Task
This week we will be designing a set of share buttons for sites like Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, Pinterest and/or any others you wish to create.
The buttons have to have something in common.. the same shape, color set or any other general aesthetics. Go wild!
I wanted something simple that fits in the emerging flat web trend, but still had layers and looked tactile.
P.S. Free Shipping on art prints this week
Task: This weeks challenge is to produce a redesign prototype for this subreddit’s header. This includes the Reddit logo, this subreddit’s logo/name, the navigation and the user’s information and controls.
The most liked submission will be used as the subreddit’s style for the foreseeable future. Whether or not a submission is liked will be decided on the posts comments. Not the amount of upvotes it receives.
This is the first header I came up with, playing on the idea of a design subreddit:
I wanted something clean and something that the people participating probably look at constantly. Guides are fundamental to design so I gridded the crap out of an otherwise normal header to partially show the background work that goes into even the simplest design.
About a month ago a subreddit called 52weeksofdesign popped up on the popular message board www.reddit.com. I was onboard from the get go but without a reliable internet connection it’s been hard to keep up. I have 4 of the first 5 weeks done and I’m hoping that will help me catch up/keep up and post one here a week for as long as the mods keep it going.
The premise was simple, take a well-known logo and rework it. I decided to go for Tesla Motors. Their current logo works for the sports car they currently have, but it has several flaws. First, if they really are going to be the car company of the future they are going to eventually move to units real people can buy. Second, every time I’ve seen one my first thought was damn that’s a quiet lotus, no wait, what the hell car is that. The current branding effort is not visible at a distance. The hope is my design is a bit more family friendly, play with the namesake of the brand and more recognizable from a distance.
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I’d love to hear what you think!
