I still like the original, but I'm seeing a lot of great stuff here. I certainly don't want to rain on anyone's creative parade.
This one pays homage to Monero and also adds a bit of yin and yang. Anyways. I don't mean to derail this thread. I'll be posting more on reddit later.
Wow, very nice! I even liked the first one, but people are right that it needs to be "flattenable" to a two-tone design. On the other hand, after a basic design is achieved, there is nothing wrong with a little pizzazz and artistic license. For example, look at how fancy this "Dogecoin" is/was:
http://imgur.com/6e2Dpqi (it almost looks like something you can trust, huh?
)
Can you play with the versions a little more and make a mockup that has the trailing ends of the a and e both continue to spiral off (instead of going flat horizontal) and also try a version where the lines go flat diagonal? Also, I'm digging the subdued blue, and I get where you're coming from. Can we try a version with a slightly brighter tone? I'll tip you some Aeon for your trouble with all this, even if another design is chosen.
Having said all that, I think the best thing to do would be to do as we did with Monero and use
www.99designs.com.
I think it costs a couple hundred dollars. I can certainly put forward about a third of that if anyone is willing to match.
This way we get around 99 independent designs and we just choose the best one.
I'm willing to put forward $100 towards this as well. I was very impressed with the work they did for Monero and we need to at least see what they can do for Aeon. That doesn't automatically win them the gig vs. critical60 though; I'd like to lay it all out and see what we're working with.
Also, if anyone has a long running, trusted account, is competent with code and development, and *really* wants to do something huge for Aeon - there is an opportunity to create a "MyAeon" site based off of the amazing work fluffyponyza did for MyMonero.
I won't lie; this is a tall order, and if you aren't planning on running it honestly and keeping up with it please don't - you will just end up doing damage. But if you have good intentions, want to make some profit, and want to help make Aeon super easy to use then this would be a great start (even after the GUI comes out this will be useful). Fluffyponyza has said he won't be offended if someone copies this open source code and creates their own Aeon version, and it will give people an easier place to store some Aeon besides using the command line and/or Bittrex itself.