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Pnyx. Onchain governance built from the objects Athens voted with, brand to landing.

Brand, governance app and landing page for Pnyx, onchain governance for DAOs: proposals, delegates, councils and treasuries on every chain. The identity rebuilds the objects Athens used to keep its votes fair, the bronze ballot, the water clock, the allotment machine, in one-bit dither on black glaze and fired clay.

Brand · Product Design · Web App · Landing · 2026

Pnyx, live

A room facing its floor

The mark is a square with four sides cut away round a centre: an assembly facing the floor between it. Black glaze, fired clay and bone, the two colours of Attic pottery and the paper they were counted on, with Satoshi for every word.

Pnyx, Brand
Pnyx, Brand
Pnyx, Brand

Every object from the Agora, moving

Each part of governance has its object, drawn in one-bit dither and always in motion. The amphora carries a proposal's turnout as its frieze, the balance only sits level when every vote is counted, the water clock is hold to sign, and the five principles build and break apart cell by cell.

A ballot you hold to sign

The question set large, three Athenian ballots to choose from, a solid hub for, a hollow one against and a blank shard to abstain, a one-bit tally with its quorum, and the council of 48 seated round the floor. You hold the button to sign, so nobody votes by accident.

A live proposal in the hero

The hero is the product: a proposal created by one API call, votes arriving one by one, the tally filling until quorum is reached. Below it, each part of governance gets its own calm visual, and the code, the guarantees and the launch follow in the same black glaze.

Slides and a profile for X

Six slides in one case-study board, each a frame of its own, and an X profile with the Greek key running along its banner.

Pnyx, Launch
Pnyx, Launch
Pnyx, Launch

Governance anyone can count, and nobody can buy.

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