based design studio

been cooking some designs tonight 🧑‍🍳

hackathon style for the octant contest

aiming to do more tmr and submit close to deadline + my thoughts on it

built a simple design direction template and used it to present 3 refreshes

product/designer gone onchain, early explorer of new frontiers in social, states, ai, tech, bio. /basedstudio

what I learned is that I got to invest into better branding presentation, mockups and other templates as I wasn't doing it that often

templates aren't everything though and even though some submissions look real polished with them in place - they lack soul and contain obvious mistakes / some details off

contest link with all submissions

https://www.jokerace.io/contest/base/0xc3204743f9925a2241fc285aec6f17ea10f0621e

unlucky timing for me as I was abroad on vacation when it started then on a wedding and whole day trips lol 

so just started yesterday night and finished midday today

These are great man. Love your takeaways — agreed on the branding process. I don't like these contests for the reason that it perpetuates the misinterpretation of branding being purely visual, quick, and cheap. I would pitch the design as a concept and advocate for ongoing support to refine the concept, extend it to support the entire brand requirements, and deploy it within the team.