Hi there, before I started LetsTalkBitcoin.com I ran a little site and blog called mindtomatter.org - I even designed what I think is a pretty hot logo. 
I would like to move the blog off of tumblr and onto the new LTB platform, and so we have an opportunity to do an entirely new design.
The Role
Blog Designer
The Responsibilities
Work with Adam as client to design his curated blog skin. The LTB platform is incredibly versatile, there are no design constraints.
Deliverables are a .psd with the various graphical elements on their own labeled layer and a written description of any actions that will need to be coded for. You will also need to be available to our implementation team should any questions come up.
The Design Brief
I would like something that has a blog front page that is similar to the card approach of the front page of LTB with a strong visual element using either those 400x400 images or a small slice of the images.
On each card I'd like the # of tips and # of comments displayed along with author name, portrait. Please pick good fonts and care about spacing, I want this to look tight. It should feel real, not like data floating in abstract space.
For articles that are on the front page of LTB there should be a little badge that looks placed on the article, i'm totally open to how this should visually look.
Also it would be nice to have article cards visually have multiple "states" where a given note on the front page, if it's getting lots of traffic can visually "heat up" and have a differing appearance from the normal articles.
I'd like you to design the front page with the idea of a half-size "sponsored content" card that could have space auctioned on it rather than any sort of banners on the side or top.
Once you click on a given card to view the piece of content, I'd like to go to something that keeps some of the branding elements but totally opens up and becomes very abstract like medium where the information is the whole focus and all the other elements fade away.
Happy to answer any questions
The Rewards
100,000 LTBc payable upon launch of the MindToMatter.org LTB blog
