💅 Voyager icon design contest — Submissions thread

EDIT: NOW CLOSED! Thank you to everyone that entered! 💙

As part of the v1 launch, I’m hoping to adopt a new community-driven app icon! 🥰 As promised, here is the thread for your submissions! I can’t wait to see what you all come up with!

NOTE: Please only post finalized submissions here! If you would like to workshop your submission with the community, feel free to make a separate thread. :)

What do I win??

wefwef *ahem* Voyager is a free and open source project, so there isn't a cash prize or anything. But, credit to you will be officially in the app settings and the Github repo readme!

Submission deadline

Submissions accepted NOW through July 16th, 10pm CT (depending on submission volume, may be extended).

Selection process

I will lock the thread after the submission window and nominate 3 icons (see below tips for what I’m looking for). I’ll take into account votes and comments from people. :) If there are very few submissions, I may extend the window to submit. Shortly after, I’ll create another thread for the community to vote to choose one of the final three!

Tips

I encourage you to make the app icon FUN and colorful! Give the app a soul that reflects the community driven nature of Lemmy and the greater Fediverse. Icons using the display-p3 colorspace are encouraged. I love how an interconnected rainbow represents the Fediverse, and I’d love to see your personal artistic style :)
I am purposely allowing raster icons for this contest, because I think too many app icons look bland, generic and… well… corporate vector bleh. I love the fun style of these Fediverse illustrations by David Revoy: https://framablog.org/2022/12/08/framasoft-2022-a-casserole-cooked-up-thanks-to-you-thanks-to-your-donations/?print=print

Rules

Edited 2am CT Jul 10: Added rule against AI generated artwork

3 submissions max per artist
🆕 No AI generated art, please
Please, no submissions resembling the Apollo icon (sorry!) to respect Apollo’s app icon branding
For each submission, required assets:
- (For contest submission)
  - Single 512x512 square PNG designed for iOS should be in your comment. (If you have an iOS device, I recommend this site to test)
  - Optional sentence or two explaining your icon
- (Upon being selected)
  - 1024x1024 PNG or SVG iOS app icon.
  - 1024x1024 PNG or SVG “maskable” variant for Android app icon. Tips here: https://web.dev/maskable-icon
  - BONUS/OPTIONAL Splash screen image - Design a full screen app launch screen that is maskable to fit various device aspect ratios. This is totally optional.
Your work should be licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0, or less restrictive. :)

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Here are my submissions! I also went with the space/ astronaut lemming theme. I tried to make an icon that would be recognizable & familiar to lemmy, but also unique and fun. I included two options with slight variances.

Update third entry - with thicker strokes as suggested
- Definitely one of the best
  
  Thank you!
  
  If you find the time, do you think you could try a version with some thicker strokes? I think it looks absolutely amazing if you look at it full size, but as an icon many of the details are lost. I feel like everything has to be "more extreme" for it to still work and be visible on the tiny icon
  
  Thanks for the suggestion! I tend to agree, some details get lost when sized down for the homescreen. Here a version with double the thickness on the strokes. I guess this will count as my third entry 😉
  
  Thanks :)
- These are great! that first smiling one in particular. Well done, I hope this gets up.
  
  Thank you!

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