CSULB COTA Challenge Coin

(Creation)

 2” x 2” x ⅛” enamel & metal (2024)

This symbol aims to embody the diverse energies and voices that make up creative fields. I worked with the Dean of COTA, Royce Smith, and Head of the Graphic Design program, Tanya Cummings, to find an abstract and modern representation of what it means to be a creative.

The Design’s Evolution

(w/notes)

Research & sketches

Initial Submission

Notes

  • Font

  • COTA excluded, replace always

  • Always (keep or change)

  • Add LB??

  • Pyramid blue

  • Color

  • Back

  • FULL Name of units and donor

  • Or short hand

  • Hand (stigmata)

  • Identified

  • Delete icons

  • More abstract

  • Olympics

  • scheduling

  • verbiage

  • Font choices

  • Research website

  • Remove always

  • Research iconography (more abstract)

  • Play with color

  • No DATE

Revised concept sketches + experiments

Notes

  • Color

    • Blue pyramid

    • Colorfulness

    • Pop

  • Font

    • NO TIMES NEW ROMAN

    • ALL CAPS

    • Similar

    • Type as ribbon

      • V1 (just abstract), V2 (word), or V3 (both)

  • Start inward to out

  • Hand+lines thicker

    • Segment

    • More black background

    • Differentiate color

  • Hand Dif color

    • Stand out more

  • Narrower

  • Back SCRA 2

Revision 1

Revision 2

Notes:

  • Front 

    • Thiner rings

  • V - w/LB logo

  • SCRA 1 - 

    • Ring colors (each sec)

    • Red

    • Orange

    • Green

    • Blue

    • Purple

    • Pink

  • V1 (all) - V2 (vocab)

Revision 3

Notes:

  • FLB1 (final) - font good

  • SCRA 1.1 

    • Vocab might change

  • No color

    • Black ring back

    • Black outline hand

  • Rethink colored hand

    • Blue hand - yes - no?

  • FENWICK

  • No division (no segments

  • Work w/ segment, more black

Notes:

  • SCRA 2.2 w/fenwick font

  • FLB1 (final front)

  • Lines no line

  • Vocab under review

Revision 4

  • Hand - gold - blue 

  • W/more differentiation 

  • V1 (gold hand w/lines), V2 (gold no lines, V3 (blue lines), V4 (blue no lines 

  • Modify “black rim” around hand)

Revision 5

Notes:

  • Gold hand

  • Change pink & orange - more contrast

  • Fix kerning R & K CAR

  • Reorder names alphabetical 

Revision 6

Revision 7

Finalized Vectors

  • Front Vector

  • Front Colored Vector

  • Back Vector

  • Back Color Vector

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