Thanks a lot for your comment @optictopic 
Yes, I’ve seen the tagline on your cover and I decided to emphasize “The people” in my design, because they’re the ones that will enable the entire network.
And yes, If you think that I can help with some graphical designs, just let me know it on a direct message giving as many details as possible. 
Perfect! You can publish it without any problem.
Thanks for your comment @Krekc 
Glad to see that people like the proposed idea.
Well done @fergish Exciting to see the many mediums that SAFE will use to make it into the public domain. There is no doubt that the detail you provide is necessary for many in the audience. Can there be 40,000 foot overview that will hook the uninitiated and draw them in. High level overviews can then be tailored and used as marketing tools for the many types participants in SAFE; farmers, end-users, devs, and so on.
Great job I enjoy your stuff.
oooozes confidence… nice work @franckuestein
Thanks.
At this stage it’s really hard to figure how to stratify the altitudes to talk from. At some point we won’t have to worry as much because “it just works, and does this, this and this”. Right now we’re still talking about partially demonstrated potential, but not much viewable substance. I guess that such us the burden of the visionaries. 
@franckuestein I want to have the Safecoin logo worked in as part of the Title. What are your thoughts on this approach?
Hey it’s kinda cool but I really like your first design the most, all the fonts go together and it just looks super professional, like something I’d see right on the rack at the store. I wouldn’t change it too much, it’s quite dope 
You are talking about the blue cover by @franckuestein right?
Yeah, sorry, guess I got confused with all the posts.
I meant the first blue one he did
I agree that it looks more professional. Still it would be nice to have the safecoin logo represented somehow.
If you really want the safecoin logo in on the cover maybe subtly put it in like a watermark. I just took the safecoin logo from maidsafe.net and added it as a layer in the standard Ubuntu image editor. So this is just an example of what it may look like 
Great job all. Everyone here is talented and the designs are excellent. Think “information overload”. IMO the more you add, even subtle watermarks, the busier it gets. When things get too busy they lose their ability to capture and retain the target audience. Critical for new publications. Love the first mockup by @franckuestein
Hey. We need more cover options. I’m not confused enough yet!
Great art unlike great articles should move the viewer at a visceral level towards a response. The blue cover does move me. And it is true that adding visual information that is unnecessary takes away from a visceral response. The question then becomes, is it important to add the safecoin logo? Not having the logo may in fact add to the cover. Too many mysterious designs on the cover will push away more viewers than it attracts. There is room inside the magazine for art that is mysterious and edgy.
I designed a new cover style for the Maidsafe Magazine with Safecoin logo and then I added it to some mockups. Hope you like it
Thanks to Wassim Awadallah and Alexandre Cardoso for their mockups available on Behance.
First one:
Second one:
Original resource:
Hi @optictopic! Yes, maybe Safecoin logo should be more important on the cover, but IMHO not too flashy… idk, maybe I think so because I like clean/minimalistic designs
Thanks @whiteoutmashups and @Krekc for your comments. Krekc, I like your modification but if we add the Safecoin logo there, the Maidsafe logo should be removed to keep it simple.
Thanks! I uploaded a new one with some mockups, hope you like it!
Of the blue ones, I definitely think the last one is best. I like it a lot in terms of immediate aesthetic impact.
But I’m also having a hard time letting go of the vivid one that Rich started with. It’s striking and different. Maybe a bit wild, but very impinging and memorable. It works in both logos elegantly and the pictures are a nice touch, very human amongst the psychedelic colors. The surfer might need to be yet a bit more distinguishable but it’s interesting. And I don’t know about the sacredness of the sacred geometry, but its faint presence is cool.
It also mentions the SAFE Network, which I think is vital. The mag is not about the people of safecoin. It’s about the people, etc., of the SAFE Network. This is important, regardless of the rest of the design, and putting it in is made more awkward by putting so much emphasis on “The People” in larger type. The original handles the people aspect by putting pictures of those we are highlighting, but doesn’t make it seem like “the people” == those four (don’t forget, Ben, Fraiser, Ross, Qi, etc.).
As I say, I like the simplicity of the blue one and perhaps we can fix the things mentioned and keep it.
Getting rid of the city buildings and lights (and sky) also gets rid of some level of finer detail. Like if I were to pick it up in the break room at my work, it might seem more like a work-related document that I’m reading, rather than casual. The buildings/sky might seem a little “stock”, but it works on multiple levels (psychological, psychological, and psychological), and maybe no other type of imagery can even come close (besides a shot of a different city) if this technology ever wants to be as casual/omnipresent as possible. The last one Krekc posted seems like a good one to stick with for further considerations.
Obviously, the first one proposed by Rich is striking because of their fluorescent tone, but IMO we should keep it clean and with the bluish colors from Safecoin, Maidsafe… don’t you think so?
Agressive designs are interesting, but I think that there are too many color combinations. What does the surfer mean? Is (s)he surfing the net?
P.S: I haven’t found any SAFE visual identity guide with the fonts and color codes used for logos or resources, so in my case I used thin fonts like “Helvetica Neue”.
yep, I missed it… but we can add it near “The applications”. Also, I’ve emphasized “The people” because they’re the ones that fuel and potentiate the network, not just referring to devs 
. David, Nick, Paige and Viv are on the cover because they were listed in the original design. Adding their photos could overload the cover and break their proportion and simplicity.
It’s just my opinion. Sometimes, less == more. 
The photo was a reference to a new dawn and the expectancy of a new amazing wave to ride. Initially I wanted to find a surfer paddling out to a wave. Analogous to what we are doing in positioning ourselves to experience the safenetwork when it comes alive. The idea came from Tim Coomber during an ANT meetup. Ultimately there can be more than one cover from which to choose to print… so the more options the better. The hacker convention attendees likely gravitate to a different aesthetic than the average person at a consumer electronics convention. The content will be the same but the eye candy on the cover does not need to be a one size fits all. So experimenting with designs amongst ourselves is a great way to find out what works and why.
The cool thing here is that while we are experimenting we are also creating a pool of imagery that can be multi purposed, be it for safenetwork/ANT (autonomous network tech) meetups, memes and/or future Safecoin Magazine Issues.
Exactly! That’s very important 
