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Classmine

Education software · Early identity system

Classmine goes back to 2016, before Illustrator was really part of my toolbox. A partner was developing modular software for schools, giving teachers tools for curriculum, grading, and other parts of classroom management. The idea behind the name was simple: each software module would be a gem, and Classmine would be the mine holding all of those gems together.

That is why the identity centers on a mine cart rather than a generic education symbol. The tagline, Jewels for Schools, completes the idea. The mark had to represent the parent product first, while leaving room for individual modules to develop their own identities underneath it.

The original Photoshop file is a time capsule of how I worked then. I used a mine image as visual reference, then constructed my own cart from individual shape layers inside Photoshop. There is no polished vector process to rewrite into the story because I did not know Illustrator yet. This is genuinely part of my roots, figuring out how to build the shape with the tools I had.

I intentionally kept the base logo capable of working in one color. Color was supposed to become useful later, with each module tied to a different gemstone and its own color. That way the system could expand without needing a completely new logo every time another piece of the software was added.

I no longer have the original module names or the full color system, so I am not pretending to. The color study shown here is a reconstruction of the original logic, not a recovered client deliverable. What survived is the important part: the idea was already bigger than a single mark. Even in 2016, I was thinking about how an identity could grow with the thing it represented.