and the lesson it taught me (opens in new tab)

A longer version of this blog post, including more in-between design stages, was originally published . A few months ago, I was looking for a new maps application to replace Mapy.cz on my Android phone, which I had been using for the past few years. In an unexpected chain of events, this ultimately led me to design the official logo for CoMaps, a community-driven fork of Organic Maps. It still blows my mind to see my creation as the logo of an app that thousands of people use every day! This ...