It all started with:
"On this day 10 years ago, Nordeus was founded by a small team with big dreams. Low on funding but high on passion and grit, fueled by a desire to make childhood dreams happen we went all in and proved all the naysayers wrong. Much has changed since then. Nordeus has grown bigger, better, and stronger but the essence of Nordeus, the grit to see our dreams happen, remained the same. The 10-year-olds who dreamed of making games now know that everything is possible.
Let's continue dreaming like we're 10!
Happy birthday, Nordeans!"
So, the idea was to think about something spectacular, something epic, something that will indicate fun, and celebration, which will include all awesomeness that we have in-house.
The starting idea was how to get a ten from the logo and that's how I started playing.
This was the placeholder for the artworks for our artists and designers.
Those were the first three designs I got and I was so impressed! Then, I got the idea to collect as many of those and create a wall of Nordeus art and design. Back then we had around 30 artists in the company, so my plan had a very good starting position.
(from left to right: Vladimir Stojisavljevic, Vanja Krstic, Ivan Cirovic)
02/ WE ARE TEN sign
The second thing I was working on was the sign, the icon, that we'll use on all printed or digital materials.
The next step was to make it a little bit more effective, glamorous, bold, and heroic, so I asked Nikola Damjanov to jump in with textures and materials for the X.
03/ The roman wasn't enough
Since our PR manager was asked to bring some designs with Arabic numbers, I tried to find a solution that will bring happiness and clarity to all our users, people, and community. :)
While playing with fonts, I realized that we have a couple of "IO" words that we use every day like: passIOn, champIOn, motivatIOn, inspiratIOn...
04/ UI elements for all kinds of talks, meetups, announcements
In that period we planned to make a week of talks from all areas we had in the company: game teams, HR team, art/dev talks...
05/ And then... we canceled everything :/
The world got into a pandemic period. At that moment we decided to work from home, we lost the energy and cancel everything we'd been planning. The tenth birthday was very small and intimate without social media or any other external communication, but we promised ourselves that the next one will be a new, better, and bigger one.
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