Hi Everyone, As you know, I am the designer in charge of the mascot for Apache Beam.
I am looking forward to sharing with you the progress and next steps to follow: Last week we started a vote to get input from the community to continue moving forward with the design. Today we have the results and by the majority of votes the most chosen design is: Preferences: Simple design (to make it easy to edit) Flat colors Heavy lines Shadows Glowing wings (to avoid flatness) Trail of light for a tail Sideway view ¾ (for printing) In addition, some of you proposed ideas and possible combinations, which serve to define the mascot. Questions: Can prints have shadows and animation gradient? Yes, they can. What if we stretched the current Beam logo into the wings? I could try to see how this could work. Next Steps: Iterating on the design based on the majority vote Sharing updates as needed I wanted to clarify one more thing. The delivery of the files will be in two file formats, rasterized (JPG / PNG) and vectorial (SVG / Ai.). The former is not editable. The latter is editable and will be presented in layers. Each layer will incorporate each element of the body separately and be named accordingly to what it represents, eg., Layer 1: Arm Front, Layer 2: Arm Back, etc. Please note that you need a program, like Adobe Illustrator, BoxySVG, Vecteezy, Vectr., to be able to edit vectors. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Your questions and concerns are important to my work, so if you have any, feel free to reach out! Cheers, -- Julian Bruno // Visual Artist & Graphic Designer (510) 367-0551 / SF Bay Area, CA www.instagram.com/julbro.art ᐧ
