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Brand Strategy, Naming, Logo Design

Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and Web3.0 can be confusing and intimidating.

We decided to name ourselves "HelloCrypto" because it sounds friendly and approachable — it sounds helpful.
Also, it’s super easy to remember and not very hard to spell.

The basis of our logo is a block that looks like it's covered in scaffolding or being built. It's flexible enough to use for editorial illustration and an obvious visual connection to blockchain technology.

Green is the main color because it speaks to being new, growth and profitability.

We chose fonts like Euclid Mono and Suisse Int'l from the excellent Swiss Typefaces library.

I hired Alan Lum to help design the HelloCrypto logo, then had Mark Gervais create this animated version.

Revealing the individual letters is intended to feel a bit like a mystery being solved (or a code being broken).
Bit by bit.

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Creative Direction, Web Design

Learn How to Stop Worrying and Love the Blockchain. HelloCrypto.com

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Content Marketing

Crypto is a highly competitive topic, which naturally makes SEO and content marketing challenging. However, our organic search traffic and keyword results show a steady increase over time (via Ahrefs) and this validates that we're getting a few things right.

Hopefully this is an indication of where things are headed.

In Summary

We created HelloCrypto to stand out from the backdrop of projects and people trying to shill the next NFT / meme / ponzi or combination. We want to differentiate ourselves from all the channels using a variation of the same unoriginal thumbnail: a shocked looking guy in the bottom right corner pointing up at a coin symbol and probably a rocket emoji.

Instead our visual direction was inspired by mid 90s skateboard culture, WIRED Mag, TED Talks ... perhaps a bit of NYT Wirecutter. Picture: Seth Godin x Mark Gonxales.

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