Way back at the beginning, when genAI was new and LemmyNZ had but one user, our logo was created. It’s terrible, it’s AI generated, and I hate it.

lemmyNZ logo - kind of a 3d lemmyish creature with green rays coming out, with an AI generated vibe

I am keen to get a new one! There’s also an option to get a new banner if that’s what people want, though people have expressed that they like the current banner.

lemmyNZ banner - the famous Laser kiwi flag that was submitted to the flag competition when NZ tried to change it's flag. It's black with a silver fern at top left, and a kiwi shape on the bottom right with a green laser coming out of it's eyes down to just above the bottom left corner of the flag

This post is to ask for people to supply their ideas for a new logo or banner. Hopefully there are some artists out there that can help! After we have some options I will organise a vote.

Reply to this post with your suggestions or your submissions.

  • Manticore@lemmy.nz
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    24 days ago

    Are you still looking? I’m a digital artist and illustrator by trade. I’m happy to donate something.

    Let me know what the recommended dimensions are so I can make something that scales properly.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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      23 days ago

      We are still looking, that would be amazing if you could do something for us!

      The logo is shown at the top left of the website, as well as in different places in different apps. I think the best is to do a 1:1 square that also looks good when cut down to a rounded rectangle and when cut to a circle!

      • Manticore@lemmy.nz
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        23 days ago

        Here are four icons that I’ve spun up. The originals are vectors so I can export them to any size, these are 400x400px PNG files.

        Will look at possibly painting something in the future, or doing pixel art, idk. I’m using this as an excuse for me to make something fun :)

      • Manticore@lemmy.nz
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        23 days ago

        Im on board with the size ratio, Im hoping you know what minimum pixel dimensions is needs? Eg: 128x128px

        If I do a big painting it would be muddy and hard to see when shrunk small, but if I do bright pixel art it would be blurry if scaled up. If you’re not sure I might just do some kind of vector or cartoon.

        It will take me a day or three but I’ll get something to you :)

        • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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          23 days ago

          The logo at the top left of the website seems to display pretty small. Seems like it might even be 30x30? Looking across various apps, it seems that the logo is typically displayed reasonably small.

          I think one other consideration is that it would need to work well on both dark and light themes.

          • Manticore@lemmy.nz
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            23 days ago

            Roger that! The desktop icon is indeed 30x30 when inspected. I wasn’t sure if there was ever a large version used anywhere.

            Good call on the dark/light mode though, since I often use transparency that’s important

        • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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          23 days ago

          Nice! Come up with all the ones you want and we can hold a vote on which are people’s favourites!

          Since we’re posting art, I’d better throw own my attempt from a few weeks back:

          lemmyNZ logo proposal with lemmy/kiwi creature in front of NZ flag

          Ok not very professional but it was one of the first times I’ve used inkscape. I was going for a lemming/kiwi hybrid.