At every opportunity I get to be a little bit creative, I always get hold of the opportunity and try my best to give it a shot no matter how weak or unprofessional my outcome is. Although, sometimes, “busy-ness” with a sprinkle of procrastination make me miss some opportunities, however, most times I end up doing it at the 11th hour.
Well, for this challenging challenge (contest), I honestly appreciate @ovey10 for the timely reminder just few hours ago.
For those who aren’t aware, @acidyo invited all creative minds to design a sample for the proposed Hive Business Card. The major specifications he gave are:
We were allowed to use any QR sample for test purpose. You can check this post for the complete information, although, it is almost 4 hours close to the deadline...
In as much as one of the specifications was a design with two sides; with different purposes (the first will direct you to register via hiveonboard and the second will direct you to hiveph community), I felt that there is a strong need to connect these two designs. Indeed, they cannot be far apart.
Thus, I began a rough sketch on my paper to figure out how I will connect them. In each step I took, it became a little bit clearly, albeit still a sketch work.
Well, I finalized with the sketch work. Then the next thing was to look for my materials.
In my sketch work, I included the logos for Hive and Hiveph. Since I already have the logo for Hive, I began searching for the Logo for Hiveph.
Honestly, it wasn’t an easy search. But, at the end I settled for an image from the @hiveph community, and I decided to extract the logo from the community’s post.
I used Coreldraw on my Laptop to extract the image.
I had to combine some regular shapes (triangle and circle) to create a shape that is similar to the logo. Then, I intersected the exact shape of the logo.
Doing it that way, it was smooth, however, there were some unnecessary white areas there, hence, I decided to trim it.
However, I didn't get the smoothness I desired. However, the end product was the logo of the hiveph community, although it wasn’t so smooth.
Well, I decided to use Canva to create this design not because I wanted to copy Canva’s template, but because I just wanted to use Canva.
Remember, I had already planned my sketch prior to opening Canva, so there was no need of using Canva’s numerous templates. I know that with the sketch I created, whenever I start the actual design, I will be inspired to create something else. The sketch is only a guide... but a worthy guide for creators.
So, with Canva, I tried to create every design with the shapes I chose. It was a difficult one, because I had serious issues with Network over here. But, at the end, I enjoyed the process.
I used qr.io website to create the QR codes; while the first is for hive.io the second is for the discord server of Hiveph.
I tried to use colours that would match each page of the business card, plus I love the option of including logo in the QR.
For the first side (Hive), I used few words there, so that it wouldn’t be another article in the business card (lol).
For the second side (Hiveph), I went to the Hiveph community to know more about the community so that I will know their unique slangs, or tagline. My discovery actually shaped the words I used:
Here is my final product. I hope you enjoyed the analysis.
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