Hello everyone!

You may have noticed that Eternity’s icon could use a bit of a facelift (I just hacked it together to have something). Well, it’s time for a change and I’d like to get all you talented folks involved!

So, I want to host a competition where you can submit your designs for a new app icon. Once we have all the submissions, we can vote as a community to pick our new icon!

Some details to keep in mind:

Deadline: I’ll be accepting submissions until the 8th of September, 2023, 18:00 CET. I might extend this deadline if we have too few submissions.

Format: Submissions should be in SVG or PNG format, with a 1:1 aspect ratio.

Resolution: Please ensure your design is at least 512x512 pixels if you’re going with PNG.

Monochrome Version (Optional): It’d be great to see a monochrome version of your design too (for Material You icons).

Design: Your design should be colorful, fun, and engaging. The original UFO spaceship could be a source of inspiration, or elements of the fediverse or Lemmy. Of course, if you’ve got another creative idea, go wild!

Once the submissions close, we’ll have a public vote to pick the winner (similar to what we did with the app name).

Thanks in advance for participating.

Happy designing!

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    1 year ago

    You should probably add what license the icon will be under, if it’s submitted to the project. Creative Commons? GPL?

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    Here’s my submission! Pictured below is the little dude taking a space walk out in psychedelic space. I loved the palette of the original icon, so I kept that mostly the same.

    Mockup: Mockup

    Submission images: Material You Full color

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      1 year ago

      This one’s really good! I like that it works well as a monochrome icon while also having a detailed full-color icon.

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      1 year ago

      Somehow I cannot see the images on Eternity (ironic…) but on another client I was able to see them. Looks good!

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    1 year ago

    I liked the old one. We should keep it and/or allow people to vote to keep it in, for now. And we can repeat the contest when the userbase grows.

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      1 year ago

      Its cool, but does that really work as a small icon? Thats a ton of detail for something so small.

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    1 year ago

    Just a point of consideration for those submitting ideas… Make sure you zoom way out on your icon and look at how it will appear when sized for a phone.

    IMO that’s the biggest issue with the current icon - I just can’t tell wtf it is when it’s like 1/4” square.

    Not a criticism, just something that’s easy to lose sight of when you’re working at a computer.

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    1 year ago

    How about taking inspiration from an ouroboros image.

    I am a shitty artist/designer, so I can’t help with actual designing. Ouroboros kinda means perpetual state, maybe eternity.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve been following this thread to check out all the great app icon designs being submitted. But I haven’t seen anything more since the Sep 8th deadline about where we go from here. Any news?

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    1 year ago

    My submission

    I was inspired by Eternity from Marvel Comics who looks like this

    The icon is Lemmy’s mascot with an infinity symbol for eyes, it is a nod to both the concept of Eternity and a callback to the Infinity client as Eternity was formerly known as Infinity for Lemmy.