This artwork embodies the pillars of the Cardano Foundation that I personally believe in: growth, innovation, and inclusivity. Through an abstract expression, I sought to harness the essence of these values and aim to commemorate the foundation’s commitment to building a robust, future-ready blockchain technology that serves everyone. It stands as a tribute to Cardano’s unwavering dedication to building and fostering a decentralized, sustainable, and inclusive ecosystem for generations to come.
I envisioned it as a cosmic dance of luminescent threads that weaves through the light, each point serving as a beacon for decentralized unity. Its morphed fluid-like shape symbolizes the foundation’s ability to adapt to evolving landscapes and how much it embraces diversity. While the radiant, luminous lights reflect the vibrant energy of innovation and progress, illuminating the bright and promising future of Cardano Foundation. This abstract piece encapsulates Cardano’s ethos and the values it fosters in building a better tomorrow.
Description: My retro grid design focuses on innovation and futuristic technology in an abstract way. Visualizing a blockchain is a challenge, so I went all-in on futurism with a retro touch. Imagine a digital landscape flowing with innovation and technological advancements, like the different Hydra layers—connected by Cardano as the common denominator. Here, I’ve tried to visualize what Cardano might look like in reality: a fully digital world.
Title: Artwork from Dan8pro Designer:mechackkobius@gmail.com Description:
I’ve designed a blue artwork inspired by the Cardano logo, blending its signature color with a touch of originality. It reflects Cardano’s values of inclusivity, innovation, and community empowerment, aiming to capture the heart of what makes Cardano so inspiring. Attachment:
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The design: dynamic, minimalistic shapes that feel alive, a sleek design that screams innovation. Subtle, warm colors draw you in, adding a human, emotional touch. At the heart of it all, the Cardano logo blends seamlessly—quietly powerful, deeply connected, and full of purpose.
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The design: a glowing, interconnected world map where every node is equal, doing its thing—processing and sharing info without any central boss. The lines between nodes are alive, moving fluidly to show data constantly flowing. There’s this cool balance of order and chaos, showing how stable yet flexible it all is. It’s like a living, breathing network—secure, transparent, and endless.
This is my last entry, I really hope you will like them. Thanks for letting me have som fun designing art, it was a while (as a old graphic designer with a new role at the company.)
Title: Artwork Magna Blue Designer:unrwapsolutions@gmail.com Description:
This design is inspired by Cardano’s values and crafted to complement the look and feel of the Cardano website. With its clean lines and calming blue tones, it reflects the spirit of innovation, transparency, and connection that makes Cardano’s mission so impactful and inspiring. Attachment:
Title: Artwork Designer:unrwapsolutions@gmail.com Description:
This design is inspired by Cardano’s values and crafted to complement the look and feel of the Cardano website. With its clean lines and calming blue tones, it reflects the spirit of innovation, transparency, and connection that makes Cardano’s mission so impactful and inspiring. Attachment:
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The mask symbolizes Cardano’s innovation, with its token at the core and floating nodes representing blockchain interoperability. It highlights Cardano’s decentralized governance, where member consensus drives decisions, ensuring openness, democracy, and a commitment to decentralization.
Title: Moving Forward (pull-request: #161) Designer: Steve Turvey
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Reading the header text itself we find it emphasizes people—changemakers, innovators, visionaries, the many, the few, and all. Inspired by this, rather than the abstract route I chose to represent the human aspect of Cardano’s mission through a relatable and welcoming image. My design celebrates the diverse individuals who make up the Cardano community, highlighting their shared motion and purpose. This conveys progress, collaboration, and inclusivity—a blockchain platform for people who are truly going places.
To enhance functionality, I’ve adjusted the buttons for better design balance. When two CTAs are present, it’s best to apply different weights (e.g., primary and secondary). The Cardano brand red adds a bold accent and complements the warm tones of the image. For added visual interest, design elements include soft-focus background lighting, a subtle grid pattern, and an overlay of the Cardano logo for added depth and cohesion.
Title: Global Reach (pull-request: #162) Designer: Steve Turvey
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The background image of Earth from space captures the vibrant lights of cities across the globe. It reflects the idea of connectivity and the potential of Cardano’s decentralized network.
The view from space also emphasizes the global reach and accessibility of Cardano, reinforcing its mission to bring positive change to all corners of the world. Down there are all of the innovators and visionaries who are shaping the future with Cardano’s tools and technologies, working together to create a better, more connected world.
For added visual interest and immersion, I’ve incorporated subtle CSS animations in the HTML version (see pull request), including pulsing and shooting stars, to enhance the scene and create a dynamic, engaging experience. The text has been centered for a more balanced composition. Thank you!
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We are a part of something bigger. This applies to both the universe and Cardano. Every particle counts and every particle is attracted to something and moreover - particles creates someting bigger and creates it´s own system. Space Cardano is inclusive an innovative place, space Cardano is our community
Disclaimer
The artwork is original and in vector. With adaptability in mind, I designed a single universal hero banner for all devices and also Light/Dark mode. I don´t know if you plan to upload a single banner and that´s it (like it is now with old one), or you plan to rebuild the code to make more variations of a hero banner to fit all breakpoits and modes smoothly.
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The artwork is based on an idea of our humble beginnings in the start of the civilization (sustainability), symbol illustrating this concept is a nature jewel Kriváň (a mountain in the Slovak Republic). We continue with 5 architectural giants from the whole world (inclusivity). The modern mix of the line artwork, digital feeling and Cardano brand elements works as tool of a new and better era for human’s (innovation & decentralization).
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Now the UI/UX which I’ve created for Cardano contest is based on the idea of giving a whole new coat to the landing page and especially the Above-The-Fold section. I’ve increased the H1 copy-text to be 56p, I’ve also added a visual interest to the punchline of “Better For All” (background and gradient effect).
The whole content of the < div > is center aligned in this redesign. Buttons are divided in to primary and secondary with respective design choices. I’ve also used capital letters for “ADA”.
I’ve shared the link to Figma file and the .svg in the email addressed to Cardano Foundation.
Little bit of a late entry but here’s is my take on what Cardano represents! The branching tree imagery, merging into a central globe, reflects how Cardano empowers individuals and communities to grow together, no matter where they’re from.
I wanted to highlight the balance between technology and nature, which is why the circuits blends seamlessly into organic roots and branches. For the roots, I vectorized a drawing I made to make them look rawer and more organic to clash with the geometry of the design.For me, this symbolizes the harmony Cardano brings to blockchain: innovative tech that’s deeply connected to the real-world values of inclusivity and positive change.
I wanted the visual flow to feel dynamic yet grounded, abstract yet meaningful, just like Cardano’s ecosystem. I’m happy to share my vision with the community and hope it resonates as much with others as it did while creating it!
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Investing in crypto is like a bubble blower. You don’t believe me? Let me explain it. Soapy water is your investment and bubbles are your profit. The more soapy water - the more profit. Blowing is the driving force. The more wind the more profit. Simple as that. So let’s hope for a good wind for Cardano.
In other words - I played with the logomark and circles and that´s what I´ve got.
Title: Solid Foundations Designer: Juliana Giraldo Description: This design embraces simplicity, using Cardano’s brand colors, the logo, and geometric lines to create a clean, modern look. The minimalist approach highlights Cardano’s professionalism and innovation while ensuring the message remains clear and visually accessible to all.
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I made this art to show off how I think that Cardano is the foundation that’s made to support human-centric systems. I crafted three pillars that represent empowering governance, interoperability, and Inclusiveness with Cardano. The cardano colors show the support that prop up these 3 ideals.
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Cardano is a decentralized blockchain platform that possesses tools and technologies that can create infinite possibilities for human progress - bringing about positive global transformation. This is an evolution that will create a competitive environment in which Cardano will benefit mankind through its innovations - in conjunction with utility in interoperability, scalability and sustainability of this ecosystem. Cardano will bring about efficiency, trust, and transparency to your real-world scenarios.
Cardano allows people to connect to the world through its technology and ecosystem - for the people, by the people. The artwork is a representation of how Cardano facilitates that connection and the copy provides a more consumer-facing marketing strategy. Cardano is a foundational building block that is going to help advance human progress in the technological space so I want to make sure the intro to the website makes that clear.
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The journey of this artwork begins with a sea of dots, symbolising individual nodes or entities within a decentralized system. These dots are dynamic and interconnected, showcasing the innovative energy that fuels our blockchain ecosystem.
As the animation progresses, the dots interact and organize, illustrating the harmonious collaboration that defines Cardano’s inclusive community. Each movement is deliberate, representing sustainability & how we build with care, ensuring every step contributes to a lasting, impactful system.
The final moment, where the dots converge to form the iconic Cardano logo, symbolises unity and the strength of decentralized collaboration. It’s forward-looking, encapsulating how every part of the network contributes to a greater whole, and how we continue to evolve as a collective, visionary ecosystem.
The animation’s aesthetic mirrors Cardano’s ethos of balancing creativity with rigorous science. It’s not just a visual journey, it’s a celebration of what makes Cardano unique.
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This interactive artwork encapsulates the profound essence of blockchain technology, where every block forged on Cardano’s network is uniquely represented by its immutable 64-character hash. The piece features 34 algorithmically abstracted blockchains, with each character of the hash depicted as a colored block, offering a visual representation of the ledger.
Embedded within the artwork are 34 key blockchains, each forged on the Cardano mainnet at pivotal moments in its journey. These milestones highlight the ecosystem’s unwavering commitment to decentralization, innovation, sustainability, and inclusivity.
Each milestone reflects a significant step in Cardano’s evolution - from its Genesis block to the present day - inviting us to reflect on our journey from humble beginnings, through challenges and triumphs, and to appreciate how far we have come.
Each row represents one of 34 key historical events in the lifetime of Cardano.
Clicking a row flips the blocks to reveal the block’s hash, the date, blockchain epoch, and details of the milestone.
Each block’s color is fixed to a specific character of the block’s hash (e.g., the letter “a” = #b0c7cc), making it possible to map the hash purely from its color pattern.
Technical Features:
Light/Dark-mode compatible
Interactive: Clicking anywhere on the artwork will trigger a state change.
Working links: To navigate to other pages, taken from the current call to action (CTA) (Buy ADA & Start Developing)
Responsive design: Limited to 1024px wide resolution to capture the full length of a block’s hash. Having device resolution below this will result in the artwork being replaced with the original static layout.
Customisable CTA content & layout; Simple modification of plain-text data file.
Customisable history: Can add / remove “history” as required by modification of plain-text data file.
Customisable design: Can increase/decrease block sizes, spacing, font sizes, types, colours, etc.
Stats: 496 lines of code, not counting reference data. c. 17KB.
