Brand Identity Designer - App Icon

THE CONSTRAINTS Primary use is a 40-pixel app icon. Everything else is secondary. If it doesn't hold at that size, it doesn't work. It must read in a single color. No gradient, no color dependency, no detail that collapses in monochrome. Two states, distinguishable structurally. The mark has an open and a closed form, and the difference between them cannot rely on color - it has to survive in a one-color icon at small size. The mark animates between its two states, which is impossible from a flattened file. A flattened delivery is unusable. Trademark-grade distinctiveness. The mark has to be ownable, not a template silhouette. It will be examined. The subject is a sunflower. I am supplying seventeen of my own photographs as reference - the mark comes from a specific real flower, not stock. Style note: I have already rejected symmetrical geometric versions as generic, so I am looking for irregular, drawn character executed with vector discipline. That is a constraint on the drawing, not the job description. STRUCTURE AND TERMS This is a single-designer commission in two phases. No competitive round, no spec work. Phase 1 - $1,500. Discovery and three developed directions, with real iteration between us. At the end of Phase 1 either of us can stop. If we stop, you are paid in full and the work is assigned. Phase 2 - $5,500. The selected direction taken through all eleven deliverables: both states, the full layered build, the wordmark lockup, small-size and single-color variants. Full IP assignment required. Agreement drafted by counsel and provided before any work begins. Warranty of originality - not derived from stock, not AI-generated. Non-negotiable. The mark is being registered, and work without human authorship cannot be assigned. Portfolio display permitted, scoped. #J-18808-Ljbffr