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Coin Design - Beautiful Detail (and Crowd Design)
🕑 Added 2020-12-07 00:34:01 +0000 UTCDear Insane Children,
Alex is an artist of many talents - for example, he's a wizard with AI design layouts, a meticulous project manager, and an expert on the fine details of commercial printing. Each of these things requires attention to detail at a very high level - and the features of his detail-oriented brain really come into focus when he sets his (digital) pen to work on vector designs for our products and project.
Case in point: His latest iteration on The Decision Coin (main image, above).
For those who might have missed the previous post in which this was mentioned:
We're crowd designing a large format (50mm) commemorative metal Decision Coin to mark 3 years of effort towards Alice: Asylum and the passing of 2020 (good riddance!). We'll release this in early 2021 (assuming we aren't all wiped out by a meteor before January 1st!).
Effing 2020.
A Decision Coin is a coin with sides marked "YES" or "NO" (or "LIVE" or "DIE", etc). You throw it in the air while asking a question like, "Should I drink that fourth margarita?" and then base your actions on how the coin lands. It takes all the uncertainty out of life!
Legal Notice: Not responsible for death, injury, or inebriation resulting from living your life based on the Decision Coin.
Speaking of Alex's attention to detail, he's pushing the technical limits of what the coin maker can do with height maps and pressing detail. That means that unlike previous coin designs, Alex is working to take direct control over every facet of this coin's design and manufacture. Yay!
Speaking of previous coin designs... here's what the last coin we did looked like:
So let us know in the comments below what you think of all this Coin Madness!
And does anyone have suggestions for the text we insert around the border?
From Shanghai with A Fourth Margarita,
-American
Comments
Love the design. Will have to be sure to pledge to get this coin to compliment the original coin.
Droitclair
It's perfect 🖤
Sarah McKeegan
Love the coin!
Daris Sark
I just want to know how I get a coin becomes they look cool.
If you want a challenge the coin design should be so that neither side of the coin is more favored to land on its side based on more/less of either sides designs weight (or/and aerodynamics if the previous is too easy). :^)
Hi, design of the coin is so waouu. Maybe, although it's obvious it's not an human head skull, it's possible to modify the teeth position? The central teeth is quite strange, maybe a try with two tooth ?
Stephanie Groth
He can do no wrong. This design is wicked, I love it!
Saucentric
I want this as a tattoo, I want this as a coin, I want this on shirts, everything.
Nicholas Brokaw
Very good stuff from Alex here! I can't say that I've got an idea for the text, but you've got me thinking about it now.
Daniel Linsley
This coin looks so cool! I’m so excited to see what it looks like when it’s done!
I like the text that on the ones above. And leave it at Yes/No, not Live/Die. I have the Zero F's Left coin from Kickstarter and I love it, so this would be a great companion! And yes to whiskey glasses!
Ray Weatherford
Love the 3D rendering of the Displacement picture. I could definitely see that made as a highball or shot glass!
Denise Sury
I’m sorry, but are we getting whiskey glasses? Because yes, please! 😸
How about: "Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle." Or "If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there." Both of those seem like good options for a coin flip type thing. But about the coin, it looks awesome!
