, and other formats;<\/li>\n<li>adaptable to social media profile pictures (FB, Insta, X, Telegram, WhatsApp, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn);<\/li>\n<li>can be turned into a banner for social media (FB, YouTube, LinkedIn) and the home page of the official website sergioramelli.it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Process<\/h2>\n<p>I started with simple, text-based banners:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/ramelli-1.png\" width=\"1000\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/ramelli-2.png\" width=\"1000\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Then I experimented with the pictures provided by the competition’s organiser:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/ramelli-3.png\" width=\"1690\" height=\"1342\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>What if I combine the number 50 with his picture?<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/ramelli-4.png\" width=\"1728\" height=\"426\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/ramelli-5.png\" width=\"1450\" height=\"324\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>The number 50 looks like goggles when in black-and-white. I’ll try to change that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/ramelli-6.png\" width=\"1282\" height=\"630\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Turned the thing into a banner:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/ramelli-7.png.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"646\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/ramelli-8.png.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"617\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Changed the typeface:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/ramelli-9.png.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"741\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>And once more. Nah, I can’t do much to stop the overlaid 50 from looking like goggles:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/ramelli-10.png.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"795\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>I’ll make it simpler:<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/ramelli-11.png\" style=\"max-width: 50%\"><\/p>\n<p>The final result, including the various graphics in their natural surroundings:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/ramelli-result.png.jpg\" width=\"898\" height=\"2560\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Result<\/h2>\n<p>I did not win. Another good design did:<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/ramelli-winner-1.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 50%\"><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/ramelli-winner-2.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 50%\"><\/p>\n",
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            "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https:\/\/merceneros.com\">Merceneros<\/a> is a coöperative offering technical services to the Monero economy.<\/p>\n<p>I designed its visual identity based on the trope of programming, having the colors allude to Monero:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/merceneros-com.png\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1628.0412371134\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>This design is super-universal — the list of values in brackets varies with context, and will expand with the group offering more services:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/merceneros-brackets.png\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Also, this visual identity needs no special graphics for implementation — only the JetBrains Mono typeface.<\/p>\n<p>There’s a compact version of the logo too:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/merceneros-logo.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here it is in the chats. The second logo is an internal one, with a caret instead of a bracket:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/merceneros-logos-chat.png\" width=\"113\" height=\"558\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>I went from start to finish in less than a day.<\/p>\n",
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