hackseq18 Art & Media

[ababaian]

I'm continually going to revamp some of the art and media on the website over the coming months. If you have any artistic abilities and want to help out with some aspect then feel free =D I'm not particularly artistic so I lean heavily on making pretty graphs and then stylizing them.

(work in progress)

Core Design Assets

Website banners / backgrounds

80S Ribosome Retrowave

Social media catchy images

hs18 Stickers

The Ramones

Other media

• Email Signature Pack

[jenjaelin]

Hey! I do a bit of digital work, have some photoshop skills and a drawing tablet. Let me know if you want help designing anything from scratch :)

[ababaian]

=D Nice nice @jenjaelin

I'd 100% be down for working together. Take a gander around the website and let's improve the art. I wrote a basic Style Guide for hackseq.

Some of the things which would be nice are: Letterhead for sponsorship / thank you letters. Slides which we can use to advertise hackseq at different events like VanBug. Or image "flyers" for sending out departmental emails. If we create a set of artwork which we can use in these different contexts then we'll be set =D

I guess we should focus our energy on specific objects once once we have a a need for it: if anyone needs anything particular designed let us know!

[jenjaelin]

Will do! Have anything particular in mind already besides the above? I'm swamped until Wednesday but after that we can mayhaps meet up and do some doodling if there was anything immediate that we wanted to have.

[ababaian]

What would be good is some Twitter/Facebook sized images or gifs we can use during Team Leader Recruitment. We could use some catchy art that would work for that.

[jenjaelin]

Things we need T-shirts wallpapers banners splash page Pixel art - draw something new

Edit: Sticker / Band Logo Design

[jenjaelin]

anyone remember 90s solo cups?

[ababaian]

@hackseq/hs18_org

As requested: email signature pack (2 examples)

hs_email_signiture.zip

[bfjia]

both signatures looks pretty good (Y)

[ababaian]

Request: Team Leader Slide

Anyone up for doing this?

[NoushinN]

I am really liking the ramone's theme, I can put something together, but what is the text I should promote?

[jenjaelin]

probably the following:

• Date of event
• What it is
• Why/who should apply
• Deadline for applications
• link to more info

[alexsweeten]

Had some time to kill and whipped up a Rise Against theme.

[ababaian]

@SweetiePi That's sick man.

[jenjaelin]

That looks awesome!

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[alexsweeten]

Experimented with a Pokemon theme, fits a little more to the 90' aesthetic.

[ababaian]

Man you're killing it @SweetiePi. One general note though hackseq is one word, first h is lowercase whenever possible, so maybe hackSEQ. ;)

OK: hackseq, HACKSEQ, hackSEQ, hackseq18 ...

Avoid: Hackseq, HackSeq, Hackseq2018 ...

Edit: Also I'm uploading high resolution images for us to use at https://github.com/hackseq/hackseq18/tree/master/media

[alexsweeten]

@ababaian Sure thing. I'll fix that up in the previous two images.

Also if no one has claimed the team leader slide, I can finish that up by today.

[jenjaelin]

That's adorable! Idk if it'll kill the pokemon esthetic to change it to "a wild type trait/phenotype" but I love it the way it is too!

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Man you're killing it @SweetiePi https://github.com/SweetiePi. One general note though hackseq is one word, first h is lowercase whenever possible, so maybe hackSEQ. ;)

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[NoushinN]

Here's an attempt...any suggestions?

[NoushinN]

This?

[NoushinN]

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[ababaian]

That's a good first draft @NoushinN. It's great we're all helping out (and it's fun) but we need to have a laser focus on what we're doing.

We need to have a clear definition though of what art/style we're going to use for promotional materials. The Ramones / Rage Against logos are for sticker designs, they aren't for promotion.

If we're going with the 90s theme for promotion then we should stick to that. Also all materials should contain the main hackseq logo and a piece of artwork. You can color-shift the main logo to fit the slide if that's necessary.

One idea: If we have a slide then using a photo showing people working together like this is a good idea. It emphasizes the social aspects of the activity.

Another idea: Put up the pokemon image as a main text and make a quick catchy tag for it to get people's attention like "Do you have a project idea that keeps running away from you? Be a hackseq Team Leader and lead a team to catch it!" Include application deadline / date of event and website.

The text info is good but should be shortened, maybe make the website + twitter handle a separate line of it's own at the bottom so people find it quickly.

[NoushinN]

@ababaian great comments, you mean something like this?

[ababaian]

That's great, I wouldn't use that exact tag-line with that image, it's kind of a play on words with pokemon, but if you can make a 1-2 sentence tag which emphasizes working together as a team and socializing then that fits the photo.

Also Hackseq should be hackseq with forced lowercase.

[NoushinN]

oh! now catching the drift....how do you force lowercase?

[ababaian]

Nice! You can probably crop the Hack SEQ from the pokemon image to make it a bit bigger and that's a catchy poster ;)

Also I think that the pokemon image (with the top text removed) + that tagline would be a great tweet ; )

[NoushinN]

Cool! thanks for the live chat @ababaian

[NoushinN]

Here's the final image attached

[ababaian]

All final images at the highest resolution or raw formats should be deposited to the media folder

[bfjia]

Some sponsors are asking for some posters/material to distribute to advertise for hackseq18. Is there a specific one you guys want to use?

[ababaian]

The best thing we have is probably this guy:

I can design a full poster (letter sized) this weekend and get it to you on Tuesday : ) +1

Edit: By Tuesday I totally meant Wednesday (busy weekend :/ )

[bfjia]

thx :)

[ababaian]

hackseq18 Letter-poster

@imasianxd

PDF hackseq18 poster Link

[ababaian]

Sticker Designs

Grateful Dead

Ramones

System of a Down

[NoushinN]

Really cool! loving them all, shall share on twitter 🥇 💯

[ababaian]

Maybe don't share these; leave them as a surprise for the stickers for participants

[NoushinN]

ok..exclusive to participants

[alexsweeten]

Quick Nirvana theme.

[ababaian]

Man you killed it with that one!

[ababaian]

@SweetiePi would you be able to send me the high/original resolution of the image so I can get some stickers printed?

[alexsweeten]

@ababaian Sure, I've added it to our media folder here