Raise v1f, Prototemplate

The stipple earth drawn in glyphs, recoloured and reframed, with founders grids, a16z-only cards and nine silent films.

How it was directed

Kevin passed on the team's requests: glyphs on the globe, black and white versions, blue on the water only, the homepage blue, new framings, simpler founders lineups, a customer logos mockup and the a16z mark alone. He set X and LinkedIn as the main channels and the blog after them, and ruled out mixing investors.

Five still lanes and three film lanes answered every request, and a critic picked the best of each lane. Kevin's answer the next morning accepted the picks, asked for the lockup in every film and asked for a much better founders names graphic, built from the earlier logo wall.

What was made

65 stills in five lanes (the stipple earth drawn in glyphs, recoloured and reframed; the founders' names on three grid systems; a customer logos mockup; a16z-only investor cards) and nine silent 4:5 films in three lanes (hyperspace, globe spin, glyph motion). The critic's picks are shown here on their own; every other still is on the four sheets.

Founders names sheetcoords, swiss-angular, swiss-lines

Customers and investors sheetcustomer mockup and investors

Hyperspace points 0:08Keptcritic's pick; carried into v1g to add the a16z lockup

Hyperspace glyphs 0:08Keptcarried into v1g to add the a16z lockup

Hyperspace stretch 0:08Keptcarried into v1g to add the a16z lockup

Globe day 0:10Keptcritic's pick; carried into v1g to add the a16z lockup

Globe turn 0:10KeptKevin kept globe-turn; carried into v1g to add the a16z lockup.

Globe push 0:08Keptcarried into v1g to add the a16z lockup

Glyph wave 0:09Keptcritic's pick; carried into v1g to add the a16z lockup

Glyph cycle 0:08Keptcarried into v1g to add the a16z lockup

Glyph turn 0:10Keptcarried into v1g to add the a16z lockup

Glyphs 02The critic’s pickevery screen cell a glyph

Tone 03The critic’s pickblack and white, blue only at the sea

Framing 03The critic’s picka horizon, turned 45 degrees

Framing 03 for XThe critic’s pickframing 03 at 1600x900 for X

Coords 02The critic’s picknames on a globe in elevation; Kevin asked for a much better names graphic

Swiss angular 07The critic’s picknames knocked out of ink bars; Kevin asked for a much better names graphic

Swiss lines 01The critic’s picknames on a hairline graticule; Kevin asked for a much better names graphic

Customers mockup 01 for XThe critic’s pickmockup only; logos need owners' approval

Investors 06The critic’s pickthe a16z infra lockup alone

What carried forward

All nine films go on into v1g with the a16z lockup added and globe-turn's back-and-forth kept, the a16z-alone investor rule holds, and the founders names graphic is rebuilt from the shipped logo wall in v1g.