I started out by using this diagram to get the basic shapes for the star symbols. I only used lines with the angles of the coin to give the design a stronger concept.
When I was experimenting with the patterns at full scale, I found that they bunched up too much and they looked blotchy because of the circles. After a while of experimenting I decided that in order to make this concept work visually I'd have to bunch them together and remove the circles.
This was the outcome.
Whilst it's not what I initially had imagined, I feel like it's the sort of abstract design that would work well on a coin, and reflects the sort of modern and conceptual stuff that seems popular at the moment. The text is in Gill Sans because of it being the definitive British font. I've also made it so that the line thickness of the text was the same thickness of the lines in the remainder of the design.
This is how the coin looked at full size.
I was happy with the line width of the design, but noticed that the text was too small to read.
I decided to put the text on the edge of the coin instead of it running over the design. I kept it straight rather than bending it, which was the way Matt Dent incorporated his text. I thought that it would be more appropriate to keep the text straight given how geometric the design and the coin is.
I then imposed my coin in place of the blank coin on the downloadable PDF from the competition website, and sent the altered PDF to the entrance address.
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