Highlights
A selection of recent work showing the redesign of Axiom.
Axiom
(2022—2025)
Logs. Looogs. Loooooogs. Loooooooooogs.
- axiom-montage.gif (4.6 MB)
- 01 [ASCIIOM] Stickers
- 02 Calculator [$]
- 03 Homepage ~/
- 04 This is an Axiom ad
- 05 Design System (Axe)
- 06 Monitors [ASCIIOM] UI
- 07 TS-02 (T-shirt)
- 08 DropdownMenu.tsx
- 09 Illustrations
- 10 Dashboards [ASCIIOM] UI
- 11 Testimonials (Cards)
- 12 Stickers
- 13 <Designed/> & Engineered()
- 14 Testimonials (Ads)
- 15 Query [ASCIIOM] UI
- 16 Live. Laugh. Log.
- 17 B-02 (Booth)
- 18 APL ~/docs/apl
- 19 SolutionBrief.pdf
- 20 [x] Resolved
- AX URL →
Work
New [ASCIIOM] stickers.
New [ASCIIOM] t-shirts.
Recent blog illustrations using Berkeley Mono.
App blueprint documenting the product redesign.
Selected styles from the [AXE] design system.
New [ASCIIOM] homepage.
This is an Axiom ad try now at axiom.co/play → → →
Savings calculator to compare competitor costs.
Customers dropdown menu.
Solutions dropdown menu.
Booth design for AWS re:Invent and KubeCon.
Features.
Use cases.
Dashboards [ASCIIOM] UI.
Monitors [ASCIIOM] UI.
<Designed/> and Engineered() globally.
More stiiiiiiiiiiiickers.
Blog post card.
Customer testimonial ads.
Customer testimonial card.
Product benefit card.
Document coverpage.
Solution brief coverpage.
Data sheet.
ASCII diagram for Axiom Flow.
TCO estimator (and tooltip) to compare savings.
Blog illustration for dashboard elements.
[Heatmaps, Monitors, Markdown Notes, & Pie Charts]
Mobile footer.
Logging, re-invented ───▶ axiom.co
Information
Axiom is logging, re-invented. The first cloud-native data store designed specifically for timestamped events, providing live-streaming, search, reporting, and monitoring capabilities.
Built from the ground up, Axiom delivers performance and scalability at a significantly lower cost, helping companies make sense of their event data, without having to sample logs.
Axiom has raised funds from top-tier investors including Crane Venture Partners, LocalGlobe, Fly VC, and Mango Capital, as well as leading angels like former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, former Heroku co-founder Adam Wiggins, and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch.
The team is fully remote and distrubuted across 11 timezones, with engineering, design, ops, and sales staff working asynchronously around the world. I’m very fortunate they’ve said some kind words about my work:
“[Dan] you are everything I’ve ever wanted in a sparring partner in design and I respect that you give me space to try things out while guiding them into a good place with your experience. I’m very excited where we are heading with our brand, and grateful you’ve helped us stand out in a sea of startups.
I really appreciate you jumping into different areas of the business (marketing, sales etc.) to help us scale. Your fingerprints are all over Axiom and it’s amazing!”
— Neil Jagdish Patel (CEO / Co-founder, Axiom)
“Dan has been exceptional in managing his team’s workload, even across challenging time zones with limited overlap. His communication skills are outstanding, consistently keeping the team updated while being open and honest about challenges, and always presenting potential solutions.
During high-pressure events and conferences Dan consistently demonstrated a collaborative work style and willingness to assist wherever needed. Axiom’s aesthetic and identity has been significantly improved with his design work and leadership.”
— Stephanie Kawamura (Head of Operations, Axiom)
Credits
- Dan Newman, Neil Jagdish Patel, Jake Schroeder, Andrew Cobley, Dominic Chapman (Design)
- Neil Jagdish Patel, Dominic Chapman, Kendall Miller, Christina Noren, Paul Boutin (Content)
- Joyce O’Reilly, Becca O’Shea, Jord Riekwel, James McDonald (Collaborators)
Archive / Process
Axiom: Year In Review
(2023—2024)
⌙ axiom-yir.mp4
Axiom’s logo. Designed by Jord Riekwel.
Hot sauce bottle. “We can handle all your logs. Can you handle our hot sauce?”
Hot sauce label. Hopefully going on a real bottle soon...
Axiom’s business cards use APL (a piped based query language) to display a team members details, thanks to Neil’s clever idea.
Mockup of an unused keyring for conference swag.
Illustration using Berkeley Mono’s box glyphs to highlight the connection between one of the many services that integrates with Axiom.
Axiom’s ... pricing ... plans ... chart ... showing ... monthly ... ingest ... costs.
Diagram for a new feature that lets customers choose different destinations for their data.
Diagram for BYOB, an enterprise feature for organisations that need to store their own data.
Branded social banners for sales and support staff.
Illustrations used in onboarding to help explain key features (live streaming logs, adding alerts/monitoring, creating dashboards charts, and querying data).
Blueprint illustration for career pages and job ads.
Ad using glyphs to illustrate the message that Axiom can save you $$$.
Ad using glyphs to illustrate the message that Axiom connects with ▲ Vercel.
Poster based on the new design direction for Axiom.
Onboarding email to help remind people to set up monitoring and alerts.
Onboarding email to provide people with documentation to learn APL.
GDPR. God damn protection regulations.
Alternative bento box components for enterprise and pricing information.
Axiom + Hapn. Opengraph image for customer case study.
Homepage illustration for live stream, APL, dashboards, and alerts.
Homepage concept. Logs.
Two different skateboard designs (SK8-01 & SK8-02) in black and white.
I can now tick designing a skateboard off the bucket list. For a couple of conferences in 2023 we made limited edition boards!
- Berkeley Mono is the primary brand typeface for Axiom. Made by Berkeley Graphics.
- Details:
- ⌙ Berkeley Mono performs excellently in a terminal, headline, or with optional ligatures for specific coding languages, to read and write code.
- ⌙ Described as combining “the objectivity of machine-readable typefaces of the 70’s while simultaneously retaining the humanist sans-serif qualities”.
- ⌙ There’s an extensive set of gylphs that can be used to create box diagrams and borders.
- ⌙ Compared to other mono typefaces, there’s several “distinct but not distracting glyphs”.
- ⌙ Bonus points for being my font of choice in VS Code.
AWS re:Invent unofficial party invite that was handed out in the exhibitor hall. The invite uses box glyphs to create a diagram of the party details.
Stickers. Laptop not included. Live. Laugh. Log.
Conference brochure with obligatory QR code.
Illustrations for sales collateral showing the range of event data in Axiom and the supporting architecture/platform structure.
Montage of various ad campaigns for LinkedIn, Twitter, Daring Fireball, and Carbon Ads.
Patterns using various glyphs for background graphics, blog images, and ad campaigns.
Booth design for AWS re:Invent and KubeCon.
Onboarding steps to help people set up their account.
Homepage header and announcement banner.
Footer and getting started panel.
Blog redesign concept.