@Zoki, nice but is that able to be a cuddly toy? Usually mascots appeal to most age groups especially children so that parents can go ādear isnāt that cuteā
Guess in my mind cuddly also means cute and for me that isnāt quite cute.
Maybe super joyful so people associate SAFE with great joy and pleasant thoughts?
Maybe something more Scottish?
Maybe an animal that usually is secretive or overly protective of its young but cute?
Why not do something simple? Like turn the maidsafe hex logo thing (current forum logo) into a foam cube for stress relief (or maybe a giant one as a bean bag chair?) and turn the triangle logo into a key chain fob.
Well then Iād say go with an ant plushie or something. We really havenāt been focusing on visual mascots but maybe thatās something we should be. Make a SAFE network manga or something.
How come when I suggest we need a mascot like dogecoin I get cut down but when you do everyone loves it? Well I donāt really care about that if we are just gonna get it done somehow lets frickin make this happen! Once we have a mascot, feature him/her/it in some twitter memes and bam now we are dogeing!
dogecoin was made out of an existing meme.
They just took it as it was and made a coin out of it. It worked well, but you can not transfer this to Safenetwork (because then it had to be a dancing-crab-network or something).
What goes is a mascot like those of michelin or duracell.
But the right approach to build a brand is to define it first and then decide if a mascot would be beneficial at all.
There is a reason why google has no mascott although they are paying millions to some world-renowned branding specialist.
Or why Milka has its cow and Lindt would never ever go for it. But they both do just chocolate, right?
In my opinion if one day we could pay those or similar guys to create a brand around safenetwork, this would be the groundbraking thing. Otherwise it is easy to drown in the see of memes and poor corporate identities.
Donāt get me wrong, when you look at safenetwork.tech you see that somebody is thinking about this stuff already and it looks professional, but wasnāt the logo for safenetwork made at 99designs.com (which is a huge no-go)?
What we can do is what Zoki suggests - some mascots for ourselfs and our friends as we wait for the network to work, but forcing it to be part of the actual branding would probably harm the perception of SN.
I mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=JiQSD_mB4GE