jglovier

I would leap at the chance to contribute freely to the HN site to make fellow developers happy, yes.

haha, well it IS a good point. So often designs are created that aren't scalable. That's one of my pet peeves actually.

The funny thing is, I designed it at about 30px x 30px, and then scaled it up and recreated it in illustrator.

The proportions need a tiny bit of tweaking, but it doesn't really look too bad as a favicon. Here's the favicon version: http://cl.ly/Kd16

The characters are just made froms scratch, but roughly based on the proportions of Blanch Condensed. Considering making a whole typeface out of it now.

Well if you read my comments on the dribbble shot, this was simply done as part of a Windows8 demo app in collaboration with MS for the Build conference. Our CEO demo'd an app we created just to show off the ease of which you can build apps with HTML, CSS and JS for the Windows8 app store.

Just thought it would be fun to slightly re-imagine the Hacker News logo, esp since it doesn't really have it's own. It just uses the Y-Combinator logo.

Also, as a creative, taking on projects for fun often is a terrific "creative release" where you can do whatever you want in the realm of creativity because there are not actual client requirements.

And FTR, I do plenty of my own stuff. Just check out my other dribbble shots, or my site (http://joelglovier.com).

Posting my t-shirt design here? Is that what you mean? Or the design itself?

If you mean posting the shirt, I'm sorry you don't like it. Just thought some other hackers may enjoy it. I had over 100 people who loved it enough to back it as a Kickstarter project.

If you mean the shirt design itself, then I'm not sure I even understand your perspective.

Peace.

LOL that's awesome.

What do you mean by "heavy-handed"?

Hah, thanks alot jbenz! I appreciate the encouragement.