Kept directions rebuilt

The posters Kevin kept, copied into one kept set, with two of them rebuilt from round one.

October 29, 2026v1cThe postersDone

How it was directed

The sessions turned Kevin's row and column picks into files: every poster he named went into a kept folder and the rest into other ideas. Two kept posters that had lost round one's look in v1b were rebuilt from round one.

The nine current posters went on one sheet, which became the base of every later round.

What was made

Every file Kevin named was copied into kept and other-ideas buckets (67 copies); dot-join was rebuilt from round one's all-ink field, founders-lineup was rebuilt with logos three times, and gores took Mercor's one-colour logotype. The nine current posters went on one sheet.

Kept grid
Kept gridthe grid Kevin asked to save in Prototemplate
Kept grid, phone
Kept grid, phone
Round one beside current
Round one beside currentround one beside v1c for dot-join and founders-lineup
Globe particle, land
Globe particle, landKeptv1b land
Stipple earth
Stipple earthKeptv1b; Kevin's favourite.
Polar languages
Polar languagesKeptv1b
Bilingual
BilingualKeptv1b
Dot join
Dot joinKeptrebuilt from round one; passed critique 1
Founders lineup, round one
Founders lineup, round oneKeptround one's sheet version
Void
VoidKeptround two, as kept that afternoon
Gores
GoresKeptMercor's one-colour logotype swapped in
Micro
MicroKeptround two
Founders lineup with logos
Founders lineup with logosDroppedlogos in place of names; failed critique 3

What carried forward

The nine current posters became the base for every later round and were copied to Prototemplate's private raise folder; the v1c founders-lineup with logos failed its third critique, so round one's typeset version stayed current.

Every other file

The files the round produced beyond the ones it showed: drafts, alternates and sheets.

Show 27 files

Other ideas

Blog context
Blog contextold stronger dither
Blog founders
Blog foundersold stronger dither
Blog glossary
Blog glossaryold stronger dither
Blog hello world
Blog hello worldold stronger dither
Blog investors
Blog investorsold stronger dither
Blog stack
Blog stackold stronger dither
Blog surfaces
Blog surfacesold stronger dither
Cover light
Cover lightold stronger dither
LinkedIn announce 1:1
LinkedIn announce 1:1old stronger dither
LinkedIn announce 4:5
LinkedIn announce 4:5old stronger dither
LinkedIn founders 1:1
LinkedIn founders 1:1old stronger dither
LinkedIn founders 4:5
LinkedIn founders 4:5old stronger dither
OG
OGold stronger dither
X announce
X announceold stronger dither
X customer cursor
X customer cursorold stronger dither
X customer okta
X customer oktaold stronger dither
Beam construction 16:9 dark
Beam construction 16:9 darkround one
Beam construction 16:9 light
Beam construction 16:9 lightround one
Chrome spines blog
Chrome spines bloground one
Founders issue people
Founders issue peopleround one

Posters v1c

Variants
Variantsdot join
A
Adot join, variants
B
Bdot join, variants
Variants
Variantsfounders lineup
B
Bfounders lineup, variants, picked
A
Afounders lineup, variants
B clearfit
B clearfitfounders lineup, variants

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