I saw acidyo’s post a few days ago and I neither commented nor engaged with it. Even though I loved the concept of the initiative he was starting, I simply read the post, voted and reblogged it. I didn’t put much thought into participating myself because I’m no designer. I knew there was no way I was going to win this one. But I saw my friend @zzzinnn’s entry this evening and I could help but throw in a participation myself. So if we’re talking inspiration on why I decided to jump on the design, there it is.
For the inspiration on the design I came out with, there’s really nothing special about it. I’m a visual person, but my vision needs to be sparked or ignited. My ignition for covers and designs mostly comes from Canva. So first thing I did was jump on canva, and find some templates. Luckily for me, this nice hive-looking template was staring me in the face after a few scrolls. And bam! I knew that was the one.
Immediately I saw it, everything just came to me on which way to take the design from there. So I got to work. To be honest, I didn’t do much work myself on the front. I simply replaced their logo and name with what you see on my design- A QR code generated on QR.io that links to hiveonboard.com and a slogan I thought was fitting as a description of Hive: Your content, your keys, your crypto. This basically summarizes what Hive is about in short (imo of course).
After this, what was left was the back. Business card templates come with a front and back templates, so I basically did the same for the back. This time however, I put in a bit more work than I did for the front.
The Neoxian City is known to citizens of the city as the city that never sleeps. We call it that because it literally always has people chatting in the discord. 24/7. You can hop in the city discord anytime to verify this. Scan the discord. Hehe. This is simply the inspiration behind the back side of the card. I decided to also add a link to the Neoxian.city front end for people who don’t know how to use qr. This is my way of increasing the inclusion group of the card.
I changed the color of the rectangular edges of the qr code to match the black-dotted yellow cube of the neoxian city logo. I also changed the style of the qr dots from the classic design to this dot pattern that looks like a minetest world or brick world. In the neoxian city, we explore a lot of web 3 based improvements of web 2 apps.
Minetest is an improvement of Minecraft and we've been exploring it for quite a while thanks to Mr Dragon. I just had the feeling adding this detail could in some way onboard more minetest-playing citizens. So this was a bit of detail, but only to the informed eye. Others who see this different dot pattern might not even pick up on what I'm saying. W're heavy minetesters and would love to have more minetesters join. The community is open to all though, minetesters and non-minetesters alike.
So yeah. This is not going to be the winner for this initiative, but is simply my humble contribution to marketing Hive to more people outside. May the best design win. Haha.