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PAX West 2016 Forum Badge
In 2008 I first started making badges for members of this esteemed forum. The world was a simpler place back then, where the colour of the forum itself was a deep blue and social networking was in its infancy. Forums were the sole source of information and from there a whole community was born.
8 years later and while the community has shrunk a little, it's still thriving. This despite the ever encroaching influence of Facebook/Reddit/[insert yet to be invented social networking thingy here] the PAX Community forums is a unique place that has people swapping tips on how to get the most out of PAX. I created the forum badges as a means to get people to put faces to the weird little handles we attribute ourselves to in these forums that are worn while at PAX. So far they have only ever existed at 2 of the 4 PAXs, with South and Aus not yet adopting the forum badges. This will hopefully change in 2017, but for now only East and West are covered.
So here we are again in 2016 where PAX West, the new name of Prime rolls up and after the ticket sales are over, the design of the forum badges can commence! Historically I have put up a choice of concepts for people to vote and choose from. This year I have decided to drop that in favour of presenting a single concept that we can all hone to perfection. That concept is the Early Access Forum Badge. It's a forum badge that is lacking a lot of features but is still a forum badge. It looks like this:
So what do we need to do to it to make it better? Answers below!
8 years later and while the community has shrunk a little, it's still thriving. This despite the ever encroaching influence of Facebook/Reddit/[insert yet to be invented social networking thingy here] the PAX Community forums is a unique place that has people swapping tips on how to get the most out of PAX. I created the forum badges as a means to get people to put faces to the weird little handles we attribute ourselves to in these forums that are worn while at PAX. So far they have only ever existed at 2 of the 4 PAXs, with South and Aus not yet adopting the forum badges. This will hopefully change in 2017, but for now only East and West are covered.
So here we are again in 2016 where PAX West, the new name of Prime rolls up and after the ticket sales are over, the design of the forum badges can commence! Historically I have put up a choice of concepts for people to vote and choose from. This year I have decided to drop that in favour of presenting a single concept that we can all hone to perfection. That concept is the Early Access Forum Badge. It's a forum badge that is lacking a lot of features but is still a forum badge. It looks like this:
So what do we need to do to it to make it better? Answers below!
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Might I suggest a more digital looking font maybe.
Just need to know how...
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Version 2 for west as v1 is prime. .1 as it is the first west.
My little contribution to the recent posts.
I love the idea of having the build/version in the corner. Although I feel like a early access joke for the version/build would be more fitting than the 127 ip reference.
Hoping to keep up having my name on the back side list every year! xD
With respect to the box being another colour, this is a gap in the image that hasn't loaded, it's something web developers used to do before broadband with images broken up into smaller ones to optimising the loading of pages. This is what I'm trying to emulate here with the broken image box for part of the crest.
Here is the latest version that has adopted the comments so far made:
Edit: That existed right? I distinctly remember seeing it in the OP o_o
LOVE the "Prime" crossed out as an homage.
As always, @kropotkin - thanks for doing this. I love connecting with people in this way.
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A bunch of my suggestions along this line might be funny, but make it a lower quality of a badge.
Like printing it on really cheap paper. Or not laminating it.
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