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October 12, 2022
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H3LIUM Brand Design

H3LIUM is a Web3 native company with the mission of onboarding new builders and companies into the ecosystem to pursue unique fundraising opportunities — through creative services and unparalleled industry expertise. H3LIUM Studio is a full service creative agency with leading industry expertise in all things web3. Their team provides the highest quality creative offerings through in-house talent and represented artists.

The H3LIUM platform was the brainchild of the creators of the Balloonsville NFT collection. They saw great potential in expanding the types of collections they offered, as well as growing out their suite of services for others seeking to get into the sometimes confusing world of NFTs.

We helped guide them through the process of creating, naming and branding a new umbrella company that could house all the different kinds of products and services they were offering, and would offer in the future.

When it came to the design solution, our team thought a lot about the metaphor of flexibility or malleability — things being shape-shifting, scalable, adaptable. People who are interested in Web3 seem to have a shared interest in products and projects that are multidimensional and hard to categorize. They seem to fit whatever space is needed, much like the gas of Helium. The extreme thins and thicks in the type family embody this as well.

The final result is a design that embraces freedom and exploration, pushing boundaries to see what the worldwide web can actually be.

Creative Director: Paul Rustand; Art Director: Mark Walter; Designer: Noah Marlowe.

Tags NFT, Brand design, logo system, Identity Design, H3LIUM, Widgets & Stone

Monkey See, MonkeDAO

May 4, 2022
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Monkey See, MonkeDAO

New identity for the first NFT DAO on Solana

MonkeDAO is, the first NFT Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) built on Solana cryptocurrency. The group works to provide unparalleled value to our members and the Solana ecosystem through community-led projects, connections and innovations. With the success of their initial NFTs (unique 8-bit Monkey portraits), the community is seeking to launch several new initiatives and needed a brand that could take them to the next stage of growth.

MonkeDAO built a culture that's quirky, fun, and irreverent, but also fairly bold — investing in the future of web3 while operating according to some pretty high libertarian ideals around rights to privacy, democratic processes, and the like. Kind of a fascinating collection of traits — playful, but also professional.

We wanted the visual impression of the brand to reflect that quirkiness—to feel quite bold and sure of itself while embracing some wonky, unconventional aesthetic decisions. The odd contrast in the logotype, the cheeky rotation of the "D", the use of color to create moments of high contrast, the heavy black lines in the icons—these decisions are all meant to feel quirky, but self-assured. Not subtle, but not wacky either.

Creative Direction: Paul Rustand; Design: Mark Walter.

Tags Widgets & Stone, brand identity, brand design, logo design, identity system, MonkeDAO, NFT, DAO, Solana

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